[000:00:00;00] ah, wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to go. ah, this is al jazeera, ah, your watson is our line from a headquarters in delphi and getting an obligation coming up in the next 60 minutes . at the scene of a reported massacre, the ukranian president says the world must hold russia responsible for war crimes. russia dismisses the allegations of a massacre as fate while calls grow for war crimes,

trial and more sanctions on moscow. sherland has main opposition, rejects the president's offer to join the government a day after the entire cabinet resigned to thought a good deal. yeah. and the big upset in costa rica, a political outsider, has been elected president. and his full tank of woods is targeting a return to competitive action of this week's masters. after more than a year out of the game woods could play in the 1st major of the welcome to the news. our ukraine's president has made the journey from his bunker in keith, to boucher, a town near the capital. that's where russian forces have been accused of slaughtering civilians. vollmer zalinski spoke to the media, saying the international community must hold russia's presidential responsible for

war crimes. ventured glenda george lewis should have no food festival. it's very important that we have media over and over. you know, i would like you to show the world what was happening over there. what was done by russian. and i'm a military man by rational ration in your plan. it is very important for us for you to see if that is useful, the full flight and for the best who live without actually city without water and decide that a post. oh gosh, look your pies. there is no difference but to be in the authorities and the people of the present is from the captured and killed. all disturbing images of also appeared from neighboring err. p in russia says that it rejects all allegations and says,

the videos of the bodies are fake. my regular i never faked act is arranged in the city or breach in care of region, off the russian military left from the in accordance with the plant and agreement. reach there was a staging dam few days later, which is why he promoted now for china was in social networks by ukrainian representatives and their western patrons. a butcher is just northwest of keys in a town where russian troops recently withdrew from al jazeera, enron con, is there just a warning. some viewers may find the following images disturbing. it was march the 10th when they 1st started burying bodies head in the grounds of this church. now the priest had tells us that they had to negotiate with the russians to be able to allow this to happen. now some of these people died of the injuries because of the will of others, died of natural causes. as the weeks went on,

though they had to keep burying bodies, hit one on top of the other, they put them in black flags to give them some sort of dignity in death. in total, at least $68.00 people were buried. now throughout the day we've seen people come to this church to try and find out if their loved ones actually buried. the moves here were completely full. so this was the only option that they had. but this isn't the only burial side in this town across the town, people were burying the dead wherever they could in the front yards in common areas . they've actually wrapped the bodies, hey, in black bags to give them some sort of dignity and death. or we have dosage of our standing by for us in moscow and my kind of over in washington dc. we'll get reaction in a moment. but 1st let's bring in rob mcbride, who's joining us from the vive to tell us about the ukranian president's visit. and what's come out of it? yeah, i think president zelinski clearly feeling it was important for him to see for

himself this alleged massacre bringing international media where they also to documented how they expressing the outrage of a fellow ukrainians across the country right now. what they see as a deliberate massacre of civilians. he said that, you know, it is hard to negotiate with russians who can do this. but pointing to the bodies that were that in front in front of him and the international media. but, but stating that it is so vitally important to end this war as soon as possible, asking as he has done in the past. how can this be happening in the 21st century in the middle of europe? so yeah, really expressing some outrage, but also calling once more for more sanctions against russia, asking european nations, how can they be importing gas from such a country, calling for that just stop importing russian gas. and so they, we know that he also us the international community to come and see for themselves

. and as russia withdraws its troops from some of these areas, especially north, east and north west. if keep ukrainian force to take over, we are sadly likely to see more atrocities alleged atrocities being uncovered. and as we also see, international media going into these places, we are getting 1st hand accounts from people in places like butcher saying, just describing how russian troops entered their apparently shooting indiscriminately when they 1st went in a cases of alleged torture of people. and then they withdrew from places like boucher claims that they deliberately targeted civilians on their way out. rob, so seeing images from bucetti or p and or the so far they only reported atrocities that we're hearing off. these are the, the main atrocities that the,

that have been reported in earth p. we are also seeing images that now circulating on international news. me. a use agent sees a camera, people walking around from house to house, seeing apparently more bodies in gardens, in alleyways and so on. and we've heard from the prosecutor general's office of ukraine that there will be investigations of all that these incidents intimating that the cases we're seeing in boucher are not actually the most serious cases of alleged of alleged war crimes. so indicating that we are likely, sadly, as russian forces withdraw further north and disengage that we are likely to see other cases of civilians, apparently having a being killed in such a way. all right, thank you so much. rob mcbride reporting from leave u. s. president. job aid and has spoken in the past hour and says that he wants russia and it's leader to be

