♪ brent: this is dw news, live from berlin. mercenary mystery, where is the russian wagner bus prigozhin. -- boss prigozhin. the leader of belarus said he is probably in russia. coming up, a russian rocket strike kills at least five people. the mayor saying it's the biggest attack on the infrastructure of the city since the invasion began. plus we look at how the

disinformation more about ukraine is reaching a big audience angst to spanish. mark zuckerberg's metta taking on twitter with a new social media platform, threads. millions have already signed up. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers in the united states and all of you around the world, welcome. the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin are unclear tonight. the leader of belarus says that prigozhin is in russia. probably with thousands of fighters and that he is not in belarus as we had believed to be the case. the kremlin says that it is not keeping tabs on the whereabouts of the wagner boss.

>> the mystery continues over the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin. the boss of wagner has not been seen publicly since leading an armed road against moscow. he had reportedly traveled to belarus as part of a deal with vladimir putin following the mutiny that he led last month. now the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, says that prigozhin is in russia and not in his country as he had previously claimed. >> i know for sure that prigozhin is a free man. right now he is a free man. i spoke to him on the phone not long ago. i think we spoke yesterday after lunch and we discussed the next

steps for the activities of wagner. >> russian state tv has shown images of what they said was a raid on prigozhin's office and residence in st. petersburg one day after the mutiny. russian security services say they found cash, gold, weapons, passports and wigs, potentially enabling him to travel with a false identity. the kremlin says it is not following the wagner chief. >> we don't track his movements. we have neither the opportunity nor do we wish to do that. >> during the mutiny, putin threatened a harsh response to those taking part but now it's not clear what happened to the man who led it. brent: for more now i'm joined by john, an author with a book

on russia and the wagner mercenary group that is due out next year. we are getting some reports that prigozhin is moving back and forth between russia and belarus. based on what you know about the wagner group and its leader, how realistic is that? >> thank you for having me again. i think it is probably pretty realistic at this point. if for nothing, for goshen -- prigozhin is probably worried about his own personal safety and despite the rhetoric we have seen, i wouldn't be surprised if he is trying to move back and forth and just keep people like us guessing where he is. brent: there is a lot of guessing going on. particularly about the motives of vladimir putin in this. why do you think the russian president would allow prigozhin to come back into the country? john: that's a great question.

i think part of why we saw a mutiny in the first place is we know that vladimir putin does not like to make if occult decisions and he will often delay and prevaricate until the last moment. part of what we saw with the meat was the result. that frustration in the mind of prigozhin of putin not solving the issue of the internal rivalry that he had. so i'm not surprised that we are seeing more ambiguity. the effective decision-making powers will not be switched overnight. and i'm not sure that really prigozhin or those in the russian elite know yet exactly is going to happen and they are still probably thinking through it. brent: how do you read what we have been seeing on russian state tv, video of police in st.

petersburg reportedly rating the -- rated the residence of prigozhin. finding money, wigs, fake passports. is that, do you see it as an attempt to alter the public image of prigozhin? john: i certainly think it is an attempt to destroy prigozhin's public image within russia itself. some of the footage almost looks like a scene out of scarface. i'm sure a lot of russians are very familiar with 90's action movies. it would certainly resonate with a lot of people. whether or not everything was there in that mansion or planted as well, it's probably something we may never know. but at the very least we can be safely assured it was designed to embarrass. brent: what about the soldiers

for hire? the wagner mercenaries, we understood that there had been an offer for them to also go to belarus and they would not face any criminal charges. what are you hearing? it's the status of that? where are most of these soldiers for hire tonight? john: i think that most are where they have been. i do not think that we have seen serious movement. there have been some reports that perhaps some wagner fighters have left the central african republic we are not sure if that's just part of one more rotation or something that is different. i think at this point the majority of fighters, no matter where they were stationed, and the central african republic or in the camps of ukraine at this point. brent: as always, john, good talking with you and we

appreciate your time and expertise. john: thanks for having me. brent: a russian missile strike on the western ukrainian city of lviv killing five people and injuring dozens more. it's far from the front lines but yet it has come under repeated attack. the mayor of the city says this is the heaviest onslaught to the civilian infrastructure of the city since the start of the war. presiden zelensky has promised what he called a tangible response. >> shock written all over their faces. neighbors, friends, family dead. or badly injured. a community far from the front line, but now at the center of this devastating war. >> russians are hitting us. that's how they like it. i'm sorry for the people that were killed.

