berlin. from the rubble of the bombed theater, reports of survivors. hundreds of civilians including children had taken shelter in the basement when a russian airstrike hit. there is no word on casualties. from the head of nato today, a warning about the future of the war and a call for more solidarity with ukraine. could the conflict reach all the

way into outer space? we will report on how the war could impact cooperation on the international space station. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. tonight, after russia bombed a theater in mario poll, the number of dead is not known but a ukrainian official is reporting that around emerged. the sheltering hundreds of civilians including children when it was shelled by russian forces yesterday. ukraine's president says it was one of many attacks on civilians and he has called for more international help to defend his country. we have this report now and a

warning -- some of the images in our report you may find disturbing. >> smoke bellows from the theater after it was hit by a bomb. days before, a satellite image showed the russian word for children written in large white letters at both ends of the building but that a not stop it from being targeted. >> the russian plane intentionally dropped a superpowerful bomb on a drama theater any the city center. hundreds of people were hiding from shelling. the building is destroyed. the number of casualties is not yet known. >> across mariupol, similar images of vastatio russian forces have besieged the city for over a week now cutting off civilians from food, water,

electricity and medical supplies. this local hospital has to operate with constant shelling around it. inside, a desperate scene unfolds. pcivilians lay injured and medical staff do what they can. those who could not be saved have been taken to the basement and covered in blankets. this little one only lived 22 days before he died. right now, there is no morgue where they can store the bodies. >> all the other hospitals have been bombed and no one can collect them. there is no emergency services. i don't know where we would put them, how we will bury them. >> only a few have been able to

escape mariupol, but even that is not safe. ukrainian authorities say russian forces fired on a convoy fleeing mariupol leaving several people injured. brent: for more, joining us from ukraine is -- she is in kyiv tonight. can you hear me? >> yes, i can hear your. brent: we appreciate you taking the time and we want to let our viewers know you are sitting in the dark right now because people in kyiv have been told to keep their lights off to protect themselves and to not attract any airstrikes. talk to me, what is going on where you are right now? >> it is quiet. today was a good day. it was sunny d.

the were a lot of people on the streets because we had a long curfew. today people wt outo enjoy some fresh air. we can hearur air defenses working. that gives us reassurance we are safe. occasionally some debris from the missile or some shelling damages building. we had a few buildings damaged and a few civilians killed by shelling and by debris of the missiles. otherwise, we feel kyiv is safe from the ground attack now. we are not so safe from the air. brent: that is unfortunately very true. i understand just before the invasion began, you left canada. you returned to ukraine.

that is where you are from, to help take care of your elderly father. you are there with him now. i understand he is doing better but you are in the middle of a war zone. we know a lot of people are trying to get out of the country. are you and your father -- do you have plans to leave >>o. he had a stroke so i am n sure traveling and trains or in a private car would be safe for him. second, he refuses to leave. this is a case with a lot of people, a lot of my friends. a number of reasons why people do not want to leave. have elderly relatives who refused to leave. they have children who were in the territorial defense forces. there are people who say we are going to stay.

people just do not believe that he have is going to fall. -- that he have is going to fall. brent: you are a ukrainian scholar. you know the history of your country. did you expect in the last three weeks to see such a strong sense of national unity and even resistance emerge? >> yes, i expected that because basically i think the revolution of dignity which occurred in 2014howed ukrainians have a strong sense of national identity and a strong sense of civic identity. ey are freedom loving people. they appreciate they have thei own state where theyan build their own life according to their own rules.

