the, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin tortures deployed is un peacekeepers, but dw investigation reveals how members of a notorious bangladesh elite force are being sent on world wide peacekeeping missions. also coming up, the un suspends all food a distribution in wrap up. it says the humanitarian operation across the whole of the gaza strip is nearing collapse due to a lack of supplies and safety concerns. plus, iran's supreme leader performs prayers as a funeral service of present abraham, right? you see as tens of thousands gather in tehran and russia says it's begun tactical

nuclear weapons drills near the border with ukraine. moscow claims it's in response to what it calls provocative statements from the west, the blow and cherry martin, good to have you. with us dw, can reveal the officers from bangladesh as elite counterterrorism. force implicated in tortures and killings are now being sent on un peacekeeping missions. the findings follow one investigation together with sweden based nets renews and germany's suit deutscher sites. all the officers are among 65000 peacekeepers, deployed world wide to stabilize countries in crisis and support civilians when their governments fail. and it seems un is unable to stop this practice as naomi

conrad are a thoughtful as well, and they are good to show it's good. now report the soldiers were deployed as un peacekeepers even after they served in the unit the kills and tortures. they were high ranking officers of bangladesh as a lead unit, rapid action battalion, and in particular its notorious intelligent swing in 2023 we revealed was the government continues to deny the rod murders, objects and tortures alleged criminals and political opponents. un peacekeeping missions cannot have, in amongst them offices who may have been responsible for these kind of very serious abuses that defeats the purpose of peacekeeping. for months, we looked into banquet as one of the largest contributors to your admissions, and found that the 2 officers were not

a unique case. we analyzed classified military personnel files and secret un deployment lists and found more than $100.00 soldiers who went from rab to peacekeeping. some of them admitted to extrajudicial killings during their time at rob did the on the day of the execution, the target is taken out with his hands tight and blindfolded. although it was tight after the blood heat. he, these got some blood and brain fragments best on my uniform. and yet the officers were deployed on un missions. afterwards. we went to copenhagen to meet a man who in 2019 raised the alarm densmart deck served as would upload to the u. s . committee against torture, and the report on bangladesh stated it was gravely concerned about rob's visas. the recommendation was that the full amount and current members of wrap it should not be allowed to as to do

a service in peacekeeping operations. but we found at least 40 rob numbers who were deployed to p submissions after the report was published. confronted with our findings, un peacekeeping in new york road, we do not have the resources to review the information of all personnel deployed. and the vast majority of troops perform well. this form, are you an official told us that the organization has barely any power over which officers countries select as peacekeepers. do you think that until 2019 federal gilmore was the one assistant secretary general for human rights and experienced firsthand? what happens when the un pushes countries to exclude possible human rights abusers? one country that was really important literally said okay, we're going to pull out or together under you in a 2nd general at that time to go basically to that country in that sense. apologize for that as they otherwise. like for you, nbc,

pro ration is would have collaborative of this. you wouldn't tell us which country now are, but said that the un is stuck in a dilemma. the you and the reason faced with dangerous and deadly emissions. western governments increasingly pulled their troops out of peacekeeping operations . instead, they prefer to pay for them, leading the supplying of troops to countries like vanquished packaged on egypt and china. many of which are known to have abuse of security forces. we get some really pretty useless troops as a pretty brutal ones as well. but if you're sending the you and you can actually say that. and we also confronted bangladesh as government. and every individual officer mentioned in this report, they didn't respond. and with me in the studio now is naomi conrad from dw investigations. she is one of the authors of that report. you just saw me. your

report focused on the dubious records of un peacekeepers from bangladesh. are there documented cases of other from other countries that i see? i mean, we also looked into sri lanka, and as one case of an officer, whether u. n was actively wound about deploying him. so just a couple of days before he was sent, this man had been involved, most likely been involved in the atrocities committed in the final months of the civil woods for land cut in 2009. and was about to be deployed. activists told the you and about him, we sold the emails that they send and nothing happened. so they're likely to be more cases. these are the 2 countries that we looked at. but i mean, look at the list of the major to contribute. as you see, countries like bangladesh pack has done egypt. they are likely to be more cases. what do you make of the you in response to your investigation is the you and really powerless to keep human rights abusers out of its peace course of the other was

