>> welcome to "live from paris," world news and analysis from france 24. these are the headlines. vladimir putin says he will cut off europe's gas supply totally if there is action taken by governments to cap prices. he is condemning western sanctions as a threat to the world. the eu's bond alliance has party -- says putin is using the gas money to fund the war in ukraine. some had a top-secret that trump had top-secret documents -- at

his florida palace. some of the documts seized by the fda when agents raided mar-a-lago. bolsonaro leads brazil's bicentennial celebrations and uses it as a campaign opportunity. nonetheless, he is trailing his rival and all the opinion polls. this is "live from paris." mark: thank you for being with us. vladimir putin used to need to completely cut energy supplies to europe if it tries to--is threatening to completely cut energy supplies to europe if it tries to cap prices of oil. putin was speaking in vladivostok. he vowed to press on moscow's

military action in ukraine until it achieves his goals. he warned that such a move, capping prices by the eu, would represent a clear breach of the existing contracts, saying that russia would respond by turning off the faucets. ursula bundle line had this to say. pres. von der leyen: we know our sanctions are deeply granting into the russian economy with a negative impact. but putin is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues. so the objective is we must cut russia's revenues, which putin uses to finance his atrocious wawar in ukraine. mark: vladimir putin criticized europe's calls for a price cap on russian gas. he has branded it stupid. he condemned the western sanctions as -- these are his words -- a threat to the entire

world. pres. putin: some like to isolate russia, but as we have always said, it is impossible. just take a look at the world map. reporter: a message from vladimir putin to western capitals against sanctions against russia, which he called and aggression. speaking at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok, the head of the kremlin was keen to paint a picture of the upper hand, scorning europe's calls for price caps on russian gaps as a stupid, threatening to stop russian gas and oil if they were to be imposed. pres. putin: europeans think they don't need these advantages. that is ok with us. it doesn't bother us. the demand for energy resources in the world is very high. europe was considered a premium market, but the situation in the world is rapidly changing. reporter: with western allies rallying against him, putin has accelerated his pivot towards

asia, africa, and the middle east, provided discounted oil as global energy prices continue to scsoar. russia has broadened roughly $40 billion of gas and oil revenues in the last six months. moscow has heeded particular attention to the sinai-pressure alliance, boosting cooperation with beijing with hope to win beijing's dependence on the dollar. pres. putin: yesterday our chinese partners decided to switch to the report and the you want on a 50-50 ratio when paying for gas supplies. reporter: putin announced development plans with imaging agent allies, which would allow russia to access the indian and iranian markets as well as the middle east, a plan he will push in uzbekistan when he will sit down with xi jinping, as well as india, pakistan, and 4 central asian states. mark: russian president putin

and tiny president xi jinping are said to me next week in uzbekistan, talks that could set a warning of relation between two powers facing off against the west. it comes at delicate times for both leaders, and would be their second face-to-face meeting this year. ukrainian forces have attacked the russian-held eastern town in the region of kharkiv in the northeast. this comes from proserv -- pro-russian separatist sources. kyiv is guarded about how the counteroffensive is progressing. russian defense ministry says it has taken the--part of the eastern region of donetsk. ukraine is calling on the residents of russian-occupied areas around the nuclear power

plant to evacuate for their own safety. more on the situation in ukraine as we go through the program. next, top-secret documents revealing a foreign government's nuclear capabilities were recovered in the police search of donald trump's florida resort. court records say the fbi recorded -- recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its august 8 search of trump's mar-a-lago estate. it is reported in "the washington post" that some of the documents are so restricted that even some of the biden administration's seniormost national security officials are not thorizedo reviewhem. will dlitt to calm thett nerves of governments around the world. journalists obtained evidence that top-secret documents, some involving former nations, were found at donald trump's foreign residence. now there is more, according to the "washington post," fbi agents found a foreign

