>> hello, everyone. you are watching "france 24." thisare our top stories hour. the prosecutor general in ukraine says the death of someone hundred protesters during the protests in kiev were under the direct leadership of ousted president viktor yanukovych. our correspondent in kiev is standing by with more. a deadly shooting at the fort hood military base in texas. a soldier killed three and injured 16 more before committing suicide. that attack comes less than five years after a similar shooting at the same base left 13 dead. and a devastating milestone for

syria. the number of refugees in lebanon is now over one million. we would hear more later from our beirut correspondent -- we will hear more later from our beirut correspondent. also coming up for you this hour, the incredible story of ae -- in the kitchen, priceless painting stolen over 40 years ago is recovered after hanging for decades in the home of an art-loving autoworker in italy. and a former partner and mother of the french president's four children makes a political comeback just weeks after his a woman who replaced her. it all -- for the french, it is business as usual.

more on the new environment minister, coming up. ukraine.t's start in the prosecutor general says the death of someone hundred protesters during the maidan under then kiev were direct leadership of ousted viktornt viktor -- yanukovych. the charges were made during a news conference by the prosecutor general and the head of the interior ministry and state security. they are planing the shooting deaths of more than 100 on riot police. yanukovych himself fled the day after the worst of those killings by sniper fire on february 20. he was later ousted by parliament. for more on this development, let's bring in gulliver cragg. how are they justifying these allegations against ousted president viktor yanukovych? >> it was mainly the head of the secret service's who made -- secret service who mated most

clear that viktor yanukovych, in his view, was directing the whole operation, but the main reason he thought that was because viktor yanukovych was supposedly directing that whichrrorist operation, he himself had declared in conjunction with his ministers. in terms of concrete evidence of contact between people and the government and the special forces unit and the riot police, who do stand accused of carrying out the killing -- in terms of direct contact, it is much more with the then interior minister that the investigators say they have evidence. interestingly, in this press conference, although they did give some details about the killings that went on on the 20th of february, where all these people were shot by snipers, they seemed very keen to talk more about the interior minister's links with the gangs of thugs and the people who carried out kidnappings earlier inin the protest movement,

late january and earlier on in february. they seemed to have a lot more concrete evidence about the interior minister, by extension, the then ukrainian government's involvement in all of that that they were willing to talk about, rather than giving absolute, clear details about what happened on the 18th and 20th of february come when the largest number of people were killed. for that.so much now to that deadly shooting at the fort hood military base in texas. lopezpecialist ivan opened fire, killing three people and wounding 16 more before turning the gun on himself. the army says the man, who served in iraq three years ago, suffered from depression and was being assessed for posttraumatic stress disorder. the shooting comes less than five years after 13 others were shot dead by another soldier at fort hood.

>> the first gunshots were heard at around 4:30 local time, and soon this message was sent out on twitter to those based at fort hood. fort aresonnel on requested to -- on post are asked to shelter in place." the injured were taken by air or by roads to a nearby hospital that had been placed on high alert. minutes, first responders from military police and emergency services responded to the scene, engaged the shooter, and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> the gunman was a soldier who had served in iraq and was known to have mental health problems. but this is not the first time a shooting has taken place here at

fort hood, the world's largest military base. in 2009, former army signedtrist the dolphins former army psychiatrist nidal hasan shot dead 13 people. >> we know the incredible sacrifices that they make. we are heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. >> the president also added that he would do all he could to get to the bottom of what happened on wednesday. this is the third time in six months that a shooting has taken place at a u.s. military base. now, chile has been hit with a major aftershock one day after that earthquake that rocked the northern coast. the powerful aftershock struck after northern chile late last night, but there were no reports

of damage. resident michelle bachelet, who had gone to the area -- president michelle bachelet, who had gone to inspect the area, was evacuated from her hotel. there was an 8.2 earthquake on tuesday that left six dead. the prime minister of malaysia has gone to the australian search base for missing flight 370. he met with the australian prime minister at the base near perth today. hips, and now a nuclear-powered submarine have been combing the indian ocean. no debris has been found. about --not be certain of ultimate success in the we can be mh370, but certain that we will spare no effort, that we will not rest until we have done everything we humanly can. >> i know that until we find the plane many families cannot start

to grieve. i cannot imagine what they must be going through. we i can promise them that will not give up. agency has refugee just come out with its latest figures on syria. it says over one million refugees have now run from the three-year war into neighboring lebanon. our correspondent has more now on what the u.n. has called a devastating milestone. >> this is the official number of people that have been registered, but lebanese government officials have been saying for a long time that the number is in fact much higher than that and could be as high as 1.5 million people. as the u.n. statement said, even if it is one million people, that amounts to a quarter of the population. just 4 millionis people. about half of those refugees are believed to be children. they are dispersed all over