tried for war crimes. he is a war, but we have to gather the information. we have the can you to provide you re, with both weapons, navy could continue the fight and we have to gather all the detail. so this to be an actual have a war crime trial. this guy is brutal and what's happening with outrageous and everyone feeling. so a breakdown biden's comments with mike hannah, he's joining us from washington dc. so the president weighing in just about an hour or so ago might just talk us through what he had to say. how significant are his comments his he was returning to the white house from a weekend at home in delaware, and certainly visibly angry president biden, using, for example, the word brutal calling for a war crimes trial against vladimir putin. but significantly, he was off directly whether he agrees that what happened in trend particular is an

example of widespread genocide. president biden would not comment on that at this particular point. now this is notable, given that genocide has a particular legal term, even in his anger, the u. s. president not prepared to go that far. he did it on the issue of war crimes. he had initially been reluctant to use that phrase with regard to that, to me, a putin saying that the legal issues had to be clarified, that is apparently clarified to his satisfaction at this point. now he's actually calling for a war crimes trial against the russian president. this an uptick in terms of the u . s. response to the ongoing situation in ukraine. or we also have a number of us senators, mike who are pushing to remove russia from the human rights council. where things stand with that well, that movement is coming from the us ambassador to the us, linda thomas greenfield,

who has called on the un general assembly to vote on russia's membership of the you human rights council records being a member. now, in the 2nd year of a 3 year term, incidentally, the a good general assembly has both to twice on ukraine each time it got $140.00 votes or more in terms of condemning russia. now in terms of the general assembly, vote on russia's membership of the human rights council that needs to be a to the majority. but if we look at those previous votes, that 2 thirds majority is there. so one set you, in general assembly boats happens, it's likely that russia will be voted off the human rights council. this is happened once before in 2011, but libya was voted for the human rights council. so this a significant uptake in terms of un action, the un itself being a little battlefield in recent hours. russia had one to the security council

meeting taking place today to discuss what happened in boucher to defend itself. however, the security council is now ruled that it had a meeting scheduled for tuesday. it will not hold the meeting today. it will go ahead with its scheduled meeting match to the jury up russia. ok, thank you so much my counter reporting from washington and let's get more on rushes defense with moscow. dorothy jabari is joining us from there. so the russians dismissing the allegations of the reported massacre as fake doors. so what more are they saying officially? and on the record, while the russian position has been one of denial and counter accusation, according to the criminal spokesperson, dmitri pess called, he said earlier that a russia rejects any allegations that they had anything to do with the news that is coming out of boucher. he said that the russian officials are urging the international leaders and community to really take

a minutes and listen to all the different evidence that the russians will have to present before making up their minds and not to rush to any kind of conclusion. dimitri pest called also said that the accounts that they've received from the ukranian officials about the events that unfolded in boucher don't really add up to the russian version of events. according to him, the russian at defense ministry says that they left boots on march 30th, and that when they left that city in the troops withdrew, everything was in order according to them. and that's what they have now heard a few days later doesn't really match their accounts. and there are versions of events hinting that possibly there is some kind of a tampering with the footage that has come out. we've also heard that a pest called saying that they believe the footage to be fake, suggesting that it's been contrived to really build this narrative against a russian forces. and this is seen as part of

a larger issue. and that it's an unprecedented misinformation campaign that has been waged against russia. thank you so much source of jabari reporting from moscow . the mayor of merrier poll says 90 percent of the southern besieged fort city is destroyed. tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped there for weeks with little food, water and other supplies. russian forces have surrounded the city and have been bombing it for weeks. ukraine is accusing russia, blocking evacuation efforts by the red cross. there is quite a lot of people still i remaining in that absolutely blocked absurdly siege. sit there for many open and some inhumane condition. there is no water supply. no electricity, no heat, you know, communications no matter since 130000 people are still there in the city of medieval. germany's defense minister says that you must now consider banning the

importance of all russian gas. dominic cane has more from berlin. what you have here is a growing recognition from the political elite here suddenly the governing parties that what's in place right now is not enough in so far as sanctions is concerned. so different voices, again from the same policy. as mrs. lambert, the defense minister, over the course, the last 24 hours had been saying that further measures are needed. so the, the general secretary, as it were, of the party yesterday evening was saying that the tap to russian gas was being tightened further. and we know that the chancellor, mister shots, over the course of the last few days in response to the scenes from boucher said that further sanctions would be necessary. we know that his colleague, the foreign minister under the annabel bought from the green party, had said substantially the same thing. so it's pretty clear that the scenes in boucher have been greeted with revulsion. not just in berlin, but also in paris. it seems. and there is

