anchor: welcome to live from paris. these are the headlines. genocide, what putin is doing to ukraine, but russian claims the surrender of 1000 troops. ukraine is a crime scene. a woman is manhandled out that handling a briefing. she held up a heart-shaped photo. starting the day live, emmanuel

macron fine-tuning policy. you have all the news and analysis of the french presidential election campaign. 250 lives lost in the worst flooding in south africa. e heaviest rains in 60 years. all this me alive from carrots. -- all this, live from paris. ♪ thank you for being with us. day 48 of the russian invasion. the international criminal court has declared ukraine a crime scene. 400 civilians dead. 25 wounded. others say they were raped.

investigation of war crimes continues to unearth shocking claims of atrocities, reaching that geneva convention. mariupol under siege, the harsh reality of the war crimes. threats from russia to used chemical weapons to force-out a group of ukrainian marines. russia reported 1000 soldiers surrendered wednesday. after a seizure and bovard meant, mariupol may have finally fallen. reporter: [speaking in foreign language] translator: russian state television broadcast these images showing more than 1000 ukrainian marines who surrendered wednesday. these images have not been verified. they are said to have been shot in mariupol, where the less ukrainian soldiers have been

mounting resistance. >> [speaking in foreign language] trslator: in mariupol, as a result of offensive operations, 1026 ukrainian marines voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered. reporter: the ukrainian defense ministry says it has no knowledge of any surrender in russian boards is continued their attacks. a cabinet official recognized tuesday that ukrainian forces were surrounded and blocked in mariupol. on wednesday, the mayor of the city said forces were resisting. >> [speaking in foreign language] translator: their situation is very difficult, because they are outnumbered. but they are resisting. mariupol is a ukrainian city. reporter: the location is strategic. if it falls, it would give russia a land bridge.

ukrainian authorities say between 10 and 22,000 people have d died in mariupol. anchor: that report. u.s. president biden says he is standing by comments he made calling russia's invasion of ukraine a genocide. the kremlin says the claims are unacceptable. genocide has a strict legal definition. we have this. reporter: it is the harshest criticism of the kremlin by the u.s. so far. president biden accusing vladimir putin of committing genocide in ukraine. pres. biden: none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away. reporter: later, he said he stood by his comments. pres. biden: we will let the lawyers decide whether it qualifies.

reporter: whether it qualifies depends on a strict legal definition that was decided upon after the holocaust. the geneva conventions in 1949 defined it as an intentional effort to completely or partially destroyed a group based on its nationality, ethnicity, race, religion. there is general agreement that four cases have met that threshold. the holocaust during world war ii, the slaughter of the armenians by the turks in 1915, the 1990 mass killing in rwanda, and the slaughter of thousands of muslim men and boys in bosnia. legal experts say that genocide is harder to prove than other violations of international law such as war crimes and crimes against humanity because he

requires evidence of intent. at this point, the international criminal court is not investigating genocide charges against russia, but it's prosecutor has just launched a probe into possible war crimes or crimes against humanity that moscow may have committed in ukraine. anchor: next, our chief foreign editor has more on satellite towns around the capital of ukraine have suffered. reporter: the effort to clean up the town is underway. the fire brigade is helping, volunteers helping, people checking to see whether there are mines, unexploded ordinance, whether there are bodies under the brick and mortar that has fallen down. it is a pretty awful site when you get there. a strong effort is being made by the ukrainians to get things in

hand and get it and have it off as soon as possible. some buildings have had gas switched on, and in attempt has been made to get electricity working in water running, but for many houses, it is still not the case. the authorities are saying it is not safe for people to go back but i have to say we did come across quite a few people living there and who lived there throughout the fighting who were able to tell us about how heavy it had been how awful it had been, but the behavior of the russian troops, how they would go house to house looking for people who they suspected of being as they would call it nationalists or nazis telling the young men or boys to strip to their underwear so that they could see whether they had tattoos that indicated nazi or nationalist affiliations and if they did they were then shot so the situation is clearly grueling for the people who have

lived there, but a major effort is now being made to get the place inhabitable again. morale is pretty good. they have been through tough times over the last few weeks. they were mostly elderly people. they are not the people who are up for a fight, but you did get a sense of determination on their part that they want their country to see this through and they want russia to be defeated and that there is no way they want to be taken over their country to be taken over by russia. they have seen what the russians have done whilst they have been here. they want to send him to moscow or wherever else they came from. anchor: that is our chief foreign editor robert parsons. let's bring you the latest on the french presidential election campaign. controversy at the policy briefing of marine le pen.

