♪ georja: ockham, tune into live from paris program. it is 10:00 p.m. in the french capital. here are our top stories. brush fires a barrage of missiles at the ukrainian capital, sending residents fleeing for shelter for the second time in 24 hours. spain's socialist prime minister calls a snap election after the country's main opposition party clinches victory in regional and local elections, garnering over 7 million votes. also coming up for you on the program, joe biden says a final bipartisan deal to raise the

u.s. debt ceiling can now head to congress. the news comes following rather tense negotiations between democrats and republicans. ♪ >> our top story this hour, russia has fired a barrage of missiles at kyiv, sending residents fleeing for shelter in an unusual daytime attack on the ukrainian capital. the explosion rang out in kyiv as russia targeted the city for the second time into any four hours. ukraine says all of their russian missiles were shot down but one person in the central district was taken to hospital. . no major damage was reported. france 24's correspondent has the latest from the ukrainian capital. reporter: a day it was, rather

scarier than usual. the attacks, there have been 16 of on the ukrainian capital, just this month of may already have happened at night, until today. people have gotten used to when the sirens going off during the day, thinking it is more likely to be a false alarm. off and the sirens go off all over the country. but it is not the capital that has been attacked. i did not stop what i was doing when the sirens went off at 11:00 a.m. local time. five minutes after that, there was the loudest explosion i have heard so far in my time in kyiv. as it turned out, this was the sound of air defenses working. they shut down intercepted all of the missiles that were fired at the capital. i think there were 11 of them. as you were saying, fragments fell on at least three different districts of the city. one person was injured. that was the lucky escape. there is a video of this incident, and it could easily have been a mini best full of passengers that was hit if it had fallen a couple seconds earlier.

it is certainly something that traumatizes ukrainians, but i do think the real aim of these attacks for the russians is more of a military one. they want to exhaust ukraine's air defenses, they want to work out where ukraine's air defenses are, they want to prevent ukraine perhaps from deploying air defenses to places closer to the front line by having to continue to defend the major cities likeyiv. and they want to try to hit military targets, which they may have some intelligence as to where these are located. and they may be seeking to hit military targets. we do not know what the intended targets were, or whether they had any chance of hitting them, seeing as whenever kyiv is attacked, it seems to be all of the missiles were almost all that are shot down. it is worth noting that was not the case today in another region of ukraine, or perhaps overnight. there is a rare admission by the authorities that an air base was hit and some five aircraft

damage. . rochelle:'s socialist prime minister has called a snap election after the country's's main opposition party clinched victory in some days regional and garnering over 7 million votes. sanchez who has been in office since 2018, said the polls and sent a message that went well beyond local considerations. it marks the third time sanchez has called a snap election, as charlotte hughes now explains. reporter: it is an unexpected move from spain's prime minister. after the victory of the right-wing opposition in local and regional elections on sunday, pedro sanchez, head of the ruling left we coalition government, called a snap general election for the 23rd of july, five months before the next election is due to be held. >> even if the vote yesterday had a regional and local effect, the meaning of this vote sends a message that goes beyond this. as the head of the government

and the socialist party, i take responsibility for the results. i think it is necessary to respond and submit our democratic mandate to the popular will. reporter: sunday's vote saw the people's party win in regions including valencia, the balearic islands, and eric allen, were previously secured by sanchez's 's socialist workers party. it has gained majorities in the midget -- madrid region. since the people's party did not gained majorities in many of the newly won regions, it will need to negotiate with the far right anti-immigration fox party to form local and regional governments. according to analysts, sanchez, who has been in office since 2018, plans to capitalize on the fear of the people's party uniting with vox at an international rally -- vote. . his call for an election was welcomed by the leader of the people's party. >> i want to thank the majority of spaniards who yesterday sent

out a very strong message about the direction they want our country to take. today, i ask for the support of the citizens to be the next president of the government of spain. reporter: sanchez's coalition government has put spain's economy on par with the fastest growing in the eu, and produced seminal new laws including menstrual leave. the setback comes weeks before spain is due to take over eu presidency on july 1. rochelle: in -- police have fired tear gas and made crashes with ethnic cabs which took to the streets this monday, demanding the withdrawal of law enforcement officers along with new ethnic albanian -- albanian mayors. the latest incident as tensions soared over the last week. they have placed their military on high alert and have sent more troops to the border. following some rather tense

negotiations between democrats and republicans, the u.s. president joe biden has said a final bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling can had to congress. biden stressed that he and house speaker kevin mccarthy have negotiated, quoting good faith. he urged both chambers to pass the agreement. a vote is expected to be held in the house of representatives on wednesday, may 31. here is joe biden speaking earlier. pres. biden: we have reached the bipartisan budget agreement, and we are ready to move to the full congress. i think it is a really important step forward. and it takes the threat of catastrophic to fall off the table, protects our hard earned an historic economic recovery, and the agreement represents a compromise, which means no one got everything they wanted. rochelle: let's talk more about this. larry sabato, founder and director of university of virginia center for politics. thank you for speaking to us this evening.