i expected the resistance to be strong. brent: we know that you are researching when stalin used famine intentionally in the 1930's to kill the lands of ukrainians. that was a real trauma for the country but also provided glue for national identity. this invasion by russia, is it analogous? >> in a way because we can speak about trauma on manyevel the is a psical direct trauma from observing what is going on, from observi death, the dtructi. the unfairness of what igoing on. there is such a thing as what we call curious trauma that we reve our past traumas. we see what is going on now in the same terms. not only on ukrainians as individuals but on our political

nation and on our cultural nation. because putin denies ukrainians thright to exist and he dens ukrain the right to exist as state. for us, it is all theore -- more assault on ukraine as a nation. some people disagree but i believe ukrainians were targeted because they are pritam -- their freedom loving. stal wanted to break their opposition to collective asian. so he starved the brent: just before we were not time, i want to ask you -- you study the past but let's look into the future for a moment. what kind of country do you think ukraine is going to be when it comes out of this war? >> i think ukrainianare now forward-looking. we rememr our past traumas but we are determined to overcome

this. we are determined to overcome victimizion. people are now saying we are going to rebuild better. we are going to rebuild any cost. we are going to prevail even though it is early in the war. i think ukrainians wanto be the nation that people are proud to identy with like mila kunis all of sudden decided she is ukinian becse it is cool to be ukrainian. ukrainians want to be cool, contemporary and freedom loving. brent: joining us tonight from kyiv. we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us. we wish you and your father all the best and we hope very soon you will be able to turn the lights back on. thank you. >> thank you for having me. brent: ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy has

delivered an address and a scathing criticism to germany's lawmakers. in his speech today, he said germany had enabled russia's invasion of his country by becoming dependent on russian energy imports. he accused germany's political class of failing to recognize the growing russian threat and he called for more action to end the war. >> his country is not far from germany and it is being destroyed by war. in his address to the german parliament, ukrainian president zelenskyy vividly described the atrocities russia is committing in ukraine. >> over the past three weeks, many people have been killed. thousands of ukrainians. the occupiers have killed 108 children. in the middle of europe in the year 2022. >> there were heads in hands as german lawmakers listen for 11 minutes to president zelenskyy

speaking live from ukraine. the ukrainian president did not mince his words, strongly criticizing berlin for continuing to import gas and oil from russia. >> some measures were taken to late. the sanctions have not been enough to stop the war. we have seen how many connections your company still have with russia, with a country that is using you and other countries to finance this war. over these past three weeks of war, we have been fighting for our lives and for our freedom. >> president zelenskyy urged germany to do more to support ukraine. if not, europe would not survive. would not be able to keep its values. he called what ukraine sees as a lack of support from berlin a new wall between germany and ukraine.

>> a former comedian, actor and president of the united states, ronald reagan, once said mr. president, tear down this wall. let me tell you again, chancellor schultz, please break down this wall. give germany the role of leadership you deserve and your future generations will be proud of you. please support us, support piece, support each and every ukrainian. stop the war. [applause] >> the german government had said before the speech it would not formally respond and so the session ended with a standing ovation for the ukrainian president and with german lawmakers left to digest an inconvenient truth. brent: nato secretary jens

stoltenberg said the alliance must prevent the conflict from ukraine escalating. he spoke today after talks with chancellor olaf scholz in berlin. he met with germany's foreign minister. here is >> part of what they said to reporters today. this approach shows this aggression is an attack on the people -- the liberty of people in ukraine and that makes it a war against our values. a war against our european liberty. this threat is one we need to take seriously as an alliance and we need to ensure that we are prepared and this is why as the german government we decided yesterday on top of the 100 billion euros that were going to -- that we were going to put on top of our defense capability and we are strengthening the eastern borders of the alliance

with german armed forces, soldiers. >> nato has already increased our deterrence and defense especially in the eastern part of the lines. we have hundreds of thousands of troops on heightened alert across the alliance. we have troops in europe that has increased by several thousands over the last weeks. and then we have 40,000 troops on direct nato command on the eastern part of the alliance. the german leadership and the number of german forces, there is one example of this increased presence in the area and at sea. this is our immediate response. sending a clear message to moscow an attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance. brent: joining me in the studio

is simon young. nato and germany appear to be on the same page but that does not change the fact there is more pressure on germany to do more to help ukraine. >> that is right and in terms of military support, i think you have to understand germany has already been on quite a journey over the last few weeks. the beginning of this conflict, germany was mocked for promising a few thousand helmets for ukrainian troops. now we are seeing deliveries of antitank weapons and surface missiles and significant financial support and other logistical support going in to ukraine over the last couple of weeks. there is support happening. germany has been traditionally somewhat sluggish or reluctant as a nato partner although it is

