berlin. ukraine admits heavy losses as russia presses on its assault in the east. also on the program, preparing to defend their homes. people ukraine's biggest port, odessa, are taking up arms to fight russian invaders. and an urgent warning from marine scientists. we must change course or face a

mass extinction of species in our oceans, but they say there is still time to act. and former tennis ace boris becker jailed for two and a half years, found guilty for hiding millions of euros in assets after being declared bankrupt. ♪ >> i'm phil gayle, welcome to the program. we begin with the latest development in the war in ukraine. kyiv says its forces are sustaining heavy losses as russia steps up the assault in the east, although ukrainians maintain russian losses are worse. thousands of civilians, including those trapped inside the steel mill in mariupol, hope to be evacuated soon

following a deal brokered by the u.n. secretary general. >> buses waiting to evacuate civilians from ukraine's east. what was a quiet rural town is now on the front line event offensive -- of the offensive by russian forces. ukraine claims it has inflicted losses on russia's military, which is impossie to verify, but the war has taken a heavy toll. >> as for the civilian population, nearly all areas along the front line between ukrainian forces and separatists are being shelled. some areas further away are also targeted. in the capital, kyiv,

ukraine's president volodymyr zelekyy, seen presenting metals to service personnel, says the attack by russia was an attempt to humiliate the u.n. secretary general, who was visiting kyiv at the time. this footage released by russia's ministry of defense purports to show artillery fire on ukrainian positions. when or where it was filmed was impossible, but as the west gears up to arm ukraine, moscow is gearing up to continue fighting. phil: our correspondent told me more about today's russian attacks. >> the attacks continue, mainly against the eastern part of ukraine. in fact, you know we've got a warning now from our fellows, every person here in ukraine can

see when the airstrike alerts start, the sirens are starting, and they come every day. it is a bit sheltered in the west, but in the east, it always continues. the province has been on high alert all day long, the night before as well, and this is taking its toll on civilians and armed forces fighting the russian army, but also on civilians. i want to give you some figures. we were talking in the report about mariupol. there were 400,000 inhabitants before the start of the war. it is down to 100,000 inhabitants now. today, we got some figures about the toll the war had, the impact the war had on civilians. 20,000 people, civilians are

counted dead now, the mayor gave those figures. 600 people have been injured over the past few days during the shelling of the steel plant. it was also mentioned earlier, the steel plant, hundreds of people are trapped there. not only ukrainian armed forces, but also civilians. up to 1000 civilians who are still not evacuated. phil: let's talk about mariupol and the steel plant, because there had been hopes that the u.n. secretary general had negotiated safe passage for people there. what is the latest? what is happening there? >> ukraine said again that it was hopeful that humanitarian evacuation would take place, but phil, we've been there, we have been hearing about those humanitarian corridors for weeks now. there are a few dozen people

that have been evacuated from mariupol every single time, those negotiations fall apart. there is renewed shelling, and ngo's working on the ground say that unless there is a cease-fire of 24 to 48 hours, when civilians could lead by themselves and choose when they would be going, this is not going to happen. evacuations will not happen in those conditions. phil: and president zelenskyy has been calling on the idea of talks with russia as well. >> exactly. but you know, phil, last night, the entire thursday night, ukraine in its entirety was under an airstrike alerts. kyiv, the capital, has been hit.

just as the secretary-general was in the city to talk to volodymyr zelenskyy. there is no trust between the two parties in terms of negotiations. it's very difficult, and shows no signs of getting any better with the fighting continuing all over the country. phil: thank you for that. emanuelle schaz in l iviv. odessa has been spared in the conflict, but russia is now preparing to attack ukraine's largest port. >> assembling an ak-47 -- skills people and odessa never would imagine needing. but now they must familiarize themselves with the weapons they may need to defend their city.

