live from berlin. russia continues its brutal garage in ukraine, hitting kyiv and kherson. the city that they were he took two weeks ago, sustaining the heaviest bombing to date. authorities in uganda take steps to curb the spread of the ebola virus. curfews and travel bans are in place, in public institutions are closed. plus a scheme in germany is

helping to make it easier to prosecute cases of sexual violence, while reducing additional trauma to survivors. the hosts are out and the iranian team ends its silent protest. after threats of reprisals, they sang along to the national, then they went on to beat wales 2-0. ♪ to those of you joining us on pbs in the u.s. and to all our viewers around the world, welcome. officials in kherson say at least 15 people have been killed. the attacks are the worst the region has seen since it was retaken two weeks ago by

ukrainian troops. the targets include homes and commercial buildings. the governor of kherson says hospital patients and children are being evacuated due to the constant attacks. a quick warning -- this next report contains disturbing images. reporter: the damage remains of another russian attack on ukrainian homes. like so much of kherson, there is no power here, and the night. -- and the latest shelling came during the night. paramedics rushed to help the injured. >> these were shells. that were howling. and there were a lot of sparks, like fireworks. reporter: russian missiles rained down across kherson. homes caught fire, sending ash

into the air and littering the streets with shattered glass. kherson is on the front lines of this war, ukrainian soldiers forced russian occupiers out of the city and across the dnieper river. those russian soldiers, now escalating the shelling on kherson's homes and infrastructure. any celebration of the city's liberation was short-lived. it's tears and goodbyes for these families as they leave, some having withstood nine months of russian occupation. >> four bombs fell right next to our house, it is too dangerous for my daughter, so i am taking her to safety and poland. -- in poland. reporter: authorities, urging residents to leave the city if they can to help ease pressure on badly damaged infrastructure. >> they are taking revenge, they want to turn kherson into a new mariupol. we didn't do anything wrong. report: on behalf of ukraine's energy needs are being met after

the latest russian strikes. with no hting, winter has become a weapon. as supplies and infrastructure continued to be pummeled by russian shelling, ukrainians are bracing for more dark days ahead. nicole: our correspondent, philip schultz, is near the front line, sending us this update. reporter: with the message wave of missile -- massive wave of missile attacks across ukraine, it is almost sometimes forgotten that fierce fighting continues on the front lines in the east. here in the eastern part of the region, very close to the russian border, soldiers are getting ready for the beginning of winter and all the challenges it brings with it. temperatures can drop to -30, -32° in the coming weeks. most soldiers say this will probably mean that the battles get less dynamic, but nobody thinks the fighting will stop anytime soon. nicole: power outages across ukraine are taking their toll on both troops and civilians. joe c. is a national security

expert and former u.s. government advisor. earlier i asked him how effective russian's strategy of targeting ukraine's energy grid is likely to be. >> it is very effective at its objective, to terrorized into punish the ukrainian people. it does not appear to be effective and the overall russian goal of breakg the will of the ukrainian people to resist, bad weather, breaking the will of the west to support the ukrainians. it is clear that the russian army is overextended and exhausd but still has a mass of manpower and artillery that prevent the ukrainians from advancing much further at this point, and that prevents them from consolidating gains near the front line, as you can see from the terror artillery rounds that are being pummeled into kherson. these can do extreme damage. to the russians have had upon --

hit upon a strategy that is both terrifying and effective, they have taken down at least half of the ukrainian electric grid and much of the water and other power supplies of ukraine. this is causing tremendous misery for millions of ukrainians. so far however, it has not actually affected the ukrainian war effort. nicole: the fact that the russian recruits are often ill prepared, and adequately equipped from the front lines -- for the front lines, and also poorly motivated, what effect does have over the coming months? >> i would not rule out a new ukrainianounterofnsive that cod have a similar impact to that which we just saw in the liberation of kherson. what we saw two months ago in the breakthroughn the kharkiv region. the russian army is fragile. it's overextended and poorly equipped as you say, so even though they are rushing tens of