they were young. so sorry for them. >> entire floors of the apartment building in lviv destroyed. cars turned into tryst -- twisted scraps of metal. >> i came back and found out that my mother had died, my neighbors had died. at this point it seems i was the only one who survived from the fourth floor. it's a miracle. >> if it wasn't for the rescuers, we wouldn't have gotten out of the apartment. they broke down the door and let us out. i have no apartment. nothing. i can't talk anymore. i'm left without anything. >> ukraine says russia attacked lviv with cruise missiles launched from the lack see. seven were shot down but three got through. >> as you can see the main russian goal is of course the discretion -- destruction of the

ukrainian people. this is a war to the death. but we will win. we are holding on. >> the search for survivors continues. as does the cleanup. these people's lives will never be the same again. brent: the biden administration has decided to supply ukraine with cluster bombs as a part of a new weapons package set to be announced friday. the cluster bombs, which were also used in the syrian civil war, release large numbers of smaller explosions that can kill and maim indiscriminately over a wide area. 120 countries have and the weapons. human rights watch says russia and ukraine have used cluster munitions in this war. i asked our washington bureau chief what's behind the announcement. >> has you just said, we are

expecting to hear an announcement tomorrow that the united states plans to send cluster munitions for 155 millimeter howitzer cannons. the announcement comes not only days before the nato summit next week in lithuania, but also at a moment when presiden zelensky is blaming russia that they might be targeting the nuclear power plant, one of the biggest in europe. it could lead to oh -- a catastrophe in the white parts of hero. the announcement will be another commitment from the u.s. from president biden to support ukraine, to support their spring or summer offensive, even though as you just mentioned human rights groups worldwide condemn the usage of these cluster munitions. brent: they are definitely controversial. talk to me more about the reaction in the u.s. or in

washington to this news. >> right, so first of all, and you said this and other new sources have said this, both countries, ukraine and russia are already using those cluster bombs. it's not really new to the battlefield. however to kind of get a little bit of context on how these work , cluster munitions are kind of conventional explosions -- explosives that break apart and scatter bomblets called submunitions. they have a reputation as an especially ugly weapon of war because of the danger they pose to civilians. not only that, not all of it explodes when it hits the ground. it is also kind of compared to landmines, as they can explode years later if someone steps on them and then often that his children and women. so these are women -- reasons

why most european countries, germany included, have and the use of them. this decision will cause a lot of controversy tomorrow and we will definitely go to the press conferences to challenge the decisions and ask for the reasons behind them. brent: as always from washington, thank you. well, russia is not just using bombs and missiles against ukraine. their international propaganda war has been deploying half-truths, rumors, and this information where language is no barrier. with 500 million speakers, spanish is key to generating a pro-russian narrative. >> sixth of june, 2023. a damp collapses and ukraine -- dam collapses and ukraine. videos like this are viewed thousands of times in the spanish speaking world. but of course there are many facts -- fakes.

this user claims to show the moment when it exploded but it's misleading. yes, we see the same one but the reverse image search shows the video was published in november of 2020 two. the tweet blames ukrainians for the explosion and labels them as nazis. many other users used the same description, calling ukrainians nazis is one of the major narratives of this war by spanish-speaking accounts. looking at content on ukraine, russian accounts have used the term nazi 50% more since the invasion and according to experts there is a reason for this. also in latin america. >> it's a very quick way of generating rejection towards a government by linking it to nazi-ism. >> another major disinformation narrative focuses on zelensky himself, discrediting him as a

person and politician. this video was viewed thousands of times claims he wants the war to continue. as a reaction, european parliamentarians leave the session. but the claim is false. a reverse image search on the sides of the tables lead us to the origin of the video, austrian parliament sessions earlier this year where far right political members left a -- the room during a speech. however he didn't say he wanted the war to continue. why is zielinski a target himself? >> focusing the war on a character and discrediting the character is an ad hominem operation that propaganda often employs. >> a third major narrative focuses on influencers. an important tool of russian propaganda. a recent study shows that of the 50 most retweeted accounts

surveyed, seven work spanish-speaking influencers. one such influencer shares misleading claims about the war with thousands of followers. the goal, boosting support for the russian government. and she has been doing so throughout the course of the war. here she is explained how well russians are rebuilding mariupol , a city in southeastern ukraine. this claim is miss -- misleading. she doesn't mention that russia was the one to destroy the city. she only shows how it is now building new apartments and playgrounds. according to a study she is not the only influencer spreading russian narratives in spanish. >> official information is discredited and then there is an attempt to turn to other voices. citizen voices tend to be more credible. >> half-truths, rumors, disinformation.

