♪ anchor: commiseration's and celebrations as the french team touched down in paris after yesterday's world cup final defeat to argentina. also in this program, drone strikes target kyiv for the third time in a week, hitting key infrastructure as intense fighting continues in the east. and will he stay or go? a twitter poll set up by elon musk himself concludes the ceo should step down, but it remains

unclear if he intends to abide by the results. thank you for joining us on france 24. in the end, france are not the champions of the world, although they did come pretty close after an extra ordinary final in doha. they were beaten on penalties by argentina and now they are back home. a short while ago they touched down in paris, and as you can see, they have been celebrating with fans in the center of paris. watching those images with me was a football expert who is with me now. it looked pretty busy and quite a good atmosphere even though they did not quite window. >> that was the main question, how many people will go there despite the flip-flops in organization today? finally when we look at the pictures, it was a huge crowd at

place de la concorde. it is very cold in paris. a great tournament, but a bad final, and they know they have to enjoy those moments. the head coach as well. it is good for them to see the support of the crowd and the support of so many people, millions of people who watch the game yesterday night on television, huge support despite the controversies surrounding the world cup in qatar. anchor: you were in central

paris when france did win the world cup. what is your sense as to what is different this time apart from the weather? >> it is kind of catch up. if you remember 2018, they made the parade through the champs-élysées avenue in paris, but they went so quickly that they had to wait for them. it was better tonight to see them on the balcony in paris. even if there was no traffic for france, way better than 2018 because we expected a lot and we compared at that time with 1998 when they had to wait for hours for the parade.

they had an appointment with emmanuel macron right after in the palace. so maybe it was better to have the simple way to celebrate with players and supporters in the same place. anchor: thank you for your analysis and for staying with us at the last couple of hours. let's bring you other news on the program. russian drone strikes have hit key of the and around kyiv this monday, the third strike they have hit the capitalist that hit the capital this week. -- have hit the capital this week. they are targeting key infrastructure. reporter: another scene of devastation monday morning in this village near kyiv. this elderly couples home struck, their garage burned out and they had a narrow escape. >> there was allowed whirring,

and then there was a loud explosion and we did not how it would end for us. we could not see anything through the window facing that side of the street. i went to the other window and i saw fire. the entire area was lit up by the fire. reporter: all-night, air raid sirens rang out in the vicinity of kyiv, once again hit by russian strikes for the third time in a week. energy installations again the target. one employee of an energy company said she heard explosions as she went to work. >> i am really anxious because you never know at which moment there will be incoming fire. when the alert goes on, you need to leave the office. reporter: the strikes because water and power cuts in 10 regions around the country. millions of ukrainians have been plunged into cold and darkness since attacks on friday. ukraine's president says the

drones are arabian made. >> tonight, 34 iranian drones again attacked ukraine. these are from a new batch that russia received from iran. 250 units, that i how many drones the terrorist state has now received. reporter: flood him or zelenskyy have as western countries to step up arms supplies to ukraine as his intelligence services say they fear an attack on kyiv in early 2023. anchor: in eastern ukraine, there is some of the most intense fighting. i spoke to a reporter that is there a short while ago. reporter: it is being pummeled with artillery and is a bad state, over 90% of the population has fled. there are still people in the

city and still children. today with my colleague, we visited one of the humanitarian cities in the center of the city. as we arrived, we saw a family arriving, a father and mother, three children, aged seven, two and 13, arriving to get some water, food, i hot drink, to plug in their phones. there was a surprise, one of the volunteers called them up, told them that saint nicholas had passed by and started giving out presents. to give you an idea, this family was telling us they had been in a flat hit by missiles, and they had to put the fire out themselves because it is impossible to call firefighters. they had moved to the basement

of the block opposite. very tough situation. the parents spoke to us and this is what they had to tell us. >> i am being saint nicholas today. it came to me last night, children were asleep and he asked me to deliver the presents. he said, you will see, children will come for sure, so it is my responsibility. saint nicholas left me all of these presents to give out on his behalf. >> we hope everything will return to normal. here we have our whole life -- a home, friends, relatives. many of them are still here. you don't want to leave our hometown. anchor: that's a look at how civilians are marking saint nicholas day today.

james, what is clear is despite the interlude, the fighting around the city is extremely intense. i understand you visited a military hospital. what can you tell us about what you saw? reporter: this afternoon we were in a military hospital and we spoke to the head surgeon of the hospital, who told us that indeed there is a sharp rise in the number of wounded soldiers arriving in the hospital due to the intensified fighting. while we were there, we saw no less than five ambulances, in the course of an hour. unloading badly wounded soldiers. one of them had a tourniquet on his leg. part of the leg was badly damaged. another with damage to his spine. the one with damage to his spine said it is hell. he said it was very messed up and difficult. these soldiers arrive very

damaged and in large numbers. this is just one of the military hospitals taking in the casualties of this intense fight. there is a stabilization point inside the city, and then patients are moved to hospitals in the vicinity of the city. the ones most badly hit are taken elsewhere. it was taking a long time because they were treating patients back to back. anchor: the turbulent twitter going to the top. ceo elon musk created a twitter poll asking users if he should step down as the head of the company. the poll is closed and the results are clear. 57% want him to quit and 42 say he should stay. the big question -- will he abide by the results? earlier today, i asked our

reporter in los angeles. >> his chaotic and erratic behavior means it is onshore. he said he would abide by the poll, but will he truly follow through? i think we are awaiting waiting to hear about that. what was so interesting about this poll, even afterward, someone posted should he take over twitter and their world a lot of vote saying yes. -- and there were a lot of votes saying yes. i want to run down elon musk's behavior. when he stepped in, he immediately laid off more than half of twitter ploys, including executives. there have been frequent policy changes back and forth. we saw that with what happened with the reporters and journalists where he recently suspended 25 accounts that had

tracked planes of high-profile people including himself. there were journalists from the new york times, the washington post and cnn whose accounts were reinstated. the back-and-forth confuses people. i think the bigger thing is twitter is no longer allowing free promotion of social media sites on its network. they've said that accounts that will promote other social media platforms such as facebook and truth social, instagram, mastodon, those accounts will be suspended. a lot of different ups and downs ever since he has taken over. anchor: lots of confusion. one thing does appear to be clear, twitter users are leaving the platform. >> yes. i think what happens is when you live in a situation where it is

a democratic situation, freedom of speech, and -- let me just go back to october, ever since he was brought on as the ceo, the chaos started at thapoint. i think these platforms are made for people to engage, have communication and freedom of speech. with people feeling a loss of that, they do not want to be on this platform or they can no longer engage freely. we know facebook has been around, instagram, but you are getting platforms like mastodon, and other ones. yes, people are leaving, i think people are waiting to see what happens, because twitter was a social media -- a great social media platform, people could engage in conversation and connect. it will be interesting to see. according to business analysts as well, ever since elon musk has taken over twitter, they've seen a decline in value at tesla.

that is something to show for it. also according to n business, a number of brands that were advertising on the platform have halted. some analysts are estimating that could result in a $4 billion loss. this poll is going to be very important and now we wait to see what happens with elon musk and really is he going to step down, and who will be the next person who can lead twitter? i think it's not aut having twitter but who can keep the platform alive? anchor: our report from los angeles. that is your news wrap. thank you for watching and stay with us on france 24. ♪ ♪ >> the constant rumble of

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