>> i came here because i realized i need to protect my country. we are all needed, men and women, because you don't know what will happen tomorrow. >> more than 5000 volunteers have signed up at paramilitary centers like this one. they are being trained in urban combat tactics, weapons handling, and military strategy. those who want to continue will train with territorial defenses or even the army. >> we are training people who want to be sure they know how to help in extreme situations. that is why we are now teaching them basic combat and first-aid. >> those who are taking up arms -- are not taking up arms are taking up shovels. people have been covering up odessa's many monuments with sandbags to protect at least its symbols for -- from war.

phil: we will start with indonesia's president, saying leaders of russia and ukraine have agreed to attend the g20 summit his country's hosting in november. some countries are pushing for russia to be banned from the organization. russia has begun preparations for its victory day parade on the ninth of may. this is to practice for the annu commemoraon of victy against nazi germany. vladimir putin is pressing for a breakthrough in ukraine before then. the united nations says nearly 5.5 million people have fled the war in ukraine, among them thousands of children who lived in orphanages. poland has taken in around 4000 of them. our dw correspondent met with some of the children, who found shelter across the polish border. >> some time, life looks almost

normal. >> do i need to add oil? >> yes. >> right now? >> mix it up a bit. >> she has baked many easter cakes with natalia, her guardian at the ukrainian orphanage. this year, she is doing it in poland. she is also trying to keep up with her schooling. kalina was the managing director of the orphanage in western ukraine. she decided to flee not long after the war started. a week of air raid warnings and fear, and two nights with all the children hiding in the cellar was enough. >> we left to rescue the children. no one thought about themselves. only worried about the children, what would happen to them. >> but it's difficult to leave

the war behind. >> i am afraid that the war will go on. the eastern part of ukraine, it has been strange because i don't find words for that. because russians shoot and kill small children. my brother is at war, fighting for our freedom and that of others. defending the fatherland. >> galina meets every day with her polish colleagues to discuss how to best help the children. >> while fleeing, we told small children we were on holiday, but the older ones what was happening. the problems should not be

hidden, because the children don't like being deceived. >> the polish o happy kids has been working with the ukrainian government to find shelter for ukrainian orphans. so far, some 1500 children have been given new homes in poland. kira is one of 41 ukrainian children. an operation to poland has saved her from war, but her dreams have been put on hold. >> i want to sing. i want to study to be a conductor. i would ke to conct a church and have my own choir, but there is a war and i can't start to study after finishing the ninth grade. >> kira practices every day to keep her voice fit for when she hopes she can sing again at home. [singing] phil: marine scientists have

issued a dramatic new warning -- humanity must change course or face the mass extinction of species in our oceans. researchers say the scale of extinction could be comparable to the end of the dinosaurs. the study in the journal science shows the rise in temperatures is suffocating ocean life, but they say there is still hope. cutting greenhouse gases now could save some species. the study was carried out by geoscientists at princeton university in the united states. i asked one of the co-authors how this report differs from all the many others that have predicted dire consequences because of climate change. >> that's a good question. what we've done that' new is to bring to bear a whole wide range of observations about how sensitive marine species are to their temperature of their environments, the oxygen levels,

and we are able to construct a model of what could happen in the future based on a rich array of biological observations, and drawing upon vast international eorts to simulate and project the possible futures the climate could see over the next few centuries. the new thing, we are bringing much different sorts of biological data from current species and then we have been able to make an estimate of how much extinction risk we face, based on what is calculated the geological record of earth's history. phil: what species are we likely to lose, and why would it matter? >> i think all species will feel the consequences of warming oceans and an ocean that is losing its oxygen levels, because all marine animals, with the exception of mammals,

dolphins and whales, need oxygen to breathe. the fact that the water is warming up and causing them to need more oxygen at the same time that the oceans are losing oxygen, all animals willeel that pinch. some will feel it more than others, and those who e able to swim fast enough or otherwise get awayrom warming waters at a faster pace will be spared the worst effects of this, and those that are rooted in place, you ght think of coral reefs or other bottom dwelling organisms at stay in one place for most of their lives will feel the pinch more strongly, we believe. phil: here's the thing. it always comes down to, how does it affect me? how does it affect humanity ? a few corals die, dolphins go somewhere else? why should the world care? >> hum beings ra latecomer