all in all a way of strengthening russian perspective on the war in ukraine. >> the russians have an opening there because they can dress themselves up as being different from the western world. it's a significant opening. with a global reach of 500 million spanish speakers it's one of the key languages for russian propaganda. brent: let's take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world. low to mere zielinski is in prague for talks with the president of the czech republic. it's the latest stop for zielinski who earlier in the day made his first official visit to bulgaria. he heads to turkey friday for talks with erdogan. ukraine and russia have announced a prisoner exchange involving soldiers from each side. ukraine released video of the freed ukrainian servicemen in an undisclosed location saying that some of them fought in mariupol

and at the steel plant there. the nato chief says that sweden could join the alliance at the summit in lithuania next week. the foreign ministers of sweden and turkey have been meeting in brussels. you may recall that turkey has opposed swedish membership, accusing them of harboring terrorists. he says sweden has made changes to meet the demands of turkey. the operator of the submersible that imploded while diving to the wreck of the titanic has suspended operations indefinitely. ocean was planning to more expeditions next year. all five people on board the titan mini submarine were killed when it imploded. twitter has a new rival. the mark zuckerberg company, metta, which also owns facebook and instagram and whatsapp, has

launched its own microblogging platform called threads. 30 million users have already signed up and twitter is threatening to sue. >> the rivalry between two of the tech world's biggest names is escalating. in recent weeks elon musk and mark zuckerberg have traded barbs, musk tweeting a challenge to a -- for a cage fight. threads is the new microblogging app from meta. their look is similar to twitter, a feat of posts with photos and videos allowing users to interact in real time. thread's launch comes at a critical time for twitter as a sense of crisis has persisted since elon musk took over last october. content moderation/. half of the staff -- content matter right -- moderation,

slashed, staff fired. as the instagram spinoff, threads has a potential of 2 billion users. >> it's an early blow from meta to the musk empire. twitter is confused and down. users don't know what's happening. how do they relate to twitter anymore? >> in london the launch was met with mixed reaction among social media users. >> i don't know if there is room for another social media app right now but i think that twitter has had its day. >> i think i will keep twitter for a while and if everyone heads over there, maybe. >> whether or not threads will live up to the hype remains to be seen. the company and its ceo come with controversies of their own, such as the leaking of half a

billion user data into thousand 21. nevertheless it still the biggest challenge to twitter just far -- thus far and for those hoping to see the titans tussle in a cage, they will have to settle for threads versus twitter instead. brent: how successful will threads be? i put that question to professor porter, who specializes in disinformation. >> the chance for success is much higher. threads is living on the success of instagram, it's easy to use, and it allows users to import existing social networks from instagram. in my mind, it's not even close. threads has a chance to dethrone twitter in a way that mastodon and other platforms have not had. brent: what language are we using? with twitter we say that we tweeted something. what do we say on threads?

threaded something? >> yes i suppose we would say that we threaded something. threaded is a good bet. look if that's the biggest problem the platform has, this platform is going to be a massive success. there are going to be questions about the costs success comes at. but it is looking like the clear competitor to twitter. brent: do you think that is why we have heard mark zuckerberg say basically elon musk had his chance to turn twitter into something bigger and he blew it? now i'm here with threads? is that where the confidence is coming from? >> there's little doubt among those of us who follow twitter that musk has presided over a period of failure for the company. the platform has bled revenue.

