>> hello to my and welcome to live from paris on france 34. here are your headlines. brutally tortured bodies, the grim discovery in eastern ukraine has prompted ukraine to restart operations against separatist. negotiations have reached a new love that russia will protect it -- with rush of warning that it will protect its interests. hasgilberto rodrigues leal been killed and the french government says he probably is

dead due to mistreatment. weeklong tour of four asian countries for president obama. this is live from paris. but first, ukraine has relaunched military operations against pro-russian separatist -- local kievlly aligned politician was one of two found dead. a police chief has also been objected in one town. it comes just hours after u.s. vice president joe biden departed after warning russia it must take urgent action to de-escalate tensions. it appears divisions are deepening in the town of as aansk, recognized

military hub for rebels. here is this report. square,aviansk's lenin protesters are in defiance. this man will never defeat us, they shout. tensions are ramping up after tortured bodies were burp portably found -- were reportedly found in the city. one of them was identified as a politician aligned with kiev. >> this has been carried out with the full support and indulgence of russia. mayor oflf-proclaimed saw beyond -- of slaviansk said he had no knowledge of it and is preparing a counter of -- counteroffensive of the >> we are repairing an attack because we have received information that the city of slaviansk might be stormed.

earlier attempts to crack down in the east have failed. government pulled out after surrendering weapons to the rebels. despite the agreement and added pressure from the u.s., the pro-russian militants refused to disarm and and their occupation of -- and ended their occupation of government buildings. there was an attack on a checkpoint and now the discovery of tortured bodies. the russian diplomat warned once again that russia will is bond if it is attacked as it was

in georgia. moscow as once again prepared that it is prepared to intervene in eastern ukraine. what can we take from the latest remarks? >> those remarks today were the sharpest articulation that -- of what could potentially trigger a wider full-scale russian military intervention in eastern ukraine. as he said today, "russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the russian federation." with that kind of language, it is possible to imagine how continued violence, and chaos in the east, if it were to affect russian citizens, could in fact bring about wider russian military intervention, which lavrov said would be justified despite all international agreements. at the same time, he again placed much of the blame for the violence and disorder on ukraine

and also saying it is the responsibility of the united states, saying that kiev maneuvers the attacks at play used by the interim are decided by vice president joe biden meeting with leaders in kiev. anything, i would say it has ramped up the tensions rather --n do anything to call columnist situation. -- aw is the geneva record cord pulling up under this east-west tension and rhetoric? >> it seems that the g -- the agreements coming out of geneva last week never really began to be implemented. you did not see much movement in dismantling occupied practice can say neither kiev where the maidan protesters have been, or

in eastern ukraine where pro-russian forces have taken hold. if anything, it has increased, for example, in this shooting with some members of the pro-russian militants being killed in slaviansk. and there has been a blame game. blamed the west and kiev and raising a special criticism for the government in kiev for entering -- four launching another anti-terrorism operation. at the same time coming of concern coming out of kiev that russia has done nothing to call back the pro-russian separatist moscow that many believe has a direct hand in controlling, or manipulating or

directing in eastern ukraine. those forces remain on the streets today in eastern ukraine, just as they had in recent days and weeks and many would place the blame on russia for not implementing its responsibility for the geneva agreements. whatever came out of geneva last week does not have much effect on the ground these days. the question will be, how much longer can the agreement that does not seem to be implemented control all the parties. >> thank you. president this wednesday. blank ballots would be the majority of what was submitted. fears.t, there are big

unrest could escalate as elections approach next month. the targeting of police officers is continuing by violent opponents of opposition. our correspondent in cairo has the details. police morning, a brigadier general was killed, targeted outside his house in a satellite city just outside cairo. he was going to work and there was a bomb placed under his car. he was critically wounded in the attack and died later at hospital. what is interesting is that he is one of the top police officers from the central security forces there, the security force that had been targeting islamists since this crackdown. he had been leading this crackdown against supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi

since july last year. the scenes it was a targeted attack -- it seems it was a targeted attack. he is the third and their general killed since the start of the year. and this is the fifth attack on police target in cairo within the past week. seems also in alexandria today, a police officer was killed during an anti-terror operation. it seems there was an exchange of fire between the police and the people they were trying to arrest and the police officer was killed, as was one of the alleged terrorists. >> the office of the french president has stated that one of two remaining french hostages being held in mali has most likely been killed his captors. it is believed gilberto rodrigues leal may have died several weeks ago due to mistreatment at the hands of his kidnappers. in 2012,ped in mali