on the scene, and the earth has been building up its biodiversity for the past half a million years. we have come to rely on sharing the planet with a rich array of species that do what are called ecological servis. species that make the oxygen f us to breathe, at recycle materials. we are part of and in a connected web. -- interconnected web. we don't know what the consequences are for humanity of losing large portions of that web, but it is something to be concerned about. on the other hand, there are practical concerns, lik 20% of thhuman protein in our global diet comes from animals in the ocean. there are a lot of parts of the world in which people rely on a really strong proportion of that. there are direct and aesthetic

consequences for people across the board. phil: as i said at the start, this is the latest in the series ofire warnings. messages are out there, we know global warming is bad, bad, bad, bad. but what is getting in the way? we know we have to reduce carbon emissions. what is holding up the process? >> we have a long history of relying fossil fuels to power our economies, and it's not an easy thing to transition away from. it would be made a lot easier if some of th interests that were invested in maintaining that system were more, you know, willing to envision different kinds of futures. there is a lot of polical and economic resistance to changing our energy infrastructure, and there are a host of reasons why humans, they get set in their

ways and are resistant to change, would people are realizing this is a very serious issue that we feel in our own lives. we are adding the piece that we can anticipate, the ocean species feeling it in their lives. phil: professor curtis deutsch from princeton university. other headlines around the world now -- quarantined residents in shanghai have been protesting for their windows in lockdown resistor actions -- restrictions. people in beijing are garnering through -- undergoing nasa testing -- math testing as t country experiences its worst covid outbreak this year. and oktoberfest will go on this year, attracting millions of visitors from late september to early october.

the world's first electric and autonomous container ship has been inaugurated in norway. the operator hopes to reduce 40,000 trips a year. the head of the european union's board agency has resigned over allegations migrants have been discrete -- mistreated. a media investigation and instances of so-called pushback have forced migrants and would-be refugees away from eu borders to claim asylum. they have previously denied wrongdoing. our dw brussels correspondent told us how the rest of the resignation shook eu politicians. >> within the european parliament, there was jubilation across several parties.

they said this has been overdue for years now. we have been fighting against the wrongdoing and allegations which for years have been in a cloud of problems. not only was the pushback with the problem of the treatment of employees, whistleblowers, and so on. they have blocked any serious examination of what is going on. on the other hand, if you look at the european commission today , they were trying their hardest to avoid the topic. they are on the oversight board, and they have looked at this for years without interfering, without doing anything, so for them this is a problematic and

painful moment. phil: i spoke to one of the journalists who uncovered the illegal activities. they told me more about what agents have been doing. >> what has been happening, these agents are detecting these refugee bts and sometimes stopping them. then they would hand over the refugees to the agents, who would commit the pushback's. this was all happening, and this happened in the greek island south of lesbos. phil: so it sounds like it was the agents giving the refugees to the greeks and the greeks pushing back. >> frontex is indeed

stopping those types of boats. instances where people have been driving by at high speed. usually, they areoing the pushback. that means they are abandoning those asylum-seekers. phil: and from what you could ascertain, was it theompany going rogue and doing their own thing, or was this an expression of eu policy? >> mostly it has been done in the service of states. if you look at what is happening over all of those months after we uncovered those crunch facts -- pushback's, you see the report and the discussion within that they tried to cover it up, to play dumb.

this to me showed that it was done at the service of states. it is not that one-dimensional. there are some eu member states that have been pushing for, actually adhering to illegal acts. phil: if these were undertaken with the collusion of eu states, what difference will his departure make? >> firstly, it's a mostly symbolic victory for those asum-seekers who recorded what was happening to them in the aegean. i think the new director will also think twice before committing pushback's or aiding and abetting pushback several again. i think it is part of a broader european conversation that is

happening, and that played out in t frontex management board as well. the question is what they are supposed to do if you greek coast guard is committing those illegal acts of pushback? are they there to prevent or emphasize this is not ok? this is the conversation that has been going on for the past month, and it has come to an end today with the resignation, but of course it will go on as well. phil: stephen lugar of spiegel magazine speaking to me earlier. boris becker has been jailed for two and a half years, found guilty of withholding assets following his bankruptcy. the three-time wimbledon champion was convicted on three charges under the insolvency act. he prevented his insolvency administrator from accessing money and property.