a growing willingness to talk about it's much further sanctions. the key for germany at least is if they were, as it were to push this idea of absolute ban on all russian energy, there would be a very serious shortfall in the amount of gas available to all sorts of different uses. be that domestic people in their household, but also industry and we don't know as yet how the german government would seek to address this drastic shortfall if such a buy and were introduced. so i'll germany pushes that you to discuss and import ban on russian gas that might prove difficult. and that's because the european union gets more than 40 percent of its natural gas from russia. about a 3rd of that passes through ukraine. germany is the biggest single importer, it gets more than half its supplies from russia, much of

a through the north stream one pipeline. italy is the 2nd biggest with 40 percent fits needs coming from russia. the netherlands imports about 25 percent care gilles as a senior consulting fellow of the russia and eurasia program at chatham house. he says, you're cutting off imports of rush and gas. what had moscow hard, but would be very difficult to pull off. russia is always been dependent on raw materials and energy 1st and foremost among them in order to bring in foreign currency. and at the moment when russia hard currency reserves overseas have been targeted by the foot wave of sanctions, its energy ex look that are actually topping them out and eroding the impact of all of those sanctions that were imposed after their onslaught on your right. so for this proposal by germany to, to suddenly cut the use dependence on rushing energy to go through it will take not only a huge amount of reorientation or european economies, but also it'll be a huge impact on the russian economy itself. well,

the problem that european economies have is not just that it will mean an increase cost of living for europeans on top of the enormous costs increases for energy that they've already seen. but also it means reversing decades of economic policy. germany in particular has been warned for decades about the impact of moving away from, for example, nuclear power, and becoming more and more dependent on russia. but germany was insisting that all of these energy point loan, like the north stream one you mentioned were purely economic project. and that would be no political impact. now that they painted themselves into a corner, it's going to be very painful and expensive to extricate himself from it. well, we don't have any strategic leadership for dealing with the fact that this russian attack on your grain is actually just the 1st stage in their onslaught on europe. that is missing and of course sanctioned are only one part of the overall plan that would be needed to deal with it. hollins, prime minister has called for the creation of an international commission to investigate the killings. now the boost of more she's such the crime of genocide must be judge,

must be properly documented and judgment of. and therefore we call for the establishment of an international commission to investigate the crime of genocide in these towns in ukraine. but here is a look at some of the more, some of the reaction that's coming from europe to the allegations of atrocities in ukraine. the british prime minister born johnson says he hopes to get a tough response from allies to what he's called despicable attacks that are akin to a quote horror movie. the estonian prime minister tweeted this is not a battlefield. it's a crime scene. the french president and i knew in my cross says there is clear evidence of war crimes in boucher i was just here was natasha butler is in paris with more was thinking on french radio, the french present a minute mike crawl said that the european union would consider urgently another round of functions on russia, particular things like oil and on coal. now micro said that the sanctions were

necessary because what he said was growing evidence of war crimes and atrocities. he said were being committed by russian forces in ukraine. he talks about the situation in the port city of mario pole in the south of ukraine where thousands of civilians would be trapped now for weeks. in the most appalling conditions. unable to leave frances, been working with agencies on the ground to try and put in place humanitarian corey doors. but so many people continue to remain in that city. he also talked, of course, about the things that we have seen in butcher just outside of the capital of ukraine, west villians bodies have been seen lying in the streets of the body since, and i think we are all extremely shocked. and we have a very firmly condemned vague 2nd, it's clear that there are very clear signs today pointing to war crimes, the russian army that was in butcher like we have also signaled to ukrainian or forty's our willingness to assist them in the investigation. they are currently conducting,

international justice should be enforced. and so those who are responsible for these crimes should answer for them and said it is key with a you foreign policy chief usa, burrell said that there would be urgent discussions on a new round of sanctions. he confirmed that we've also heard from other member states, we've heard from a spain, from poland, both describing a, some of the acts by russian forces in ukraine as genocide, warsaw even asking for an international investigation into atrocities in ukraine to be put in place immediately. ah, hong kong chief executive carry lamb says she will step down in june. her tumultuous 5 year term was marred by the worse social unrest than 5 decades, and an unprecedented number of deaths in the territory. since the pandemic began.