it's no longer as fun and fair a place as it once was. often twitter focuses on elon musk it, himself. in ways that are unusual. threads offers the promise of something lighter, easier. similar to instagram without all of the musk drama. brent: can you get on threads without worrying about what information is being taken? whatsapp, facebook, instagram, we know it's the same company and we know the history that meta has when it comes to that. why would we think threads is any safer for private data? >> those are good questions. those of us who monitor misinformation and disinformation have often been critical of facebook policies. let me be clear, the policies of facebook, meta, meta in

general, are vastly superior to twitter under musk. you are right to be worried about data security but you would be more right to be more concerned about twitter and musk. brent: 30 seconds left, what are you saying about the european union? we don't have threads available in the app store right now and it is because of this worry about what happens to your data. is the eu being over worried here? >> perhaps. again it makes a lot of sense to be cautious and skeptical. policymakers have made errors in the past when they haven't been cautious enough about social media. i think it's great to hit the pause button. i will say that regulators in the u.s. also might take a look at meta's behavior here on regulatory and antitrust concerns. that is going to be a developing story over the next few months. brent: ethan, we appreciate your

time and insights tonight. maybe we will see you on threads. thank you. history in outer space, europe's ariane five took off. for more than 20 years, the ariane rocket has played a key role in the european space program. here's a look at its key missions. >> the ariane5, the workhorse for key decades now. after some early failures it became one of the most reliable in the industry. the final flight carrying two satellites, it's 117th mission. earlier ones included groundbreaking science expeditions like the launch that carried the rosetta space probe that went on to liaise with the

comment and land on one for the first time. for the colombo mission, a seven year journey to mercury. parent satellites only settling into stable orbits around the innermost planet of the solar system in late 2025. and then there was the ariane5's most famous passenger, the james webb space telescope. delivering stunning pictures of the universe around us. the ariane6 will replace the ariane5 as the rocket of choice, able to heave 20,000 kilograms into low-earth orbit with half of that into geostationary orbits at a significantly lower costs than the predecessor. the development has been marked by delays and it isn't clear when the ariane6 will go up for

the first time. >> we are not mentioning yet the launch dates. we are having some critical technical milestones in terms of preparation and the tests of course will determine the progress in getting the launcher for its upcoming flight on the launchpad. >> for now, time to say goodbye to a legendary rocket. ariane5 will be a tough act to follow, high into the atmosphere of the earth and beyond. brent: "the day" is up next. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

mark: welcome to "live from paris," world news and analysis from france 24. i'm mark owen. these are the headlines. a russian attack has claimed at least five lives in lviv. ukraine says it managed to shoot down at least four other cruise missiles. otherwise, the death toll could have been far higher. for goshen -- pre-goshen -- prigozhin is rumored to be back in russia, his exile appears to be short-lived.

janet yellen is concerned about controls on metals used in semiconductors and solar panels. we have analysis coming up "live from paris." thank you very much for being with us. at least five people have been killed in russia -- russian missile attacks in the city of lviv in ukraine. casualties could have been much worse had the ukrainian air force not destroyed for other missiles headed for the region. this thursday, volodymyr zelenskyy has visited bulgaria and the czech republic. he is rumored to be next to visit turkey. ukraine's president has raised the issue of delays in weapons supply.

sources close to u.s. president joe biden report more ammunition is pledged, and this is said to include cluster bombs. >> at dawn, the extent of the damage comes to light. roofs are gone, turned to rubble. entire apartments blown to bits overnight by a russian missile attack. lviv's mayor says 60 apartments were damaged and nearly just as many cars. rescue workers continue to sift through the debris looking for survivors and victims. >> we are organizing all the necessary help. the situation is very complex. as you can see, there is very serious damage. we will have to start repairing as soon as possible you are's finish their work. >> on social media, president volodymyr zelenskyy published these images, saying there would

be a tangible response, a defiance repeated by the regional governor. >> russia's ultimate goal is to destroy the ukrainian nation. we will win. we will overcome. >> located in western ukraine just 70 kilometers from the polish border, such attacks are rare in lviv. the last major bombing in the region dates back to march. the city quickly became a place of refuge. with this attack, the worst in lviv's history according to the mayor, that sense of safe haven has been shattered. mark: five people at least killed in that attack. we will bring you more as we get it. sweden failed to convince turkiye to lift its block on stockholm's path to nato membership. the issue will noca to him meeting -- the issue will now go

