>> it is 10:00 p.m. in different capital and here are the stories making rhode island's. donald trump los the 2020 election, but he asked state officials to find boats to give him a victory. when that didn't work, he had a plan to send fake electors to congress. that just came up in the recent hearings in the capitol. our correspondent will join us with the latest. the french president refuses an offer step down following the results of sunday's legislative elections.

macron is struggling to put a coalition failing to win an absolute majority in the assembly. there is a growing diplomatic crisis in kaliningrad, the russian excluding the baltic sea. moscow is warning lithuania of serious consequences over its restriction of real traffic there. you're are watching "live from paris." ♪ thanks for joining us. there has been more bombshell testimony in the january 6 hearings at the u.s. congress. the house committee's for the hearing focused on donald trump's attempts to pressure state officials overturn the result of the 2020 election. that included a recording of

trump asking an official in georgia to, quote, "find some 11,000 votes for him that did not exist." the hearing also revealed a plan to send fake electors from states that trump loyalist in an effort to keep him in power. over washington correspondent kethevane gorjestani is following the hearings for us and joins us now. this is sounding more and more like an attempted coup. what can you tell us about today's hearing? kethevane: that was exactly the goal of the january 6 committee, to show how far the former president donald trump went in order to try to overturn the results of a u.s. election. last week they focused on a pressure campaign both public and private on the vice president, mike pence. this time they focused on the same pressure campaign, but on state officials in two states, arizona and georgia, two states

that joe biden won by a close margin, but won nonetheless. they had three witnesses, the house speaker from arizona, and the secretary of state of georgia as well as his chief operating officer. three election officials who were elected by their state. all three, very conservative, starch republicans, all three who testified that they had been pressured, asked by the president and by his allies to either stop the counting, and when that failed, to stop the certification, and when that failed, to find votes, and when that failed, to send fake electors to washington to try to change that and-counting of the electoral college, and of course, the certification of the 2020 election. of three testified that they refused to break their oath to their state and their country,

refused to do something that they deemed illegal. that a lot of people around donald trump, a lot of his allies and a lot of his legal advisors also nknew it to be wrong and illegal. that is what the panel focused on, how much of the president knew that it was illegal and still went ahead with it. they also had another point, the role of another witness, the fourth witness of the day, a former election worker from georgia who testified of the death threats that she and her mother suffered throughout that electoral campaign because of the lies that elections had been stolen in georgia. the committee really focusing on that aspect. adam schiff who was leading most of the questioning, concluded by

saying, whether donald trump's actions were criminal will be for others to decide, but what he did was without a doubt unconstitutional, unpatriotic, and fundamentally un-american. those "others" that he is mentioning, looking at the department of justice, because if there is a criminal indictment of the president or his allies, it will come from the department of justice. monte: we have two hearings left and we are learning more and more. our national correspondent kethevane gorjestani, thank you. the french president is taking on the role of dealmaker with his ability to govern hanging in the balance. emmanuel macron is trying to end a deadlock after his coalition failed to win an absolute majority in the assembly on sunday. he held talks with the opposition on tuesday after rejecting an offer by the prime minister elisabeth borne to resign. our correspondent with more.

reporter: with the door of the palace wide open for representatives across the political spectrum, emmanuel macron hopes to negotiate his way out of a political standstill. >> we remain part of the opposition in a determined way. determined, but responsible. we will never block the institutions. making a coalition is out of the question. reporter: a compromise that is hard to come by. campaigners and voters are all divided on the issue, some believing the conservatives need to work with macron's party. >> personally, i am not siding with the opposition. we are working on the issue. i think the republicans will vote for what will benefit the french people. >> we don't agree for now. we have our own ideas. >> today the most important thing is that we need a