the woman who tried to hold up a heart-shaped photomontage of marine le pen and vladimir putin was struck to the ground. as you see, she was dragged out along the floor. she says she is for a rapprochement with russia and it suits france. meanwhile, a menu macron appeared on tv networks wednesday, emmanuel macron appeared on tv networks to bring in voters. it is one thing to help the rising cost of living and counter that here in france. he has criticized marine le pen's lack of credentials is flying in the face of the paris climate accords. he will visit somewhere on thursday. let's get broader analysis of the situation and i am pleased to say we can welcome once again to our output a lecturer in european politics. it is great to see you. emmanuel macron appearing on tv

wednesday, trying to bring in left wing voters. what are those voters and wha ey decide to do could decide what happens there could it not? >> definitely. we could expect some movement on ecology and the paris agreement as well as you mentioned as well. anchor: do you feel that what he is saying is enough to make up for what he has not said in the previous weeks when he was accused of being absent by all his opponents before the first round vote? >> they were silent during that first part of the campaign. they had to reach out to other voters. emmanuel macron has the advantage that he was in power and not many people are happy with what happened during these years, so people are angry and want to see a president who is

talking about making the planet great again for example in the face of donald trump and to actually deliver on the paris agreement and not just do that. anchor: two questions on both. there with me. you mentioned those people angry with emmanuel macron. will they be finding what they want from marine le pen? >> well, if they are interested in ecology or climate, they will not. i was looking through a program earlier today. the plan on climate is to build more nuclear reactors and to actually get rid of any in france. they just want to get rid of all of them. a lot of people are currently worried about our dependency on russian fossil fuel, marine le pen's worry about energy

sovereignty is about the european energy market, no mention of russia at all in it. anchor: you mentioned that were dependency. today, something else was the elephant in the room which did not get discussed almost at all really in the briefing on foreign policy that marine le pen held, the one with the protester dragged out holding up the heart-shaped photo of her and vladimir the background is that people don't know, her party had to take a loan from the russian bank to stop it going bust. there is a danger surely that someone who has done that is going to be basically in hock to ever gave them the money, so this gives russia influence over president le pen if that comes to pass. >> most definitely. it is interesting to remember that in 2014 that marine le pen got a big loan from a russian bank. last year, she got a big loan

from a hungarian bank, so the kind of acquaintance and friendship she has with victor or bonn and vladimir putin tells us a lot about the kind of foreign policy she once and the attitude towards the european union she wants which is not calling for an exit, but to push france gently towards it and make the eu not work and side with hungary in a crisis. anchor: is this for endocrine decisive in the selection or down to other matters such as the cost of living and issues that are related to the yellow vest complaints and those kinds of things? >> i think we will have to see what happens in the debates, because st time around, marine le pen was not very good in that final televised debate between her and emmanuel macron, so if

there is confrontation, how they will answer this, i think that emmanuel macron has not been seen as someone who was there for the people, but marine le pen, her party has never really when we look at what they have done when they were in position of power in cities and in towns, they have not been good either, so we are, i mean the group, you know, we are in a situation right now where there are multiple crises happening at the same time and it is very uncertain. anchor: every day will count. thank you so much for giving us that explanation. i always like it. thank you so much indeed. great to see you. joining us. she is lecturer. and of course we will be hearing from her again i hope between now and the 24th of april, the second day of voting and we will be following both candidates every step of the way, keep an

eye on it to make sure coverage is fair. next, the devastating floods in south africa that have claimed around 259 lives, in and around a city, government officials say hillsides have washed away in homes collapsed. more and more people are feared missing in the heaviest rains in 60 years pummeled the municipality. it is believed it's the deadly storm on record in south africa. reporter: the south african president was in the coastal city today, promising the government would spirit north effort in dealing with a disaster. search and rescue operations ntinued on wednesday. more than 200 people have died and many are still missing. >> [speaking in reign language] translator: what is difficult because we have lost the lives of many people in their houses have been washed out. the roads have also been washed

out as well as the bridges. we thought we should come here so that they could see it. reporter: all across the province, there was havoc and devastation tuesday. roads and highways were destroyed. thousands of homes were damaged. power stations were affected, cutting off electricity. hundredsf residents are stranded as they were unable to reach an emergency call center and those who made it out say they have lost everything. >> i got no house. i got no nothing. it is very, very bad. i don't know where i will sleep now. reporter: authorities have urged people in low-lying areas to move to higher ground as more rainfall is expected in the coming days. anchor: devastating rains hit the area in south africa, nearly