the 54-year-old was declared bankrupt by a court in 2017. let's get more on this from mark corian from dw sport. so from jail to today, where did it all go wrong? >> this has been a saga over the last five years. it began with his bankruptcy. he owned millions in loans in 2017 and was declared bankrupt by a british court. he was accused on 24 counts, four of which he was convicted of earlier this month, and as we heard, among those was a charge of hiding assets from his insolvency administrator. and that wasn't small fry, this was hundreds of thousands of euros which he transferred from his own bank account to that of his ex-wife and his estranged wife, as well as a property in germany he had not disclosed and shares in a tech firm. that was what the judge took a

dim view of and why the five years of this saga has been brought to an end today with this 2.5 year sentence. he has gone straight to jail. he can appeal, but has gone straight into custody. phil: there he is there, now with his beard, but he was once the darling of the wimbledon tennis tournament. this is quite a fall from grace. >> an astonishing fall from grace. you remember as well as i do, he was beloved in britain. he brushed onto the scene as a freshfaced player, the first unseeded player to win a wimbledon title in 1965. a very flamboyant style and unique style. he actually wore a wimbledon color, the classic green

and purple, to impress the judge, but the judge was not impressed. she said he showed no humility or remorse during the entire proceedings, and that is why he was given the custodial sentence. she said he would serve half of that and half of it on license. phil: that gets you up to date. more world news at the top of the hour. stay with us, i will be back in just an hour to take you through the day, where we will take a closer look at some of this week's major developments in the ukraine conflict. have a good day. ♪

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>> here are the stories making headlines admission from moscow it attacked the ukrainian capital by the visit of the u.n. secretary general to humiliate the u.n. and everything it represents. russia continues the assault on the south and east of the country. dozens have been injured in clashes between israeli police and pal stpbians at a morning. it comes on the last friday of ramadan and follows weeks of violence at the religious site.

boris booker is behind bars sentenced to two and a half years in jail. a london court convicted him of hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after declaring bankruptcy. you are watching live from paris. thanks for joining us. russia has admitted to launching an air strike on kiefer during a visit by the u.n. secretary general gutierrez. moscow said it had deployed high precision long-range weapons in what was its first attack on the ukrainian capital in two weeks. the same day the u.n. chief toured parts of kyiv and the site of a massacre of civilians.

he met with the ukrainian president zelensky said the attacks were an attempt to humiliate the u.n. and everything it represents. our regional correspondent has more. >> i'm on street that was hit. i think i can clarify this debate about whether it was a missile factory or residential building that was targeted. behind me on that side is the missile factory. you can see it suffered significant damage whether or not it was actually working or producing any missiles is something that is classified information. we don't know that. it was not working full capacity whether or not this damage that we can see constitutes full destruction of this factory is also a moot point n. is a target that we believe russia already tried to hit in march but basically failed to do so. then on the other side you have the residential building that was hit a bit further away down there.

we think there were two missiles, one hit the target the other didn't. that is basically what happened. civilians have suffered not only in the building that suffered the direct hit but all the buildings have smashed windows, one person died and it is pretty lucky it was a building only recently built and most had not yet moved in. that means the number of civilian caslties are not much higher. one dead and 10 wounded is. r the total at the moment according to the ukrainian authorities. this is the closest to the sister of kyiv that has been hit. the margin isn't very great compared to other strikes. apart from hitting what is military targets is part of russia's general strategy and happens on an almost daily basis that in various parts of ukraine far from the front line such targets are hit so hitting one in kiefer isn't different than

one in another city symbolically clearly it can not be a coincidence that russia close to hit a target on the day when gutierrez the u.n. secretary general was in town at least it is a signal of disrespect to him and his institution. >> that is our regional reporter. russia continues a relentless assault in eastern ukraine despite that it is experiencing some set backs and strong resistance from ukrainian forces. the pentagon says moscow appears to be several days behind where it wanted to be in the assault on the dunbas. ukraine acknowledges losses but russia's losses were worse. the situation for civilians trapped in mariupol is getting worse by the day. it is under control of the russians and the u.n. is trying to broker deal to get them out. but hundreds are trapped in a