lebanon. the largest number are in the valley which borders syria, close to areas such as homs and damascus suburbs which have been some of the most restive parts of the recent fighting. street children are very common sight in the capital. set upl settlements have all over the place. this is a reminder of the germ -- the other major milestone reached, 150,000 people have now been killed in that conflict according to the syrian of the -- syrian observatory for human rights, 75,000 of those civilians. >> what are conditions like for the refugees in the camps? >> they are informal settlements. lebanon has refused to establish official camps because it fears a permanent settlement could make the country even more volatile. they are living in these camps they have pretty much set up themselves. they don't have running water, food and other supplies are very

scarce, illness is rife. lebanon isnd for dramatically underfunded. only 12% to 13% of its appeal has been met. they have had to cut aid to refugees in the last few months by about 25%. there are some families that are not receiving aid at all. they are the most vulnerable. we had a case last week of self immolation of a woman who said she had been cut off from food aid. she tried to burn herself in front of her four children, a desperate things have become. minister,kish prime recep tayyip erdogan, has been told to turn twitter back on. certain links were highlighting allegations of corruption against the prime minister's inner circle. turkey's constitutional court said his move to root out twitter violates freedom of

expression and individual rights. turkey haven't had normal access to twitter since the 20th of march. the country's constitutional court has ruled the social network service should be restored. >> this judgment means that turkish authorities now have to overthe ban which they put twitter. they will have to do this immediately because of the judgment. it says they have to do it immediately. >> the constitutional court says the twitter ban violates the rights of freedom of expression and and eventual rights. its -- and individual rights. its decision is binding, but it is not clear if it will be turned back on. prime minister recep tayyip erdogan suspended it to the social network was used to transmit recordings pointing to government corruption. he vowed to wipe twitter out in turkey. take stepst i

against those who attacked my people? haven't you given me the right to do that? hishe prime minister and party emerged triumphant from sunday's municipal vote, gaining in support. viewed as increasingly autocratic, his crackdown on twitter has been criticized worldwide. >> here in france, manual balls has given his first interview since being named valls has given hisnuel first interview since being named prime minister. was often atvalls loggerheads with the french president, francois hollande. speaking last night on tv, the new prime minister made a clear point of saying his main goal was to follow through on the president's plans. >> we must be clear about our objectives.

we need to reduce the deficit. there are no two ways about it. it is a question of france's credibility. we need to own up to our debt or we lose our national sovereignty. at the same time, we must preserve the public services essential to the cohesion and solidarity of our country. >> along with the new french prime minister has come a new environment, former socialist presidential candidate -- her comeback is all the more fascinating given that she is the mother of president hisande's four children and former life partner. hollande recently broke up with the woman who replaced her. >> returning from the wilderness, she arrives to take up her new post as environment minister. ini'm very honored to be put charge of this difficult and

exciting project. royal insists the comeback has nothing to do with revenge. it was francois hollande's former partner who reportedly vetoed her from the first cabinet. once in a serious relationship with gallant herself in 2012, she celebrated -- with hollande herself in 2012, she celebrated after he was elected and then she took a step back from politics. lex it is the result of a political betrayal. >> it was quite a blow to someone who just five years earlier was a socialist candidate herself, the first woman to run in the second round of presidential elections in france. she lost out to nicolas sarkozy. she met along as she graduated from a free -- prestigious french school. she became an advisor at the elysées.

royal and hollande climbed the career ladder as france's political power couple. became aar-old royal finance minister, keeping up a steady fight for women's rights along the way. >> domestic violence, forced marriage, inequality in the workplace. >> her hands-on relationship with the public did her well in the polls. after separating from hollande, she ran in the presidential election in 2011 but was badly defeated. disappointment for all those who supported me. circle,he has come full once again in the ecology ministry and once again ready to work with hollande. interesting stuff. let's take a look at our headlines for you. the prosecutor general in ukraine says the death of

someone hundred demonstrators during the maidan protest in kiev were under the direct leadership of ousted president viktor yanukovych. a deadly shooting at the fort hood military base in texas. a soldier kills three and injures 16 before committing suicide. that attack comes less than five years after a similar shooting at the same base left 13 dead. a devastating milestone for syria, the number of refugees in lebanon is now over one million. let's now take a look at what weekly magazines have been saying around the world. valls, f, manuel rance's new prime minister, seems to be dominating magazine covers here. >> it is real media friendly.