peace keeping troops. the system, as it stands at the moment, is that it's up to the countries that send the troops to select and vet them. so in, in a way you're asking, in some cases, a piece of government, suicide, which offices to us. and there has been cases where the un it's human rights branch, have teamed with countries to select and to, to bet these people where they got the cvs. and they looked at people and they switched it out. people in some cases mentioned that to begin to pull it what quite well. now the say we don't have the results is we need more stuff. but the major problem is that some countries just don't want that to happen. they don't want other people to look at to the sending and then those case as they threatened to withdraw that troops completely. so in a way that is not much that you will and can do as long as they need these be these countries to provide true. well, are there any efforts underway to address this in some form? i mean, there could be some regulations. i would think that could be put in place to at

least mitigate the risk. so in the case of bangladesh, the bean repeated requests to disband, rub entirely from peacekeeping. so you could do that. but then again, countries would say, look, if you don't want us to take this particular unit, this and the units in the case of, of bangladesh, we're going to withdraw our troops entirely. so, as is quite often the case and international relations it's, it's a real dilemma. what do you do? do you push for more human rights? risking that may be peacekeeping operations, collab tool there. that's something that the un stressed to us wouldn't happen. and they said no made to, to contribute to provided so many troops that missions would actually collapse. or do you may be, except that some of the troops may or may not have dubious records and go go ahead with these missions anyway it's, it's a very difficult dilemma that we recognize that it's a very difficult dilemma that the one faces and that doesn't seem to be an easy

solution. what a lot of people say, well, why, why the western countries provide more troops, but again, it's not really palatable back here that we send also just to open the deadly missions. and we thank you very much. that was my colleague, naomi conrad from dw investigated. or if you want to watch the whole documentary on this, please go to our documentary challenge at youtube. the hash tag is at dw documentary. now we've got some breaking news coming in from norway. it says it will formerly recognize palestine as a state on may 28th prime minister us gusto ruler has said. his country believes that the 2 state solution is and israel's best interest. other european countries, including ireland, are expected to make similar moves. israel says it's recalling some passengers from no light and ireland in response. now let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. vietnam's parliament

has confirmed the country's new president toll lum, previously served as the minister of police, the roller president in vietnam as largely ceremonial. but the appointment means law is well placed to one day takeover as chief of the ruling communist party. the country's top town. at least one person has been killed after a powerful tornado hit. a town in the us state of iowa vehicles have been smashed and buildings destroyed in several locations. tornado warnings have been issued for a number of states in the midwest. australia and new zealand are repass reading hundreds of their citizens from new caledonia. the evacuations come a week after riots erupt in the french pacific territory, killing 6 people. frances president, manuel my call will meet with elected officials on the island this week to discuss the boating reforms which sparked the protests on those or do you have nations

is warning the humanitarian operations inside garza or nearing collapse, the organization says it's no longer able to distribute food a in the southern city of rafa, due to a lack of supplies and fears that for safety. it says it's main agency for palestinian refugees on rough ends. the world food program are unable to access their warehouses in rasa because of israel's ongoing military operation. there, after fleeting rough, how many come here to the, by the camp instance with casa. but the situation here is not much better people for basic supplies as temperature, sol, desperate for water by a reasonable to become show up. there is no water. we come, drink when are you? there is no war to come to the vicious, become to anything, but lots tops with suffering allows you to do to deal with heavy fighting around rough. uh, these really military says nearly 900 a 1000 people have slept the area,

the satellite images show the scale of the move mean in recent weeks, hundreds of tents and shelters have been removed. the un says few minutes and no probations in gas on the collapse as almost no 8 come into and they no longer have access to which warehouses in rough or of our colleagues that onto our reports, that today the agencies distribution center as well as the well food programs warehouses both in rafa or now inaccessible. jude ongoing military operation on was says that its health centers have not received any medical supplies for the past 10 days. despite this health care staff continue to provide thousands of medical consultations each day at health centers that are still operational, people have hate, the ppo, constructed by the us, would bring some urgency needed relief. but so far, it has been nearly enough to get done and we have been waiting for this