authorities had been worried about his state for months. and now it seems the worst has come to pass. in a statement, the jihadist group said french hostage gilberto rodrigues leal was dead. the group says paris was responsible for his tragic fate. france is responsible for ending the life of gilberto rodrigues leal. enough time to negotiate, but it shows the military option. >> in a statement, president alanis said he believes gilberto rodrigues leal may have been dead for weeks. he added that france would not stand idly by. rants -- >> france will do everything it can to find out what happened to him and will not let it go unpunished. >> leal was only passing through with a shipment of medicine and school supplies for kids in need in togo. but in 2012, the 61-year-old was

of theed by members movement for unity and jihad in ao.t africa, muj they have repeatedly threatened retaliation against france for deploying troops in mali. another french citizen is still being held in the fret -- in the desert. >> here in france, the prime minister is planning to cut 50 billion euros to the cabinet to fund president along -- tosident hollande's tax cuts encourage job creation. the biggest slice will go from the budget that covers most public services and public billion.rkers, $18

local government, health care, and the cost of and ministering social security payments also face cuts. it is being billed as a rebalancing eastward of u.s. foreign policy. barack obama has arrived in tokyo to begin his weeklong tour of asia. tom there, he will travel on south korea, malaysia, and the philippines. it is his fifth presidential trip to the region. let's get up to date now. our correspondent in tokyo joins us by skype. barack obama in japan? what business does he want to do their? >> he is there for several reasons. he arrived just an hour ago and will have dinner with shinzo abe. it is tomorrow when the two leaders will get down to business. i expect they will talk about free trade. there are some clear differences still between the u.s. and japan and the role in the transpacific partnership. they will talk about energy.

the discussions following their joint statement marr afternoon will-- tomorrow afternoon focus on the crucial issue of security. spoke threeama years ago about this strategic pivot toward the asia-pacific. but nothing much has happened since. this will be obama's opportunity to show japan, korea, and its other asian allies that the u.s. is really committed to their defense. course, comes amid growing concern about north nuclear weapons program and the increasingly aggressive behavior are the chinese navy, both in the east china sea where it is involved in a territorial dispute with japan, and the south china sea where it is involved in a similar row with the philippines. >> the first lady may have traveled there recently, but barack obama will not be taking a nature to china on this trip. but authorities are -- but the authorities there are said to be

monitoring this tour carefully. they have said that the chinese will not be taking much notice of the visit in japan. that is not the case at all. they will be watching closely what he says during his visit, and specifically tomorrow when shinzo abe and obama are expected to issue a joint statement. he has a balancing act to carry off. he needs to reassure japan that the u.s. has got its back, if you like, in his disputes with china. the u.s. hasn't taken sides over the issue, but has said that if those islands were to be invaded by china, for example, the u.s. is duty bound by its security treaty with japan to come to japan date. and he also needs to do something to break the diplomatic deadlock between japan and south korea. they are involved in another territorial disputes and disagreements over japan's wartime conduct, including its use of tens of thousands of

mainly korean sex slaves in the 1930's and 40's. and with north korea apparently unwilling to give up its nuclear weapons program and china flexing its muscles in the east china sea and southside essie, barack obama does need to try hard to bring together his two major allies in asia, mainly japan and south korea. >> thanks for that. a rio de janeiro slum has erupted into violence following the killing of a popular residence. angry locals set fires and threw missiles onto busy avenues in a tourist zone on tuesday. they blamed police for the death of a 25-year-old man, following the discovery of his body. the violence occurred a few hundred meters from where olympic coming events are expected to be held in 2015. drivers are recovering bodies from the south korea and ferryboat and are being forced

to rip through walls to get to some of the body. the confirmed death toll has now reached almost 150 people and another 150 are still missing. here is a report. >> looking out toward the open sea, families of the missing passengers continue to wait for news, even if it is to confirm the worst of their fears. >> some of the relatives have given up hope of finding survivors and started to accept the reality. they now wish at least to recover the bodies so they can hold the funerals. the natives are coming in from all over the country to support the families as they get through a difficult time. officials in the port city say they have received about 20 tons of goods every day for people staying in temporary shelter list -- temporary shelters. more bodies have been recovered, but still 150 remain unaccounted for. a majority of them are teenagers from a single school. three quarters of the 323 people

-- pupils at the high school that were on the field trip are dead or missing. the search is now concentrated in the cabin area on the third and fourth floors of the ship. the operation is proving difficult. >> it is one big open space, so once again in there we could do the search right away. but in the case of the cabins, we will have to wait -- break down the walls between compartments. >> it capsized a week ago on the yellow sea on its way to the island. while investigations are still ongoing, nine crew members, including the captain, are facing charges over the accident. >> time to take a look now. what is grabbing headlines around the world? you are going to start us off with a look at nato and how the organization is reacting to tensions with russia over ukraine. >> that is right. it is getting a lot of attention in the press today.