adrian brown reports from hong kong july, 2017, and carry lamb is sworn in as hong kong forth chief executive, she'd been the territories deputy leader. so this had been expected. ah, what was unforeseen though, with a tumultuous events that followed months of protests in 2019 led to the imposition of a wide ranging national security law. it stifle dissent, but provoked an exodus by those who no longer saw a future here. an exodus that has grown since the lamb administration further tightened already strict measures to combat cobit 19. more than 800000 people have left this year alone. in my view, the way the 2019 protests were handled. were evidence of incompetence and incompetent liter and political in confidence in other parts of the world. politics matters,

but here we choose leaders with no political skills. and this is the communist party's deliberate decision to do. lamb says she informed mainland china's leaders about her wish not to seek a 2nd term more than a year ago, yet waited until now to make it official or gumble, i will not be taking part in the election for the sex hunger. chief executive. i will complete my 5 year term as she effective on the 30th of june this year. and i will offer coin and to my 42 years of public service. candidates who want her job have another 12 days to submit nominations. it pays more than $670000.00 a year and comes with a palatial colonial era residence. her deputy john lee is reportedly about to enter the race. carrie lamb declined to comment on her performance during the past 5 years. but a recent weeks, she's been widely criticized over handling of the 5th outbreak of cobit 19. and the

fact this city now has one of the world's highest death rates from the virus. lamb once complained about the strain of serving to masters, the hong kong people. and china's leaders, it's a balancing act. her successor will likely have to continue. adrian brown, al jazeera, hong kong sir lanka, main opposition party has refused the president's offer to join the government. as public anger grows against the worst economic crisis in decades. goes by urge, approximate the offer. after his cabinet resigned on sunday, the central bank governor also stepped down. thousands of defied occur a few to protest against government policies in recent days. there. calling for the roger pox, a family holding the president on foreign minister post to resign. when fernandez has more from columbus and with the end of the 36 are tough, your crowds have taken to the streets once again. this is the independence monument

in the heart of the capital colombo that people were hoping to come to yesterday. but the government of fearing that it would be a massive show against the government, decided to close off all access roads. and most of the young people that are here at this protest, see they will not have their voice a silenced people, the theatre earlier. but now i think it's time that we make a stand and debbie stand up at our dates because this is ashi. lunk, i and our future, and it's demonstrations like this that have been building and recent weeks. that is really concerned the government. and what's happened now we see as of sunday night, the entire cabinet resigning on mars, as they say, to make we are for either a consensus cabinet or for the president and prime minister to look at re walking the constitution of that cabinet. but for most of the people here, if you look at the banners, it talks about. net in the roger ha, curse,

it talks about just give back the money you have stolen. so people are not convinced that there's going to be a media teams. and that's basically the main message here. as you see, it's not a voice that's going to be silenced. pakistan supreme court has adjourned a hearing on whether the prime minister, his decision to dissolve, parliament is constitutional. the arguments will be heard on tuesday. the opposition appealed against iran cons order on sunday, that triggered a political crisis that move, derailed, or no confidence vote against him. and he's called for a new election in 3 months. a political outsider as an elected president in costa rica, economist and former world bank official. rodrigo chavez, surprised many by making it to the run off series of our reports. ah, a promise to fight against the political establishment clean the house has propelled road that he will. chavez,

into co saturday gustavo job. he celebrated his victorious president of the sunday shortly after the 1st results were announced. 2 in young doyle, mom dug, look your refuse o u. i understand the mandate i have received today as an obligation to exercise my leadership with honor efficiency, transparency, ambles charity, but also with solidarity towards the most vulnerable people in our country. i assume the sacred commitment to create a democratic government with dialogue, respectful of the constitution, the law and the costa rican value. so them will get out. chavez is seen by many as an outsider, a conservative economies who defeated former president was he might be affiliated from the national liberation front. the run up to this election was filled with accusations and controversies. former president viet is faced allegations of corruption while he was in office in the 1990s,

chavez was accused of sexual harassment while working at the world bank and had to resign to prevent an investigation. he denies any wrongdoing, but this result shows rising poverty and unemployment have made costa. ricans prioritize the economy of ball. okay, so john wouldn't bunger have to order the message. chavez has is that every one has to go. that everything that happened in the past 40 years is useless and i'm going to solve this. corruption was a priority in the election and a large sector of the countries tied of the development model. that is generated inequality. chavez promises to shake up the police because last and has vowed to use referendums to bypass congress to bring change. he supporters say, it's what the country needs here by this has been o. this new option appears as hope for us. costa ricans for women, especially working women, women who are fighting go 30 guys, consider the most stable country in central america. it's been praised for its

environmental policies and political consensus. many fear, chavez, his presidency, will polarize the country even further. putting decades of stability at risk, that is i will, i'll just, cedar still ahead on the al jazeera news, our reduce emissions now or the planet hence towards a climate disaster. have details of a landmark un report coming up a promise to make changes after several deaths set a prison riot in ecuador taylor's last and one of his zealand. cricketing grate signs off his career details later. ah, let's go with here a weather report. we're going to begin in the middle east. this one feature is a whole lot of sun and high temperatures. hello, ron. good to see you. so we've got some 40 is there,