a key nato country and that has changed. we have this commitment to spend 100 billion euros on defense spending and get up to the 2% of gdp target. there have been a lot of changes. also significant german military participation in this nato project to strengthen its eastern flank. it is putting troops and equipment on the ground in the eastern european countries of nato in the baltics of poland and romania. i think there is a change of heart in germany. brent: the ukrainian president today accused germany of being an enabler, allowing vladimir putin to become the warrior that he is right now and he also said you are continuing to enable him by continuing to buy energy from him. >> it was an extra narrowly tough accusation in this address from president zelenskyy.

he also said germany is often -- germany's often repeated slogan of never again, never again war should he says it has no value and no meaning because of what germany has done or failed to do as he sees it. of course, he is right in the sense that europe generally and germany in particular continues to be incredibly independent on russian oil and gas. hundreds of millions of euros going in daily to russia and supporting this war effort. it is not so easy to we yourself off of that. it is a transition the german government says it wants to get on top of. it has canceled the pipeline project and there is more to do. brent: thank you. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world.

russia today abstained from a u.n. security council vote on renewing the mission and afghanistan. russia accused the other councilmembers of ignoring new reality since the taliban take over last year. two put it iranian -- two british iranian citizens are back in the u.k. after years of detention in iran. they were accused of threatening iran and charged -- and a charge they always denied. nasa's new space telescope has captured its first complete picture of a distant star. james wed telescope josh james web telescope smears aligned to produce the image that is 100 times fainter than a human eye can detect. scientists hope to use the telescope to observe galaxies formed in the universe 14 billion years ago. staying in outer space, on friday, three russian cosmonauts

are due to dock at the international space station but on earth, there are fears the invasion of ukraine could impact the cooperation that is crucial to the research being carried out astronauts in zero g. >> at 400 kilometers above the earth, the war in ukraine might seem far away but the crisis has reached even the international space station. shortly after the russian invasion, u.s. president joe biden made it clear space activities would not be excluded from sanctions. >> we estimate we will cut off more than half of russia's high-tech imports. it will strike a blow to their ability to continue to monetize -- to modernize their military including their space program. >> it did not take long for the head of the russia space program to respond on twitter.

if you block cooperation, who will save the icf -- the iss from falling on the territory of the u.s. or europe? to illustrate his point, the russian news agency posted a video suggesting the russia section could detach leaving the resto plummet to earth. he is referring to basic physs. due to friction, the iss slows down and was is altitude around 17 mers per da russian progress supply ships regularly correct orbit. without that, the iss would eventually fall on earth. but the dependence goes both ways. u.s. modules provide energy and life support systems for the russian section.

therefore,plitting the station into sepate units is tepidly -- is technically unfeasible, expert say. >> that would be very difficult for us to be operating on our own. iss ian international partnership that was created as an international partnership th joint dependencies, which is what makes it such an amazing program. >> working toward dependence and spaceflight for some years. they have built their own rockets. there are plans to adopt u.s. spacecrafts to take over we orbiting duties. that will take time. for now, the russi, european and u.s. space agencies have no other choice but to continue cooperating. brent: but for how much longer? to talk about that, i'm joined by the director of the space policy institute at george

washington university. it is good to have you on the program. the u.s. and russia have had problems in the past but it did not affect the iss. this is a completely different situation now. how dangerous, how close are we to seeing cooperation in space end? >> it depends on what kind of cooperation you are talking about. regarding the space station itself, it is operating rmally. we have a cause been not being trained in the united states at johnson space center. mark is planning to come home. the moscow central control system providing control when it is over russia. actual operations are basically fine. the crew is performing as a crew. notwithstanding, all kinds of being said on twitter. brent: despite what is happening on earth, should the astronauts

