>> welcome to live from paris, world news and analysis from france 24. these are the headlines. children under rebel. the children's hospital owned by the russians. ukraine's deputy prime minister france 24 there are nursing mothers and newborn babies among the casualties pair the russian invasion of ukraine sees a new level of depravity. over 2 million people have fled ukraine since the invasion was launched by russia's president putin. more corridors have been set up to try to help civilians

estate 10 poland's offer of fighter jets has been knocked back by washington. a complicated situation says nato. even more so looking at it from kyiv. more on this. this is live from paris. ♪ thank you very much for being with us especially if you are watching us from ukraine or russia. our coverage of the russian invasion continues. in the most shocking strike of the russian invasion so far, a maternity and children's hospital has been hit. children under the rubble says president volodymyr zelensky. born babies and their mothers are among the victims according to ukraine's deputy prime

minister. this happened in the port city that has been under siege since vladimir putin launched the invasion of ukraine. it happened when a cease-fire was meant to be enforced to allow civilians to evacuate the city. since february 24, ukraine's authorities say over 1000 civilians have been killed in russian bombardments. food and water are already scarce. russia is trying to lame ukraine for the situation. the city russian soldiers have in their stranglehold. with that, let's get some analysis in the studio. we are joined by a france 24's military strategy consultant. we saw the images and clearly with a hospital with children in it, with newborn babies. i am wondering whether this could be seen as perhaps a turning point in this conflict. >> difficult to answer.

it is new evidence of a sort of seizure war, human warfare. exactly the same reflex as a few days ago on friday, last friday with a nuclear central bombing. the fire beginning close to the facility. the lack of professionalism from russian soldiers or the way the political power means to be frightening, means to frighten the population either to make the move or to make sure there will be dislocation between the people and the power. both scenarios are frightening. >> in terms of what we have heard of the offer from poland

of 29 fighter jets to be donated to ukraine, this being rejected by washington. what is happening there? >> we find the limit here of the way we can help the ukrainians in traditional conventional warfare. the idea was put in the air by antony blinken, the state department chief in washington. i think there was a form of coalition in eastern europe to support something that actually made the u.s. backed down pretty quickly. you had a reaction from olaf scholz, the german chancellor today. you had a recent reelection from the kremlin saying this would be

a dangerous move. we are refusing a no flight zone. it is the same sort of risk of escalation. we are walking on a very thin line between helping ukraine and avoiding a direct involvement of conflict. my guess is we see a form of shift in the narrative. what we could do as far as political military help is concerned. we have russian public opinion and the political and all the moves serious society can make to help people. on the military side, we enter a form of a more realistic --

which is linked to unconventional warfare. it is easier to deliver this sort of weapon, night goggles, rifles, mines, etc. if you enter in this seizure war, if you enter in this form of resistance, we will at some point still walk on this thin line. do we add uavs? do we had tactical missile defense? it is not easy. >> thank you for sharing us that analysis. let's continue with analysis of the events in ukraine. russia and ukraine agreeing to open more humanitarian corridors to evacuate terrified civilians from bombarded cities. as fighting raged, safe routes were opening out of five

ukrainian areas including suburbs of the capital, which had been devastated by russian shilling and airstrikes. earlier this tuesday, our correspondent was near kyiv. under heavy fire, bombardment by the russians. local people leaving everything to try to flee to save their lives. a county -- a convoy of russian troops was two kilometers away. >> we have been driving through. this is a humanitarian court or going to take some refugees. we have been waiting for half an hour for this convoy to get in. we see a lot of activities at the checkpoint. thousands of people going to take refuge in central kyiv and have the opportunity with the yellow buses.

these buses are meant to send the refugees out of this residential area. where we are standing i don't know if you can see. the huge smoke around here in the town. we just arrived five minutes ago. some shelling just occurred for three minutes. you have one of the few houses there, barely 300 meters from where we stand. we are prevented from going further by the local military. we could hear some shelling. while this convoy was going inside the three cities. it is a volatile situation. very chaotic. >> earlier today on a roadside heading into kyiv. we will have more when day breaks later.

the united nations says over julian people have fled -- says over trillion people have fled. -- over 2 million people have fled. those companies scramble to accommodate them. most able-bodied men have been ordered to stay home and fight . ukraine said this wednesday there was a danger of a radiation leak at the chernobyl nuclear power station after electricity was cut off to the plant. the state run nuclear companies said high-voltage power line had been damaged during fighting between ukrainian troops and russian forces who re occupying the defunct plant. the scene of course of the worst

nuclear disaster in history in 1986. the u.n. nuclear watchdog says they see no critical impact on security. the same inspectors say the unit six transform has been taken out of service for emergency repairs after that site was hit by a russian missile on march 4. >> ukraine's energy operator said wednesday power had been cut to the true noble nuclear power plant warning that there are around 20,000 spent fuel assemblies that could not be kept cool during a power outage, posing a potential radiation leak kyiv is taking seriously. >> for the next 48 hours, the ventilation system of the true noble shelter will stop working at the level of radiation would spread around the territory of

europe. >> the international atomic energy agency reassured there was enough water in the spent fuel pools to avoid a critical accident. since the explosion of one of its directors in 1986, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, chernobyl is no longer in operation but continues to serve as a repository for the fuels stored there. the plant was seized by russian forces on the first day of the invasion of ukraine peered moscow insist the between russian military and 200 ukrainian staff is running smoothly. >> the situation -- by ukraine specialists and russian military. >> last week after it was shelled, eure's largest active nuclear power plant also came under russian control.