including for mecca at q $837.00, but look at this. i think you're gonna hit your 1st 40 degree day of the year on thursday, while above average not record breaking stuff, but still hot temperatures, high temperatures, to be sure. still beacon in the heat across pakistan we've got 40 is here as well. temperature is above average in afghanistan. so herat at $34.00. that's a good 10 above where you should be and is lama bud. speaking of these 40 degree temperatures, i think your 1st day of the season will come on friday, and that's getting pretty close to a record after turkey a band of rain is stretching from is stan ball right through the northern coast. as to that is knocked down temperatures in places like tramps on to just a high of 11 degrees and look at this heat to for the levant ramallah. 30 the number for you. on tuesday, our usual storms rolling across the central belts of africa and toward the northeast temperatures and hearts. zoom at 43 degrees. gonna lock in there for the next few days. and, you know, for south africa, durban, sorry, it's big. it's down port in more than

a month. some showers nearby and same goes for cape town on tuesday with a high of 20 degrees. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks of batting wash? norwood gas for western leaders or sanctions on russian energy exports. houses were such informed opinions, pharmacies not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media debt going to be attaching from leisure and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera, harmful pathogens are increasingly affecting our lives with terrible consequences. a new documentary asks why that we've learned any lessons from the

h. i. v epidemic in the fight against coven 19 how we ignored the global salve to put profits before people. and it won't cost ah time of pundents on all just ah ah, ah hello again. the top stories on the al jazeera news, our current president has traveled to bhutto or russian forces have been accused of killing civilians. paula to resolutions, he says, russia must be held to account us. president joe biden says the russia leader vladimir putin should faced trial for war crimes. moscow is denying all the allegations for

a minister survey oliver of dismissed the videos of body seen. and who tra as fe. ukraine says russia is blocking evacuation efforts by the red cross in the besieged city of mario poll. tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped there for weeks with little food, water, and other supplies. same bas ravi reports from levies. ukrainians continue to be confronted with scenes of bodies littering streets as they returned to towns and villages abandoned by russian forces. ukraine's leaders want russia to be held accountable for what they call crimes against humanity. the mayor of the ukrainian town of mortician, 50 kilometers west of keep the local residents se was killed in an execution style, slaying her husband and son by her side. so we'll have but 3 months. does our mir olga patrice natural?

her husbands go was he leverage and san sasha. these are are local residents who are kidnapped from the village on march 23rd. reports are also emerging of russian soldiers using tactics associated with criminal gangs to hunt down ukrainian volunteers. in the village of civil rancor, the body of a 44 year old member of the ukrainian territorial defense found in a sewage maintenance shaft. his wife said he'd been kidnapped by russian soldiers. you little will if a quiver in our village there were traitors who showed them where they were. but most of them escaped as did my son. but he took another man as well in boucher one woman found her husband's body in a basement nearly 2 weeks after reported him missing. i did that because you don't know your book. and so when i came down, i recognized them by sous his trousers, his face was mutilated, his body was cold,

they turned it over a little. my neighbor still has a picture of his face. he had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured ukrainian officials are calling for forensic investigations by the united nations and the international court of justice. a global reckoning for what has happened in this country with president vladimir zalinski has described as a genocide, but his them to those who j is opposite to go swimming. yet hundreds of people killed, tortured, executed civilians as ugly bodies on the streets, booby trapped areas. even the bodies of the dead. a booby trapped wide spread aftermath of looting concentrated evils visited on land, the killers, executioners, rapists, marauders, who call themselves an army and who deserve only death after what they've done law . even in the safety of shelters in levine, ukrainians carry their anger with them. if i could go to war, i would go, i swear i would go, i would strangle and kill these fits with my hands. hatred,

pure hatred. the nazis did not do things as this gum does peaceful people are being shot us from morning till night. houses are collapsing, families fall apart, children die every day. you hear a child died, a child died, how money you can counted anymore, how many civilians died. we saw it all with our own eyes. whether or not russians accused of war crimes ever face consequences. ukrainians who have left homes and loved ones behind say, young and old will struggle to cope with the trauma of what they've seen for the rest of their lives. zane basra, b o. g 0, levine, ukraine. second largest city has been hit by more russian shelling. 7 people have been killed and another 12 injured a big is in car keys. this is a point of impact or the russian reside hit. now is clearly a residential area. now what they fire are these small,

