>> welcome to live from paris, world news and analysis from france 24. these are the headlines. russia steps up attacks on the ukrainian dundas. seeing devastating strikes. the first were crimes trial in kyiv convicts a 21-year-old russian conscript from siberia. first, meeting of the new french cabinet overshadowed by rape accusations.

he denies the allegations. the new prime minister says there will be no impunity. his decision to stay followed a conversation with a french president who urged him to stay in paris. this is live from paris. ♪ thank you very much for being with us. we start with ukraine. day 89 of the russian invasion. there is no -- there is more evidence of an intensifying of russia's attack on the eastern donbass region. attacks from the land already occupied by pro-russian

separatists. the area has taken heavy hits. the extent of the damage is emerging little by little. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy revealing 87 people were killed last tuesday. images from this monday show the damage caused by these russian strikes. meanwhile, our reporter has returned to irpin. he was there well russians were closing in with the aim of taking the town and pressing on with the aim of taking the capital, kyiv. he has been back to see how fighters are now and how the town is recovering from death and restructuring -- and death and destruction brought by vladimir putin's defeated troops. ♪

>> we are on the outskirts of kyiv. here, the russian offensive has been driven back. for many, the war is over. but not for him. >> here, my best friend's mother was killed. she died buried in debris. and they found her, there were only parts of her body. >> this area was the scene of heavy fighting in late march. >> coming back to places like this brings back terrible images. i hear the voices of all these people crying, calling for help.

i could not do anything for them. >> the number of civilian victims is in the hundreds. several of those who survived and managed to escape have now decided to return. i what >> continue to live here. i will find a way. look for a new job. for now, we are trying to rebuild. >> at the start of the work, he act -- he evacuated his wife and son. they have just returned. >> he has changed. he has gotten tougher. he is always on alert, focused to it at the same time, i would say he has become sentimental. i know that because of what he has been through. your are a lot of conflicting emotions in him. unfortunately when we are told life must go back to the way it

was before, i also know within myself that it is impossible. >> are you afraid for your son still? >> it is finished when every city in ukraine, every centimeter of our country is without russians. >> the first war crimes trial in a ukraine has convicted a 21-year-old russian soldier. he has been sentenced to life in prison. the 21-year-old conscript from siberia. the man he killed was on a

bicycle near his home. the soldier's says he will appeal. >> ukrainian prosecutors say they have open more than 10,000 investigations and they have more than 40 cases prey much ready to go to trial. what is important for ukraine in this is to show that it absolutely once to see russians prosecuted for war crimes they are alleged to have committed and to show ukraine has a functioning justice system and is capable of carrying out these trials. there was a court-appointed lawyer for the defense, this russian soldier. he although being appointed by the ukrainian state put up a strong defense. he said he and his client were going to appeal. we want to see the sentence reduced due to various circumstances he thinks makes this something a little bit different from a simple cold-blooded assassination of a civilian. there are other cases.

russians who are accused of war crimes where they do seem to be cold-blooded planned killings and we will see in the coming weeks and months whether some of them go to trial and how those cases will be dealt with. >> next, send us weapons appeared stop trade with russia. speaking by video call, volodymyr zelenskyy made this speech to the global economic forum in davos. the cost of reconstruction is estimated to be $500 billion and counting. he said this was designed to counter hunger, poverty, despair and chaos. >> the maximum so that russia and every other potential aggressor who wants to wage a brutal war against its neighbor would clearly know the immediate consequences for their action

and i believe there is still no such sanctions against russia and there should be. there should be russian oil embargo. all the russian bank should be bought. no exceptions. there should be an abatement of the russian sector. there should not be any trade with russia. >>'s address to the global economic forum in switzerland. we russian diplomat said he was leaving his post because of his disagreement with moscow's invasion of ukraine. in rare political resignation, he told reporters i forwarded my resignation letter and walked out. he described himself on social media as a counselor who worked on arms control. we will have more on ukraine as we go between now and midnight paris time.