thousands of recruits in the last few weeks, these are not motivated troops, these are not well-equipped, well-trained troops, so it is possible that the ukrainian strategy of not attacking frontally, but hitting the lines of communication, hitting the supply networks, that could lead to some breakthroughs. i would be looking at the luhansk province and possibly near kherson itself as they try to get to -- get at the artillery rounds that are punishing that city. it might be possible to cut off those artillery brigades that are on the eastern side of the dnieper river, in order to stop that terror bombing. i don't expect the winter to result in a decrease in ukrainian counteroffensive operations. this kind of terror tactics by the russians are too brutal

for the ukrainians to ignore. nicole: their under the command of a highly unpredictable man. in 2015 you published a book called "nuclear nightmares." how close are we to a nuclear nightmare? >> there are two nuclear threats we face, and one is of the shelling of the nuclr plant which continues to this day, the head of the iaea is actually worried that we are on the brink of a nuclear disaster there. this is putin's goal, he wants to terrorize the ukrainian population and try to get them to surrender, at least agree to a cease-fire. the other is the risk of nuclear weapons, i think the risk of nuclear weapons has decreased. we worried about it in the first few months of the war and heard almost daily threats of nuclear weapons then. those threats have decreased and we don't see any possible scenario whether it be a military significance to the use

of nuclear weapons. it is hard to igine a scenario where putin could u a nuclear weapon and gain a military objective. if anythg, it would increase his isolation. it might bring nato directly into the war. for those reasons, i believe putin will be very hesitant to use a nuclear weapon at this point. nicole: i believe there are a lot of people on this planet happy to hear that assessment. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. nicole: here's a look at other stories making news around the world today -- the eu commission president has assured ukraine they will intensify efforts to provide support to the country's power grid. half of ukraine's energy facilities have been damaged in recent weeks by russian shelling, causing widespread power and heating outages. young activists in sweden have sued the government for taking insufficient action against climate change. they marched to stockholm's district court to file the lawsuit supported by 600 young

people, asking the court to determine whether the country violated its citizen rights with its climate policies. a global summit on trade on eangered spiehas approved plan to protect sharks. the plan includes 54 different species and aims to reduce the pool trade of shark fins. the proposal was adopted by 183 countries, as well as a european union. china has reported another record high of daily covid-19 infections, with the cases exceeding 32,000. authorities have imposed fresh lockdowns and closures in almost all major cities, in line with the country's controversial zero covid policy. authorities in uganda have closed schools around the country in a bid to curb the spread of the ebola virus. although the number of confirmed cases has decreased in recent weeks, the government has also introduced a nightly curfew and a ban on personal travel. many markets, bars, and churches are also closed.

the virus has killed more than 50 people since the start of the outbreak in september, including several health care workers. adding to the problem is the fact that there are still -- that there is still no proven vaccine against this particular strain, known as the suit on ebola virus. i asked rtw reporter in uganda about -- our dw reporter in uganda about the race to develop a treatment. reporter: this is a strange virus. scientists have not yet identified and effective -- an effective vaccine for it. the miniry of health says vaccine trials wl be starting very soon. this is not the virus that has killed more people -- other variants that have killed more people, including in west africa. this one comes now with a completely new challenge. because at least in west africa, eventually, they found the vaccine. but for the sudan virus, the sudan ebola virus, scientists are still looking for that

solution. it is a very strange strain still giving scientists headaches. hopefully the trials will be successful. nicole: dw is covering gender-based violence. according to the united nations, every hour, five women are killed by members of their own families. today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. the u.n., launching 16 days of activism aimed at raising awareness of what it says are alarming rates of fama side -- femicide, that is when women or girls are murdered simply because they are women or girls. 45,000 women were killed by family members last year alone. the highest number was in asian countries, followed by africa. but it is a threat facing women around the world. here in germany, around one in every seven women experience rape or sexual assault in their lifetimes. few instances are reported because victims fear they will

not get adequate help from the police. and if cases do come to court, only a fraction end in a conviction. a new schema germany has a way to address that, to help reinforce cases against perpetrators of sexual violence. reporter: and happens every day. sexual assault, reports of your injuries caused by gender-based violence. almost 10,000 cases were reported by german police last year. but many cases likely go unreported, because the perpetrator is often a partner or x partner and the scene of the crime is often their home. >> for example something of this nature occurs in a family, domestic or sexual violence, then people are afraid of destroying social structures, of disturbing the family peace. if it is reported, that can cause huge problems within a family or with an existing