with operating staff being held under armed guard. the iaea has offered to send teams to ukraine to ensure safety guarantees for all the nuclear sites as an investigation and repairs are underway. >> the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers on thursday will hold face-to-face talks. they will take place and turkey. this will be the first high-level contact between kyiv and moscow. turkey's president erdogan has expressed hope talks can divert tragedy and help agree on a cease-fire. analysts agree they are the lowest chances of a breakthrough in the meeting between the russian minister and his ukrainian counterpart. we will watch all developments. the u.s. vice president will travel to poland on wednesday to discuss how to provide dilatory

assistance for ukraine -- provide military assistance for ukraine. what health officials said this hours after washington rejected warsaw's offer of soviet era fighter jets. pullen took the united states by surprise by offering to send jets to ukraine. washington rejected the proposal. john kirby said the prospect of the jets flying from a u.s. nato base into airspace contested with russia over ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire nato allnce. our correspondent joins us from washington. the u.s. getting cold feet over poland's proposition. >> there are definitely -- they are deafly not on board at all. it is a shift in position from the united states over the past three or four days because back over the weekend the u.s. seemed

to be at least on principle ready to help to backfill those fighter jets meaning they would send new fighter jets to poland who would send its old fighter jets to ukraine. territory of state tony blinken talking about a green light from process.ed states for tt then you had the announcement by poland, which the white house says it was not made aware of prior to the public announcement that they would be willing to send their fighter jets but it would be via a u.s. airbase in germany and that means those fighter jets would have to be flown from the u.s. airbase in germany to ukraine and that is when the u.s. said no. we are not on board with that. this is untenable because that would amount basically to a nato member flying off a fighter jet

over a contested airbase desk contested airspace -- contested airspace over ukraine. they contend that would be too risky to do that with russia. just a short while ago, the spokesperson for the pentagon made the situation extremely clear because up until now the white house was saying we are looking at would just tickle ways of meant -- at logistical ways of continuing with the principal of that idea but we need to figure out how to actually do it. now it is simply out of the question. john kirby saying we do not support the transfer of fighter jets to ukraine. simply put whether it is via the u.s. or not via the u.s., that is their position. that is because their assessment is again from the transfer is low. meaning they believe sending those fighter jets would not give that much of an upper hand the ukrainian military. they would better be supplied

with other sorts of weapons than with those fighter jets. the other assessment from u.s. intelligence is that transfer would be high risk because they believe they have intelligence that shows the russians would see that transfer as an escalatory step, which we have heard from the russians saying they would see any move b a nato member as a declaration of war and that is what the americs do not want. they are insisting they are trying to find other ways military aid but they are not willing toake the step of sending those fighter jets. >> thank you very much indeed. it is time for business who better than kate moody? european leaders will be meeting outside paris on thursday to discuss amongst other issues the

dependence on russia energy. >> they committed to reducing that reliance on russian natural gas by about two thirds by the end of this year. the question is how. russia provides for than a quarter of the oil consumed in the you and within 40% of its natural gas. that dependence means it is more difficult for brussels to ban ports out right as u.s. president joe biden announced earlier this week and as the u.k. has urged other g-7 members to do. talks with emmanuel macron in paris, the dutch prime minister says the block still needs to shield citizens from possible shortages. >> to discuss our vulnerabilities in terms of our dependence on russian oil and gas. i would not cut off our supply today. we need the supply. that is the uncomfortable truth. >> as the talks get underway, the energy industry is looking at other sources and suppliers.

industry has coordinate of the release of 60 million barrels and says it could do more. >> we are discussing with the producing countries in the middle east, latin america and asia to encourage them to bring more oil to the markets to compound the loss of russian oil on a daily basis >> that uncertainty means energy markets remain on edge pit dropped suddenly this wednesday. they are still relatively high because of these ongoing concerns about supply. u.s. wti tempering out -- tumbling over 11%. the biggest one-day fall since november. brent crude with its biggest one-day drop since april of 2020. most analysts say oil prices have yet to peak in the current price is paid many expect we could hit $200 a barrel.

