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>> you are watching live from paris, these are the main headlines. survivors of the russian missile strike has been -- the search for people after the russian missile strike has been called off. people are still missing. karen thornburgh detained by german police, she had been a vocal protester at the village to be demolished to make way for a open coal mine.
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bracing for a massive demonstration calling for the resignation of a president, over 40 people have been killed in the police crackdown over the past five weeks. this is live from paris. ♪ >> thank you for being with us. ukraine says that it has called off searches at the site of a resin missile strike killing at least 44 people. it is set are still unaccounted for. the death toll in some places is but a 45. it is one of theeadliest attacks since russia invaded
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ukraine 11 months ago. the kremlin has denied its forces happened responsibility -- responsible for the deaths. our reporter is in ukraine, and the -- raphael is at ukraine, this includes the largest nuclear reactor in europe. >> power plant in southwestern ukraine, the agency begins a permanent resident in the country. in his six visit, the organization's director struck a positive tone. >> we are leaving now a group of experts who are going to be staying here permanently. to make sure that all of the
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facilities that are so important for the country and especially this can continue running normally and without any problem. >> the team is scheduled to visit nuclear plants across the country. they will leave behind permanent experts to oversee safety, and in chernyl, which has been active since this meltdown. some power stations are under russian control. >> you know the key thing now is that we understand that we will return to th a city, year, our mission is important. >> the situation remains
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precarious at nuclear power plant's, the safety of the sites has been a major concern which has been coming under shelling. it is a difficult target for the agency in their visits to establish a safe zone around the plants. >> a russian man says he is a member of a group that witnessed some killings of mercenaries who questioned orders in ukraine. the man does or july after fighting across the border into norway this week. he says his battalion was made up of russian prison inmates who were forced to fight. he says he fears that he will be killed if he is sent back to russia. >> the man claims he came to norway to seek safety after leaving a paramilitary group. guards arrested andre in the
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early hours of friday morning, he crossed into norway in a village along the border with russia following a dramatic escape that he described in an interview to a russian human rights group. >> i saw people with torches, 150 meters away, running in my direction. i heard two shots, the bullets whizzed by. >> authorities are examining his case. >> we do not grant asylum to war criminals. important assessment and all things must be analyzed carefully. who is he and where is he from? is this information correct? we assess this with anyone who seeks asylum in norway. it is clear that his case will be scrutinized particularly thoroughly. >> he claims he served as a unt
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played a key role in the russian offensive in donbass, he has been heading the push. the man told the rights group that he defected after his contract was extended without his eent and -- consent and witness the execution of soldiers who wanted to leave. he says he will give any information. this is a scene of granting amnesty to russian convicts. >> we have been watching for developments on all fronts. germany's government has named a defense minister in a time of mounting pressure to allow ukraine to use german-made tanks. he has been a minister in lower
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saxony since 2013 and he will work with the armed forces. he is expected to host to the u.s. count report -- counterpart on thursday. that is ahead of an important meeting of defense ministers, european defense ministers, on friday, about the issue of supply of german tank to ukraine. it is expected to be very much discussed. we will bring you more as we get it. the climate activist greater thornburg has been arrested and carried away by german police -- greta thornburg has been arrested and carried away by german police after a protest. this is due to restrictions on imports of oil and gas from my because of ukraine, berlin has also shut down its nuclear park.
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>> chance of encouragement -- cnhants of encouragement after she is carried away by police. this is a protest at a town that has been demolished to make room for a coal mine. she posed for photos and a police bus. the swedish campaigner along with other protesters had gathered at the mine which got his name from the first village that was destroyed to make way for it. police intervened after a group had rushed towards the ledge of the mine and that one person had jumped in. the village had been deserted and it has been at the center of a fierce debate about the use of coal. greta thornburg has been open about her criticisms
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about the german government. >> they are making deals with coal and field companies, it shows their priorities, it is not people, it is profit! >> they said she was not formally arrested and was briefly kept. has been removed from protests since last week -- it is the second time that she has been removed from protests since last week. >> greta thornburg was arrested by the police. here in france, the president of the football federation has been placed under investigation for alleged sexual and psychological harassment. the case open up a football agent made accusations against him that has shaken french football. he denies wrongdoing.