tiny pellets is metal pallet, and you can see the marks all around. they've broken the windows. you can see for the long this was what the, the dam is that these do you but mocks all around is wall. you got glass on the floor for its mass. now they have a radius of around 10250 meters and the playground there. the cover and call window here was smashed. even a van all the way back there has been hit and it has a radius of 10255 meters. and we believe that one person was killed at this location. again in the middle of residential area. this 2 playgrounds, either side of me, it could have been way worse. this location 2 people were killed. the still blood on the floor. they can see through the sun that the emergency services have for

over the city. bread on the bench from those people that were sitting there. and the massage landed right in the middle of this playground. joining us to talk about the latest human rights watch report on ukraine is ida sawyer. she's the crisis and conflict director for human rights watch joining us from washington. d. c. thanks very much for speaking to us on al jazeera. so i'm just looking at your latest report titled, appearance, war crimes in russian controlled areas where you talk about summary executions and other grades of uses. tell us what you've documented. links to having need. so we had human rights watch the documented several cases of russian military forces committing apparent war crimes against civilians in areas that were occupied by the russian forces in can you have heart kings in the queue regions of ukraine to this includes one case in the ridge of starry, i'd like to use an engineer reach in north 15th or russian soldiers rounded up at

least 6 men on february 27th and later executed them. we spoke to the mother of one of the man who was nearby when her son and another man handed it. she later saw the bodies of her son and the other 5 men. she said they were a gunshot wounds and their heads in their hands were tied behind their backs. in another case, in march, 4th, rush russian forces lou church is 30 kilometers north, west of keys, rounded up 5 men, and summarily executed one of them. a witness told us how soldiers forced the 5 men to me on the side of the road and they shot one of the men who back ahead. right. we also got to it, helen, march, 6th, russian soldiers and voice loud through smoke grenade, into a basement. and shot a woman and a 14 year old child as they emerged, tell us how he collated this information and what sort of message ye methods, pardon me, you used to gather this information and to document this. so for this research we,

we interviewed are people who witnesses and victims of these, these violations are some by phone and some were able to interview in person after they had escaped. is these areas where the irish is took place? obviously, accountability is so important than in during wars. i mean what, what are you hoping that this report will, will actually achieve so the, so cases that we documented including the summary executions as well as the case of repeated grade, are violations of the laws of war. which clearly prohibit wilful, clean wave, other sexual violence in any one who orders or deliberately commit such acts. aids and events then, is responsible for war crimes, commanders of forces who knew or had reason to know that such crimes that did not attempt to stop them or punish those responsible or also criminal liable for war crimes. as a matter of command responsibility. and as you're saying, all parties to the arms conflicts any on conflicts and facts are obligated to abide

by international humanitarian law. just tell us what those responsibilities are under international law on human rights law, the honeymoon international. you can log on to work on all parties to a conflict are prohibited from willfully targeting civilians or civilian targets. there prohibited from carrying out indistinct, reckless, disproportionate attacks that could target civilians are sitting in targets as well as these cases as well. so can lead rape, sexual violence, torture in the treatment of captured, battens and civilians in custody. and so these are all violations of the laws of war. and we hope that the ukrainian authorities, they've launched their own investigations. there's also the international criminal court, which is launched in investigation into crimes committed during this conflict. and now we hope that they will carry out credible in martial investigations,

looking at potential violations by off. it's thank you so much. i desire for speaking to us from washington, d. c. for honey. now hunger is prime minister victor, oregon has declared victory in an election. there was overshadowed by the war in neighboring ukraine under simmons reports from budapest. ah, this is tim for victor. all man who likes to think of himself as the strong man of yield, his supporters are elated. whatever the overall thinking hunger, his voters have given their leader an overwhelming vote of confidence. i guess your name, in case we look pretty good. we'd never looked as good as to night. we won a huge victory from it can even be seen from the moon, but in brussels for sure. that last quit was aimed the e u. all bam is its biggest critic from within. me more our doc for the leader of

the opposition. peter mark his i who had brought together 6 parties in the united alliance. it was a humiliating loss in his home town and an overall defeat for his alliance. there is no democrat in hungary, there is no free and for action. regardless of the result. only weeks ago, opinion polls showed mark his eyes opposition gaining support. the war in ukraine and all vans close relationship with russia's president vladimir putin appeared to be negative factors. but all van told voters, they were safe with him. he wouldn't get involved in the war. nato and the e. u may be giving military support, but they will be known from hungary. and so the national assembly building in budapest remains dominated by all of them. it stands as a symbol of defiance to the liberal policies of the e u. and of all bands cooperation with russia and china for the european union. i

