>> welcome to "live from paris," world news and analysis from france 24. goodbye to simply the best. tributes to tina turner who has died at the age of 83. she rose to fame in the 1960's, survived an abusive marriage and went on to become a symbol for strong and independent women. we will be paying tribute to tina turner in this program. the anti-putin brigade say they plan more attacks.

far from deterred by moscow's tough response, they say they are poised for another swoop. ron desantis expected to officially announce his intention to run for the white house. the florida republican will then go head-to-head with donald trump for the gop nomination. reaction and analysis to come. "live from paris." thank you very much for being with us. tributes to tina turner who has died at the age of 83. the white house has paid homage to the woman they say will be missed by millions. tina turner was born to a poor farming family in tennessee in 1939. that was the start of a remarkable story. she rose to fame in the 1960's.

she was part of ike and tina turner, who had many hits and then went on to become a symbol for strong and independent women during her solo career. her voice and style made her one of music's most well-known personalities. let's get to the first of many tributes we will be paying this evening to tina turner. if french singer and radio tv personality here in france. tina turner passing away at the age of 83. tell us what tina turner meant to you. >> i just cannot believe she died. she was such a powerhouse. when we first discovered her on tv in america and there was the whigs, the short dresses, the legs.

she sang, she shook, she was a hurricane. mick jagger was inspired by her moves. it is hard to believe that this powerhouse of a woman who had a de-year career is gone. it just does not seem possible. my main memory of her was in 1970 one with "proud mary," which was a cover song of creedence clearwater revival, which really put ike and tina turner on the map. mark: she was one of these people who had an amazing energy, as you say, and it seemed to basically leave her ageless. i recall being absolutely gob smacked by tina turner on tv, what a remarkable presence, what a remarkable performer. >> it is incredible because when she started out, a lot of -- like a lot of black singers, she started out in a choir in church and when she was only in high school, she started singing with ike turner, who had a group that

was called the kings of rhythm, and very quickly, it was evident that she was stealing the show, and ike was quite jealous of the fact that she was the star attraction, it was not him playing his guitar, and it soon became the ike and tina revue. the rolling stones had them open for them in the 1960's. so, yeah, she was larger-than-life. in fact, ike beat her, as i'm sure everyone remembers, and broke her jaw. she finally escaped from him and reinvented herself at age 40 when she decided to come to europe and had her big break with her album "private dancer" which included the song "what's love got to do with it," and she

gave up her american passport and became swiss, and she had an incredible career, a second career in europe. mark: that strength you're talking about, you mention her marriage to ike turner. she survived that and have the strength to get out and divorced him and as you say, reinvent herself. do you think that in many ways she provided some kind of a benchmark, some kind of inspiration for other women going through those kinds of problems? >> i'm sure she did. she wrote an autobiography. there was a film. she talks about the fact that she inspired people by her dance. she was working her but off. she knew she had to work, so she inspired women at the time in the 1960's with women's liberation and, yes, she inspired all young women of today and even men, i would say, just to get out there and defend

yourself and do what you have to do, basically. mark: what will be your abiding memory? a song, an image? what will be your abiding memory of tina turner? >> i think it will be acid queen that she play in the rock opera. she was incredible in 1975 and as always, the beginning, "proud mary" in 1971, an amazing song. and if you have forgotten it, check it out as soon as you turn off the show. mark: we will be playing as many as we can get hold of throughout the program. thank you for giving us your thoughts on this at passing of tina turner, 83 years of age. what a remarkable artist and what a remarkable woman she was. we will be paying tribute to tina throughout this program. thank you very much for giving us our first assessment of the power, the presence, and the legacy of tina turner. let's move onto the rest of

world news. france 24 has spoken with a member of the anti-putin russian militia. their interpretation of the situation is very different from the line that russia is spinning. the fighters say they are ready to strike again in part of russia's threats of a harsh response. they say the only help they had from ukraine was purely logistical. >> greenlight, obviously, yes because the troops are part of the ukrainian military. one thing is the green light, another thing is organizing,

assistance, and steering the operation. none of this has happened. not a single ukrainian soldier has entered russian soil. we came to liberate our land. >> what support did you get? >> medicine. obviously a lot of encouragement. >> planning? >> we could consult with them. we said we think this would be proper attack on this, proper attack on that, what do you think? should we go here, should we go there, so we could consult with them. >> are you planning a wider operation? >> absolutely. this one is a success. >> the russians say they pushed you back. is that true? >> we left after 24 hours. we have had no since just to

stay there. we retreated. i'm absolutely satisfied with the outcome of the operation. mark: let's bring in for analysis and senior lecturer and sick -- senior lecturer on security. how do you assist -- assess the situation? what are your thoughts? >> good evening. essentially it was a raid which lasted longer than the previous sally the volunteer corps had back in march. you may remember. the difference is i hear this one was larger, involved