joe biden, kevin mccarthy, they may well be happy. republicans may vote against this, or some of them. this is not going to be an easy pass, is it? larry: no. nothing has been easy about this. though it is remarkable that biden and mccarthy were able to reach a reasonable agreement. both of them gave up some things. on the whole, biden did better i think. but they are being very careful. they are not crowing about victory. they want kevin mccarthy to convince enough republicans that this is a good deal for them. the question is, will they? and can they do it before monday's deadline, a week from today is the ex date when the debt will default. at least that is what the treasury department tells us. they need to act quickly. they will bring it to a vote wednesday or thursday. we will know then. most democrats will vote for it in the house of representatives. a lot of republicans will vote no.

but mccarthy's challenges to carry a majority of the republican caucus. rochelle: you bring me to my next question. president biden has called this agreement a compromise, those are his words. you have mccarthy who has hailed this agreement as a hard-fought win for republicans. at this stage, do we know who had to bend more, who had to be more flexible? democrats or republicans? larry: they just issued the 99 page bill. i will confess to you, i have not gotten through it all yet. i don't think anybody has. it is in legislative language, top of that. it is difficult to say for sure. but i do think the biden administration negotiated this very well. and most of the big things that they were worried they would have to give up to the republicans, they have not had to. and potentially, if this can pass, they get two years of no debt default, with the ceiling raised through the next

presidential election, and probably through the first few months of the next president's term. rochelle: as you say, the nitty-gritty of this, 99 page deal, is obviously not quite been read by most people yet. when it comes to major obstacles, we know republicans wanted to cut education france, as well as social programs. democrats, i believe food stamps and veterans was an issue. do we know more about that at this stage? larry: yes. look, the republicans wanted work requirements for more people who are receiving food stamps and other benefits. there are already work requirements for those under 50. now, it is going to be raised gradually, up to age 54. that is some change. but it is not what it could have been. and the new rules and regulations are not nearly as onerous as some of the progressive democrats are trying to suggest. on the whole, the biden

administration gave up some, but did not give up nearly as much as they thought they were going to have to. rochelle: we spoke at the beginning of our interview of these rather tense negotiations. the shuttle between democrats and republicans has been going on for sometime. is it an exaggeration to say the default would spell disaster for the u.s., upsetting the economy, but not just the u.s. economy, also global markets? larry: absolutely. that has been the message from left, right, and middle. at least among the rational people who are trying to prevent a disaster, which would produce a serious recession at the least, maybe worst stock markets crashing and all the rest of it. i have to say, the only serious senior person who has actually suggested that a default might be a good thing is donald trump. who put $7 trillion on this national debt that we are so worried about. rochelle: $7 trillion, hard to

fathom, almost. i want to talk about the 14th amendment. if i understand well, biden could have raised the debt limit on his own, technically speaking. why didn't he? larry: the reason he didn't is because first of all, it would be appealed immediately to the courts. and the supreme court, which would have to consider it at some point, is heavily republican and conservative. six of the nine justices would have been unlikely to go along with biden's interpretation of the 14th amendment, pass right after the civil war. personally, i think the wording is very clear in the 14th amendment. we should not even be having these votes to lift the debt ceiling. but you have to deal with political reality, certainly a president does. the reality is the very conservative republicans control the u.s. supreme court. rochelle: a final question for you. we can look forward to this vote

in the house of representatives on wednesday. can we expect as arduous a task as we have seen the first time around? larry: probably. we don't do anything easily anymore. i think it will be tough. and it may not be wednesday, it may be thursday. don't be shocked if it is friday. they could take it to the end of the process, monday, when we run out of monday -- out of money. . that would be possible. we will have to see. it is the next few days. this is a short period of time, but it is critical to the world economy, not just the u.s. economy. rochelle: larry sabato, always good to speak with you. thank you for sharing your expertise this evening. larry: thank you. rochelle: tomorrow marks 70 years since the world's tallest mountain was conquered. a new zealander and -- reached the summit of mount everest in 1953. to this day, the challenge

