>> it is 10:00 p.m. here in paris. you are watching france 24. these are your headlines -- moscow blames ukraine for an alleged assassination attempt on vladimir putin's life coming after two drums were shot out of the sky. the head of the united nations calls for peace in sudan is the country's army agrees to extend the current troops by seven days. -- the current truce by seven days. and shaking hands on a new economic partnership as raisi becomes the first head of state

to visit syria from iran since 2011. thanks for joining us. we are live from paris. pressure wednesday claimed to have shot down two drums hovering over the kremlin -- russia wednesday claimed to have shot down two drums hovering over the kremlin. moscow declared the incident, alleging president vladimir putin's residence was the target and said it reserved the right to respond in any way it deemed necessary. the united states says to take the report with a huge shaker of salt. >> in the middle of the night in the sky above the kremlin, an object flies and explodes up of senate dome. here it is again in slow motion.

it is reportedly the first of two drones 16 minutes apart, which moscow says was disabled by its electronic defenses. >> ukraine is responsible, claims state media. >> kyiv attempt to carry out a strike on the kremlin, which we describe as a planned terrorist act and assassination attempt on the president. russia reserves the right to take retaliatory measures. >> president putin said to have been away at the time. no one was were delete injured. >> since the start of russia's invasion of ukraine, kyiv has really offered any target for drone attacks. >> i can repeat this message, and i think it will be understandable for everybody. we don't attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory.

>> the kremlin claims the timing was also deliberate, designed to escalate events and cause panic on rehearsal week for the annual victory day parade in red square and said next week's event will still go ahead. western analysts are dubious. analysts point to moscow's history of false flag events. >> i have seen the reports. i cannot in any way validate them. we simply don't know. second, i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. >> the incident comes at a time when russian strikes on ukraine have increased. ukraine prepares a major counteroffensive to reclaim lost territory. >> all the while, the civilian death toll from russian strikes in ukraine mounds. a new barrage of missiles killed 21 people and wounded dozens more in the region of kherson.

president zelenskyy punished -- published images of the attack, showing the destruction caused at various sites. cap authorities have announced a new curfew -- kyiv authorities have announced a new curfew on kherson, which was under russian authority up until november of last year. the european union has announced fresh plans to boost production of ammunition to better meet ukraine's needs and also to blue -- to improve the bloc's international standing. ukraine is burning through ammunition. here's what the eu's internal market commissioner had to say. >> the asap proposal aims to secure our european defense industry to meet ukraine's needs. but also in the longer term, to

meet the new security challenges in europe. as we can clearly see, member states are committed to increasing their defense. >> for more, our brussels correspondent gave us this update a little earlier. >> this proposed regulation has been called asap, which is kind of ironically named because it has been anything but asap. this is a problem that has been known about for a while. the original thrust was focused on artillery, tanks, jets, this kind of thing, but now they are noticing a problem with ammunition. western allies are not producing ammunition fast enough to replace the ammunition that ukraine is using, and they are leaving themselves vulnerable at home. this is something the nato secretary-general has been warning about for a while. this regulation is supposed to get over the hurdle in two ways.

we heard from the eu commission are just now that he went out and visited the 11 eu countries that have the capacity to make ammunition, and he said the facilities are there. they just need to ramp up production. for that, they need regulatory changes, they need things to be streamlined, and they also need money. this proposal would give 500 million euros to european production facilities to ramp up their ammunition production. that would pick up 50%. it would be tied to other money from national governments and from businesses, so this totals one billion euros, 500 million of which would come from the eu budget, and it also contains measures to speed up production, get over redtape hurdles, particularly for the production of these particular type of shells that are soviet-era shells that ukraine still uses in its equipment. obviously, those shells are not

made in western europe normally. these ammunition places across western europe need to change over to sylvia-era ammunition, and this regulation is supposed to get them able to do that quite quickly. >> the united nations secretary-general has today called for an end to the conflict in sudan, which he called a power struggle between two people. he says that the country cannot afford this kind of destruction, not least because sudan was already in a desperate economic and humanitarian situation before violence corrupted on april 15. meanwhile, the united nations aid chief says humanitarian aid workers and facilities are continuing to be targeted, and the united nations is receiving reports of attacks of sexual violence against aid workers. despite the fact that a new seven-day cease fire is expected to begin tomorrow.