260 killed, the death toll will rise and we will watch it. let's turn to business. brian joins us with a warning from berlin, a ban on russian energy would mean big trouble for the german economy. reporter: indeed. it has ruled out a eu-wide ban on oil and gas now because it believes a sudden halt of energy imports would trigger a major recession, including a 1.9 percent pullback this year and a three point 1% contraction in 2023, the institute say the war in ukraine is already reducing supply and demand in germany though they expect the german economy still to grow by 2.7 percent this year and 3.1% next year. germany's industries are heavily reliant on russian gas to power factories. a consortium of think tanks as a supply freeze would cause the nation economy 220 billion

euros in output and 400,000 jobs. take a listen. >> [speaking in foreign language] translator: the imminent interruption of natural gas and oil supplies from russia to the use naturally represents a particular risk for this economic forecast. the institutes are therefore focused on an alternative scenario, assuming supplies will be stopped immediately. in this case, the german economy is likely to fall into severe recession in the coming year. anchor: -- reporter: u.s. consumer inflation hitting its highest in decades, up 8.5% compared to a year earlier in the u.s. wednesday, u.k. data, inflation at a three-decade high, prices up 7% from a year ago, expectations were 6.7%, while february was 6.2%, those figures do not take into account a 700 pound year increase in the household energy price cap.

liter february to march.per inflation data wing on european stock markets wednesday. the london index ended the day mostly flat amid expectations that higher producer costs will bite profits. in paris, not better, it ended the day around a third of the present. wall street finishing strong as corporate earnings season kicks off with mostly good news, big profit slump at j.p. morgan, notable exception, travel and tech sectors charging ahead with the nasdaq closing up over 2%. oil futures meanwhile have risen 10% in the past two days alone as russian supplies are expected to fall by one point 5 million barrels this month with the opec cartel projected to miss its monthly target by a similar amount. rent crude nwt, both gaining 3.5% to 4% today. finally, a slight loosening of restrictions this week, but the vast majority of shanghai's 25

million residents remain confined to their homes. china's financial hub has been under lockdown for more than two weeks now. bankers and factory workers have moved into their workplaces in a bid to keep activity going. china's zero covid policy is taking a toll not only on the country's domestic economy but on the global supply chain as well. we have this report. reporter: empty streets in shanghai, china's business that paralyzed as authorities tried to contain the country's worst coronavirus outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. the zero covid policy is hammering the economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector. shanghai's citywide lockdown has created a traffic jam at the world's lgest port with many shipping vessels forced to unload the cargo at other stops. however, the maritime transportation department says there are no problems at the shanghai port. >> [speaking in foreign

language] translator: the cargo and container throughput at the ports registered stable growth in the first quarter. shanghai ports is operating normally, both loading and unloadingf cargo taking place in an orderly manner, with waiting in birthing times on the decline. reporter: but it is far from business as usual. thousands of taiwanese tech companies have suspended operations because of lockdowns in shanghai and other cities. one major producer of apple's iphone is the latest. german tech giant bosch and volkswagen have also halted output. economists say china's zero covid policy will push growth down to 5% this year, short of the official target of 5.5%. china on tuesday began easing shanghai's covid restrictions, allowing some people to leave their homes for the first time in weeks. reporter: the shutdown in

shanghai having knock on effects and france's factories have to close early for lack of parts from shanghai, big problem. anchor: indeed, knock on effect. you caught me great report, good stuff. it is funny how there are so many knock on effects, this whole crisis, it is, it is, it is never ending on so many levels. brian, thank you, thank you, thank you so very much. [laughter] we turn to the other side and i want to see the endless business of it all. reporter: the one that keeps going forever. [laughter] anchor: if anybody can do that, this man can surely come and it will be that way. [laughter] reporter: a very long one. anchor: so, to begin with the beginning, the beginning truth or fake, good to see you, how are you? james started with claims online, this is serious stuff. pressure using mobile crematoriums in order to manage the scale of casualties in ukraine.