remains one of the most popular among mountaineers. france 24's correspondent brings you up-to-date. reporter: it was 70 years ago that a man achieved the first dissent to mount everest. new zealander edmund hillary and another became the first to segment the world's highest mountain in 1953. hundreds climb the 8849 meter peak every year. and the eight day track to the everest base camp remains among the most popular hikes in nepal, among tens of thousands of annual tourists. for the locals, the popularity of mount everest as a matter of livelihood. many homes here, three generations have found employment in mountaineering. the work is not without its risks. far more lucrative than farming or y yak herding. a mountaineer can make several -- a veteran mountaineer was born

and raised in a village 10 kilometers from base camp. he grew up watching his father and uncles go to mountains for work, and soon joined them on expeditions. eventually climbing everest 21 times before he retired. >> a lot has changed. there would be just a few expeditions before. but now, there are so many every year. that means an increase in income. it has helped to improve the lifestyle here. reporter: as the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of mount everest, they are also faced with growing concerns of climate change. locals say they are already feeling the impact of melting glaciers and increasingly unpredictable weather. rochelle: time to get you an update of the day's business news. i'm joined by yuka royer. great to have you. the economy has been high on the agenda in turkey's presidential runoff, which took place sunday. what has been the reaction to

that? >> there has been a sigh of relief that election uncertainties are over and disappointment that a swift change in economic policy is off the table. the turkish lira fell to fresh record low at one point this monday. it has lost almost a fifth of its value against the u.s. dollar over the past year. it is down 90% compared to a decade ago. on the other hand, turkish stocks rallied on general optimism. it finished the day up more than 4%. on the other hand, -- following his victory, president everyone has redirected his view that lower interest rates will help spur growth and bring down inflation under government pressure. the central bank has lowered its benchmark of repo rate five times since last summer from 14%

to 8.5%. it is expected to hold the rate steady, at least in the short term. inflation has come down from a staggering 85% last autumn, but still stands above 40%, deepening a cost-of-living crisis. turkiye has been running through its foreign-currency and gold reserves to fill its budget deficit for quite a number of months, and the central bank's effort to stabilize the lira have further eroded its reserves. on top of that, devastating twin earthquakes are estimated to have cost the country more than $100 billion. here is one economist speaking earlier. >> the central bank's unorthodox approach to monetary policy has seen inflation rise, has taken a large toll on the lira, and created a large external financing cap. that has contributed to the large exodus of international investors from the country. we think a return to more

orthodox policies, a return to normalcy in policy framework, put rivers that exit in the future. yuka: u.s. president joe biden says he feels good about the prospects of congress passing the hard-fought debt ceiling bill. the biden and house speaker reached an agreement to suspend the country's borrowing limit, currently at $31.4 trillion, through the first of january, 2025. now it needs to pass both chambers of a divided congress to become law. while a person serves much of president biden's inflation reduction act, it caps federal spending and forces poor people to work to get food aid. house republicans on monday laid planes to advance the deal, and the house rules committee said it would take up the agreement on tuesday, which could clear the way for a vote in the republican-controlled chamber. in columbia, produces five the

base fergal keane are struggling for sales after a collapse in the drugs market amidst competition from a search and production of synthetic drugs. the country as the world's largest producer of cocaine, 204,000 hectors estimated to be used for its cultivation. our correspondent has more. reporter: here, carlos is used to to getting a good price for his lumps of cocoa paste, chemicals used to make a base for cocaine. for over a month, he has been unable to find a buyer due to a collapse in the cocaine industry. he is stuck with over eight kilograms of product. >> right now, the price of coca is really bad. the only option is to keep it. there is no other choice. if it can't be sold, then it has to be stored. reporter: colombia is the world's top cocaine producer,

and for carlos, and 1.5% of the country's population, their living depends on this crop. according to experts and authorities, the reason for this downturn in the drug economy is due to the overproduction of coca leaves and a growing surge in synthetic opiates such as fentanyl. >> though it still has to be studied, it is likely that the low demand for cocoa paste in some regions of columbia is due to the fact that people in the usa have changed their consumption, their tastes. reporter: the president has said farmers assemblies with the government to implement land substitution and agro industrial products are priorities to overcome the situation leaving many colombians hungry. last year, a u.n. report found columbia's coca cultivation had expanded by 43%, reaching a vast 204,000 hectors. the highest victor -- the highest figure. yuka: this one is for some