and the cosmonauts -- to they any reason to be worried? >> immediately, no. cosmonauts and astronauts function as aeam. when they are up there, they work well together. weave good personnel and -- good personnel and technical and professional relationships with the russians. the question is how long will cooperation be continued politically from a technic oint -- allowed to continue politically? a variety of things have been said but so far there have been no steps toward actual separation. as was noted, the u.s. and russian sides are very interdependent. the russian side is dependent upon the u.s. for power and we are dependent upon them for propulsion. we hav made a commitment with

the other partners to continue to -- continue operation through 2030. e russians are only committed through 2024. they have an option of deciding not to continue cooperation after 2024. brent: what would happen in 2024 if the russians say they are out? >> it would be a matter of having a joint plan with the russian partners. the space station is controlled as a joint venture among the partners. no one partner decides everything. the russians could decide upon orderly departure. they would send up no more cosmonauts. they would have to decide what they wanted to do with their segment. if they were to detach their segmt, that would require active cooperation from the u.s. side. use of canadian arm. the other partners would have to decide how to replace the

propulsion and re-boost capability, which would not be easy. and not desirable by any means. that is something the partners would have to look at. it depends on whether or not there is an orderly departure or there is a more precipitous one. as far as we can tell right now, everything is still performing orderly. although everybody is aware of the larger political context. brent: let's hope the situation here on the ground does not interfere with anything in the uss and it stays that way. we appreciate your time and insights tonight. thank you. you are watching dw news. here is a recap of the latest developments in the ukraine war. ukraine has accused russia of bombing a theater in mariupol that was sheltering hundreds of civilians. the number of casualties is not known.

ukrainian lawmaker says 130 survivors have been rescued. nato secretary jens stoltenberg says the alliance must prevent escalation of the war beyond ukraine's borders. he spoke today in berlin after high-level talks that included the german foreign minister pea ridge she repeated her call for a solidarity bridge for ukrainians. she announced special measures of support from moldova, which is taking and lots of ukrainian refugees. after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back. ♪

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>>6 it's 10 p.m. here in the french capital and this is live in from paris. the war in ukraine enters its fourth week, western intelligence suggesting that russian forces are stalling however they continue to bombard multiple cities. the governor there says th 53 civilians died in the past day. volodymyr zelenskyy accuses politicians brandishing the words never again without actually implementing what it means. this is the u.s. security council discusses the war in ukraine in new york -- un

security council discusses the war in new -- in ukraine in new york. the russian envoy has said that if the country won't put forward a draft proposal to vote as originally planned on friday at the un security council, this due to a clear lack of court. -- support. let's listen now to the kyiv ambassador to the u.n.. >> decided to cosplay the nazi third reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war. what are the reasons? what is the plan? yesterday we got the answer. killing ukrainian children. 108 innocent souls so far.

success in the strict accordance with their plans. approved previously. according to putin. it's children are deliberate target. even yesterday's bombardment of the mariupol drama theater, a shelter for hundreds of local residents, mostly women and children, despite the big signs -- children, painted on the road on both sides of the building being clearly visible. russian pilots dropped an aerial bomb. the building was fully damaged, but the shelter was fortunately still. it's it did not turn into another mass grave. as the putin plan was probably envisioned -- envisaged and previously approved. of course the plan does not limit the motives normally.

civilian ukrainians and foreign citizens are under threat. the office of the high commissioner, while believing that the real figures are considerably higher. they are, indeed. just yesterday in the city, 53 civilian residents were killed by russian bombs and shells. on the same day in the kharkiv region, 21 people were killed in russian shelling that destroyed the local school. the plan is also to raise ukrainian cities to the ground. in mariupol, paying for ukraine

and the entire world, and internal shame for russia. almost 2400 confirmed victims among the civilian population. 90% of the cities infrastructure has been destroyed. russian troops seized one of the hospitals, gathered 400 civilians and used the building as a military position hiding behind civilians as a human shield. the sufferings of mariupol must not become the future of ukraine , as spoken by the icrc president currently in ukraine. the plan a vladimir putin is to violate the agreements on cease fire and safe passage for the civilian population from the temporarily occupied territories. yesterday russian troop's

