>> welcome to "live from paris," world news analysis from france 24. mark owen. these are the headlines. conflict breaks out once again between armenia and is a vision. " and go is calling for calm. ukraine strikes back against russia and ports pressure on putin and his military. dozens more towns have been seized back from occupying troops. from our ukraine land.ush russia

kyiv also calling for more western arms. the coffin of queen elizabeth gets to -- leaves beloveds: for the last time and is transported to london, accompanied by the princess royal, king charles has returned from belfast to accompany his mother and family. this is "live from paris." ♪ mark: thank you for being with us. 49 armenian soldiers and 50 as areas have been killed this tuesday in the deadliest waiting between as a vision and armenia since their 2020 four. armenia and azerbaijan, neighboring former soviet states, blamed each other for the fighti which began overnight. it is raising fears of another major armed conflict in the

former soviet union, where ruia's litary is alread tied up in ukraine. russia has peacekeeping troops in the azeri and armenian confli is on after it entered the six-week war over in billy see in georgia. how do you see the situation? reporter: tonight the situation looks muc quiet, even if there are some that were the situati remains tense. the spokesperson of the minister of defense of armenia mentioned it. it was a very serious event that happened last night, because now if we trust both sides, we have at least 100 casualties, so it is very serious. despite this, i think that what happened is mostly initiated by

the aazeris side to give a signal that the cease fire that was signed two years ago needs to be implemented. because they are very difficult to implement. at the moment for example, the road from the azerbaijan side to the autonomous republic through the territory of armenia, is rely difficult issue. so far we did not find the reason. so far athleisure, it was -- for azbaijan, it was ibloody signal to let them know, armenia and also the international community that this question has to be sorted. mark: and the issue is that both sides for the start of the fighting. it really shows the entrenched

internets between the two rivals. reporter: indeed, you are right. but these events happen at a time of year where we were maybe neveso close to a real peace agement for the region. mr. nikol pashinyan, prime nister o armeniaand the times, and deste all of theser diiculties that i just underlined a few minutes ago and despite this, they managed to talk, to go ahead, some important questions. some key questions have not been solved because they are really difficult. they're asking especially the armenian side, which lost the war two years ago, to make enormous concessions. despite this, they managed to talk. for example, the last meeting was in brussels. despite the clashes that happened at the beginning of august, the president of as a

vision came to brussels and talked for five hours with pashinyan and they were able to find common ground to start today on paper some elements for a peace agreement that the minister of foreign affairs has to talk about the demands in the coming months. mark: thank you, sir, briefing on the situation, our correspondent in tbilisi georgia, met with an overview of the situation in nagorno-karabakh. armenia and as a visionary currently in conflict once again. looking at about 100 soldiers that have been killed in the past 24 hours. we are watching for developments, of course. next, ukraine is taking back more and more territory from russian occupied forces. the capture of izyum best

indicates the scale of their progress and the advances on the south too. 4000 square kilometers have been announced as retaken this tuesday after 6000 kilometers are announced to have been reclaimed from the start of september. many retaliation for its crushing counteroffensive. kyiv's assertion in the kharkiv region has been the biggest setback for the russian military since it was pushed away from the capital at the start of the war. >> russian airspace forces, as well as a rocket and artillery forces are carrying out massive strikes in all directions on units of the ukrainian army. reporter: russia has reportedly lost almost 4000 square kilometers bruce lee under its corol, after a quick and effective counterattack in the region this past week. forced to leave munitions and

equipment behind, the kremlin says kyiv's forces have been abusing civilians in areas they have reclaimed. ukraine is determined to make further progress. >> the aim is to completely liberate the kharkiv region and other territories occupied by the russian federation. this defensive operation was accomplished and given the success, it has been decided to continue the operation. reporter: over in russia, the losses have sparked criticism of putin's war. others meanwhile have attributed their withdrawals to ukraine's supply of western weapons. mark: let's get broader analysis. i am joined by a franco-russian journalist. thank you for jning us here on france 24, we appreciate your

presence and analysis. how do russians feel about this war right now? what is the sense that you have? >> there are two distinct groups which tried, on one hand, to stop the war, and on the other hand, to undertake further more decisive actions. democrats want to stop the war. we saw some -- recently in the protest in the municipality of st. petersburg. guest: to go home and to resign, telling the government to go home and to resign.

even though they might pay for it by prison. so there is this democratic protest against the war. some people are also trying, during the election day in the 10th and 11th of september when elections were held in different regions of russia, to protest by spoiling the war. but there is also a group of folks which went not only to continue, but to make things much harder. they appeal now to destroy all the infrastructure of ukraine, and first of all, all of the electrical power stations and so on. so, putin is between two fires. from democrats and others.

