>> welcome to france 24. we are live from paris. a french journalist killed covering the war in eastern ukraine on the same day francis top diplomat visits the country. ukraine's president calls for unity e.u. leaders mall sanctioning russian oil during a meeting in brussels. an independent probe after the champions league final. into chaos while french authorities defend the heavy-handed tactics used by police. ♪

a journalist for french television station bfm tv has been killed in eastern ukraine today. the 32-year-old was on his second reporting trip to the country since russia's invasion. according to the station, the journalist was hit by shrapnel by russian bombing. the french foreign minister who was on a visit to ukraine says she has asked president zelenskyy and the government to open inquiry. >> the investigation will be carried out by the ukrainian authorities. it is in a zone which is not accessible. it is a combat zone. we will wait for the report to have the precise account of what happened.

when the humanitarian convoy left with a journalist in sight who was hit by shrapnel which killed him. >> for more on this story, here is our reporter in kyiv. >> he was traveling with two of his colleagues. a journalist with bfm tv and a ukrainian translator. the other journalist he was with was wounded in the leg. the fixer was ok. according to bfm tv, they had discussed clearly this mission before hand, evaluated the risks . i am told there was a ukrainian journalist who was thinking of going on this military and convoy but had given up his place to the french journalist who very much wanted to cover the evacuation of civilians. these two cities which are under sustained and intense attack

from the russian forces. the governor of the region did say they had advised the journal is not to go and told him it was dangerous but they are no means the only journalist who have gone to those places in recent days. it clearly is an extremely dangerous place to be not least because russian journalists are showing -- russian forces are showing the roads in a bid to try to cut off ukrainian supply chains. >> e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels for a two day summit to decide on a sixth round of sanctions to slap on russia which will include a ban on russian oil. as economic risk for europe grows, countries highly dependent on russian oil remain hesitant. >> planning russian it oil imports would amount to quote an atomic bomb for hungary's economy. that is how the prime minister described budapest position. angry gets 85 percent of its

natural gas and within 60% of its oil from russia. the prime minister says his country would need five years and a vast investment in its refineries and pipelines to transform its current system should the hungarian government estimates it would cost between 15 and 18 billion euros for the infrastructure overhaul needed. >> we can only support the shift if it does not cause impossible costs for hungary and hungarian families. today it would therefore we need funds for the shift and an interim period. >> hungary is also refusing to support the blacklisting of the head of the russian orthodox church citing an issue of religious freedom kid when it comes to weapons, hungry's position is not to send them to ukraine as they could become targets of russian attacks where ethnic hungarians live. >> we can bring in the advisor

to the center for energy at the french institute for international relations and former president of the french petroleum institute. thank you for joining us. it seems that you use position is divided when it comes to countries like hungary. >> in fact, the situation of some countries in europe are very different from others. take the example of finland. 86% of the supply of oil of finland is coming from russia. it is almost the same for countries such as lithuania, bulgaria or poland. for hungary, it is still very important. it is 61%. if you take into account the case of the czech republic, they are in the center of european

very far from alternative sources of supply, alternative sources of supply come by the sea to rotterdam and then it is necessary to bring the product back to the center of europe. this is raising difficult logistical issues. >> it seems they could block imports by ship and not by land. >> it will be feasible because you can block oil imports in the ports but this will solve the issue of these countries. just give some figures. the total oil imports from russia to europe is about 3 million, 2.5 million barrels per

day. if we don't put a ban on import by a pipeline, this represents .7 million barrels a day. this is raising a problem for the supply of europe in crude oil and don't forget the supply of petroleum products. >> i want to talk about something that you commission president said when she addressed the world economic forum. she said the invasion of ukraine has woken the block up to wean itself off russian energy imports. has the e.u. done enough to find alternative sources? >> but where are these tentative sources? >> call up the middle east. >> the market is tight. you have to take into account

the opec, what we call the cartel, opec plus has taken back control of the market. they don't want to increase the supply very rapidly because there are two or three countries important in opec plus. the emirates, kuwait and iraq. they are taking into account the fact that the u.s. are moving back from the middle east and russia is playing a more important role in the middle east. they don't want to break the deal with russia. >> is also the question of iranian supply. >> that is another story. >> we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. authorities in france are blaming a ticket flawed on an

industrial scale on saturday. the french interior minister defending the tactics used by police which he said prevented deaths. >> it was a massive industrial and planned out fraud. stadium staff say 70% of tickets were forged. at the entrance of the stadium, staff say 15% were forged. that forgery scheme is the root problem that caused three delays in the game. before the minister speaks, i would like to take the opportunity to thank police and security officers and stadium staff because thanks to their common attitude, they have averted a tragedy. >> now the embarrassment for france comes two years ahead of the olympic games for 2024. we can bring in our sports editor.