shelled a convoy of civilian vehicles headed from mariupol to [indiscernible] and the plan was previously approved. to terrorize local residents who remain in the territories seized by russian troops. small villages where the russian soldiers suffer the most. breaking into houses, throwing people into the streets, taking their food. eyewitness reports of tortures, abductions of local officials, and even extrajudicial killings coming from the occupied territories. forcing ukrainians to flee their homes as refugees has also been a part of this style of plan. almost three point 2 million refugees have fled ukraine so far. against the backdrop of the

increasingly aggravated humanitarian situation, russia has yet to draft a humanitarian resolution for the security council. an appeal by a serial killer to the u.n. members to sponsor this most rigid hypocrisy is outrageous. they may like to think twice before they dive into the blood of children and adults executed by the russian military in ukraine. let me quote saint patrick in this regard. never trust a dog to watch your food. at the same time, there is no doubt that action on the humanitarian front in the u.n. is urgently required and i encourage all responsible nations to support the relevant efforts in the general assembly.

i also encourage all to join france in that accountability cofounded by albania, the marshall islands, denmark, the netherlands, and ukraine. this will act as a forum among u.n. member states for discussion and promotion of the accountability measures in ukraine following the russian military aggression. distinguished members of the security council, yesterday the international court of justice delivered its order on provisional measures and indicates the allegations concerning genocide under the convention of punishment of the crime of genocide. ukraine versus russian federation. the court ordered that the russian federation shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on

the 24th of february, 2022, in the territory of ukraine. despite the order being binding on russia on the u.n. charter, today that kremlin openly and blatantly disregarded it, stating that they "cannot take this order into account," because there is no agreement between the sides. should this be surprising for us? i don't think so. from the very first instance of russia's presence, they have been in contempt of the u.n. charter. it was the case when russia was allowed to occupy the soviet seat in the u.n. it in the security council. it was the case in georgia, in syria, as well as in ukraine, crimea, and don bost -- don

bass. i encourage the members to exercise their duties envisioned by the 98.2 charter make accommodations or decide on measures to be taken in the case of russia's failure to comply with the obligations incumbent upon it under the judgment rendered by the board. mr. president, perpetration induced traumatic stress, also known as a form of post-traumatic stress disorder whose symptoms are caused by being an active participant in causing trauma. sufferers of this may be found in many roles, such as soldiers or executioners.

but they are expected to cause trauma, including death. but diplomats, especially here at the united nations, especially here at the security council, compared to them all, the more well-known and understood ptsd, there appears to be greater severity and a different symptom pattern for those affected by this. the case of the military aggression of russia against ukraine and the mass atrocities perpetrated by the russian army, ordered by putin, defended by the russian diplomat's, will be examined by scholars and scientists, including in the areas of sociology, history, philosophy, psychiatry, and theology. today, however, i would like to pull from "into the abyss," a

documentary about executioners of the death penalty. one guard began crying and shaking uncontrollably when "the eyes of all the inmates" he had executed began flashing before him. ambassador, do the eyes of ukrainian children, women and elderly, killed by the russians, flashed before you? -- flash before you? if they do, you may consider how to sponsor a decision to help you deal with perpetration inducted traumatic stress. but now, have some decency and stop the egregious manipulation

of the security council. it is obscene. it would be to my dignifying for the russian delegation to end like that. instead, i would like to quote a tweet by dario [indiscernible] the italian member of the government who tweeted today "italy" -- italy is ready to rebuild the theater in mariupol and the cabinet of ministers has approved my proposal to offer ukraine the resources needed to rebuild as soon as possible. theaters of all countries belong to the whole of humanity." i thank you. >> thank you to the