adventurous people out there. a limited edition ramen dish that costs 45 euros is seeing unlikely success with many people queuing up to taste it. a little shop introduced a bowl topped with a giant iso pot, a deep sea creature that looks like an enormous -- in a post, the restaurant called it a dream ingredient, saying it tastes like a lobster, but less chewy in texture. known as scavengers of the ocean floor, giant iso pods feed on fish carcasses and other debris, calling from above. i can get that from your facial expression. rochelle: would you like to try it? yuka: i don't know. the noodles may be fine. rochelle: not sure about this creature. 45 pounds for the dish, i'm not sure i would try it either. thanks very much for a roundup

of the business news for us this evening. thank you. it is time to bring you are truth or fake segment. i am joined by emerald maxwell. nice to see you. you have been looking at videos on social media following the reelection of turkeys president, recep tayyip erdogan. a couple of those videos seem to show a massive crowd celebrating his victory at the mosque in jerusalem. what more do we know at this stage? emerald: the famous mosque in jerusalem is a frequent flashpoint site. between israelis and palestinians partly because it is also the third holiest site in islam. these two videos supposedly show it last night. we see a huge crowd in front of the mosque. it was share on twitter, with claims that muslim blocked it to celebrate erdogan's victory. they were shared amongst others. this think tank, which has ties

to erdogan's party, it was also shared by this media, which also is a pro-government turkish media. we have this one also, the state's broadcaster trt shared it, racking up 126,000 views on twitter. here we have this video, a slightly different angle, of the mosque. it tells us the same claim, that these are erdogan supporters. the fact checking site, in the arab fact checking site looked into these videos. that is not what they found. simply using keywords -- sorry, keyword searches, they found versions of these videos which were published before last night. here we see a version, the earliest version they found on youtube, which dates back to the seventh of april. it comes with the caption, in

the courtyard of the mosque after the don prayer, condemning violations of the israeli occupation. that is a reference -- this came about because israeli forces had stormed the mosque on the fourth and sixth of april. as cnn tells us in this article here. meanwhile, the earliest versions of the other that i showed you were published april 18, here on instagram. this gathering was described in the middle east monitor, in an article the same day. it explains that these were palestinians gathering to mark the 27th night of ramadan. nothing to do with turkey or erdogan. thousands of turks did take to the streets last night across turkey, but these videos do not show his supporters in jerusalem, and they presumably have been presented as such by pro erdogan quarters to exaggerate his level of support,

which should not prize us, given his hold on the turkish media. rochelle: those are not, in the wake of these elections, they are not the only videos that have been widely shared on social media. another video doing the rounds is one for people -- people calling for erdogan's opponent, kilicdaroglu, to resign. outside of the headquarters of these parties. is that true or fake? emerald: in this video, we see -- we hear people shouting, and turkish, resign, in front of the chp headquarters. it was shared by a number of social media accounts which -- with the claim that thousands of people had gathered at same evening. first glance, it seems plausible. because he did lose that night. some people have been calling for his resignation as the leader of the opposition on social media. but we have fact checked the video, and the first clue that it does not show -- that it does

not show the scene from last night is the banner hanging in front of the headquarters in the video. we see if there. a clear version here. this banner dates from the 2017 constitutional referendum campaign, where chp was campaigning for no. turkish journalist took a photo of the chp headquarters last night, and we can see that that banner has been replaced with a more up-to-date one showing its presidential campaign banning. it says, i am come all, i am coming. we can see that the video is likely not current. armed with that knowledge, taye it did a keyword search and found instances of this video online. this one dates 16th of april, 2017. that is exactly after the chp

loss the referendum, and the constitution was performed by erdogan back in 2017. although a majority of turks did not vote for kilicdaroglu, it seems this video has been shared in order to overstate the level of opposition towards him. rochelle: thank you very much for looking at those videos for us on social media. you are up-to-date with our truth or fake segment. we will take a short break on friends 24. we will be back on the other side. we will have more news for you. we hope you will join us then. ♪ >> in 2018, south sudan experienced a rare moment of hope. . after five years of civil war, peace seemed within reach. but what is the situation today? >> people are living with insecurity. you cannot go where you can work, for get something for your family. >> some 30 5000 displaced people

live in camps, trying to survive as best they can. >> people are still suffering. anger, poverty. killing. >> however, in juba, some are hopeful for the future. >> this is the only place where you can get this. >> this enclave remains an exception in a ravaged country. juba revisited on france 24 and france24.com. ♪

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