a was and we have not received anything. it just doesn't reach us. i ask america, the international community at old, for most of the world to end this more when we want is for this war to end. the us says it's working on creating alternative routes to speed up a deliveries until that happens. many people div here empty handed last the w corresponded rebecca rivers in jerusalem. why is real is appears to be blocking 8 operations as well. terry is wrong, maintains that it isn't blocking the distribution of 8 or even blocking. i should say those road crossings in to guys are and by its own statistics. is that on monday, for example, well, the full 100 trucks were inspected and transferred to gaza. the, when you drill down into those numbers, it looks as though some 40 trucks were crossed into the gauze or through that

northern areas crossing. i mean, all the numbers that they refer to, mainly these, the national port, for example, and crossings with the jordan and the west banks that then come through and to be transferred into gaza. of course, they also include numbers from this j lots, these temporary p is that the us have built that you just heard about in that report. there. so much, lou, few of them the full 100 trucks, really getting into garza and we saved from you and figures that only 69 trucks have made it through since the rough uh, incursion began some 2 weeks ago. so really it kind of a discrepancy in the figures there and of course as you're hearing real, real distribution issues, even once the eye does passed in and trying to get it to those desperate people who desperately need it. so when we look at the numbers, when we were looking pre will $500.00 trucks a day going into gaza, humanitarian organizations think $600.00 truck to day minimum, i needed to have it. so i'm kind of this humanitarian catastrophe that we're seeing

when we look at the figures, you can save a discrepancy in numbers of what's needed and what's getting in. rebecca, can you briefly bring us up to date on what is release doing with this military operation? there in rafa we heard in our report, 900000 people who've already left that southern city or well, that is what we're hearing some 900000. that's a very close to the number of a, just over 1000000 who were sheltering there. so a large percentage of that population, and now having left, we're hearing the way they've gone to it is also a di humanitarian situation. these route is rarely say that they've set up these humanitarian designs, but people on the ground, humanitarian organizations saying that they are not satisfactory, and not able to cope with a huge amount of numbers of people who are trying to hid the uh, the operation continues and we've seen time and time again that is around is adamant on continuing its operation and rest of it has in recent days said that it

is going to try to mitigate or under pressure from the united states, limits these operations and refer as opposed to going into a full scale operation as we saw in other cities. rebecca, thank you very much. our tourism correspond at rebecca rivers. there it reads supreme leader, i told her all the company has been performing prayers, others fuel service of present abraham. right. you see, tens of thousands of people have gathered into iran for the funeral procession. right. you see along with the for administer and other officials died in a helicopter crash in northern the around on sunday. 63 year old, right. you see was widely expected to succeed coming. they are you as supreme leader? let's bring in sarah vazo bundy here. she joins us from the hubbard based german institute of global and area studies. tell us are how closely is this funeral being

followed? any ran is through shared sense of grief in the country. a good morning. well, i'm present, right? you see was the, the only presence in the iran since the islamic revolution. montague, the lowest rate of participation when he was elected, am all the, is nomics republic, president types higher rates of course the nation when they were elected. so that tells you a lot about how popular this figure in the political problem in the wrong was of course, his economic performance on his economic policies, but disastrous. none of his campaigns were delivered. and during his time, one of the largest cracks down on the peaceful protests and they were on took place in 2022. so despite the fact that we do not have access

to all the society any realm, because when it rained in government allows west and media to go on for pet reports . they watch them, they take them to set the places that on to allow them to speak to stats and kind of people. everything is pre space and pre meditated. so we don't really get a ride picture about what's happening in about a, despite total of that, i think these numbers and these, this facts about an events that happens doing. and he's, excuse me, presidency really tell us, tells us a lot about what's the overall sense is there have been campaigns online. and that's sure there's a sense of relief, a sense of happiness, iranians in that aspect have been expressing happiness. him, it's not because of the big dish of one past, and of course nobody will be celebrating at this. but it's the fact that he was associated with lots of crackdowns with, with um, you know,

execution of the positions of the 80 is when he was a public prosecute to any right. and the fact that he was very close to the supreme need. i really that didn't help his case, so i don't think there is a widespread sense of grief as to the, to the shop. now we've seen footage of a black turban on the coffin of the late president. can you tell us what the significance of that is? yes. in the she a face um the clarity's where either white stabbing or black tub and the black tub and signifies that they are descendants from prophet mohammed. um and um it's, it's in the, in the local calls transition into political culture. and it's a very um, as soon as the symbol i believed due to my ization of power, if you will, because if you are to send them from the process of the phase, then by default you carry a 2nd degree of gravity toss on. and they just timothy, and the interesting thing about this prayer session was that's the supreme need