think this will be a very happy dilemma because if that would be a landslide victory, and apparently it would be a lengthy lighting sort of question, maybe posed better the existence of semi also retiree and members faith in the european union. it's really just a temporary challenge, or that will be the new business as usual. on monday, a european team of observers will announce whether they view the election is free and fair. in the 2018 poll they declared, it wasn't fair, and that may will be the verdict this time. opposition parties will have been telling them that problems have included limited access to the media and government induced buyers. pub of off the majority of news outlets. and so what calls this a power turnaround in or bands position. it could be a number of factors inaccurate opinion post all by claiming that the opposition

wanted hungary to join the war ukraine and perhaps more than any of the others. the fact that so many people wanted a trusted strong leader at a time of crisis. andrew simmons, al jazeera budapest, the u. s. senate judiciary committee is preparing to vote on the historic supreme court nomination of catan g brown, jackson. jacksons expected to be confirmed as soon as this week, and if confirmed she'd be the 1st black woman to serve on the country's highest course. when the guideline rate was 135, when the u. n. has released a landmark report on what's being called a climate emergency. the intergovernmental panel on climate change says, our planet is on track to exceed the average global temperature of $1.00 degrees celsius. beyond which the catastrophic effects of climate change that we're already seeing. like floods, droughts on super storms will only get worse. greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by 43 percent on methane by about

a 3rd by 2030. that can only happen if countries reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and replace it with renewable energy. the judy is reached, the verdict, and it is damaging. these reports of the intergovernmental panel on climate change is a litany of broken climate promises. it is a file of shame. cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards and, and livable worlds. we are on a fast track to climate disasters, said analysis when the clark is our environment enters our so nick, talk us through this latest report and, and tell us so what the latest findings are show are antonio terrace. as saying that was a litany, a broken promises, a file of shame, and she, they, the most distinct assessment of the report that i've seen is from the, at the co chair. he's called jim scare and he's been able to see the whole report. and his bottom line is simply, it is now, or it is never, and that's absolutely right, because time has run out the world has gone to act. now,

especially when you put into the context of the russian energy crisis that we've been talking about, the supply russian gas, i think at this point's important to sort of just put it back a bit to see how we get to here. so the i p, c, c is this you and body the overseas climate science in every 67 years. it does a, a global stop take of the state of the world's climate. and this is the 6th time round. and the 1st report of this sick cycle was last august. and if you remember, then there were bit while fall is going on in north america or in australia or in, in europe. and i was reported from turkey when this report came out. and that report highlights just how badly humanity was warping the planetary system making a climate was a very bad result to remember the code read that everybody was talking about at that time. part 2 was released at the end of february. oh, but that coincided with just days off to the russian invasion of ukraine, so it was kind of lost. but it was turned by some scientists as oblique as warning . yet an attorney could harris referred to that report as an atlas of human suffering and

a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. so that brings us to this report to part 3, which talks about mitigation or solutions, some of the routes that governments can take to try and navigate at the fight against climate change. what does report say at we're at this point where emissions need to drop by 43 percent, as you just said, by the end of the decade, that is in 8 years time. that is a very big ask. and the target we're aiming for is to be at net 0 by 2050. all this in a bit to stop temperatures rising beyond 1.5 degrees celsius. right now we're at 1.51.11.2 degrees celsius. and the effects that we've seen a terrible already. but this report shows that it is scientifically possible to keep temperatures below one and a half degrees celsius at. but it says that current f is at this moment a woefully inadequate. and basically, the climate change is moving faster than we are. so climate change needs to be taken on out the next few years. a critical report says we need greenhouse gas

emissions to peak before 2025 at 3 years time. less than that at the latest and to be reduced by nearly half by 2030. okay, so next up, clearly from what you're saying, the efforts need to be stepped up and drastically. and how do you stop this? this runaway train, what if it was a report saying aloud? well, this is where it gets a little bit contentious because the report is formulated by scientists over many, many years. and that the last minute over the last 14 days, a un member states come in and they can have their say on the way the wording is formulated because it lists policies and technologies and finances and so forth. and that starts to interfere with some of the national interests. and if you look at the wording report says a nice me substantial reduction in fossil fuels as soon as possible. that sounds to me as if it's been more to down because, you know, it's very much the focus of debate. we know we need to eliminate fossil fuels. they also talk about a phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies. that's critical last month. the i m f, calculated fossil fuel subsidies to be $5.00 trillion dollars. imagine if that was spent, owns

a research development and to renewables and so forth. also says we need to ramp up renewables and including alternative energies like hydrogen, that's also something called for cities to become more efficient at net 0 emissions from the industrial sector. it's going to be a big issue there because that accounts for quarter of global emissions. and that will demand a wholesale change in production practices. indeed, if all this is implemented is going to meet a wholesale change in the way we will live. ok, thank you so much. the clark, as our environment editor, or at least 20 people having killed in a prison right in southern ecuador, and for hours, hundreds of police officers struggle to contain the violence, catcher, lopez, hurry on as more oh, on the roof of this maximum security prison wing inmates and quinton ecuador come out for help. inside they say is too dangerous. some were evacuated, but most were tramped by prison riots. i found this,