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>> under investigation for sexual and moral harassment, the president of the french football federation is at a center of a scandal that is shaking french football. the probe was open on monday after a football agent told french media that he had tried to approach her from 2013 through 2017. >> he told me face to face in his apartment that if i wanted him to helpmate, i had to let him have his way with me. >> the comments were made during professional meetings, he denies the accusations. the 81-year-old has been president since 2011 and was forced to step aside last week pending the outcome of the audit of the federation by france's sport ministry. it was ordered after the fff what file a defamation lawsuit that supported that the woman said he had made
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similar comments to other female employees. >> he is facing a legal case. we will be following that case closely for you here. let us turn to the situation in peru, calling for the resignation of the police, most of the protesters are from indigenous communities who prefer the ousted leader. police and military crackdowns on the protests over the past five weeks, this is the sixth president in the past five years. a political analyst is in lima for us, thank you for being with us. i am wondering from your perspective, what is the big develoent today on the situation including the masses of people coming into lima? i am wondering if there are any developments on the political front? >> you have very big
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demonstrations in areas of peru. you have a mart that is called -- march that is going to lima to try to convince the establishment for had the resignation -- for the resignation of the president. they do not seem tidentify with the president. they consider her to have betrayed their promise with the alliance with a political right. >> we have had five weeks of demonstrations, a military crackdown what is attracting the
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attention of the international community. none of this is good for peru's image. >> we had six presidents in six years, our parliament had a closure in the last four years. it is a mess. we have no political leaders that convince the other ones, the other party to become parties. if we are going to a general election, it is supposed to go through 2024, it will be the last one, we have a big crisis without political leaders and with a strong resentment. >> went to the indigenous populations of peru -- what do they want? what do they say is happening to them? why are they so angry? >> they have a deep agenda in
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this moment, most of them want the resignation from the president, they want as well the closure of the congress that is in this moment legally impossible. they want another general or a new constituent to write. a new constitution. their communities want more representation for their agenda. >> can you be more precise? is it a lack of investment? >> there is a lack of public services provided, you have inequalities in wealth
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distribution and a very big discussion in terms of who are the property of the mining resources and our resources. you have that kind of agenda that is being like forgotten in the last 20 years. >> in fact, the argument of getting rid of the president and being in favor of the former president is defining broader issues behind that story? >> yes. you are having in 2011 they voted for an individual who changed a lot of things but they did not change all of the things they wanted. in 2016, they changed things and they wanted again in 2020 14
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another individual with promises to change a lot of things but many of them thanks especially in their economic chapter because it has not changed at all. >> that is an analyst joining us live from lima. lamb is where thousands of people are gathering for the biggest -- lima is where thousands of people are gathering for the biggest protests that have bogged down peru. 40 people, mainly all protesters, killed so far in these demonstrations. thank you, once again. the oldest known person has died at the age of 118. she was known as a sister andre, she was born when old world war -- world war ias still far
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away. she once said that what kills you helped me live. she lived until she was 108. she has died at the age of 118. that is something, is not it? brian quinn starting with a massive clean tech subsidy plan. you commissioned the ambitions of the world economic forum on tuesday. >> at the green deal industrial plan is not only keeping the block in a vanguard of a greener future but also guaranteeing its economic survival in the face of challenges from china and the united states. james has the details. >> a small window to become
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leaders in the cleantech industry. speaking at the dav halls world economic forum the european commission president outlined her plan to streamline ssidies for green industries. >> our plan is to make sure that the home of cleantech and industrial innovatn under both to net zero, we europeans also need to get better at nurturing our own clean tech industry. >> the international agency says clean energy technology will be worth around $650 billion per year by 2030. more than three times today's level. drops in the sectors are forecast to more than doubled to nearly $14 million. the eu would protect its cleantech and it will be much more forceful in countering unfair trade practices. >> we see aggressive attempts to attract our industrial
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capacities away to chinand elsewhere. we have had a compelling need to make this note zero transition without creating new dependencies. >> as the eu tries to wean us of all of russian fossil fuel imports it is aimed to avoid relying too heavily on china, the materials critical for battery storage or hydrogen and wind energy. the block is also where united states inflation reduction act, climate subsidy package with a whopping $270 billion which could lower key players away from it. >> kate is covering the world economic forum for us all week, she spoke with the eu commission president on tuesday about european energy security in the midst of russia's or on ukraine. >> it was hard work last year to