to a meeting of turkish and swedish leaders next week. nato secretary-general said swedish membership was within reach. >> today, we reaffirm that sweden's membership is within reach and that sweden's membership does not mean the end of cooperation with turkey -- turkiye. far from it. on monday, i will convene a meeting with president carter one and the prime minister is the next step in this process. mark: the mercenary leader who led that short-lived mutiny against the kremlin is in russia. his troops are in their field camps according to the president of belarus. it raises new questions about the deal that ended the

extraordinary challenge to vladimir putin's rule. lukashenko's claim could not be independently verified. russian media is reporting prigozhin was recently seen at his office in st. petersburg. >> where is the of getting -- where is yevgeny prigozhin? thursday, belarus' president, alexander lukashenko, revealed prigozhin is actually in russia. >> he is in st. petersburg. where is he this morning? he might travel to moscow or he might be elsewhere, but he is not on belarus' territory. >> lukashenko also claimed prigozhin is a free man and that

russia will not wipe him out. belarus is said to have negotiated an agreement in which prigozhin left in exchange for security guarantee is for him and his forces. pro-government media has started attacking him. russian state media reported an investigation into the insurrection is still being vigorously pursued and labeled prigozhin a traitor. outlets have also published photos of his mansion in st. petersburg allegedly full of weapons, gold bars, and weeks. russian security forces raided the mansion, but the kremlin claims to not be tracking for goshen -- not be tracking prigozhin. >> we are not monitoring his moves. we have neither the ability nor the desire to do so. >> last weekend, all wagner group signage was removed from its headquarters as the kremlin

began its takeover of prigozhin 's corporate empire. mark: news coming in about volodymyr zelenskyy's with the check president -- with the czech president. he said ukraine eu talks should commence by the end of the year. we are watching developments. the palestinian gunman shot and killed an israeli narrow settlement in the occupied west bank. the hamas military group said it carried out the attack in response to the two-day grade this week in -- two-day raid this week in jenin. two rockets were fired in southern lebanon towards israel

this thursday, prompting cross-border strikes by the israeli military. it adds to the tensions caused by the israeli military sweep on the palestinian refugee camp in the occupied west bank. the u.s. treasury secretary is to tell chinese officials washington once healthy economic competition. janet yellen will defend u.s. trade curbs imposed on security grounds and expressed concern about beijing's export controls on metals used in semiconductors and solar panels. let's get some analysis. we see janet yellen being greeted there on the red carpet in beijing. we are joined by the head of the china studies center. thank you for being with us. can you give us your perspective on what this meeting is about? >> of course, janet yellen herself tweeted that it was the

president of the united states that charged the administration with deepening communication with china. of course, this is a double-edged sword, right? she used to be a london school of economics professor, and it is a bit of an issue because the s what's happening is a demo of real talk, so this is not small talk. this is real talk about the economy, but on the other hand, it is a non-winner in agenda terms because the issues are structural. they run deep. they run back to trump's administration, but at the same time, this is an interesting sign because she is to meet with the prime minister whose portfolio is the economic one,

and i think both sides understand that rhetoric is too heated at this point, that they could talk themselves into trouble, and they need to clear out these communication channels. mark: indeed, janet yellen is kind of walking a tight rope. is there a sense that this is all about supply and demand and the u.s. is on the wrong side of the equation? >> absolutely, you are right. just a few days ago, at least some people are making the connection that china came up with export controls on gallium and germanium, and you need those if you want to produce semiconductors. at the same time, i think xi is an interesting figure to lead this effort because the chinese press have been -- i think she is an interesting figure to lead this effort because the chinese press have been praising her

while saying the u.s. cannot really be trusted because at the end of the day, the interests collide, but let me quote a little bit saying how they praise janet yellen, by saying jannik -- janet yellen who is widely abused -- widely viewed by chinese analysts as opposed to decoupling, so they are painting her as the one to talk to on the others. mark: indeed, as you say, those handshakes bouncing around tiktok are going to make an impression on the other level. janet yellen creating a kind of double edge point of attack in a very positive sense. is the factor that remains that the u.s. is vulnerable in this negotiation? china does hold a lot of the key cards in this argument. >> certainly the u.s. holds a lot of cards economically speaking, but china does have a card or two of its leave.

the topic that has and will come up is the u.s. position, a strict no for china on military supplies for russia in the context of the russian invasion in ukraine, so that is something i know could leverage, what are we going to get out of this? the second thing that is existential to both sides is the taiwan and south china sea question. my colleagues reported today that xi jinping visited the eastern military command, which is in charge of the taiwan strait, right about the time when janet yellen landed in beijing, and that, of course, is a signal. mark: the object is certainly saying one thing about the importance of taiwan in terms of xi jinping's thinking. and of course in the back of his mind will be what joe biden said about the u.s. will defend taiwan if china makes a move.