but an amount of ain't been waiting here for more than 20 hours. i've been standing here listening to the inmates cry out for help. more than $800.00 officers responded, but they struggled to stop the violence. the interior minister says tougher laws are needed. jessica solice lusty. most of prisons unfortunately have become a permanent threat. it's been like this for some time, but to day we want to and we will take necessary action. drug wars in ecuador heavily to a surgeon, gangs fighting over the lucrative drug trade. the competition often extends into presence more than $300.00 inmates were killed last year. i had the we need help. there are people who are being killed. it's wrong with them in the countries. 65 prisons have a capacity for 30000 people, but some government officials are concerned over crowding could further magnify the

attention and violence. katya lopez. so the young al jazeera still had on the opposite news hour. we'll have the sports news for you and we'll hear from a go for his career. has just taken a huge leap forward. ah

. ah . oh. a tough for the for 2 years and the thanks so much during the time the woods looks to be doing all he can to make his golfing come back at this week's masters. the 15 time major champion, practicing here at the august the national calls on social media, he said it would be a game time decision decided whether or not the compete which has been out of

action for more than a year after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash now c times for this competition announced on tuesday with the 1st major of the year starting on thursday. american jennifer capture is one the 1st women's major of the year, the chevron championship. it was also the 1st major picture of the 24 year olds. korea should be the last place, performance coming up. now the traditional winners jumped into puppies palms, because the event is moving to houston next year, i think is a serial to be a major winner, is really special. and to be the last person here at mission hills, to jump into puppies. pardon? it's all really special. well, the lakers are in serious danger of missing the m b a playoff after i 6 straight defeat this time to denver nicholas off the nuggets with 38.3. got it any day, even go to the lake is but couldn't prevent

a $129.00. so $118.00 defeat. the lakers sit 11th in the western conference with 4 regular season games left. oh, we're want to lose brianna. so but i mean, my jobs would be on a floor have these are, you know, it's, i think are very, very hard and locker room. we're going to fight one of new zealand crickets all time grades. ross taylor has signed off his international career the 38 year old, given a goal of on a hair as he came out to fight against the netherlands in hamilton on monday, did only school 16 in his final endings for the school. over 16000 runs for his country and it was the 1st ever place and like 100 international appearances in all 3 formats of the guy boss loaner up to 2nd in the spanish league 19 year old padre school. and the only goal is they beat severe one nail. this was 50, went in a row for boss lifted above severe and less co,

madrid in the table. cassandra man were inspired by double from by killing him by an name or as they be loyal to a tale. one home went on sunday at 12 points, clair's mom over the table, but there was a goal in each house. name are rounded off, the wind little messy, also getting on the score. sure. i would just be football is on display when the world cup comes to cattle later this year, local artists are also planning to showcase their work during the tournaments. patrick rosario, the latest collection, is called the beautiful gang. the malaysian born craftsman is painting $100.00 pictures that reflect the grassroots pale of football. i pondered. why did they call this the beautiful game? you know, what is the reason who going to a word so found the words and call it a beautiful game. and i wanted to have something different. i was looking for something which is unique from the ordinary. and in december,

i got this moment when i said, let's go back to the football, began in the streets in the, in the alleyways in the paddy field. let me go and see what, what is the so i did my research to find out the photographs available that people have taken from the parts of the world. so when i look at a photograph, i like to think what happened before that in the streets, for example, the dependence, i love them begun play. this adorn go outside in the monsoons and play. so i like the story that was, that was happened that had happened at the moment a photograph was taken. v. appreciate a lot of things because of the experiences in life as well. i grew up in east militia where we didn't have toys. we played with nature so i look at elements that this is called culture in it. it is got fun in it. it has gotten us tal janet. it has got

a story behind it. i'm in the her know and i should be fortunate. a lot of artist, when i say artist, everyone singers, and dancers, and just as musicians, they all should be happy that the fee for 2022 has come to a guitar. and they should take this opportunity to make use of this the subject of footballer and married them with the skills in the calendar where they are dancer do things out of for, for football. so i think it is a great opportunity for artist and art. now motorcycling legend violence siena rossi has said himself a new challenge after retiring from mitre gp last season. italian is now trying his hand at the endurance col, racing. it did my wont be garrett at this event in italy when he accidentally drove past his pit lane. but aside from that, the 9 time world champion put in

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