that repeated the sentence, that is the best in the special prayer for that. and sees that says we have not seen anything but good deeds. but from these people in arabic and he, he repeated that quite a few times in his prayer and a just to give you an and an example of how important this bus is when he was doing the prayer for, for me as a rough and john and he did not recycle, not that. so it shows that he uses these vices of, of the prayer to express his own views about people. okay? so just briefly because what does ra uses death mean for those fighting for protection of human rights? any around because there are, have been quite a few people going out on the streets. demonstrating says it

was a system. and when you take one and a month out of the system, really it doesn't make that much sense. it was symbolic because he was associated with executions in 18. but i don't think it means that we are going to see a more peaceful approach on this. so thanks very much, that was sarah, both of us and the from the german institute global an area studies. so russia of the military says it has begun tactical nuclear weapons drills near ukraine. the exercises are taking place in russia's southern military district, which according to the kremlin, includes parts of ukraine under occupation. moscow says the drills are in response to threats from western officials. this comes as germany's for a minister on the land about bulk visited keep on tuesday, she says the world needs to do more to support ukraine's air defenses from russian area with tax assessing the

damage as workers. cleo ways, the russell this paula plant near keith used to provide millions with electricity until it was heavily damaged by rushing me. so in april and the gentleman foreign ministers visit here is the latest reminder of what you crane needs most. we still need to weigh more ad defense because the, some of the rockets and missiles could be brought down by adding sense, but obviously not all of them and it's a directly and so typically directs a tech on infrastructure to enable the lives the survival here in the brain, and this is why i'm calling worldwide to, to increase the defense support as their books didn't come empty handed. she said nearly 1000000000 years has been raised globally to support ukraine with more air

defense systems. but even that is not enough to protect the country from russia's relentless strikes and the thrust from moscow on old, subsiding russia now says it has begun. tactical nuclear weapons drills close to ukraine. menu wondering what could trigger they use. i don't know, but put in might think, but if he sees that russia might be losing in ukraine because natal decides to deploy troops, and especially if cried me or comes under attack. and there is a potential for rush and loss of crime yet. i think that he might just as well order the use of tactical nuclear weapons the threat as a potential nucleus try pulls this another probably the most serious challenge to the wes promise to support to ukraine. no matter what. she spoke

about this a short while ago. with the w as eastern europe editor rowman, gunter ranko. he gave me his assessment of russia's nuclear drills, ukrainians, believe, and exploits. i've been talking to a seed also. um this way that those products are directed actually also to ukraine, but of the west as a major supporter of ukraine was weapons. and this moment this morning came and kind of interact. confirmation of that of that thesis. the russian foreign ministry has said that it will not leave it just by diplomatic respons fronds should set the troops to ukraine. president mac roland has mentioned this as an option, and this is what actually a roster is criticizing. it is criticizing those plans, those ideas of words by weston politicians, that it could be possible at some point to send the troops to ukraine this as well

as lawrence moscow. now as you point out, the nuclear threats have been part of russia's strategy and ukraine since the beginning of its invasion. but according drills right on your board, nuclear technical nuclear weapons drills or something else. does that add weight to the threats from moscow? as absolutely it is, it is a kind of escalation. we can see it like that, but those drills are not you, but i'm not actually in you the restaurant. indeed, does that regularly box is the 1st time that are actually is doing that. so just so close to the opinion. but we're done in this solving military districts of us, as we've heard, was parts of it are um, occupied ukrainian territories, great media and the rest in the east of ukraine. and, and it's the 1st time that we're actually is doing that so openly. now i also involved the bellows, the former soviet republic, in the,

in the neighborhood of ukraine, where a restaurant station, it's a technical nuclear weapons or just only a year ago. so this is indeed a new situation or one. thank you so much. that was the deputies eastern europe editor, roland bunch of waco, german officer, jenny, up and back, and translator me kind of hop on the one the international booker prize for the novel cairo's. the book follows a love affair between a 19 year old student and an older married man in east berlin, in the 1980s, f, and back who was born and raised in east berlin is the 1st german writer to win. the international, booker, the prestigious board, recognizes books from around the world that had been translated into english, a girl watching dw news coming to you live from rowland up. next, it's close up, taking a closer look at how cars drive car tires,

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