paramilitary units, the legion, and the volunteer corps. the legion may have hundreds of personnel. we don't know how many were used. the difference with this one was it was more organized and there was an immediate operations plan that went along with it almost immediately. with this, we were actually being updated in real time with drone footage, etc. i think there's three aims, essentially, for these operations. the first one, of course, is to fix russian forces ahead of the ukrainian counteroffensive, tied down as many forces as they can. the second is to show that we can bring the war to russia and onto russian territory, even on land using these paramilitary forces, these proxy forces,

essentially, and finally, to embarrass putin because it's not a good look having russians seizing part of your country and fighting other russian forces. a great is you go in -- a raid is you go in, achieve some ground, and retreat. as we already knew, it is fairly thinly spread. it takes a while to respond to things. you are certainly going to be able to find some weak points. i don't think it really tells too much, but there is an interesting element to this. humvees, which are made in the u.s., and if one of those forces is used, it is not a great look for the ukrainians because they have given guarantees that anything supplied to them will

not be used against russia. that has applied to the very capable systems like f-16's and storm shatter -- storm shadow missiles. perhaps there's more scope there. i think there will probably be some words said to get a bit more control over that. mark: indeed. clearly moscow's narrative is on one level. ukraine's tells another story. are you satisfied they are purely russians acting on their own pollution to do this? >> let's put it this way -- they are useful. the legion is essentially for prisoners of war or defectors, which are then being vetted and brought into the international legion, as the spokesman said. and then, the command structure of that is not clear.

i actually don't know exactly what it is. it was interesting to hear him say that they were completely separate and autonomous. i don't have any more information on that. the core are much more associated with the ultranationalist far right, which there has been some presence in, certainly, but are as far as i understand much less integrated into the ukrainian military structures, but certainly, there's coordination between these two groups going on, so there's going to be some sort of relationship, but it's very difficult to pin down. i would say they are incredibly useful at the moment because it allows ukraine to strike russian territory in a plausible deniable kind of way. >> we heard them talk about the fact they can attack again. pressure's line officially as

they have been pushed back and almost destroyed, which clearly is not the case. do you feel there will be more attempts? do you feel this will happen? >> that's what they are saying because they want to get russians to men that 40-kilometer strip. his is difficult to say. there's a lot going on as we are seeing probes, raids, attempts at sinking a russian boat in the black sea today. there's a lot of stuff going on. these are all shaping operations, trying to distract and deceive. it is all part of a buildup, really. mark: thank you for giving us that analysis of a sense of how things are playing on both sides of the fence. it is clearly, as you say,

useful for ukraine to have militia in that area disrupting the army. thank you very much for joining us. we are watching for developments on the situation in ukraine for you. next, the u.s. presidential election scheduled for 2024, the latest candidate to declare is expected to be florida governor ron desantis, an outspoken governor, long seen as donald trump's leading rival for the republican nomination. he is set to launch his 2024 campaign this wednesday. the 44-year-old republican governor plans to announce his decision in an online conversation with elon musk, the chief executive of online social network twitter. musk says this is not a formal endorsement of desantis as candidate. >> it is a new form of power couple, tech multibillionaire and u.s. presidential hopeful.

>> we are interviewing ron desantis, and he has quite an announcement to make. it will be the first time this is happening on social media. >> the tech tycoon says this is not a formal endorsement of the candidate, but the set of his desantis access to musk's 140 billion followers and could prove a boon for the struggling platform. musk's ambition is to transform twitter into a multiplatform app, but since his takeover, the platform is floundering. interactive initiatives have failed to make twitter profitable, a new role, then, for the platform. >> i am interested in x/twitter being something of a town square.

>> a veteran of the rack and corn town, governor desantis boasts that he has loosened gun and limited access to abortion in florida during his first term. >> the stakes are high. i think what we showed in florida is that if you show bold leadership, if you pursue a bold agenda, you can beat these people. >> the twitter stunt is risky, not least because it ties his presidential bid to the famously unpredictable twitter ceo, but desantis hopes the association could raise his association next to the already infamous trump. mark: that announcement is coming up very shortly, to be done via social media network. elon musk and ron desantis. netflix is cracking down on password sharing. >> it is a major turnaround for the streaming giant.

it has been quite lenient on this for a number of years, but as subscriber number growth has stalled, the company is looking to boost revenue. after testing it in four countries earlier this year, the company was happy with the result and has decided to expand , including in its biggest market, the united states, and here in france. it is a brand statement that has not aged well. in 2017, netflix claimed love was sharing a password. in what is bad news for millions of households, the streaming giant expanded its crackdown on password sharing amongst subscribers. >> your netflix account is for you and the people you live with, your household. >> after latin american markets, canada and new zealand earlier this year, the feature will now roll out to around 100 countries, including france, the u.s., brazil, and the u.k..