government's military defenses including its nuclear capabilities could the country was not named, but it underscores concerns among intelligence officials about classified material taken to the private residence. other top-secret documents describe top-secret operations so secret that many national security council's are not aware of them. such highly classified records are always kept under lock and key can almost always in a secure information facility, and with the designated control officer. but those documents were stored at mar-a-lago with uncertain security for 18 months after trump left the white house. investigators believe there were more than 300 classified documents at the property. the former president denied any wrongdoing. last week and he made his first public appearance since the fbi raid and his florida home, calling it a travesty. mr. trump: the shameful raid and breaking of my home mar-a-lago

was a travesty of justice that made a mockery of america's laws, traditions, and principles before the entire world. the entire world was watching, and they are shocked. reporter: on monday, a federal judge granted trump's quest for a special master who will be tasked with reviewing documents seized from mar-a-lago. the decision will likely delay the department of justice investigation into what was kept at the property. mark: let's broaden our analysis. joining us as a former federal prosecutor in the u.s. and often someone we turn to for legal clarification and enlightenment on such stories. pleasure to see you as always. the things uprising about this is donald trump casting himself as the victim. is there any reason why clinician as to why trump might have had--reasonable expedition as to why trumpig have had such a selection of documents in his possession in florida? eric: no, n at all.

somenabls have tried to put forth explanations, but they all fall very flat. one of his biggest fired offenders, the former attorney general, who is somewhat disgraced himself, william barr, was even on fox tv, trump's private news network, stating the same thing, that there was absolutely no reason, no valid reason for these documents to be in trump's residence or anybody's residence. these are highly sensitive documents the law is very clear. even the nonclassified ones, of which there were thousands and thousands, were illegally taken from the white house. it is a very dangerous and needless to say illegal national security situation that trump has placed the country in. mark: the picture you are painting, and knowing your background and what you have witnessed in your career and

what you know, but the picture you are painting is such that trump's hands might be saying, so what, eric, who cares. give us what these documents cod have said and what e risks could have been. eric: well, anything that is classified and dealing with foreign affairs and military capability is going to be inherently dangerous. that is why there is laws such as the espionage act, which is one of the laws that the department of justice named that is investigating trump for having violated. it makes the mere possession of information that is vital to the national defense and therefore potentially dangerous and whether it is classified or not illegal. but in these latest reports we are talking about other nation'' nuclear preparedness, it could include the nuclear preparedness of the united states and military codes. most disturbingly, among the vast universe of things that he

could easily include, is the sources of human intelligence of u.s. and allied agents, or associates around the world. there has already been some reporting to the effect of under trump, it seems like a larger degree than normal of missions were compromised, and there is a disturbing sense that trump has been a significant national security risk since the day he took office and continues to increase even though he is out of office because he has this trove of documents that he illegally took with him when he left the white house. mark: the motivation from trump, is it egotism? is there a mourner various motive behind it-- more nefarious motive behind it? eric: a number of opinions have been tossed out, but in my opinion it was done purely for his personal aggrandizement and

to prepare him to return to power. it was done for purely personal, political reasons, whether to enrich him financially or politically. it is all one and the same, the way he treated power and politics, and he probably viewed as a way he could leverage other people, as indeed it seems like he may have been -- these types of things may have been used to gain some leverage against him. we don't know. the investigation has a long ways to go. it should have been conducted much earlier, even when he was in the office. but any national security or intelligence community and professional has to assume that wille--whatever was in these documents or nonclassified documents that are nonetheless sensitive, having come from the white house, has been compromised. there no way to trace it right now, and indeed, nobody is bothering to go to donald trump himself and ask him what he has done with it.

such is the consensus that his word is utterly untrustworthy. mark: with what you're telling me, i'm eling increasingly flabbergasted, eric. i wonder what this says in your view about the whole security cordon around the white house, around trump. specifically, he has done this, but i can't imagine he acted alone. you must have had people bringing the documents, people who knew what he was doing. what does it say about security in the trump administration and white house? eric: it says it was very lax, but the fish rots from the head down, as the shakespearean person goes, and it is a reflection of trump himself. he knew enough about what he was doing, that he himself was an avid destructor of documents. there are all kinds of reports and stories and witness testimonies about how he would tear things up and flush them down the toilet. he would grab dance from the hands of an interpreter out of a private meeting he had with vladimir putin, for example, several years back.