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push back on the russian black male, but we managed it -- blackmail, but we managed it. at the beginning of russia's where we were heavily dependent on russian fossil fuels, we got rid of russian fuels and oil and roger has sent 80% of its oil to the european union. i got our act together and we diversified our way to trust the united states we reduced and save energy and reduce our land demand and we filled our storages and invested heavily in renewable energy and doubled the deployment of renewable energy and we see that at this time of the winter, our storage is filled for the highest level ever and the price for gas has gone down by more than 80% since
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last summer. we are not out of the woods, of course, the relatively warm winter helps, but we are in a much better position than we thought months ago. he has a look into the year 2023 and we have to attract a lot of energy and invest in renewables, but we are on a good track. >> more courtroom drama for elon musk, country selection got under way as he faces a 2018 tweet, he claimed he had secured the financing to take the electric car maker private for $420 per share. tesla shares rallied on that week before falling back when the deal failed to materialize and investors are suing must over losses they incurred in the price swing -- elon musk over losses they incurred in the price swing. the billionaire had attempted trial's venue moved from san
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francisco to texas are going the controversy over his recent acquisition of twitter which he did manage to take private would make finding an impartial jury impossible in the tech city. more controversy for elon musk. it would almost say it is not about twitter this time but at least it is a little bit about twitter. >> the man thrives on controversy? all of the business, great to see you. time for some truth and faking, good evening to you. analyzing video circulating online following the fatal air crash in nepal which killed at least 71 people on board that fateful flight. tell us more. >> following the deadliest lane crash in more than 30 years, we have three videos to show, two are out of context and one that
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does belong to the crash. a little warning to all of our viewers, every image that we show has shocking images, let us start with the fake post right here claiming the most horrible of you, #nepal -- horrible view, #nepalplanecrash. this is allegedly belonging to the plane crash from tuesday, another one saying it is a plane crash with a video of 500,000 views. let us take a look at this video right here of this alleged lien crashed that took place in nepal. there is the shocking image of this line that completely collapses into the ground. this video that users claimed belonged to nepal actually belongs to the moment when a u.s. cargo plane crashed on its ascent from a background air
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base in afghanistan in may 2013. nothing to do with the plane crash in nepal. this is sunday and we can see this other tweet right here claiming to be long to the nepal plane crash, crazy how it is hard to survive this with over 500 67,000 -- 567,000 views. more shocking images of a plane crash they did take place, we will fast-forward the images where we see the plane catching fire oin air and crashing into the ground, the original video of the plane crash right here is on the russian equivalent to facebook. it actually crashed in the moscow region of august of 2021. right here there are two videos out of context that have nothing
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to do with the nepal crash which quite normal unfortunately in a disastrous situation where they are breaking news. >> what is wrong with people that they would post things like this? claiming it to be some kind of thing that it clearly is not? you mentioned the real video relating to this crash, what do we know about it? >> we have a shocking facebook live video that a passenger filmed on board the airline flight in nepal and he published this video moments before this plane crash, the video started going viral on sunday evening and since the content is sensitive we will only show a screenshot of this video. here is the sequence of events, let us start right here, this is the passenger filming in the plane, unaware of what is going to happen. he films the area outside of his
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airplane window as the flight to sense. -- decends. you can see in the video there is an abrupt turbulence as the camera loses focus on this video and then the sina reps into fire as the plane crashes to the ground. shoc-- and then the plane catches fire and crashes to the ground. posts like this with this video right here, these images are real. >> how are you able to confirm that the livestream actually was made by the passenger who was on the flight? >> we were able to confirm that the video does belong to a passenger on board the fatal flight with help from our fact-check and colleagues at nepal fact-check.org, the video
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was firstly aired by indian media here, called the first india who published the facebook livestream that was published from the facebook page right here, the livestream. this livestream does belong to this passenger right here, of indian nationality, who is listed as a passenger on the flight manifest of this airline flight. you can see him right here, we were able to confirm his identity. by the logo that we see on the video out, that is the same logo that they use for the airlines and family members also confirmed that he was on board the flight and that he did post this life facebook stream on his facebook page. -- live facebook stream on his facebook page. he was on board the plane that
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crashed in nepal this sunday. >> factual news sources being used confirm a very sad story indeed. do very much indeed. -- thank you very much indeed. stay with us, more to come, live from paris. ♪ >> 200 years ago a unique country was born, liberia, it was founded to welcome emancipated american slaves, dream the rapidly turned into a nightmare. what's when they came to this place, they used guns to subdue the native people to get the land. >> civil, corruption, and massacres. >> it i the result of meddling in war and social inequities that created conditions for war.
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