good evening. french authorities deflecting blame as you eighth says it will be launching an independent probe. >> and not a good look at all for france as you mentioned just one year ahead of the rugby world cup which will be hosted there. with the authorities trying to manage this game in the champions league, you really do feel a sense of urgency and anxiety ahead of the massive tournaments. you heard him saying 70% of those tickets from liverpool fans were deemed to be fraudulent if that is the case could this has to go down as the largest widescale assembly of fraudulent in the history of football. 40,000 tickets. there were only 20,000 liverpool fans at the stadium.

all the testimony from those fans who were caught up in that mall stream of chaos. they said they were directed through a particular gangway. i have been to that particular area. if there are police vans parked in a certain way, it can get claustrophobic. it can get quite petrifying. according to those testimonies, they were being filed in one by one and through no fault of their own, that is what they said, there is no initiative for it to happen. the police started firing tear gas to their women and children amongst the crowd. this was not any kind of football hooliganism that maybe we have seen. like we saw last night and how the france -- how the police responded to that. this was a crowd of family goers to the champions league match. we saw the liverpool defender

say he said he handed the ticket to a friend of his and the steward at the gates basically said this is not real and he was tued away. we had other family members being tear gassed allegedly. really not a good look at all if you are the french authorities. they said folk credit goes to the police. there should have been two perimeter barriers for the officials to first get those fans through before they made it to the turnstiles but that was not the case according to many official testimonies. they said the stewards left from the other parameters early on. >> so everyone is pointing the finger. so whose fault is it? >> it is too early to say just yet. if we want to remaibalanced and take it into account. ua for will be launching their own independent investigation.

they're going to be using a portuguese politician. he was part of the world and tied opening -- the world and tied opening association. certainly from thousands of testimonies coming out on social media, the videos, you really cannot look past bad officiating, bad authority and negligence on the part of the prefecture. i am not a huge football fan but i was looking at social media and twitter and i was seeing people commenting. it made french authorities seem a bit amateurish the way everything was organized. now, a killer whale which had been stranded in the river seine has died. according to local authorities a decision had been made to euthanize the whale as it was severely sick. an investigation is set to begin

why the orca got stranded and how it died. >> i am standing on the banks of the river seine near to where the body of the dead orca was discovered this morning. it is believed to have died of natural causes after contracting a fungal infection. this illness has been seen in animals in north america but it is thought to be the first such case in europe local authorities had been seeking to you get -- to euthanize the orca because it was believed to have been in some pain. i spoke to the animal welfare ngo who told us it is important an autopsy is conducted to establish for certain the cause of death. >> the time she spent in the river seine which is very polluted probably accelerated the illness. maybe she even got it in the said -- in the river seine. that is why the autopsy is important. we will need to examine the

inner ear to know if the construction site nearby disoriented her. >> the orca was first spotted more than two weeks ago and the site attracted crowds of people who were keen to get a glimpse of the animal. freshwater is not the natural habitat for a killer whale. the fact it adventured 60 kilometers inland only speaks to how disoriented and unwell the creature was. elaborate rescue attempts over the weekend to lower the orca back to the english channel were unsuccessful. the body of the killer whale has been recuperated by the authorities and it autopsy will be undertaken to determine how it died. >> time for the business news. good to see you. as eu leaders are continuing to negotiate a deal to stop importing russian oil come it will be halting gas deliveries to a major dutch trader.

>> russia's state run energy giant says starting tuesday, they will no longer receive the gas because of its refusal to pay in rubles. moscow demanded the european buyer set up special bank accounts in russia to swap their your payments and to rubles. the company which is half owned by the dutch government says it decided not to comply. the company has already secured an alternative source for the 2 billion cubic meters of gas it had expected to receive through october. inflation in germany has hit the highest level in nearly half a century. harmonized with other e.u. countries the consumer price index rose 8.7% in may, the highest level of the 1970's oil crisis soaring energy prices of nearly 40% as well as rising cost of food were the main

drivers of inflation in europe's biggest economy. new data will come out on tuesday. in china, for two months confined to their homes, most of shanghai's 25 million inhabitants finally be able to go out freely. china's commercial capital has announced an end to its covid-19 lot down starting june the first. the tight restrictions imposed at the beginning of april have hammered businesses and worsened mobile supply bottlenecks that were only slightly relaxed in recent weeks. >> shanghai's financial hub and port is beginning a return to some kind of normal with a lifting of covid restrictions for most of the city from wednesday. authorities said some businesses are already back. >> a total of 2021 firms from the industrial trade and services sectors have resumed