next, and assassination of a senior member of iran's revolutionary guard has brought condemnation from the highest level in tehran iranian president hailed the colonel as a martyr and blamed the hand of global arrogance, his quotation, a reference to the united states and its allies including israel for his murder. we are joined by the executive vice president of the quincy institute. iran vowing revenge. do we know for sure who did it? >> we do not. there has not been any evidence yet that has been put forward. you take a look at the combination of having the capacity, having the motivation and the willingness to risk such a dangerous escalatory operation, their only two countries who qualify. that is the united states and

israel. in the case of the added states, i don't think the risk element is met commentary from the israeli seems to be such that it is not except ends but nevertheless -- it could have been them. in the past, the assassinations that have been taking place in iran of nuclear scientists were done by the israelis. >> we are in the realm of speculation. why was this man the subject of this assassination and why did it happen now? >> i think that is an excellent question. i think the pattern is rather keep you in when the israelis have assassinated nuclear scientist in iran, they have not done so when the iranians were on the cusp of a nuclear breakthrough. israelis thought they had to do this to stop it. rather, what has happened is the assassination of the nuclear scientists have tended to take place when the unit states and

iran have been on the cusp of a diplomatic breakthrough. it was done to sabotage the diplomacy. what is fascinating here is the person who has been assassinated is not a nuclear scientist. the status of the irgc is the last stumbling block in the negotiations for the united states to return to the jcpoa. any compromise on the irgc status could revive the jcpoa. the question coming to mind is due the israelis target an irgc official to make a compromise on this issue as difficult as possible and as a result prevent the united states from being able to go back into the jcpoa? >> how will this assassination affect public opinion within iran? does it matter what the people think? >> i am not so sure the public

opinion in terms of whether the israelis are behind it etc. will have a significant impact. however, it is highly problematic for the iranian government if it is so that the israelis rather easily seemed to be able to go inside of iran not only in this case assassinated and irgc official and what they did two years ago, the assassinated the head of the iranian nuclear program. it is embarrassing for the iranian government it is not in control of its own border and security and the israelis have the capacity to go inside of iran and engage in assassinations of this kind. >> thank you very much for joining us. the executive vice president of the quincy institute. thank you for sharing your analysis. we appreciate it. next, the new french government met for the first time this monday. the meeting overshadowed by

criminal allegations against a new minister. france's newly appointed minister for solidarity and the disabled wrongly denies allegations he raped two women. he added he had no intention of resigning from the government. >> i have never raped a woman in my life. discussing such subjects is painful for me. i will from this point on, devote my time as a minister. keeping my feet on the ground and at the same time seeking election in the general election. >> around three to 40 homes have been damaged a storm in central france. high winds accompanied by hailstones caused damage both to buildings and cars peered these images giving you a taster of the story. the french interior minister is vowing to mobilize senior staff to ensure all insurance claims

and repair work is dealt with promptly. there is quite a task on hand in the center of france. killian about they has been's deking about his decision to snub real madrid. the international revealed a conversation with president emmanuel macron himself helped him to change his mind. his contract had were now in 2025. reportedly it is worth 600 million euros. he is set to benefit from unprecedented image rights and this is an interesting one for footballers and football people. influence over the football decisions. >> there was talk for months he would go to real madrid. he has now explained his decision to sign up for a further three seasons. a decision welcomed by the club's president.

>> we are keeping the best player in the world. >> in spain, the liga says it will file a complaint against psg. real madrid had reported bids as high as 200 million euros for him last year. the star was looking for a change but says the call of home was the decider. >> today, t context is different. on a professional and personal level. i was free to decide peered as a french person, i'm aware of my importance here in france. this is where i'm going to live, grow old and returned to once my career is over. the club wants to change quite a few things on a sporting level and that motivated me to stay. my story here is not done either at the team level or as an individual. >> changes have begun with the sacking of the psg sporting

director who has been heavily criticized by fans. he could be replaced by luis campos. a new manager could be on the bench. the 23-year-old says he will not have a say on which players are signed season. in surprise revelation, he said he talked about his future with the french president, emmanuel macron who of course wanted him to stay. >> making up his mind after a conversation with emmanuel macron. stays at least for the next three years. it is a megadeal let's leave it at that. we are now going to cannes for our special program at the cannes film festival. stay with us. ♪

>> hello from the cannes film festival. today's guest was nominated for an oscar this year and has become one of hollywood's most talked about rising talents. he is here with a social horror movie that examines the malice of men. let's go meet the irish actress, jessie buckley. hello. it has been a big year for you. a bathtub, an oscar nomination for the lost daughter. you are here with men. what a film. how would you describe it? >> there is a wildness to this film.