the international new york times is taking a closer look at how at the frontline, nato finds ambivalence over ukraine. the paper says the crisis in ukraine is forcing nato to take a good look at itself in the mirror. it says that the christ -- crisis has been an unpleasant reminder that nato has been hollowed out militarily in the last couple of years due to spending cuts. because of this, it means that nato is no longer as prepared as before to her -- to defend its member states. and because of this, its members states are shy to confront russia. being one country that is pointed at as being ambivalent is germany. >> there's a lot of reason for this ambivalence, historic reasons, closer economic ties. but also, according to u.s. sources, germany has been helping russia revolutionized its armed forces over the past few years. very interesting article today that says the reason why officials in washington have started taking a closer look is because they were really shocked by the annexation

of crimea. he did not see it coming. how did the russian special forces get so good so fast without anybody noticing it? a wondered whether they were getting some help from the west. this article takes a look at just what the u.s. is looking at and point the finger at a german defense contractor. this article says that it signed a 140 million contract to train russian soldiers and his contract was only shut down recently. u.s. officials are very upset about these findings. and focus on on barack obama's visit to asia, starting in japan. >> he will meet with prime minister shinzo abe tomorrow. the prime minister ruffled feathers this week by sending a religious offering to the young shrine to- yazakuni .ar criminals

it ruffled a lot of feathers will stop and in this cartoon -- can see obama shaking scratching his head as he is about to shake shinzo abe's hand. and there is another character there. another thing drying obama's attention is the fact that he is going to be traveling solo. there is an interesting article in the christian science monitor that point out that he is going stag to asia. this has people in japan upset. why is that? because recently michelle obama and her daughters visited china. according to this article in the christian science monitor, people in japan wonder what this says about japan's place in the u.s.'s priority list. >> they will be without style sticks -- mistakes without michelle. the spending to cuts that the prime minister is facing. >> this is big news in the

french papers. yesterday, he met with rebels, which was treated very critically in the paper. and he said he would back down from some concessions. it is not clear what those concessions are going to be. it is likely to be a small, symbolic gesture to reassure his majority. but in the editorial, they said that even if it is a small concession, it is too much and he needs to learn how to say no to his friends. he will be setting a precedent. presumably more support for the prime minister. >> that is right, they say this is a clever step minister. he is taking a step by step approach and giving into these rebels is a smart pr move to reassure his campaign and keep going. between two rappers has turned violent? this is nottunately a joke.

this is a very serious story. a photo of the two main protagonists here. leftave buba on the andrough on the right. they are big rivals. yesterday, rough was taken into custody for participating in a fight that broke out at the branch of a store called uncut, a clothing brand owned by buba. a 19-year-old employee was seriously injured in this scuffle and a lot of papers are saying this is a sad day for french rap, and that french rap has been soiled by this story. can read about it. this is an old feud, but up until now just a war of words and now it has definite cross a line. >> thank you. here is the sports rap ticking off with football. >> in the challenge between

tico and oh -- atle chelsea, a draw. the 2012 champions created a wall of defense. verythink chelsea have a strong defense, a defense that deals well with pressure. they will try to play a little bit more and we could have a chance to beat them. the secondtargeting leg. here, we are going for good results. the game is tough. now we have to focus on the return leg, which will also be very hard. >> it would have been good to score a goal away, but we attacked and defended well. now it is the second leg, and i would hope that we would be able to get a victory and reach the final. >> after chelsea's 0-0 draw on

atletico, on tuesday they will host defending champions. it could be a real clash of the titans. two years ago, the sides were locked at three after the two legs. and there was an agonizing penalty shootout. are not paying attention to recent history. >> no, i don't consider real madrid to be underdogs. munich, -- but munich, they are great opponents. but we, too, are in great form. i don't see any favorites. we are not interested in any of that. it is just background noise going on externally and nothing that affects us in the changing room. champions areiga looking to be the first to take

in 1990.y since milan >> i don't want to compare my experience as a coach here. it was another team, another club, another situation. it had nothing to do with this. to get the same result, we will have to display a very good performance as always at real madrid. >> record nine time champions sinceave not won a title 2002. tuesday's somewhat drab stalemate, more excitement is expected tonight. >> ryan gives is being made interim boss of manchester united after moynes was sacked on tuesday. over -- took overgg99ññwçça7g?