steel factory and running out of food, water and medicine. we have the story. >> hundreds of civilians risk their lives making it here each day. drivers put up signs in the car windows saying children are on boards as they flee mariupol. >> we lived under the occupation two months suffered. we waited for people to rescue us but nobody came so we decided to flee. somebody helped us get here. there was no human marine corps door. we risked it alone. >> the port city has been almost entirely destroyed in the fighting. most attempts to vacuum evacuate have failed and hundreds of thousands are is still in the city. >> we want the people to arrive every day but the last bus convoy was a week ago. four buses were the only ones

from a humanitarian corridor. we have been waiting for the promises from the united nations. >> the united nations secretary general antonio gutierrez says the organization is doing its best to evacuate civilians. the city is fully under russian control with the exception of the steel plant where an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 ukrainian soldiers are resisting russian forces. several hundred civilians are holed up inside the tunnels and they are running out food, water and medicine. >> since the invasion of ukraine france has been trying to limit its dependence on russian gas by turning to the united states but american shell gas is extracted by fracking which is forbidden in france. >> behind the picturesque bayou

this is the true face of louisiana. gas works springing uple all over the place and increasing numbers of tankers cruising the canals. this one is on the way to a plant part oi&t by a french energy giant. this is tank ship transporting natural gas. we are going to see more of this vessel in french and european ports to ensure energy security. a shipment like this is the equivalent of nearly a day consumption of goes in france. >> about 40% of the gas consumed in france is from norway, 17% from russia. the united states' share is just under 6%. it is the new eldorado of natural gas specifically shale gas but it is obtained by fracking which is ctroversy for the environmental impact banned in france. those conversations have become secondary to the problem of how to wean europe off russian gas.

now through total france is the biggest exporterf american natural gas. >> the first three points of 2022 imports from the united states equaled the whole of lax year so we are in the course of triple or quadruple >> with no pipelines moving the gas across the ocean is an enormous challenge. it must be cooled to low temperatures so it is liquid. we reduce the volume by 600 times to the liquid state so it is easier to transport. it the only way we have to distribute it all over the world. >> it then begins the two week journey across the atlantic stor at minus 160 celsius to european ports. the car been footprint is greater because of the environmental cost of fracking, electrifying and shipping and

russia to build more infrastructure threatens longer term climate goals but it is the price parts of europe have chosen to pay to avoid financing putin's wore. >> there's more violence in the el oxa mosque. at least 42 were injured in clashes. the sraoeupblgts follows weeks of violence. our correspondent has the latest. >> we see a pattern emerge. young men who state overnight in the mosque and there for the dawn prayer which is a pre-dawn prayer and after that there were those clashes with israeli po police. you did see the rioters, the young palestinian men and we saw this in video they shot themselves they barricaded themselves in the mosque. they say there were defending themselves against the israeli

police and soldiers. the police said they went in because the young men were throwing rocks down at the jewish holy site which is below the mosque. so both sides blame the other for starting it. but what we saw is that after that, after the riots were dispersed and young palestinian men left the compounds, the compounds was claimed and prayers were held and there were huge numbers. there were 160,000 today. there were 250,000 two nights to go ago. so in some ways the ordinary work of the mosque during ramadan went on but in others it was such a shocking site for muslims to see israeli troops in the mosque during ramadan. >> that is our correspondent in jerusalem. the head of the e.u. border

agent has resigned. amid accusations he tolerated push backs of migrants. he has been accused by aid groups of illegally forcing migrants back across e.u. pwoeurbdz or turning a blind eye when national authorities themselves did so. millions in shanghai spent the last three weeks under a covid lockdown. now beijing could face the same part of the zero covid approach which is extolled by the ruling communist party. it is the race against team for beijing health authorities to catch cases of covid-19. the third round of testing is under way here to test, trace and isolate to avoid a citywide lockdown like shanghai. >> i think that beijing's