government so that we can go forward. we need reforms. party politics may be a thing of the past. reporter: a new phase in politics which the leader of the socialist party says the president needs to get to grips with. >> if, for example, the president is ready to increase the minimum wage to 1500 euros, it will have a majority for this. if he wants to revalue retirement pensions and put them on the same level as the minimum wage, we will support it. if he wants to block the prices of essential products, we will back it. reporter: the leader of france's centrist party says he believes many politicians are keeping quiet for now, but will soon express their support for a governing majority. without this majority, there are fears that france will become ungovernable for emmanuel macron. monte: now took on the new grad, the russian excluding in the baltic sea -- kaliningrad. there is a growing diplomatic

crisis, moscow warning lithuania of serious consequences over its restriction of real traffic to the russian e xclave. reporter: along the brillo lines, russian passengers and could continue traveling there. fertilizer and alcohol are banned as lithuania shuts down shipments under e.u. sanctions, under what moscow has called a blockade. >> pressure will certainly respond to such hostile actions. the consequences will have it seriously interest on the population of lithuania. reporter: a russian excluding roughly the size of switzerland along the coast of the but see, kaliningrad is separated from mainland russia by two countries in each direction. it relies on t rail service for goods. it is a vital strategic port. the lithuanian government says moscow is dramatizing the

situation and delays and a blockade of the sanctions applied to less than 50% of the goods normally transported along with the airlines. >> we are the ones that follow the rule of law in this dispute. over decisions are based on the law and its explanation, and these are transparent decisions that weren't as secret to anyone. reporter: the e.u. pop meanwhile has urged moscow to refrain from calatory action or rhetoric, as the bloc's ambassador was someone for an official complaint. russia can still supply kaliningrad by the sea, without interference from e.u. sanctions. lithuania, meanwhile, is not only a member of the e.u. pop, but also of nato, and thus covered by the alliance's mutual defense treaty. monte: russia is gaining ground in the donbas region in the eastern ukraine. ukrainian officials say moscow has seized a village near the city of sievierodonetsk which is currently russia's main target in the region.

fighting also ridges in the nearby city of lysychansk, where ukrainian soldiers are holding their ground. meanwhile, officials say that russian shelling killed at least 15 civilians in the kharkiv region. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammad bin salman is on a diplomatic tour of the middle east. this tuesd, he was in cairo for talks with the president of egypt and has since arrived in jordan. on wednesday, he is due in turkey. the turkish president visited saudi arabia back in april. the two countries are repairing ties following the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in the kingdom's istanbul consulate back in 2018. for more on this, we are joined by my guest lecturer of international relations and party politics at the university of essex. thanks so much for being with us. the crown prince has been

implicated in jamal khashoggi's murder by both u.s. intelligence and the united nations. of course, he denies his involvement. does this trip by article mean that turkey is ready to sweep this brutal crime under the rug? guest: good evening. thank you very much for having me. i think one of the issues that will not be part of the negotiations, a theme that will be part -- that will be not touched upon, is the khashoggi case. why? because turkey has instrumentalized this issue and think turkey has instrumentalized this from the very outset, in light of the murder of jamal khashoggi. so i think they are now turning a new pe. monte: they are turning a new

page, but erdogan has previously said that the highest levels of the saudi government had ordered the killing. he didn't mention mbs directly. how does he then navigate this issue if you are saying that this will not even come up as a topic? reporter: the reason being is because one has to understand the khashoggi case and the role that he played in regional turbulence during that time. what president erdogan tried to do was use this card as an instrument to apply political pressure on saudi arabia, but moreover, to appease and gain more support domestically. so again, this is the theme that i am talking about here, there was always part of an instrumentalization of the khashoggi situation. monte: do you think that turkey will be able to repair this relationship that it has with

saudi arabia? what is the state of that? guest: i think they are trying to repair it. of course, turkey is not going to the best economic times -- the world, really is not going to the best economic times, but one of the things that i think both states have realized is that discord is not in their favor. that discord has not been fruitful. i think both want to make a stable region or contribute towards a stable region. and a stable region that is conducive to economic prosperity. also, a region that is not too attached or exposed or susceptible to the turbulence that is taking place on the global scale. there is an element of interdependency here that they are both trying to do reared and