>> smoke billowing from the khartoum skyline as fighting in the city continues. the sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary rapid support forces have agreed to a seven-day cease fire due to begin thursday according to south sudan, which has been acting as a mediator in the conflict. also desperate to find a resolution is the african union. >> our priority today is to ensure that the cease fire is respected and extended. then it will be to ensure humanitarian assistance. >> none of the previous truces have been respected, and currently, neither of the two leaders have commented on the announcement. >> this is not the first to cease fire. it is the fifth or sixth, and the previous ones have not been respected. for the sudanese, it is a stalemate. fighting is taking place around the country's seat of power and

the army's headquarters. >> a nation of over 45 million inhabitants as been struck by chaos since fighting broke out on april 15. the clashes have left over 500 dead and thousands injured. mainly in khartoum and darfur in the west. meanwhile, around 100,000 people have been forced to flee to neighboring countries with little food or water. >> that has been a momentous day in damascus. for the first time since war began in 2011, an iranian head of state has made the visit to syria. president ebrahim raisi met with his counterpart as both leaders lavished each other with praise while denouncing the west and jihadist threats. his visit also comes as iran and regional rival saudi arabia rebuild relations after years of tension, also as arab states have shunned assad, including riyadh.

to help us understand the dynamics of this latest meeting, i'm now joined by the senior policy l over the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations. firstly, what do you understand was discussed in these momentous meetings between both leaders? >> well, a few points, especially from the iranian side , they want to clarify to both syria and the wider region. first of all, the iranian side feels that it has expended a lot of blood and resources over the course of the syrian civil war, and this visit by the president was really to cement the games that iran has made on the battlefield and translate them into peacetime gains, and that really means that iran wants to

ensure that it is part of the beneficiaries when it comes to rebuilding syria. if the two sides can achieve this or not will -- remains to be seen, but the iranian delegation included a number of trade, economic, chamber of commerce personnel, so iran was really signaling that it is here to also win the peace going forward. secondly, i think that there was a strong message being sent to the united states, and those countries in the region that have supported the syrian opposition to say that the resistance axes that includes iran, hezbollah, and assad of syria, have really come out and, let's say, the battlefield winners of the syrian civil war

and that the message really is that this was -- that this resistance axes -- axis is here to stay, but the pushback against u.s. influence in the region but also to bolster their economies in the face of a common u.s. sanctions policy. the final point i think iran is keyed -- keen to make is that despite the opening of the region to president assad, we have seen lots of shuttle diplomacy between particularly arab gulf monarchies, even turkiye in the region, to assad in recent months and over the last iran wants to make sure that syria remains its ally during this conflict, and it will want to seek a resolution going forward even if there will be a regional opening going forward. wicks you, does the timing of all of this makes sense,

especially given the recent, if you can call it peace between saudi arabia and iran? >> i think a visit from an arabian senior official to syria has long been overdue. assad had gone to meet with iran's supreme leader on two occasions at least that we know of in recent years, and the timing does make sense because, as i mentioned, iran wants to be part of syria's future, and this includes this regional thaw that is underway between the arab world and syria, and if these countries in particular are willing to invest in and pay for syria's reconstruction, in my view, iranian companies will be very interested to take part in that as one way to resuscitate

iran's own economy in the face of u.s. sanctions. >> thank you very much indeed. senior policy fellow for the middle east and north africa program at the european council on foreign relations, talking about the visit between iranian and syrian leaders. three days of national mourning are underway in serbia after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed eight fellow pupils and one security guard at his school in belgrade this morning. local authorities say that seven others -- a teacher and six pupils -- were injured in the school shooting. according to police, the attacker carried two guns and two petrol bombs and had planned everything carefully. the shooter has been arrested and has confessed to the incident. the serbian president is being placed in a psychiatric institution. -- the serbian president says

the 13-year-old is being placed in a psychiatric institution. >> parents and students outside the state of the attack in shock. a 13-year-old student entered this school in central belgrade. he had his father's handgun, with which he killed a security guard and shot his teacher, who is now in critical condition. he then started opening fire in a classroom, killing his fellow students. >> i was downstairs in gym class. i could hear the shooting. it went on for ages. there were multiple shots. it was never ending. >> parents rushed to the school with hopes of finding their children alive, even as the gunshots were still ringing out. >> my child survived this. it is hard to imagine. she saw a man falling after being shot. she then saw more shots. she ran away, and she thought

the boy with the gun would run after her. she is still in shock. >she agreed to talk mostly because she is still of adrenaline. >> police say the attack had been planned out for a month, but the motives are still unknown. >> according to the evidence collected so far, the child had been planning this crime for an extended period of time. the motive has not yet been established. he has not told us what he wants. >> mass shootings are rare in serbia, which has in europe. the western balkans are awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990 >> it is time for business now with kate moody. it seems to be a running theme. certainly for the last 10 times,

the u.s. federal reserve raising interest rates yet again. >> yes, widely expected, but it could be the last time for a while. third consecutive .25% move. the federal funds rate is at its highest level since august 2007. it's official statement did remove references to future hikes. inflation has fallen to 5%, still more than double the fed's 2% target, and the bank says it is committed to maximum employment, but the rapid pace of interest rate hikes over the last year has played the role -- played a role in the recent apps of banks in the u.s. and the fed chair has been facing questions about the fed's role in the ongoing turmoil. >> conditions in that sector have broadly improved since early march and the u.s. banking system is sound in the sector.