the move came after netflix suffered its first-ever dip in subscriber numbers in 2022 amid stiff competition against the likes of disney+, amazon prime, and apple tv. the company has already introduced a cheaper ad-supported option in another effort to boost revenue, something its co-founder previously spoke out against. >> we are not in the advertising business. we have no advertisements, so our only customer is the consumer. >> the company had estimated that over 100 million households had shared login credentials with their friends and families. as of march this year, netflix subscriber count totaled 232 point 5 million worldwide. negotiators met again at the white house to try to resolve a deadlock but again failed to reach a deal. the two sides remained deeply divided over the issue of spending cuts demanded by republicans in exchange for raising the debt ceiling above

the current 31 point 4 trillion dollars. house speaker kevin mccarthy put the blame on the democrats while the treasury secretary again warned that a default could be just days away. even if a deal is reached, it will have a narrow path for passage through the divided congress, so it will take time to become law. >> we're not going to default. we're going to solve this problem. i will stay with it until we can get it done, but let's be honest about this -- we have to spend less then we spent last year. it is not my fault that the democrats cannot give up on their spending. >> we no longer see very much likelihood there are resources that enable us to get to the middle or end of june. >> all 3 wall st indices ended the day down, though netflix gnashed up 2.5%.

-- finished up 2.5%. snowflake up immediately after releasing quarterly results. other global markets were hit even harder on the back of discouraging economic figures. london ended down 1.7%. frankfurt dropped 1.9%. pressure's prime minister signed a set of economic agreements with china during a trip to beijing. president xi jinping declared the country should expand cooperation between energy and interconnection, adding that china is willing to work with russia. bilateral trade reached a record $190 billion last year and $70 billion so far this year. the meeting comes days after the group of seven nations agreed to tighten sanctions against moscow and called on beijing to press russia to withdraw troops from ukraine.

the court in china has ordered a mobile game developer, a subsidiary of alibaba group, to pay compensation to its rival over copyright infringement. the company is behind the hugely popular three kingdoms, alibaba's most popular game. the court ordered the firm to delete 79 which were considered to have violated the copyright of another game maker and pay around 7 million euros to the rival. it rejected, however, the company's demand to suspend operation. that is it for business. mark: thank you very much indeed. time to go truthing or faking. there's nothing more controversial here comes france than a charlie hebdo cover, and you have one that purports to be an anti-ukraine charlie hebdo

cover. >> that's right. for months, these have been circulating online, especially amongst russian telegram accounts. here's one example on twitter of these fake charlie hebdo covers from november 27, 2022, where this user claims that france shows nazism is associated with ukraine. this is also a claim that charlie hebdo rolled out a special issue about the adventures of ukraine nazis in qatar. this is completely fake. this charlie hebdo cover never existed, a saga that does not stop here, unfortunately. mark: these were shared on russian telegram channels. there's something inevitable about this, isn't there? tell us more. >> this video was shared by this private account on telegram.

it has repeatedly posted take anti-ukraine content that we have debunked many times before. this time around, let's take a look at this video that they shared on their telegram account, falsely attributed to a french media outlet where we start off by seeing our very own fact checking colleagues during a truth or fake segment. this false report also claims to show the man behind these fake covers, who is an ist in exile, founder of a fact checking site. we see him right there, and this

is not the only fake cover story that they fabricated, indicating french news. moreover, they continue to share this same false report about this alleged russian independent journalist who was, as they claim, behind these fake anti-ukraine covers for charlie hebdo. mark: i'm not sure he could even be described as a journalist because that denigrates the word journalist given what he does. what factors help you determine that it was phony? >> we started by searching the website, and we never found this story shared by russian television. that is a warning. we also contacted the alleged journalist who was behind this news report who works for a team that she never made any subject covering this russian

journalist. the same goes for the report or the fake story that they published. our same -- of your team found the same syntax errors in the russian media accounts, errors that would rarely occur with a native french-speaking journalist. finally, regarding this alleged interview, this is an interview that did happen but that was taken out of context in the false report. it is an interview that took place on november 27, 2022, so at the same time all of these fake anti-ukraine charlie hebdo cover stories emerged on russian telegr channels, and interview for rain tv, another russian independent media, you can see the same interview, here is the real one, and here is the one with the false report on the

telegram channels. so your contact explained the strategy he would use by those who broadcast these fake covers or news covers, which is a very common practice in russian propaganda, as we have shown many times before. mark: finally the victim rather than the perpetrator. thank you very much indeed and thanks to you all for watching wherever you are in the world. stay with us. more to come live from paris. ♪ >> join us on "down to earth," where we explore the incredibly complex relationship between humans and our planet. we meet the people behind fascinating environmental, health, and technological innovations in a bid to find

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