the region of course. that is one of the core themes of it. monte: let's bring in the u.s. into this. president biden is scheduled to meet with mbs next month. jamal khashoggi's fiance says biden is dishonoring himself by putting oil over principles. what kind of position is u.s.. when it comes to relations with turkey? guest: with turkey or with saudi arabia? monte: saudi arabia, pardon me? guest: well, i think what this shows is that the u.s. and saudi relationship is very, very deep and strategic. it is not simply about oil, this is about security, oil security, energy security, but also about combating terrorism, about combating other relevant factors in the region. so the strategy -- other malevolent factors in the region.

the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states is very deep. personally i don't find it very surprising that there is an interest-based approach here by the united states because it has always been that way between saudi arabia and the united states. monte: ok, we will have to leave it there aziz alghashian , it lecturer at essex. thank you so much for your time. now turn northeastern bangladesh, where floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people. storms over the weekend have killed dozens in both bangladesh and neighboring india. some villagers made their escape on rafts, making their way to refugee camps. experts say that raising temperatures from climate change have caused the region's monsoon season to begin earlier than usual. china is also dealing with devastating floods. torrential rainfall triggered

floods and landslides in the south of the country. reporter: nowhere to hide, and no way to escape. these farmers and their cattle in the chinese province year are trapped in rising waters, triggered by the heaviest rainfall in decades. it was a scene repeated in dozens of other locations across the pearl river basin. in these areas, the average rainfall over the past six weeks has reached 620 one millimeters, the highest since 1961. in total, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated so far, some by boat, others by foot, wading through waste-deepwater. but it is up about where the extent the flooding is most glaring. authorities estimate the damage so far atver $250 million.

the flooding is also threatening manufacturing, shipping, and logistics operations at a time when supply chains are already stretched out due to the country's strict corvid controls. monte: time now for business with kate moody. you are looking at their real strike in the uk, the issues as well as the impartial economy? kate: only 20% of passenger trains were running across the u.k., 40,000 national real two more days of workouts have been planned on thursday and saturday. it separates track by workers at the london underground has added to the disruption this tuesday. that means many people have been unable to get to work or go out shopping or socialism. one research group said three days of strict reduced economic output by more than 100 million euros, more than half of it just on the first day. it is estimated 200 50,000 people would be unable to get to

work as a result. the hospitality industry is expecting an even bigger hit, one point 2 billion euros in lost revenue from bars, restaurants, theaters and hotels across the country. at the heart of the dispute are demands for peer raises. the rmt union wants its members to receive pay raises of at least 7%. the national real has offered 3%. inflation in the u.k. hit 9% in april. may's figures could be published on wednesday and could help the union's arguments. take a listen to one of the leaders. >> most of our members have not had a payraise for two or three years. the third anniversary of zero pay increases. all those things be addressed in these debates. we will be campaigning for as long as it takes? kate: the threat that those strikes could continue if the deal is not reached. fresh talks are scheduled for

wednesday. wall street saw strong gains as it came back after a long weekend. the s&p 500 was up 2% in the closing bell after posting its worst week since 2020. the nasdaq was up 2.5%, dow jones with a strong closing again. shares of color were up 2% at the close of the food giant said it would be splitting into three companies. the major european indices closed higher as well, that's corrupt out performing with more than three quarters of a percentage point gain earlier. economists in germany have warned that it could fall into recession if already slowing supplies of russian natural gas are shut off altogether. the industry association slashed its economic growth forecast for the year from being a half percent, predicted before russia's invasion of ukraine, to just 1.5%. regulators said on tuesday that gas supplies are correctly guaranteed, but the situation is

tense. the agency called on german households and businesses to save as much gas as possible. egypt's tourism industry is reeling from the impact of the war in ukraine. russians and ukrainians had been visitors to sharm el-sheikh, now they are looking for other markets to replace them. reporter: these days it is not difficult to find an empty sun larger in the sharm el-sheikh resort. previously ukrainians and russians had been among the town of's top visitors, making up 31% of tourist numbers. but since the war in ukraine there has been a huge drop in their numbers. many travel companies have had to cut back on staff usually lack of demand. >> we have started doing rotating shifts. salaries have gone down. there are people who are only that whom with partial salary because there is no work. there is no business at all now.