other people, we don't know what they think, but i think it is very important to take into account that if putin wins to make a general mobilization, and he might be obliged to do so because he has no reserve of troops now, in this case, the war will conserve -- will concern every family. and then, there might be important protest. mark: you mentioned the dissent that is brewing among certain people in the municipalities. tell people from the outside, maybe you knew about this before, but to the people on the outside, this seems like something new. is it a sign that putin is under pressure? >> i think those are small signs, but yet significant signs , because, of course, municipal

deputies cannot make anything about putin's destitution. but the fact that in spi of the pressure from justice, and we know that now people are sent to pson for thgs like thi protest, for their of the war or even the world war, it is very courageous of them to say it loud. and of course, that means that probably, some people start to feel that the end is approaching. mark: and our guest, thank you for giving us your sense of the situation. she leads the russian desk at the euro politic international and many years before worked

here at radio france. thank you very much. guest: you are welcome. mark: we will keep you across every development that we get on the situation in ukraine. next, queen elizabeth's coffin has been brought to buckingham palace as national mourning continues. the monarch died electric at the age of 96. her journey to scotland was by military aircraft. the majesty was accompanied by her daughter. the late monarch spent 70 years on the throne. she will lie in state at buckingham palace until wednesday and then she will be taken to westminster hall at the house of parliament to lie in state enter the funeral next week. there was a steady file of people passing by her coffin on edinburgh on tuesday and well into the early hours of this morning. let's go to our correspondent who is there is always.

benedict, just to remind people watching, he has been covering this story from the very start and charting basically all of the developments of how the national mourning is going in the u.k.. so, betty's of national mourning now gains. reporter: yes, this is the next phase of national mourning. the queen has finally come home. her final journey to her final residence here in github palace, and despite -- here in buckingham palace. thousands of people have come from all over the united kingdom, actually from all over the world, to be here and to watch the horse that was flown down from scotland, accompanied by her daughter, princess anne, the princess royal, and her husband as it went into the gates here at becky hammon palace. there were cheers, tears, lots

of camera phones of people as night fell, watching the final journey into buckingham palace. where the coffin will stay overnight. it is an opportunity for close family, children and grandchildren, staff, to pay their respects to the queen. tomorrow afternoon, the coffin will be taken down in a military ceremonial procession. it will take 38 minutes exactly -- there was at dawn today a rehearsal for that. it will lie in state for four days at the parliamentary estate of westminster hall where we expect perhaps as many as 400,000 people will want to go and pay their respects and file past this coffin that will be on a raised platform. mark: the minutia of this, the planning of this, it is a remarkable feat of logistical

planning, isn't it? there had been one or two anti-monarchists who protested. and there has been a certain amount of concern in some quarters that these people have had their right to protest in some way suppressed. some people who are not anti-monarchy but our freedom of speech. can you tell us the reaction over all. you're in the best place to gauge this, i think. how was the reaction to king charles iii? reporter: the reaction has been very clear, one of great sadness of losing queen elizabeth ii, the admiration for the duty and the life of service that she, overheard 70 year reign, how she conducted herself. but also very much a welcome with "god save the king," with her in scotland where we saw him today, northern ireland, and here at the palace when he firs

came down from scotland when his mother had just died. then again the applause this evening. you are right to evoke a few protesters here there, whether in scotland or here in london, one or two or three people who had either a blank piece of paper or one saying, "not making." and it has -- one saying, "not my king." they have been criticized. they have been removed, those people letting their feelings no. after all, let us remember that king charles ii himself when he was making a speech yesterday morning to both houses of parliament yesterday, was talking about a living and breathing democracy and that people should indeed, as long as they are not being aggressive or committing treason, should be allowed to manifest their opinions. some would also argue that this

is the time to do that. overall, a huge welcome and respect. where and what a busy time for the new monarch. it will continue to be very busy. they complex, unprecedented security operation here. on monday we expect hundred of world leaders, heads of government, presidents, among them joe biden. here in london. a lot of security being ramped up across the heart of westminster and the british capital. mark: try to stay dry. thank you for giving us a sense of what is happening in london as the national mourning continues. over correspondent in london. the queen tonight will be lying in the room at buckingham palace after the viewing by her family. and then tomorrow as benedict was saying, the great procession to the houses of parliament where the queen will lie in state.

time for business. kate moody joins us. starting with the closing bell on wall street. and a sell-off of u.s. stocks? kate: very sharp selloff. investors are worried about the hotter than expected inflation report for the month of august that has set the stage for the federal reserve to continue its monetary policy for weeks to come. the dow jones lost 1200 points, it's worth single session since june of 2020. the s&p 500 was down over 4% at the close. nasdaq down 5%. facebook parent company meta losing 9% at the close. google's alphabet down 6%. earlier we saw a major european indices creeping lower after u.s. data was published. a loss of 1% each in london, paris, and frankfurt. most economists had predicted the rate of inflation would drop