all of this has been going on for a long time. people were afraid to confront him about it, even though the law is very clear. he was advised about it by his lawyers, but he did nothing to stop his behavior, because he was really hyper focused on exercising personal control over these documents. clearly, as you point out in your question, he could not have done it all by himself, and that is part of the investigation that is going on and that has been slow down a little bit by this somewhat surprising and at least mildly troublesome court opinion that we just had. but the investigation has a lot of rocks to uncover. he didn't do this by himself. he's got a close circle of cronies and associates, and somebody else shirley was involved. there may be a source. it does appear that there is a source within his inner circle at mar-a-lago that is working with the current government to try to get to the bottom of this.

these are all things that remain to be seen. mark: classified documents at basically a spa resort, golf course. strange thing to imagine. urinalysis is ever, thank you-- your analysis as ever, thank you very much indeed. man with his finger on the pulse of all matters legal and governmental in the united states. always a pleasure to see you, eric. california is facing record power demand amid extended heat wave and drought. more and more people are staying indoors with air conditioning. the price of power is being increased. prices are added to having your high in the states. california's firefighters have two major places to control. the fire is 27 kilometers in size. the rapid fire near the san fernando mountains is 4 square kilometers in size, though not

yet under control. jerry bolsonaro has been mixing sermon-- jair bolsonaro has been mixing ceremony with campaigning to press forward his reelection bid. tension is still heightened in this campaign in brazil. bolsonaro is taken to wearing a bulletproof vest whilst out campaigning. opinion polls show him trailing his rival, lula da silva, head of the vote scheduled for october 2. reporter: in brasília, president jair bolsonaro arrived wednesday morning for a massive military parade celebrating the 200th anniversary of results independence from portugal. anymore that what should be a day of national unity is being turned inta divisive campaign event. thfar right nationalist bolsonar is locked in a bitter fight to save his job as he faces leftist former president lula da silva in the election.

trailing in the polls, bolsonaro has turned to the playbook of this american war model, donald trump, attacking the integrity of brazil's system and sankey may reject any result other than victory. he is relying heavily on his affinity for military authority and his association with evangelical religious figures, a move analysts say could backfire. >> i don't think it will help what he has to do, appeal to the independentoter, and those voters have been turned off by his authoritarian, often racist, homophobic rhetoric. but it will consolidate his base. it will be a show of support. and it may threaten some people. reporter: after the parade in the capital, the president called for a massive rally on rio de janeiro's copacabana beach, with thousands of his motorcycle mountain supporters expected to show up. many are concerned about the possibility of violence. last year bolsonaro supporters attempted to storm the supreme court during independent state festivities in an outburst inspired by come supporters'

note -- trump supporters' january 6 assault on the u.s. capitol. mark: kate moody joins us. starting with gloomy forecasts for the french economy. kate: perhaps no surprise it is related to the energy crisis in france and across europe it economic growth in france is likely to grant to a halt at the end of the year. gdp growth is expected to slow from half a percentage point in the second quarter to just .2% in the current period and flatline or contract. inflation is expected to remain at its highest levels in decades. with winter looming, french businesses are worried about potential cuts to natural gas supplies. energy-intensive businesses like glass makers temporarily halted production, and others are worried they will have to follow suit.

reporter: this dairy plant located about 90 kilometers from paris is one of the biggest in france. it is also a significant consumer of gas, as france faces the risk of gas cuts this winter . the factory fears and may have to haul production. >> if we run out of gas, we can pasteurize the milk. if we can pasteurize the milk, we can know -- if we cannot pasteurize the milk, we can no longer receive it. we are going to throw the milk away. reporter: the french government has asked businesses to reduce energy use by 10%, and if the country needs to ration energy, companies will be the first affected. >> we believe the collective intelligence is enough to achieve the goals that we have set for ourselves. this does not mean that there is no possibility of restrictions. there is even talk in the case of companies, and i quote the prime minister come of a risk of rationing. reporter: as businesses draw up