social circles. so people say, i will just leave it. reporter: evidence of a sexual assault such as sperm, dna on clothing, or injuries must be secured a soonest possible, that happens automatically when there's a police report. but survivors of rape often want to forget what happens and that can mean destroying all traces of the perpetrator. in the eastern german state of brandenburg, as well as in other german states, more and more hospitals have been taking a different approach for several years now without involving the police. those affected can have themselves examined confidentially and anonymously by a gynecologist or urologist. hospitals have forensic medical tools to secure evidence, including clothing, dna, or photographs. that evidence is kept on file for 10 years. at the same time, the women are

offered immediate medical assistance, and are put in touch with victim counseling centers. >> the system is useful, in cases of re-traumatization. when the whole thing happens again. the first time and even the second time it happens, i may not have wanted to report it, but maybe the third time, i do want to. then it is possible to access old cases so to speak in the current context. reporter: fewer cases of rape in germany are reported than in other european countries. perpetrators often get off scott free. the project wants that to change. even if survivors only have the courage to go to the police much later. nicole: short while ago i spoke to the cofounder of a group of voluntary researchers in berlin looking into femicides. i asked her about the difficulty

of collecting data when gender-based killings are so heavily underreported. >> thank you for having us here. we are not only based on germany, we are an online project. so many of us are abroad, but other members are also in berlin. the problem is there is no data and it is not reported, on fe micide. therefore we collect data from newspapers, our main source of information. we get to these cases through google alerts and we present the cases that we get everyday to the schools. nicole: how many kids have you been able to document so far? >> this year so far, we have collected 181. but we have to clarify that

we register all killings of women and femicide. it is not only about femicides, but so far we have rick 101 125. -- we have recorded 125. and not only intimate femina side -- femicide cases. nicole: and that would be of the hands -- at the hands of a partner or former partner. >> yes, usually intimate femicide is defined as a couple that has a sort of relationship. nicole: this is a tremendously important task you are carrying out. shouldn't the government be doing this? >> yes, but it's likely to have happened in many other countrs, because the government first of all does not recognize the problem. it is a work of activists or civil societies to perform this

work. it is us the ones that are suffering in the one set want to find solution -- the ones that wanto find a solution. it should definily be the state. but when the state does not even recognize a situation as a problem, as is the case wi germany for many years, and has not recognized it at all, that is the first problem that we are challenging. nicole: to what extent is this an issue of framing? you say it's not really recognized as a problem. in germany for instance, domestic femicides are treated as a private matter rather than a broader societal issue. >> yes. there's importance of framing this crime as such. for instance, the german government has not collected data on femicides.

since it is not a criminal category in germany, therefore they don't have the power to record numbers, then also because of the convention, ey also kind of do not register these cases, which from our perspective, is not even an argument. and the other one is like framing domestic related killings, but i will call it intimate femicide. it is also a problem bause it erases the structural problem. from the individual but also from the society, when we as a society accept this problem or justify the problem, say like, ok, this woman was in a relationship with this person, or this woman accepted the

violence in the first place, it is her fault, then this is the societal aspect researchers are speaking about. nicole: thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. nicole: back to the world cup, where the second round of matches has begun. the netherlands went up against ecuador with both teams coming off a win in their opening matches. the dutch opened the scoring the sixth minute, with a strong strike from the distance. putting the team on course to be the first to qualify for the knockout stage. ecuador approved they had come to play. in their second half, their captain scored for a final score of 1-1. that means qatar are out after only two games, the first time this has ever happened to the world cup host nation. i spoke to our correspondent in doha and asked her how big