municipal government won't be like shanghai. it won't have an outbreak like theirs there was caused by a slackening of prevention and control. >> authorities put china's economic capital and 25 million inhabitants understood lockdown almost a month ago. around half are now allowed to leave their home runs but many accountant venture much further than their own residential compous. millions of others are stuck indoors fresh cases leading to prolonged confinement and sometimes a ctical lack of basic necessities. at times they organize protests demanding food supplies. china's health officials are sticking to strict zero covid policy saying the long-term goal outweighs the short-term inconvenience. >> the battle against the covid-19 epidemic is a war of resistance, a people's war.

we must realize that the epidemic, the virus, is the culprit that is dragging down the economy. >> beijing and shanghai residents are not the only ones. some 180 million people in china are in various states o lockdown affecting people's lives and livelihoods. friday the plate bureau held plans to help with the war in ukraine putting pressure on the government. the president is expected to secure and you precedented third term this autumn. >> the united states is recording its fastest pace of inflation since 1982. the price index watched by the federal reserve rose 6.6% through march. analysts say most to have is driven by the rise of energy prices because of russia's invasion of ukraine and soaring food praises.

there is a report on prices rising around the globe. >> this soup kitchen in argentina can hardly keep up with the demand. food prices have risen 20% in thraee months so many incomes cn no longer afford to feed themselves. it is one example of a global problem. >> incomes are not keeping pace with the cost of living. food prices are particularly hit by inflation and people with low incomes are going to spend most wages on food. >> inflation is soang in many countries. russia's invasion of ukraine and continuing coronavirus shutdowns in china are some of the factors pushing prices up. in the u.s. consumer cost rose 6.6% the last year but american households are not tightening

purse strings. spending went up 2.7% in the quarter helped by wage increases. in france inflation rose by 9.5% and annual spike of 5.4 and energy prices have risen by 26.6% in the last year and diesel up in the last week. >> 188 a liter is expensive. diesel keeps going up. we don't know who to ask for help. >> purchasing power was a major campaign issue in the recent presidential election. macron has said he wants to implement an anti-inflation law by there summer aiming to help low income households cope with rising prices. >> german tennis star boris becker is behind bars sentenced by a london court to serve 2 1/2 years in jail. he was convicted of hiding

hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he declared bankruptcy. we have the story. >> at the height of his career boris becker had it all. in early april he was found guilty of four offenses in a bankruptcy trial including hiding or failing to hand over assets to avoid paying debts. the former world number one was declared bankrupt in 2007 over an unpaid loan worth more than 3.35 euros. he said his career earnings were swallowed up by a costly divorce, child maintenance and expensive life style commitments. he lives in a 26,000 euro a month house within walking distance of the club where he was the youngest wimbledon machines singles champion at 17 years old. he bent r went on to win five

more grand slam titles before landing a number of other gigs including brand ambassador, sports kperpbt stator and coach to novak djokovic. but he had a series of failed business ventures and his income didn't keep up with his life style. this is not the first time he landed in hot water over financial woes. in 2002 he was convicted of tax evasion in germany and owes 4.7 million euros to the swiss authorities. his barrister said he was too trusting on financial advisors. there was also an element of his bearings. >> it is time for truth or fake our fact checking segment. you are looking at this that claims to show a staged set-up with palestinian actors injured at the hands of israelis. >> there is a clip doing the rounds on social media showing a young boy pretending to be

surrounded by cameras and film crew and claim it is a staged set-up of an attack at the hands of israeli forces but it is not the truth. if we look at this video, before i get into it i would like to clear up this time hollywood for viewers that don't know what that is. it is a term coined in 2005 used sometimes by pro israeli media referring to alleged media manipulation or distortion or fraud by palestinians to discredit israel. we have spoken about this before on truth or fake. as we see in this video we can see there's a young child actor his leg is twisted, there seems to be fake blood behind him in the background. and this tweet for example says that the palestinians are faking