european natural gas prices peaked to over 200 euros. this remains incredibly high. a year ago, that same measure was trading at just under 20 euros. let's check in on the days trading action for wall street closed higher peer the dow jones and s&p 500 up about two and 2.5% respectively. the nasdaq through and have. much bigger rally for the european indices. gains of over 7% in paris and frankfurt pit 3% in london. traded nickel was suspended in london until the end of the week because of the huge price fluctuations. stocks are still trading well below the levels we were seeing before russia invaded ukraine. this is an example of how volatile stock markets are. around 300 western businesses have suspended oriented their sales and investment in russia.

ukraine's former finance minister has told any business still operating is indirectly financing the war. she urged them to cut ties. some of france's biggest businesses have been reluctant to go -- to join the corporate exodus. >> mcdonald's, coca-cola and pepsi and starbucks. long symbols of the west in russia now halting their operations. ukraine's former finance minister told france 24 the corporate world has a's responsibility. dutch has a responsibility. >> i say that asking businesses to self sation, to voluntarily apply their esg principles and walk the walk of leaving, ceasing doing any business in russia. any part of any business we do with russia is indirectly financing the war. >> french businesses are more

hesitant to pull out because of deep investments in the country . renaud has 40,000 employees. dannon, which has 8000 employees and earns an estimated 6% of its annual revenue in russia says pulling out is not so black and white. >> we have a responsibility to the people we feed. the farmers who provide us with milk and the tens of thousands of people who depend on us. >> the financial stakes are high. >> french companies have around 17 billion euros invested in russia. many companies hav invested a lot on the grounds. pulling out means giving that up. >> what emmanuel macron has been leading the european push to impose sanctions on russia, other corporate giants say the french government is not

pressuring them to cut ties even as public pressure continues to grow. >> we have seen on social media in particular these calls to boycott businesses that have refused to plot of russia. so far, a real pressure campaign that continues together force. >> interesting that those businesses in russia, big names in the west, they employ people. ordinary people may suffer because of the actions of their so-called leaders. as ever, thank. great to cup and kate would -- as ever, thank you. great to see you. you have been looking at russian influences on the platform tiktok who appear to be reading from the same script. is this just a coincidence or something that is coordinated? >> probably the latter of the

two possibilities. a video has been doing the rounds where it has been identified quite a few influencers seem to be saying the same thing. this video does not have subtitles but we don't really need them. the whole point is people are saying the same thing in what can only be in a coordinated matter. let's take a lk at this video that demonstrates that. [speaking foreign language] >> you get the idea. it has been identified tiktok is more influential than platforms

such as youtube. it has greater reach and in particular for younger audiences. both those peddling this in variation, -- this inflammation -- this information who don't take interest in geostrategic issues. tiktok accounts were not necessarily preoccupied by such questions. here they are all of the very like a mind and all saying pretty much exactly the same thing. >> you can check their accounts if those accounts existed. there is a lot of botox. which kind of looks even more alarming. >> influencers. >> what can i say? i'm old and out of touch. some fact-checking media have been a fact checking to what did they find? >> this is going down the rabbit hole. fake fact checkers.

is there such a thing? i thought not but there you go. this is a screen grab from what russian tv -- they pulled it off the internet -- was claiming to be fact checking in ukraine that was bogus except it is all bogus if you follow. pro-russian fake fact video debunked by clement since media and pro public the. pro public a one of the more well-known investigative journalism orgizations in the united states to they have been combing through these supposedly videos that are debunking fake news but are actually fake themselves. gives you a sense of this. here they are claiming the ukrainian media are pointing the finger of blame at russia for missiles that had struck kharkiv and the smoke was supposedly as a result of that missile except the video -- the fire dated back

to 2021. what they are saying here is all of the fact checking was bogus. this is an example of ukrainian media engaging in fake fact checking. i suppose it is a case of transforming debunking into -- >> this is orwellian doublespeak. >> i think the analysis of this has been even if the degree of quality -- even if the quality of the fake content is questionable, the fact it is there muddies the waters and creates confusion. the whole point is to create a maximum degree of misinformation so you don't really know what is true at all. therefore it is easier to spin a more determined narrative from the russian perspective.

it is easier to muddier the water test -- to muddy the waters turned dark with the bottom line is they are lying. i don't know what is more shocking. that or i can still quote george orwell. thank you very much for bringing us truth or fake. thank you, thank you for not laughing when i quoted george orwell. thank you for watching. all of the events regarding ukraine continues. stay with us. >> consider me your code breaker. they after day, i'm ready to go on air at any moment to help you make sense of the news we report. >> i'm here to go live on set for analysis of the most important events of the day often as they occur and to provide clarity to our viewers. >> it france 24, i work closely with the duty editor to give

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03/09/22 03/09/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! pres. biden: today i am announcing united states this targeting the main artery of russia's economy, all imports of russian oil and gas. amy: united states has banned russian energy imports as russia's invasion of ukraine has entered its 14th day. we will speak to antonia juhasz, author of "the tyranny of oil,"