humiliation this was. -- a accumulation this was. reporter: this is utter humiliation, it is an absolute disaster. the first host nation to lose multiple group stage games. they are only the second to go out in the group stage. so for them, it is a total, total disappointment. after all the time they had to prepare and all the money that they spent on this tournament, for them to go out in the group stage has been a shock to everyone. in their first game, they did not look convincing. they looked unorganized and did not look sharp. also on the first half, they looked that way. they did pick it up in the second half, they showed that they could play, but ultimately it was too little too late. because in a tournament like the world cup you have to perform right from the very beginning. some qatari fans we spoke to were so disappointed after the match, they thought at least your team would make it out of the group stage. nicole: we have seen a lot of

empty seats in the arena so far. can you tell us a little bit about the atmosphere in the stadiums? compared to other competitions you have been to. >> yes, there is a lot of talk about attendance in the stadiums. some games, we have seen that there have been some empty seats. some people are saying fifa might be exaggerating the numbers a little bit. but the empty seats, for a number of reasons, fans who have bought tickets might not be here, also there are a lot of empty seats in the lower part of the stadium, which is where often times it is the most expensive tickets or sponsors or special guests might not be showing up. here on the ground and doha -- in doha, there's been a lot of disasters, like line-ups, some technical failures, so people were not able together tickets. ultimately, the atmosphere has been nothing but amazing. nicole: we don't have much time

but i do want to ask you about iran who got a big 2-0 win over wales. but the on page was rather secondary, wasn't it? >> it definitely was. the iranian national team finds itself in a very difficult position right now, because all the unrest happening in the country, and they also find themselves on the world stage. but ultimately they did win the game and find themselves in a good position moving forward in the tournament despite everything. nicole: thanks. iran's football team refusal to sing the national anthem was bigger news underscore. now they are singing again after what appears to be pressure from the government. just one side of the huge risk iranian people are taking to show their dissent at a world cup, overshadowed by human rights issues. reporter: these iranian fans in

the stadium wanted to seize the opportunity and draw attention to the bloody crackdown on protests happening in their home country. but there message, women, life, freedom, was not messaged by fifa and qatar and removed. ordered to hide the symbol of the republic. the team's decision to sing the national anthem, albeit reluctantly, a sign of the immense pressure of the humiliation, painful to watch for many in attendance. for others, it is a symbol of giving into a regime that they do not approve of, especially since it comes just a day after their former teammate was arrested in iran after a training session. he as of cordish origin and has repeatedly criticized the oppression of women and minorities in th islamic republic.

he is charged against spreading propaganda against the state. that makes him one of the more than 15,000 people authorities in iran have arrested since the protests began in september. more than 300 iranians have been killed, according to human rights groups. and everyday security forces attacked protesters all over the country. it has created a rift through iranian society that's also and display in qatar. outside the stadium, supporters of the islamic republic try to silence antigovernment protesters and hide their messages. turning the match itself into a sexual -- into a sideshow. the iranian team managed to defeat wales on the pitch and yet disappointed many of their fans for not standing by them. nicole: even if you are afraid of creepy crawlies, these ones might to let you. a new exhibition in france has put illuminated and sex cultures

on display to highlight the importance of bugs -- insect sculptures on display to highlight the importance of bugs in our ecosystem. reporter: 50 feet wrapped around leaves. brightly colored beetles in the honeybee. welcoming people to their world. >> it is colorful. it is joyful. we see yellow, orange, these superb colors. it shows us that we live in a wonderful world. reporter: the exhibition not only aims to show the remarkable beauty of these tiny creatures, it also highlights the important role they play in our environment. >> the whole system of life on earth is based on this microscopic biodiversity, which we often ignore and which is essential to us. so if visitors can be made aware of that, if they come out of this exhibition with this idea, we will have achieved something. reporter: scientists say around

half a million insect species are at risk of extinction. cutting the use of pesticides and increasing the number of green spaces are some measures that could help save them. nicole: here's a quick reminder of our top story today. officials in kherson say at least 15 people have been killed in missile strikes, the attacks are the worst in the region since it was retaken two weeks ago by ukrainian troops. stay tuned, after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day." hope to see you then. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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physical and hello and welcome to "life from paris." russia initiates fresh strikes in ukraine in the ty of chris on -- have kherson. israel looks set to see its most right-wing government in history as benjamin netanyahu and his coalition with the far right jewish power party. and a day of dramatic football