representative and i give the floor to the member of poland. >> we just are there from the ukrainian ambassador to the united nations, who had some very strong words therefore russia in the kremlin, saying that russia was cosplaying as the third reich and saying that the behavior was no surprise given the attacks that took place in mariupol and accused russia of planning to raise entire cities to the ground and that what is happening mariupol will be russia's inter -- eternal shame and he warned that the kremlin's behavior will be examined and studied in the future and ended by giving a must -- message to the russian delegation sitting with him in that room in new york, telling them to have some decency. that was the ukrainian ambassador to the united nations

speaking earlier during a debate on the war in his country. next, let's get more info from the ground and ukraine is the russian invasion enters its fourth weekend prosecutors in kharkiv say that 21 people were killed after an attack on a school and cultural center. in mariupol they continue to look for survivors and kyiv has come out into fresh scenes of destruction. russian forces reportedly no longer making progress on the ground. the ukrainian defense ministry saying that they are resorting to chaotic shelling instead. let's get to the latest on the theater in mariupol. the former governor of the region has said that the bomb shelter underneath that had resisted the attack, rescue workers are looking for potential civilians still stuck in the rubble and russia denies bombing it and italy has offered to rebuild it.

claire and sinead have the latest. >> hundreds trap inside of mariupol's drama theater after a bomb struck the building on wednesday. civilians including children and the elderly had taken refuge here as the russian seizure jean the city continued. an attack that the european commission calls inhumane. >> it constitutes a serious and grave violation of international and humanitarian law and the seas has to be lifted, the bombardment and attacks against civilians have to stop. >> the impact is obvious, the foreign defense minister calling on the european parliament to recognize vladimir putin as a war criminal. before the attack, civilians wrote the word children on either side of the building to secure the their presence -- signal their presence. [speaking non-english language]

>> a spokesperson for the russian government denies that there forces bombed of the theater. the besieged coastal theater has faced two weeks of attacks from russia. officials struggling to account for deaths. the official number of civilians killed at 2400 but it is expected to be much higher. wednday, 11,000 people managed to evacuate the city. some to this refugee center. some left just in time. [speaking non-english language] >> so far around 30,000 people have fled mariupol. the ukrainian president

addressed bundestag by video link earlier today. germany is the main energy client for russia. zelinski cresta -- chastised germany for the creation of the nord stream pipeline, saying business interests led to the creation of a new war in central europenot berlin. lawmakers gave him a standing ovation afterwards but proceeded with a regularly scheduled debate for the day. [speaking non-english language] >> in other world news, the french leader emmanuel macron has unveiled his electrical program less than one month before the first round of the presidential polls. he is hoping for reelection. wants to push the legal age of

retirement back to 65 and overhaul public education and public health and determines that immigration, he is looking to kick out those who have had their refugee status rejected. eleanor, he is finally coming out with some concrete proposals then, just weeks before d-day. any other surprises? >> well, the tone i guess? not really, the big surprise in france is that the war and ukraine has completely hijacked the presidential campaign and nothing else seems to matter. this has been hugely to the benefit of macron and it is why he can present his program less than a month before the first round. i mean honestly, he spoke for four hours. i kind of had to stop watching after three. what did he propose? what did he not propose? the tone was very different.

he said, you know, it's a different world. the pandemic in this world have created a different -- this war have created a different world and fans has to -- france has to transform with energy independence, agricultural independence, be able to feed ourselves. of course he said that cutting military spending was over, they would increase it, but not just increase it. massive investment in agriculture, in nuclear. third and fourth generation reactors and renewables. zero emissions by 2050. he talked about a reorganization of society, industry, companies, education, research, focusing on sectors of the future, space, cybersecurity, biotech, it was head spinning. you felt like you were in some new world where the stakes have been raised. it really kind of felt like,

yeah, a program offered in a place that is being transformed by war. we are really entering a new era and i felt that listening to him. it wasn't the typical time to talk about the retirement age. not that difficult bread stuff of an election. i didn't hear much about europe. it was about france being sufficient, self-sufficient, sovereign, competitive. not much about europe. it was kind of overwhelming, actually. >> grandiose issues indeed. voters on t left inrance accuse macron of veering to the right deite being a self-proclaimed centrist. last time they voted for him to make sure that the far right didn't win the and this time some of them claim they won't do it again. are these threats credible? >> yeah, a couple of months ago that was the kind of thing we were thinking about. they might have been credible as