there is only one magazine focusing on something a little bit different. they are focusing on upcoming elections in india and focusing on one demographic that will play a key role in the election. 150 million young people will be voting in these legislative elections that kick off on monday. it talks about india posse use -- india's youth. but even they have to share the cover with manuel valls. he was nominated as prime minister after the socialists got a huge slap in the face during the municipal elections last month. a lot of papers are focusing on just what this means for him. we have rounded up what the european press are saying about his nomination. nomination is pretty risky because manual -- manuel valls

was -- of papersing a lot are focusing on is the fact that this is a step to the right for the socialist government because valls is seen as being very centrist on the right of the socialist party. a lot of papers say it is not much to the liking of many in the socialist party. valls, the prime minister nominated by the president, francois hollande. he has made no secret of his own presidential ambitions. it alls has never made secret that he plans on running for president one day. he ran against france ocalan during the socialist primary before the -- against francois hollande during the socialist primary before the last election. of the french press has been saying that hollande nominated him somewhat halfheartedly. he didn't want to get rid of is

very loyal friend, the former prime minister. he had other candidates in mind. a lot of the media say that along didn't really have -- that allande really didn't have choice, but he set up a mechanism to protect himself from valls, nominated a lot of his very close allies during this week's government reshuffle. >> a lot of people are wondering if manuel valls will become a political rival of francois hollande soon. >> people wonder what is going on in manuel valls' head. you see this very sly look. they wonder if it could be a rivalry similar to -- and nicolas sarkozy. there is a sort of complicity due to circumstances. who wants tolande save what is left of his broken five-year term. and you have valls, who jumped

on board because the ship was sinking. if you haven't seen enough of him, he is on this front page as well. valls likened him to a trump card -- they likened him to a trump card that hollande was forced to play. >> funny to see him smiling on this one compared to the other one. he is often compared to another former controversial interior minister who went on to become president, nicolas sarkozy. >> he has often been named the sarkozy of the left by the press. to press uses the same words describe him and sarkozy -- hyperactive, ambitious. this is a satirical magazine. they are saying that sarkozy has become prime minister. in their head, it is very clear. sarkozy and valls are the same person. thingsso have different

in common. they are both married to musicians. a violinist,ied to who is on the front page of this magazine with him this week, staying she will -- saying she will stay by his side as he takes on the challenge of prime minister. they liken this to a humanitarian mission that he had to accomplish. >> i imagine not every magazine is focusing on valls. what else do you have? >> they turned the spotlight on algeria this week ahead of this month's presidential election. bouteflika has been president since 1999. he is running for his fourth term. analysts say he is likely to win. let's take a look at the books. monthly magazines, kind of like "reader's digest," publishes

extracts related to current affairs. they are focused on the rule of the internet. there you can see facebook boss mark zuckerberg. they wonder, is he the new big brother? >> thank you so much for that look at the weekly news magazines. coming up, in sports, a lot of happy football fans in paris. a pretty germain had great game last night against chelsea. beatris st. germain chelsea 4-1. they took the lead after four minutes. the final score was 3-1. >> i'm very happy and after --

very happy after scoring a goal. oal advantage is very different. we still have a very fierce game. we have to stay, and try to score. -- to stay calm and try to score. chelsea's ramirez says, "difficult. very difficult because we need to score two goals, but not impossible. even if we lose here, moving up for the next game." both of the champions league semifinals. the lead before the half hour. sliding into the bottom corner. kris jenner rinaldo made the final score in his 100th champions league -- cristiano ronaldo made the final score in

his 100th champions league game. ramos says it is true that it is a good result, but we know they are a very strong team. we have to forget about the score and be focused on the next game to win the semis. we cannot relax like last season where we had a bad experience there. -- says, "it's sad. we had some good opportunities. we know it is tough to play against them in our stadium." dortmund did some great things. it is up to us to repeat them this year." they were dreaming of a home final. they will face the seven-time french champions for the first time.

leonhaven't seen much of -- lyon, but still respect them. >> it's a very good team. if they have reached this stage of the europe league, it's because they have done very well. they are showing that in the french championship as well. we haven't had a lot of time to watch them and study their game, very complete, physically strong, players capable of attacking. we have to be careful. >> they crashed out of the champions league. the coach says the pressure isn't new to them. >> the fact of being the only team, representing italy for two years in a row in europe, is already a reason to be happy, so we have some pressure because we have responsibility to put italian football on top.

>> both sides with injury problems ahead of the tie. d