>> yes, we have to remember officially, the u.s. has not stepped back from strategic ambiguity. even people who are saying that biden's utterances also play into this game -- we don't know, right? but at the end of the day, of course, it is about the but also about taiwan. it is also about ukraine. we just cannot -- no pun intended -- decouple economy from security and global stability at this point. mark: i hear exactly what you're saying. another thing to mention is that in terms of economic terms, defense is big business, is it not? >> yes, i would not to be one to judge, but absolutely, that is one of the aspects here as well on the u.s. side but also on china's side. we see china's defense industry has been growing.

a lot of these companies are dealing in double use of technology. mark: thank you very much indeed for sharing that analysis. we appreciate your time. we continue to watch for developments on that visit by the u.s. treasury secretary to beijing. back to washington. cocaine discovered at the white house left in an area frequently used by visitors on tours, not while joe biden and his family were on the premises. the white house sought to get the highly unusual story under control as it details emerged of the drugs' discovery on sunday. in one of the most carefully guarded buildings in the world. >> white powder in the white house has rocked washington, initially prompting an evacuation, it was then confirmed to be cocaine. the scandalous baggie was found

in the west wing not far from the security area invited guests pass through when they visit the building. with the president's son a known addict, the white house has been careful to distance the first family from the story. quick the president and the first lady and their family were not here this weekend as you all reported on this and as you also know that they left on riding and returned just yesterday. >> but that is not enough to convince former president and republican primary hopeful donald trump, who freak when he takes aim at hunter biden. >> does anyone really believe that the cocaine found in the west wing the white house very close to the oval office is for the use of anyone other than hunter and joe biden? >> the secret service are combing visitor logs and cctv footage to catch the cocaine culprit. mark: the world has experienced its hottest day ever for the third time this week.

monday past the record set during the el niño phenomenon back in 2016. tuesday beat monday and wednesday has proved even hotter still. 17.1° celsius, and aggregate temperature around the whole world, adding up to bad news for the fight against global warming and its effect on the planet. i'm now for business. very good evening to you. great to see you. starting with the u.s. treasury secretary's first visit to china at a time of heightened tension. just janet yellen in beijing. got there in the end. >> she arrived this thursday and will be looking to strike a balance between mending ties with china and also standing by the united states' recent moves that have rush holt -- have actually ruffled feathers -- recent moves that have actually ruffled feathers.

her visit was called an opportunity to communicate and avoid misunderstanding. relation between the world's two biggest economies took a turn for the worse when china restricted exports of metals needed to make ships -- needed to make ships -- needed to make chips. >> officially, janet yellen and her counterparts share a common goal, easing the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. secretary of state antony blinken visited china a few weeks ago quoted her words. >> as secretary ellen testified last week, it would be, as she put it, disastrous for us to decouple and stop all trade investment with china. >> decoupling is the right word. the world's biggest economies are interdependent. they are each other's largest trading partners.

china exported 530 $6 billion' worth of goods to the u.s. last year, while the u.s. exported $154 billion. the u.s. trade deficit is what triggered former president trump's trade war with china, and the battle for leadership in highly sensitive technology has escalated their rivalry. the u.s. and its allies fearing high tech would be used by the chinese military, have curbed beijing's access to computer chips. earlier this week, china, who is the world's first producer of metals necessary to make those microchips, said it would curb exports. janet yellen's goal is to ease tensions, but the u.s. is believed to, at the same time, be preparing new measures that could worsen the crisis. "the wall street journal" reports the u.s. could restrict chinese companies' access to

u.s. cloud computing services, and it could restrict artificial intelligence ship -- chip exports. >> meanwhile, joe biden is holding a campaign event in the traditionally republican south carolina. the white house is making a big push to show progress under what it calls bidenomics. the president employed the term again saying it meant creating local jobs instead of exporting them for cheap labor costs. >> i'm going to talk about what we are doing in invest in america, and i mean invest in america, all america, starting here in south carolina. the talk about the progress we made in building the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not trickling down. when you build from the bottom