at the world cup which saw host qatar crash out of the tournament. we get all the latest from doha. ♪ let's start with the latest in qatar. the annual clash between england and the united states has just wrapped up with neither the three lions nor americans coming out on top. friday also saw three other matches. let's go to doha to talk with simon harding, who is standing by. good to see you. let's begin with the latest result. a nil-nil draw between the u.s. and england. >>'s is not a very entertaining

game of football, let's get that out there, but it was a very slow, labored game, not many chances for either side. probably the best chance of the game fell to the united states. hit the crossbar in the first half. in the second half, more sustained pressure from the u.s., but england able to keep a clean sheet, unlike they did against iran. hurricane did have one opportunity, but very slow buildup, a shadow of themselves compared to the team we saw against iran, which coupled with iran's victory over wales leads this group wide open.

it promises some very juicy final round pictures in the group stages with england against wales in the home country's derby. frazier: let's touch on a run. an upset against wales and even a red card in that game. >> wayne hennessey, the welsh goalkeeper, the first player to be sent off in the world cup here in qatar and that was the catalyst for iran to go on and win the match. they were by far the better side. they really deserved that victory. they put in plenty of attacking play and hit the post twice. whales were really hanging on for most of the match -- wales were really hanging on for most

of the match and were rightfully punished at the end. iran took full advantage of that. it leaves wales in a very precarious position. only a win against england will do. if iran the the united states of america, they will already guarantee qualification to the knockout round, so that is a little bit of a scenario, certainly disappointing for the welsh who traveled en masse here to support their team. frazier: try to get some rest, will you? we will speak to you soon. in other news, russia may no longer occupy the southern ukrainian city of kherson, but their presence is still being felt by residents. volleys of missiles have pummeled the city, killing at least 15 people. the latest strikes, as ukraine as a whole struggles to get it's lights back on following recent

explosions that caused over half of the country to be plunged into darkness and cold. >> in southern central ukraine where i am now, they have no street lighting. they are trying to save on electricity. it is not clear, actually, if there is electricity available and they are just trying to save on it or if it is still off as it has been since this recent wave of strikes, but the mood despite all of this is certainly very much one of defiance, anger at the russians, and i think even less willingness to engage in negotiate -- in negotiations with the kremlin, which is what the kremlin says it wts. behind me, people walking around with torchlight on verifone so

they can see where they're going. you can see people with lights strapped to their heads as well. my local gym in kyiv had decided to close down, but now they are saying they will stay open for people who bring their o lights. they have seen no increase in people leaving ukraine at the moment, but it is, of course, very different depending on your circumstances. if you are reasonably young and fit, it is probably ok. the big question everyone is asking at the moment is if authorities will be able to put their heating on again.

many cities across ukraine, there are large numbers of dwellings which are without heating. it has been out more than 48 hours. temperatures are dropping rapidly. frazier: today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. only one woman presses charges after being raped, and for those that do, conviction rates remain extremely low. france 24 went to meet a woman who fought for six years only to see her alleged attacker walk free. next she was raped one night in october 2016. as she was walking home from work, a cabdriver offered to give her a ride, telling her how unsafe it can be for a young woman in the street at night. at the time, she was only 19 years old. she felt vulnerable. he seemed nice. she got into the car and her life changed forever.

>> he was a cabdriver. it was late at night. i should not have gotten in. i was young and i should've known better. all this time i was saying to myself, i should have seen it coming. i thought nobody would believe me, and that's a feeling that stays with you the most. >> 94,000 rapes or attempted rapes are recorded each year in france, but only one in 10 women press charges. she was in a state of shock for three days before she decided to go to the police. >> here we are in front of the police station where i was finally able to press charges. i had to go to three different stations that day. in the first one, they literally pushed me out. when i could press charges, nothing happened. >> yet, the attacker was known to police. he had already been sentenced to

a year in prison for sexual assault. when her rapist attacked another victim 10 days later, the prosecutor finally opened an inquiry. six years later, he was sentenced to a four-year suspended prison sentence and two years of so-called alternative detention, such as eleconic tagging, meaning he was free to walk out of court that day. >> with this 4-year suspended prison sentence and two years of alternate detention, we felt like the court had purposely decided that this man would not spend one day in prison. because he's got a job, he's an entrepreneur. because placing him in detention would have delayed his psychiatric treatments he had started years before. >> the most recent studies show that in france, only six out of 1000 attackers are found guilty.