we are committed to learning the right lessons from this episode and will work to prevent events like i think banks themselves for many banks are -- to prevent events like this from happening in future. i think banks themselves are many banks are taking steps themselves to improve liquidity. >> wall street gave up some earlier modest gains to close below the flat line. perhaps the u.s. had already priced in that hike of 25 basis points. we saw the s&p 500 turned down about .7 percentage points. regional banks turned lower toward the end of the session as well. earlier, major european indices closed slightly higher.

new data shows unemployment in the eurozone fell to a record low 6.5%. the world bank officially has new leadership. the only nominee has been confirmed by the executive board as the 14th president of the world bank group. he replaces david malpass, who stepped down a year before the end of his five-year term. the 63-year-old is a former president and ceo of mastercard. like his predecessors, he is an american citizen who was born in india, naturalized in 2007. he will be tasked with implement and reforms at the world bank and in particular, helping developing countries tackle climate change. the indian budget airline gopher has filed for bankruptcy and canceled all flights for the next three days. the group which owns the carrier says it is not planning to give up quite yet. the bankruptcy filing underscores stiff competition in the aviation sector as

post-flights roars back. >> with travel plans up in the air, passengers vent frustration . they were meant to fly with ultra low-cost airline go first, but the carrier canceled three days of flights after filing for bankruptcy. >> i booked tickets for months ago to save money, and now they have been canceled. >> now i have to pay extra for any >> -- now i have to pay extra for a new ticket on a different airline. >> the airline was forced to ground half its fleet. it's filing also revealed india's third-largest airline owes financial creditors more than 65 billion rupees, 722 million euros. analysts say the bankruptcy may boost air errors and give other

domestic airlines a higher market share. >> we're going to have 8000 people out jobs. that would imply the cost of travel is going to go up so high . >> the collapse of the first indian airline since jet airways in 2019 comes amid years competition in the sector. two domestic carriers are set to merge by march next year. the ceo of go first says the insolvency proceeding -- insolvency proceedings are aimed at correcting the airline, not selling it. >> that is the business for now. it is time now for truth or fake , daily fact checking segment.

we are joined again by catalina. riding robots that will take over the planet in today's segment. tell us more. >> at least that is what some users claim online with this video that was posted on twitter on april 30. it has been viewed over 2.5 mill is fighting robot perform some sophisticated moves. he does a backflip. he throws some punches here or there. this robot that these users claim was created by this company called the boston dynamics group, an american company that specializes in robotics. let's take a look at these tweets that share this video. this user is saying, why is boston dynamics teaching robots how to fight? this other user claims politicians are focusing on crypto regulation. meanwhile, robots and ai are building essential skills to take over the planet.

boston dynamic robots have martial arts and fighting skills. what can go wrong? finally, the video had robots could even replace law enforcement officials. >> i just want to know -- is there any truth to this, or is it all fake? >> contrary to these claims we saw on twitter, this video does not show a real-life fighting robot from boston dynamics. the video was created using visual effects, so how do we know? the first clue, this tiktok user name that led us to the original account that posted this. we could find the original video of this account called boston dynamics. we have the video right here. here's the post that was posted on april 30 on tiktok, and it

has been viewed over 3 million times on this platform. if we compare this robot to an official robot, for example, from the boston dynamics group who does create robots, you can see that they are very similar but not the same. the main difference is the logo hour the branding in the chest of the robot -- the logo or the branding in the chest of the robot. there's one clue. what is more telling, the tiktok handle that we saw that reads bostom dynamics, not boston dynamic confirm -- not boston dynamics. we were able to confirm this is not an official tiktok account, but this fake one does post a

lot of videos that pertain to boston dynamics group. this video, for example, that we also found in the boston dynamics group youtube page. it tiktok account that is not to be confused with the real boston dynamics group. >> botsom dynamics, it is in my head checked on the creator of this video? >> an american digital artist share this video he created using visual effects. we have the post that was posted on tiktok on march 27, 2022. if we take a closer look at the #'s, you can say that does say boston dynamics, that is true, but it also says cgi and vfx. cgi stands for computer-generated image, and

vfx stands for visual effects, confirming that this video was created using visual effects and is not a real robot. this is not the first time that boston dynamics was even victim of it back in 1919, we debunk this video of a robot that allegedly participated in a military training that also went viral. this video was also created using visual effects and was also falsely credited to the boston dynamics group, so no fighting robots or ai takeover, at least not yet. >> "at least not yet." i do remember that video. it was quite frightening. we did debunk it. that is all the news we have for now, but there's more coming up in just a bit.

>> i'm sarah morris, france 24 correspondent in spain and what trickle -- portugal now being challenged by the political and social fallout from pandemic years. >> sarah morris, one of the 200 france 24 correspondence around the world. ♪

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