and provocative and punk. a wild, punk provocative film. >> you seem to be attracted to films dealing with big questions. the lost daughter tackled this taboo subject of women not having a maternal instinct or some women not having a maternal instinct. this film seems to tackle the people of men throughout history. what attracts you to these enormous topics? >> i guess because they asked me questions and i don't know. i think they asked me to unlearn things and learn new things. >> excuse me? no. ♪ it was delicious. >> forbidden fruit. >> sorry. >> he plays all the men in the

film. do you think all men are versions of the same one? >> no. we are all far too complex. we'll have everything in us. men and women. i have amazing men in my life. i made this film with amazing men. but i think this script and the story is provoking the kind of archetypes of toxic masculinity within men throughout time and what are the things that have returned and why do they return? i don't think this is saying this is all men. i think this is just an aspect that can appear within men at certain times from pain really. from a wound that has not learned how to heal itself. >> out of all the men he played, which one is the worst one? >> the priest. whenever the priest came on set, it was like a different set should jeffrey was the best. he is the funniest.

everyone loved jeffrey. the priest, no one wanted to hang out with the priest. >> i need your feet -- your previous films, you play women who are torn between assumed responsibility and their own desires. even in men coming husband cannot believe you would consider leaving him. he continues to haunt you because of that. you think we are free to do what we want, women today? >> i think that is something we have to keep fighting for. i think we all have a fundamental right to choose the life that is right for us. throughout history, women have been contorted and been submitted in certain shapes that can appeal or placate a situation. i think we are in an exciting moment now where actually the power within us as women and the power between us with women and men is shifting.

i'm interested in that power. i think there is always more to grow. nothing is finite. >> have you noticed changes in recent years in the industry as a woman? >> i feel very lucky. for some reason i feel i have been able to explore a lot of those things from scripts i have received. which are kind of poking the parameters with which we have been allowed to live in for a while. for me, that is my expression. that is my politics. that is where i can actually exercise those things there have been shifts, but i still think there is more. >> a man followed me out of the woods. he was stalking me. >> what makes you say that? >> i saw him twice.

>> twice? i don't know if he so you once. >> alex garland uses the natural world ally in his films. it starts like a lovely walk. it does not finish like a lovely walk but it is very beautiful and the nature we see. it made me think the way city dwellers now want to escape to t to nature after covid. >> i grew up in sort of mountain so i am hungry for nature. be able to -- being able to shoot in those locations was so beautiful and i really think hello rob the cinematographer and alex have captured that and used it as a kind of seduction into a sense of horror is so beautiful. i don't think i've ever seen england so delicious.

that is the clever thing he does. he kind of hypnotizes you into this sense of horror where you are leaning toward the things you are most afraid of because of the environment. i loved it. >> delicious countryside but full of weirdos. ♪ coming up, you have women talking with frances mcdormand. what can you tell us about that? >> actually, i kind of felt drawn to doing that film in relation to men. i felt like they were in some way in dialogue with each other thematically. but from very different perspectives. and it was a really intense

shoot. working with those people, working with sarah foley. working with women. having this conversation about a patriarchy which was asking them to be smaller and was fascinating. i think female friendships and female relationships are as fascinating as men and women relationships and there is so much complexity within that. it was amazing and like all those people are so were just pure they have -- are so gorgeous. we all have hairy legs. we had our greeters in the evening. both those films, chose them as dialogue pieces. >> you have done lots of films but so tv series like fargo entry durable. a theater play -- a theater that

plays cabaret. is there one you prefer or is it the diversity you like? >> yeah, whatever fields nourishing. like fat that i can get my teeth into an feel scary in a way. i don't really have a medium i prefer. i'm still a bit shocked i even get to make films. that was not in my peripheral growing up. people in hollywood made films. i love the community of it. you meet so many interesting people who are expressing and exploring and asking things and are artists and are writers. i have made so many amazing friends from this. i feel i have grown up as a woman in a way -- i don't know how lucky i would be to be able to do that in any other kind of medium.

it is a family for me. i feel lucky to be doing any of it. >> is it your first time here? >> yeah. >> what do you think of it? >> it is very glamorous. >> not hairy legs. >> you don't know what is underneath here. [laughter] you always hear the word cannes growing up. it feels like this far-off, distant utopian land where other people go to. it is such a privilege to be able to come here and bring a film and get to be at directors fortnite and be around people whose films you have loved and you can jump into the sea and have a lovely glass of red wine. it is nice. i am having a nice time. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. ♪

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