plans for energy saving, the dairy plant company is hoping the government will make exceptions like it did during the pandemic. the factor viii wants to be recognized as an essential business -- the factory wants to be organized as an essential business that could avoid possible gas cuts. kate: the european union is looking to cap the price of russian gas despite threats from vladimir putin that he will cut off supplies altogether for any country that is open urszula von der leyen wants to limit the amount of money russia makes from exports by freezing the price it is sold for. brody entails --no details on what the price would be or how it would be enforceable to she is proposing what others would call a windfall tax on record profits reported by energy giants in recent months. eu member states are pushing ahead with similar plans. the u.k.'s prime minister liz

trust says it is not an option for government. prime minister truss is that a detail how she plans to deal with the energy crisis on thursday. it is understood she will propose capping energy bills until 2024 and a plan costing over 100 billion euros. i've been speaking to the head of the international energy agency, who said that freezing energy bills could be a useful tool in the short term. >> it is one of the instruments that the governments can use to put the price cap and the implications for the budget of the government. it is one of the ways to put it -- it should be temporary instrument. and it will soften a bit in the next weeks or months. i will hope--i hope it will be removed from the agenda. kate: you can watch the rest of that interview in this week's "people in profit," thursday at four come 40 5 p.m. paris time. -- 4:45 pm paris time.

dow jones up 400 points. nasdaq breaking a seven having a losing streak. shares of apple up 1% as they announce new products including the iphone 14 and new watches. in europe, ftse 100 dragging down in london. the pound dropped to the lowest level in london since 1985. investors will be watching the european central bank's policy meeting on thursday to see by what margin the central bank will be raising interest rates to deal with inflation. expanding her empire beyond media and fashion, kim kardashian is launching a private equity firm. the reality star is teaming up with industry veteran jace hammond to open skky, with the trademark two k's. it will focus on investment in

consumer and media companies, with consumer products, digital, hospitality, and like tree. kardashian has successfully monetized her celebrity influence and social-media following into a series of businesses. she has a net worth of $1.8 billion. mark: but for her. -- good for her. kate, thank you very much indeed. maybe consider that as a business plan. we will work it out together. great to see you. let's turn our mind to matters truth or fake. our daily fact checking segment. he has been claimed online by some people that ukraine is staging russian war crimes. let's go over that with catalina for the answers. catalina: indeed, turning her eyes ukraine, since august 12, it is claimed that ukraine is allegedly staging fake russian war crimes. the video was shown by french-

and english-speaking accounts on twitter. for example, over 20,000 views on twitter, the caption reads, "why are directors of the kyiv regime filming a staged video?" this other user on twitter posted the same video, claiming, "that is how the wells changed ukraine propaganda asked eu citizens to find the u.s. proxy war." we have the video right here on twitter, where you can see a building on fire, a filming crew and director, and overall making it seem like ukraine is staging war crimes through their propaganda. what these images really show, we have the debunker right here. we have the original video through a reverse image search explaining on tiktok right here with 1.2 million views.

we have the video with a different caption. hopefully it is going to show up, explaining that this was actually footage, part about film production indeed took place in ukraine. the city is close to where the u.n. is currently conducting an investigation on war crimes against russia, following the massacre in april. this video was posted by a crew member of this film, and it shows scenes from the film called "regions of heroes," and in the movie's official facebook account, explained it will portray the heroic actions of residents of kyiv during the early occupation. we have the trailer right here that confirms that the video is a movie production, not ukrainian propaganda staging fake war crimes. mark: catalina with "truth or

fake." don't believe everything you see online. think about it, reflect the mosquito is coming back to the studio, which is not something i'm supposed to be talking about right now but we will get them with some spra y. humane, of course. >> as france loses its influence in the central african republic, russian mercenaries are taking center stage. statues in the production of pro-russian films alongside paramilitary presence are part of an aggressive propaganda campaign. the goal, to hide the massacres and rapes these mercenaries are accused of. but the takeover of mining resources and the russian invasion of ukraine are raising doubts among central africans.

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