business and production. some 60,000 employees have returned to their post. >> the city has put together a stimulus package of 50 incentive policies to get businesses up and running. they include subsidies for hard-hit sectors such as retail, tourism and aviation. reductions in rent, property and land taxes for some businesses as well as efforts to boost foreign trade and investment and to stimulate spendin they include stabilizing supply chains in the yangtze river delta. the lockdown has been tense amid covid zero policy but authorities say it has succeeded in holding back virus with 67 infections reported in shanghai on monday. that is down from the peak of the outbreak that saw more than 20,000 infections each day. >> folwing the announcement,

global oil prices surged on the expectation demand would pick up with the easing of china's covid restrictions as well as stimulus measures announced for shanghai. international and smart brent crude approaching 122 dollars a barrel after breaching the one hundred $20 mark for the first time in two months. with the rising cost of fossil fuels, more companies are turning to alternative sources of energy and that includes human waste which can be used to produce power through a process called biosolids gasification. this plan in australia is the first of its kind in the country. it dries up sewage and sludge. the gases are used to power the facility and the remaining solids can be used as a high-grade fertizer as well as building material. >> the idea came from the trucking problem that we were

sending an enormous number of trucks through the community, using lot of diesel and it was costing us a lot of money. >> we will explore every marketable opportunity to obviously get the best return. >> finally, the ukrainian hip-hop and that won the eurovision song contest earlier this month have auctioned off their trophy to help fund their country's war effort. the crystal microphone fetched a whopping 900,000 u.s. dollars at an auction held on facebook. they had won the trophy on may the 14th. they say the funds raised will be used to buy drones for ukraine's military. let's take a listen. >> ware now in berlin anticipang -- rticipatg in charity concert. we are on a tour to promote ukraine and collect money. >> please take the trophy away

because it has finished its mission. $900,000. congratulations. >> extreme measures, extreme times call for extreme measures. >> thank you very much for that. it is time for truth or fake. our daily fact checking segment to we can say hello to catalina. in today's segment you will be debunking alleged proof of vladimir putin's great paranoia. >> pruden is allegedly so terrified for his safety he uses kgb bodyguards as extras to fill in for public events. this is what some users claim. these photos were mainly shared by those opposing the kremlin. the first example posted on may 26. the caption reads poutou met with a wounded soldier who by a strange coincidence was also a factory worker he previously met. while we cannot deny that both men do look alike.

we are the second post showing the same photo from may 26 as well. it has gathered over 7000 likes and the post reads putin is terrified of essay -- of assassinations of buddy cards act as workers or russian soldiers wounded in ukraine. the real story behind this photo in the hospital, president putin made his first reporte visit to a moscow hospital on may 25 where he was visiting wounded soldiers from the war in ukraine as reported by the moscow times. these claims started circulating on social media the day after on may 26. if we compare both photos, a frontal angle of the soldier compared to the factory worker, we can confirm there is a hairline and the face, they don't resemble too much but as others have pointed out, these two men, there is not too much

resemblance between both. >> the injured soldier is not the same as the factory worker. that is for sure. >> they not the same man. the story behind the factory worker, we found a regional photo published by the kremlin's official website on november 9 two thousand 17 detailing president burns visit to a compressor plant. on the website of the plant we found the mystery man three years later. this post. from march 17, 2020. what seems to be a promotional video for the plant. the man whose job desiption i line leader. we can conclude at least in this occasion this man is not putin's kgb bodyguards playing an extra. >> moving onto another story. analyzing fake fishermen. >> you have a second example

were kgb bodyguards allegedly pose as extras during a putin church and fishery visit. here is the photo post on march 26 with over 3000 likes. the elected secret service officials pointed out in the post reads someone pointed out people appearing around biden were scrutinized. those appearing around putin are secret service. we looked into the second allegation. we found this visit was published in the president of russia official website on september 10, 2016 detailing president putin's visit to a fishers. we found this church event on their website detailing putin's christmas greeting event in 2017 featuring the same people. are they the same people? they are. we do have an explanation.

this christmas event was held in a cathedral, the same region where the photo with the fisherman was taken. as the article points out, putin met with these fishermen on various occasions. here, another image of one of the fisherman was all in the pictures from the event that year in 2007 team should the blonde woman here we see in the images, she is a russian entrepreneur in the fishing industry who is a putin loyalist as you can see from this selfie right here. this is clearly not the only putin event she has attended. there are similar claims in online and in this attempt to prove putin's paranoia which is a recurrent on social media but this time misinformation targeting the kremlin. >> thank you very much. more news coming up. this is france 24. ♪

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