now 25, she continues to fight for justice and is hoping for a different outcome for a second trial which will not take place before 2020 four. frazier: benjamin netanyahu has signed on his first coalition partner with the far right jewish power party. the ultranationalist politician's record includes anti-international sentiment. he has been named national security minister. >> he went down this route, tacking to the far right because he got a majority over the far right and because members of the more liberal center of israeli politics have said they will not sit with him. part of the reason is because he is facing those corruption charges. many analysts say part of the

reason he has gone down this far right path is that they will agree with him to alter the legal system here enough to halt without trial while he is in office. he would not have got that from the centrist parties. he has gone down this path for personal as well as political reasons. frazier: france and germany are looking to reset relations after months of strength between the two countries. energy issues caused a rift between the two countries, but the leaders of the countries have agreed on energy solidarity. >> france and germany are reinforcing their cooperation with regard to energy as good, supportive neighbors.

starting now, we are putting electricity at france's disposal , and we are benefiting from the cooperation with reliable european partners including france. it is this solidarity we have just reinforced with this joint declaration. friends support each other in times of crisis. in germany and france, a reflection of european solidarity. >> for the second day in a row, china has recorded its highest tingled a covid-19 infection rates, sparking concerns of tougher measures. >> nearly three years since the first covid-19 case was reported in wuhan, china is hitting new highs with more than 32,000 cases recorded on thursday alone. of those, 1800 60 are in the capital, most asymptomatic, but

the government stands firm on its policy. >> we must adhere to the principle of people first and life first. the general strategy of curbing imported cases and domestic resurgence is and the general policy of zero covid. >> presidents of eight districts have been ordered out of the area and rumors abound of lockdowns in certain districts of beijing, and the people fear the knock on effects of never-ending lockdowns could get even worse. >> we just hope it will get better. otherwise, don't toil with people's lives. people are hardly living right now. >> urging the chinese government to change their approach, the french embassy reposted a statement calling on china to relax some of the zero covid measures.

comments on social media showed popular support for the message. comments such as "you are right" and "go team france in the world cup." the situation on the ground shows little sign of this. frazier: this year's black friday looking a little different. >> i wonder if you remember seeing the sea of shoppers, a sea of crowds storming the store in new york and just grabbing what they can get their hands on . the times have changed. shoppers were expected to turn out in record numbers in the united states with an estimated 166 million people planning to shop during the period. almost 8 million more than last year according to the national retail federation, but many retailers started sales earlier this year. it has been a black friday week

rather than a single-day event. also, many people are now going on a shopping spree online threw two cyber monday. >> i'm shocked. i remember years ago, it would be packed. when i was a kid, my parents would go out at 5:00 in the morning and it would be packed. now it is so quiet. >> i thi more people are buying things online because you can get it online. you come into the store and they don't have it. online, you know right away if they have it or not. >> there has also been criticism that the annual shopping bonanza is pushing for overconsumption. greenpeace protested against the heavily marketed event to raise awareness about the impact on the environment. hundreds of tons of unsold or wasted clothes are sent to chile each year where they are often dumped into e desert.

>> pes of rubbh as far a theye can see. a graveyard of discarded clothes and shoes. charlotte's desert has become a dumping -- chile's a dumping ground has become a dumping ground. in 2021, over 39,000 tons was dumped in the desert full of chemicals. the clothing take hundreds of years toecompose, and it is threatening the desert's fragile ecosystem. >> here you have many tons of clothes which are dangerous. and environmental risk, a danger to people's health. >> it has long been decried by environmentalists for its effect on the climate. the fashion industry consumes around 93 billion cubic meters of water every year and more than $500 billion is lost from

lack of recycling every year. for locals, not enough is being done to combat the problem. >> we feel abandoned i insist it is the unscrupulous pele of the rld who come to leave their rubbish here. >> the eu release and law requiring phones, front -- clothes, furniture, and smartphones sold in europe to be longer-lasting and easier to repair, but for many, it is a case of too little too late. >> amazon workers and others around the country used this black friday to press for higher wages and better working conditions. the retail giant is accused of exploding both the environment and its employees. some have walked out of their jobs. strikes took place 10 out of 20 amazon locations in germany.