scenes where a child is shot by israeli soldier. i wish they used these resources to promote peace. this has 54,000 views. there is one of the tweets. here is another one palestinian stage a killing using actors dressed as jewish. other one for good measure this is another one in spanish and translated says the goal defamation and hatred of israel so people do believe that these are actively recreating a set-up with forces to look like it has been done at the hands of israel. but this is not true and i'm tkgoing to debunk there for you today. before i get into what the truth is i would like to tell you how we figured it out. we can see somebody has gone to great lengths to mar out the

name but the last letters are 938, more visible in a previous tweet and it is effort the first name is mohammed. we did some digging on tiktok. what is decorate about tiktok the videos are like water marked by the original post so that helps. you go on tiktok and did digging we can see that is the same videdeo that was going around o twitter and this caption in arab i can says behind the scenes filming short film about mohammed and that is exactly the video. there's another angle from which it is filmed showing the behind the scenes. after gagging hamid manastra that led us directly to this trailer. there is the -- what that video clip is, is a clip from a short

film by a palestinian director about based on true events about a young boy who was arrested at the hands of israeli forces for allegedly stabbing two israelis. he was interrogated and sentenced to fine years in prison in 2015. this is the short film trailer and if you go down about halfway through the trailer -- oh, no -- if we go halfway into the trailer we can see that is the shot we had doing the rounds on twitter so it is from a short film. we also reached out to the director of the movie and he confirmed to us this video going around on twitter was filmed during the shooting of his film. this is a very important piece to debunk the current climate with the tension between israel and palestine and clashes in the

mosque. so it is real crucial we continue to check facts and fact check videos like this to avoid information spreading. >> good detective work on your part. time for our focus report. we go to algeria where where hfrpbs are piecing accounts of women victims of rape during the algerian war. skwra>> >> this historian has listened toal junior women's tales of rape and abuse during the wore of independence in a bid to document the crime. few victims spoke publicly about what they suffered. some former soldiers have spoken and provided her with photographic evidence. >> a member of the french army

points to the person's genitals with stick. men humiliated and women paraded naked in public and abused. there was a book detailing . >> the rapes could take place anywhere. in the villages, outside, in prisons, at the police station and military barracks. rapes could take place anywhere and at any time. the rapists were hardly ever punished. >> the women would do all they could to escape the soles. we the french army approached the women gathered together holding their children against them. some on covered themselves in cow excrement to make themselves too disgusting to rape. it didn't always work. >> women represented algeria's struggle for independence.

it is because they refused to be sub sub-serbent r vent that the soldiers had to fight and they had to leave france. so they wanted revenge and it is easier to inflict revenge on the woman tan a man. >> in the early 2000's this survivor spoke about the systemic use of rape during the algerian war once again the headquarters of the 10th parachute division recorded the abuse she suffered there in 1957. >> it started off with being slapped, punched, insulted, and called everything under the sun. and then it escalated. i would have preferred to be torcher would. i would rather be beaten, insulted, spat on and called names. i didn't expect to be raped.

skwra>> she gave a rare public testimony of what seems to be a demonstrate place crime and a fighter also suffered the same fate at times at the hands of dozens of soldiers. at the ends of the war he was 22 we he was appointed secretary. he soon realize d this was a torcher chamber for the men kept there and living hell for the women. >> there were a number of women who were arrested to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers. the women would be arrested and taken to the place where there were two or three soiers. she would be raped by each in

turn. >> in 2001 returned to algeria and met this person boss testimony had laid bare the scandal. was surprised by the reactions of some of her fellow algerians to her story. >> several people were extremely angry at her for going public about the rape she suffered. it was tough for algerian women from that era to shoulder that guilt. they were victimized and made to feel like they were the ones at fault. >> while former soldiers live in retirement in trance algerian women continue to be censored and with many person traitors and victims now well into their

80's time is running out for a day of reckoning. >> that's it for now. stay tuned for more world news coming up on "france 24." this became a ghost town when it was abandoned following the turkish invasion in 1974. in 2019 turkey reopened for tourists and former residents. long deprived of their right to return they are demanding the return of their property. what watch it on "france 24."

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