it is impacting the workforce. now nearly 90% of our workforce are off work. reporter: tourism accounts for around 15% of egypt's gdp. the sector was just beginning to recover from a d during the pandemic, but is now facing difficulties. the travel industry hopes to make up the numbers with holidaymakers from other countries. >> to compensate for the russian and ukrainian tourists with new markets, we can do that, we can open new markets, we just need airline routes. if we have the airlines that can carry all these tourists to give us access to new markets. >> since the start of the war, egypt has turned its attention to attracting tourists from western europe and the gulf. but will russian and ukrainian tourists would travel their

year-round, many western europeans are seasonal visitors looking for fishing in the winter months. kate: elfless-themed weddings have been a staple in las vegas for decades, and they will be able to stay on the strip after several businesses reached agreement with the late singer's estate. last month, the group that owns his brand sent a cease and desist to venues. after a local media blitz, they confirmed they had reached a deal to a a small annual fee to continue using the eldest name and image. elvis impersonator said they were relieved to get back to work. >> i was heartbroken because -- i was unable to sleep. this is my job, this is often, my livelihood. without elvis, we don't have a business. >> this is already doing. we would be out of a job and on the unemployment line if they fail to approve it but thank god

they did? kate: viva las vegas indeed. monte: we love to see that, it would not be vegas without elvis impersonator's. kate, thanks so much. time now for truth horford, our daily fact checking segment, with catalina. hi. you are here to debunk a barrel facebook video where russia deployed weapons to its finland border. catalina: will explain this viral video on facebook claiming to show this kind are nuclear missiles, in the school system produced and deployed specifically by the russian army . alan allegedly there would be sent to russia's border with finland. here is the miss captioned videos more than 4.2 thousand views form may 16. as pointed out by facebook, it is laden with virtually false information, it is passing 10

military vehicles allegedly carrying nuclear weapons to its border with finland. according to the author of this post, these are russian nuclear missiles. the man in the middle captioned that the finnish president is not mentioned joining nato yet. the video is also posted on twitter. the user posted a video saying -- "we can clearly see that nato and the e.u. are directing europeans towards military escalation," after financed declaration on joining nato. these posts are alarmist, claiming that russia is ready to attack. the information was also wrongly shared by the media. this was published by the sun titled "russia deploys new missiles to the border with finland." this was also published by the new york post, claiming that

russia reportedly moves nuclear capable missiles to the finland border. monte: so they are actually linking to a legitimate media sources. what information is there for these military vehicles? catalina: it is not as simple as it seems because the video is not fake. the video is miss captioned. writers' version of the fact-check of this story interviewed two military experts who said the clips show coastal defense missile system that normally would not be equipped with nuclear warheads. usually it is equipped with more conventional warheads. and that this is standard practice for systems like these to be deployed by russia. russia also geo-located equipment and it was in a tone in far western russia. although not confirming that this was the final destination.

finnish defense force members also confirmed that it is normal for russia to move different kinds of weapons to its border, just not nuclear weapons. monte: great clarification first. catalina, thanks a lot. that's it for now. stay tuned for more news coming up here on france 24. ♪ >> joined us in europe where we are in two e.u. countries in the shadow of war with ukraine, poland and hungary. both have taken in large numbers of refugees and both have joined european union sanctions packages against russia but political differences have emerged between these traditional allies. we will explain why and how, on "europe now." >> on france 24, and france24.com. ♪

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