up, everyone does well. the wealthy still do well. but that trickle down economy, not a whole lot dropped on my dad's kitchen table growing up. >> let's take a look at how markets fared, and it was red across the board as investors digested better than expected u.s. jobs data with speculation that could prompt further interest rate hikes. the dow jones closing more than 1% lower. both the s&p and nasdaq losing around .8%. france's national rail operator has announced it is launching a new subsidiary that will produce solar energy. the state-owned company is set to make use of its vast land holdings, and by 2030, installed enough solar panels to generate the same amount of power as a large nuclear reactor. it hopes that will cover 15% to 20% of the firm's electricity needs. the company president says about one billion euros is needed to

fund the project. finally, uber eats, doordash, and other delivery companies sued new york city this thursday over a law that sets minimum wages for food delivery workers. the legislation, which comes into effect next week, requires the companies to either pay workers around $.50 for every minute they spend on a trip or pay them a minimum of $17.96 per hour. workers are currently paid per trip, and the companies say the per-minute rate could end up being significantly higher than the minimum wage set for other industries. at wraps up the business news for now. mark: thank you very much indeed . time to go truthing or faking. good evening great to see you. there have been, obviously, seven days of riots across france after the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy a week ago

on tuesday. obviously, we have seen several out of context videos also going viral that claim to show elements of the rioting going on, particularly in marseille. tell us more. >> indeed, since the death of 17-year-old nahel at the hands of police, viral videos have been circulating around the globe of the french public's mobilization. however, along with a surge in these posts and videos, there has also been a surge in misinformation. one example i want to show you today is this one in marseille, which we can see according to this user with over 100,000 views claiming to show a fire at the alcazar library in marseille . this user says rioters have destroyed the largest library in france and that the library includes an archive of one million rare and historically significant documents. if we watch that video in its

entirety, we can see there is a building engulfed in flames. at every level of, there's a flash of water. it does look like the building is sitting on a large swath of water, but it is engulfed in flames entirely, and this is exactly what users are claiming has been destroyed due to violence in marseille. mark: how did you check to confirm that this viral video is actually a big? -- actually a fake? >> it actually started with that flash of water that we saw, where it looked like it was sitting on a river or body of water. this is google maps. we can see the library at alcazar is close to the sea but not exactly sitting on it in the same way. that led me to do a reverse image search where i can confirm i did find that building. this is the screenshot from the

video we saw, and this is the results from the reverse image search. i can confirm we do know where the building is. it is actually the central post in manila in the philippines. when i searched a little further to find out more about the fire, it was easy to find confirmation of the fire that took place in the philippines. we can see this story from the ap, and i have another from cnn as well. this was a real photo that took place, this was real footage that was filmed, but it does not have any link whatsoever to the riots in france or marseille. mark: this was not the only piece of misinformation, was it? >> it certainly was not. there is a second video of a burning building that has emerged. it is this one here. we can see a massive amount of use, 84,000. it has the same caption as the same example we saw before.

in this particular video, there's another huge fire, enormous even, surrounded by fire engines a little bit later in the video. we cannot see much due to the massive amount of smoke engulfing the building entirely. again, through reverse image search, i was able to find some results for this, and it led me to this tweet with the same exact video, but it mentioned a different place. when i looked further into that, more google map work, i could confirm this video was taken from that exact spot. if we look at this orange square i have highlighted, it doesn't match. the trees are in the same location as well, and it is confirmed this is where that video was filmed. however, this video was linked to the riots. it was, according to the local press, in liaison with the riots

there, however it is not massive. it is still being represented in a way it is not. there was indeed some damage to the alcazar library in the city of marseille during the clashes between police and small groups, and a fire did indeed break out. that was confirmed by local press and local authorities as well as many others about the damage to the library. however, it was only the front of the library according to them that was damaged, and i can confirm that i also reach out to the press office of the city of marseille as well, and they confirmed to me that no book nor historical document inside the library was damaged at all. mark: that is a little bit of good news. it is great you are highlighting these cases of misinformation. at a time like this, it is important to make sure everybody gets it right and that we can

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