the company has said there will be no impact on customers. meanwhile, many families are struggling to buy even basic necessities with rising costs of food and energy. here in france, the national food bank association has kicked off its annual collection campaign at supermarket to help the most needy prepare for harsh winter days. over the weekend, shoppers are encouraged to add some extra items to their shopping baskets. the association says the volume of unsold items donated by supermarkets has declined as more and more people are buying discounted foods that are near their sell by dates. frazier: thank you. it is time now for truth or fake, our daily fact checking segment. you have been looking at a video that has been circulating online

claiming that drunken ukrainian football fans work detained in know-how, but what is true and what is fake? -- drunken ukrainian football fans were detained in doha, but what is true and what is fake? >> what is interesting, as you said, about this video is that it has been edited in the style of al jazeera's very well-known social media videos. here's one of many examples i found online. on the internet, we can see this video has 182,000 views or more. there are quite serious. this is the viral video circulating on the internet. what we can see here is that in the video, it claims to be from

al jazeera. they are claiming drunken ukrainian men have an defacing fifa world cup property. what is more interesting is that this video cannot be found on any of al jazeera's online presence, not on their official website noah -- north -- nor any of their other social media sites. if we do side by side, this is a video to the slightly ambitious technical project here, but this is a video on the right published by al jazeera in the last week from thi rivera five twitter channel. this obviously is our viral

video. i'm trying to synchronize it at the same time, but if you look at them at the same time, we can see that this video is very professionally done, the viral one. the font, the style is similar to what we see on al jazeera's official social media channels. it is high-quality, similar in editing style, it has the signature orange keywords and at the end, it even links back to the al jazeera site, but there are a few errors, and this is a good place to stop, actually. what we can see here is that there is a spelling mistake in the viral video. this is the name of the stadium in qatar, but it has been misspelled. the actual name of the stadium is spelt with an a and i y. another era, the name of the mascot.

of course, this is highly unlikely that this was made by al jazeera when we see errors like this. al jazeera being a doha-based broadcast media and also state funded by qatar, it is highly unlikely that they would make such great errors like this in their own content. if you remember, we saw this video of the fans at the beginning of that video there. by doing a reverse image search, i found it here on this russian media site published on february 4, even before the invention -- even before the russian invasion of ukraine. i've also found further verification from a belgian journalist and fact checker who has gone on to do even more

verification here. this is a freeze-frame from the viral video in question. if we see here, we can see the same markers. what this does is it verifies that the footage from the viral video is indeed recent footage from the world cup, but another thing we have to highlight is that a lot of these footage -- this generic file footage gets sent to several media outlets at once. that is not really tell us anything. that also is highly suspicious. we've also got the image of the official fifa mascot for 2022, the vandalized mascot showing the graffiti, the hit look -- the hitler mustache, and the slogan. the viral video said it was over 10 posters defaced, but only one

video, so that does raise a few eyebrows. i found the same video published by a pro-russian account. this one was massive with nearly 400,000 views. again, calling out the nazism by ukrainians at the world cup. as we know, the russian invasion of ukraine has been dubbed as a denazification mission by the kremlin. while we do not know who edited this video or where it was sourced, i don't think it is too much of a stretch to think there might be some links there, especially as in the last year since the russian invasion of ukraine, we have seen a surge in russian propaganda denouncing ukraine and lots of fake news. the last thing we can do to prove this video is fabricated is al jazeera has denounced it themselves. this is a tweet from their pr team that they published just yesterday and here they said the video in question is completely

fake and that al jazeera has never published any news related to this story. frazier: just goes to show once again you need to really pay attention to what you are sharing online. thank you so much. stay tuned. we will be right back with a recap of today's headlines. this is france 24. ♪ >> france 24 -- your economy explained. liberte, egalite, actualite. ♪

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