he was clearly not on the left in france. but i think that today so many people are so worried about this war. he has been talking about -- talking to biden, talking to putin, they are controlling the situation, putting france front and center on the world stage. people are really worried about this war. i think that they will go out and vote for him because he is head of the country now, he has international experience. there is nobody can really compare to him in leadership right now at this critical moment. old worries, old things that mattered in the election are kind of gone. the french are watching this night after night on their television, it's on every media, it's just all-encompassing right now. 7 clearly on the -- >> the war clearly on the minds of many. thank you so much, eleanor beardsley of npr. it's time now for business.

as we have been discussing, emmanuel macron unveiled his program today with a lot of focus on the economy. not just the war. >> he vowed to reshape the french economy by further cutting taxes, reforming the labor market and making nato public. he said pro-business reforms carried out despite protests have worked to bring unemployment down to a 15 year low 50 billion euros per year and to pay for it, he said, the french people would have to work more. plans include raising the retirement age to 65 and making it harder for the jobless to receive unemployment benefits, meanwhile promising more subsidies for single mothers and encourages tax breaks for some. also making france more independent in terms of energy,

food, and industry as the war in ukraine has shown the european vulnerability when it comes to oil and gas. he says the state should increase its stake in the utility giant edf, including nationalizing the nuclear unit. >> global oil futures surged again this thursday. brent crude and wto up 9% on the international benchmark, one hundred seven dollars per barrel one day after the international energy agency warned that 3 million barrels per day of rotten oil may be out of the markets in april as buyers hold off. meanwhile, russia appears to have avoided a sovereign debt default in the face of economic sanctions. they were due to pay $170 million coupon payments on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds on wednesday and there were fears they would not be

able to meet the obligation as their foreign currency assets held abroad have been frozen. reports however say that j.p. morgan as a correspondent bank has received and processed the payments in u.s. dollars. thank you for that business update. sliding across the table now to catalina with our daily segment, truth. you are beginning with the story of a video on social media. where the president appears to surrender to russian forces. >> a false video where he apparently made the announcement to give up to russian forces. the video was diffused on a hacked ukrainian user website called ukraine 24. morning, the video is a deepfake, a fake announcement of presiden zelensky laying down arms.

let's take a listen. [speaking non-english language] >> in the video you could see him on a podium, as we have seen him many times before, saying that he is returning to his family and of the you were failed. it's easy to spot some of the clues, you could see that his head was bigger than his body, digitally attached and the head was more pixilated than the rest of his body. anyone familiar with him, you could tell something was off.

the news website that was hacked went on facebook to confirm this was a fake and that they were hacked by enemy hackers and that no one is giving up and that the real presiden zelensky went on instagram after this was posted on social media and referred to the video, calling it a childish provocation, assuring the people that he is home defending ukraine and there is proof of that on the instagram page. it seems ukrainian officials predicted this might happen. early on march 2 they issued a warning on deepfakes of the president and so did the defense intelligence of ukraine, warning citizens against these deepfakes on social media. facebook was quick enough to remove it from all accounts. according to the atlantic council, this was a video shared by an operational telegram pro-russian account shared on ukrainian media and social

networks. it is not the first or second time this month that fake news has spread regarding a fake presiden zelensky surrendering against russian sources -- forces. >> those deepfakes, becoming more and more chillingly realistic. thank you for watching. live from paris continues after the break. ♪ >> the french presidential election is around the corner and what better excuse to embark on a road trip across the country in an electric cv, a car full of contradictions, just like france itself. we will be exploring the major themes of the connect -- coection, culture and security to the economy. north, south, east and west,

including a trip to guadalupe. >> france 2022, on all france 24 channels and on france 24.com. ♪

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