and also, i suspect, to cover up any proof of war crimes. reporter: that's right. are they on the ground? we do not know for sure. had they used them in the past? it appears so. there is some basis in truth historically in the ideal of it, up lovely stuff, cheerful stuff, but in any case, it isar, and all the details are grim, so there have been images of this doing the rounds, you can see it looks like it could be a mobile crematorium, a truck doing the rounds, a lorry, if you will, and this is in belarus, talking about what's going on in ukraine, saying the mayor of mariupol said today that russian mobile crematoriums have started operating in the city, as did the mayor of kyiv, to lend further credence to the idea, and the idea being a huge amount of casualties, some, you know, counts tens of thousands, and

that this would be a bid to manage that or indeed hide that, so certainly it would seem to piece together with the narrative. if you do a reverse image search, it brings you back to a range of articles showing this image with the same claim going back to 2015 with previous russian activities, but the original video is this one from 2013 and this is quite simply waste disposal. if you translate it, insulation test for permit discretion or incineration of biological things, nothing to do with war, current events, and there you go, so that is that. our journalist did speak to next tv to get the reaction to this, and they said look, we were just using it for illustration purposes, which is not the best

defense. we are not the only ones. it was used in u.k. media at the time of the defense. the defense secretary saying the russians have used these vehicles in the past and there was a telegraph article where they use this image. anchor: telegraph. daily telegraph? the daily telegraph? reporter: yes. in any case, they use that as their defense. the tweet is still online. they have not despite admitting it is not a factual image removed it. there you go. the facts we don't know. it is a great zone, but that image is not a faithful depiction of what has been claim. anchor: indeed. indeed. indeed. james, next false claims, attributed to the bbc, bbc news, related to missile strike at a railway station, the one last week killing at least 57 civilians. reporter: that's right.

anchor: explain this one. reporter: alright, well, there was a missile strike on the train station in this ukrainian town, 57 at least dead, the regional governor gave that figure, many, many wounded as well, at least 110, grizzlies stuff, and it would see pretty preposterous that the ukrainians would fire a missile into their own train station. they have blamed the russians. the russian said the ukrainians did that. claim, counterclaim, some more credible than others, in any case, various journalists including one i will try to find the tweet in question that showed the video that i just showed you there, this is a russian journalist, they reference this bbc story about ukrainian missile in the video, the claim a moment ago, they were talking about serial numbers on the missile found in

the city that match serial numbers and previous ukrainian attacks, therefore correlating the missiles and the origin of the missiles, except all that seems very credible, especially when you look at the logo of the bbc on that particular digital video, and the graphics, all of that corresponds to bbc graphics , except audio, the bbc said actually that is nothing to do with us, i will try to find the bbc tweet, here it is, we are aware of a fake deal with bbc news branding suggesting ukraine was responsible for last week's missile attack, bbc is taking action to have it removed, so there again, it is your crafty and skilled with graphics and all that, it is easy to doctor a video like that, and bbc obviously, stamp gives credibility to the claim. anchor: indeed, in russia has a record of manipulative these things and putting up fake news in order to manipulative people who are reading it. reporter: because if russian people say it, they will doubt

it, but of independent media say it, or at least media not from within the russian sphere, say it gives additional credit ability to it. anchor: thank you very much indeed. truth of frank. great to see you. light on those gray areas of news. advice you can give everybody, watch credible news source, please watch us, but that is the make sure if you watch another one, that it is credible, thanks. as journalists who get it right, because that's what you have to do, it is our duty to do that for you, wherever you are, james, thank you, brian, thank you, you would home or where you are watching, thank you, more to come, life in paris. ♪ >> cypress has been cut into. to the north, the government, to the south, the government, greek speaking, a seaside resort, symbol of our islands, became a

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04/13/22 04/13/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> no more mass shootings. no more disrupting lives. no more creating heartbreak for people just trying to live their lives as normal new yorkers. it has to end and it ends now. amy: another mass shooting. this time in new york, as a gunman opened fire on a subway train during morning rush hour tuesday,