in august as petro prices stabilized. but the consumer price index was 0.1% higher than the previous month, 8.3 percent higher on an annual basis. it is a slight improvement on the 9.1% we saw in june, but still hovering near the highest levels in 40 years. the numbers are adding pressure to the u.s. federal reserve to continue raising interest rates. america's central bank is expected to raise rates another 0.75% for the third quarter in a row at its meeting next week. u.s. president joe biden saying it will take time and resolve to bring inflation down. shareholders are twitter voted in favor of selling the platform to elon musk, even though the $44 billion deal was called off months ago. it means the outcome will officially be decided in the u.s. courts. elon musk has tried to back out of the sale, saying he does not accept twitter's figures about the percentage of fake accounts

on the platform. twitter sued the tesla ceo for a breach of agreement is our correspondent explains. reporter: musk is a prolific tweeter 1c been, using the platform to ask whether it was dying. but as he tweeted, he was buying up stock. it was revealed he was twitter's biggest shareholder with over 9% of total shares. he was offered and accepted a seat on the board will need to do an about-face in the week after. on april 13, elon musk said he had offered to buy twitter, vowing to turn it to a bastion of free speech. after initial reluctance, the board of directors backed the deal around two weeks later. but by july, musk had called it off. twitter tried to force the sale. which could see it sold for $

$44 billion. >> elon musk apparently believes that he, like every other party subject to the lower contract law is free to change his mind and trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stakeholder value and walk away. reporter: elon musk is contra serene, claiming that twitter misrepresented the number of bouts in a bid to distort its value and drive up the price he would be willing to pay for it. the twitter versus elon musk trial ischeduled for october in delaware, where twitter is incorporat, and it could last up to five days. kate: one of the people that could testify on elon musk's behalf is a former executive turned whistleblower who was speaking to u.s. lawmakers today. elon musk's lawyers will include allegations by peters atco, a hacker who worked as twitter's head of security until he was fired several months of her. he has been attending a senate

hearing in which it was revealed at least one chinese agent was working at twitter. he said the company had downplayed concerns about the government being able to collect user data and he said that executives repeatedly ignored warnings about the scope of its security problems. >> what i discovered when i joined twitter was that this enormously influential company was over one decade behind industry security standards. the company's cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exploitation, causing real harm to real people. and when an influential media platform can be compromised by teenagers, thieves, and eyes, and the company repeatedly creates security problems on their own, this is a big deal for all of us. kate: pretty explosive testimony there, particularly allegations about cheney's access to data on twitter, something we have not

heard the end of yet. mark: kate, thank you very much indeed. great to see you. let's move onto truth or fake. catalina is joining us. good evening. we are looking tonight at claims online that the british monarchy stole the crown jewels. i sense that this when it depends on which agenda you have to set out. tell us what you found. catalina: catalina: indeed, people took the twitter following queen elizabeth ii's death as an opportunity for the royal family to return the stolen jewels to their countries. the kohinoor diamond is one of them, it airmen from india, believed to be one of the world's most expensive diamonds, valued at about $400 million, 109 carats. here is a picture of the damage that sits in the queen's imperial state crown. almost imminently following the

queen's death, the word kohinoor started trending. this user saying, "when will those colonizers give us back the diameter they took from us?" more tweets here, this one saying, can we get back the kohinoor diamond and everything in the british museum that was stolen?" another user saying, this diamond was stolen by the british and is now in the hands of the royal family. so was the diameter stolen as many claim? there has been ownership dispute for many years, but the latest was in 2016, india said it should forgo this claim to the jewel because it was given to britain as a gift in 1851, laying the dispute to rest for now as it was brought up by the court of public opinion. even though future plans for this diamond have not been disclosed just yet, reports are

that the crown will be passed down to, or, the queen consort. mark: 1851, that would have been a gift to queen victoria. seems to be clarified. moving onto another claim. did queen elizabeth ii: a stolen diamond from africa? some are saying that she did. can you clarify? catalina: indeed, the damage goes by the name "the great star of africa. here is a picture of the diamond being worn by queen elizabeth, believed to be the largest diamond in the world in the imperial scepter at 530 carats, estimated at $400 million as well. in the morning of the queen's death, many on twitter were claiming that the diamond was stolen. this twitter user saying, "queen elizabeth the second once the

largest clear-cut diamond in the world known as the great star of africa. it was mined in south africa in 1905 and stolen from south africa. this is claim number one. claim number two is that the diamond was renamed. the british replaced the name "the great star of africa"" with the name of the chairman of the mine. we will review the claims. historical records to confirm that the great star of africa was bought by south africa and presented to king edward vii as a gift back in 1907 as said by buckingham palace's spokeswoman. so this is based on historical records. claim number two, this is the original diamond, about 3000 carats, cut into bits and one was put in the queen's imperial

scepter that we see in the picture here. but as many point out, this twitter user points out as well, these are not the only claims of there, there are also ownership dispute for crown jewels from iran, afghanistan, and i as well. mark: catalina, thank you for that. thank you to kate for business. and thanks to you for watching wherever you are. stay with us. ♪ >> they observe. they contact us. they report, film, photograph. they are the voice of the voiceless. your eyes in the far-flung reaches of the world. the observers, a network of 5000 committed citizens, working with france 24.

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