this is bbc news 7 welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories. international condemnation of what appears to be the systematic killing of ukrainian civilians by retreating russian forces. explosions in the southern port of odesa — ukrainian officials say missiles have hit critical infrastructure. the city's mayor condemns the attack. with vote counting underway in hungary's elections,

prime minister viktor orban appears to be comfortably ahead. however and if you havejustjoined us, welcome to bbc news. —— hello. we begin this hour, of course, in ukraine. president zelensky has accused russian soldiers of committing genocide as they retreated from towns outside kyiv. the country's prosecutor general says more than 400 bodies have been recovered from the area so far. calls for accountability have come from the us, the uk, germany and others — while russia has called the reports a fabrication. there are reports of mass graves in bucha — north west of kyiv. civilians appear to have had their hands and feet bound before being shot. this report from our correspondent orla guerin. now the immediate danger

has passed, the cost is being counted, home by home. some damage is irreparable. oleg takes me into his front garden, the scene of a possible war crime, where an ordinary family was hit by a russian missile. his two—year—old stefan was buried under the rubble. translation: he fell asleep in bed | with new sheets because he wanted| to sleep in ones with stars, so my wife did that for him. he fell asleep, and he never woke up again. he says stefan knew the alphabet and could count to ten. he was lively and liked to play, but his final days were spent below ground hiding from bombs — not in the garden that was attended with love.

the russians may have gone from around kyiv, but oleg is sure the war will grind on. translation: while putin is alive he will be trying - constantly to come to ukraine, and this war will continue unless there's a change in power in russia and unless people learn what's really happening here. at front lines nearby, a glimpse of the damage, of the battles that raged here just a few days ago. ukrainian forces now reclaiming territory after the russians retreated towards belarus. well, here in this area the russians have withdrawn. ukrainian troops tell us that they were in a village just up the road. they occupied that village. they pulled back two or three days ago, and now ukrainian forces are inside the area

checking for mines. in the village of kosorovychi, the russians fired from outside people's front doors, using them as human shields. that's according to mihailo, who had just emerged from the village, and told me they killed one of his neighbours. "his house is at the end of the road," he said, "a two—storey house. "he went home and opened the gate. "he was found lying there shot dead." for the troops, a moment of rest. but there is new trauma here. every day new horrors are coming to light, and there are battles ahead, in the east and south of ukraine. orla guerin, bbc news, north of kyiv. nadia volkova is founder and director of the ukrainian

legal advisory group — a group of lawyers working on justice and accountability in ukraine since 2015. and since 2018 they've been looking at war crimes. earlier she described her reaction to the images she is seeing now — compared with years ago. because it's a new phase, it's a lot more violent and a lot more cruel, i suppose, then what we saw in 2014 and subsequent years, until february 2022. what sort of challenges are there for the lawyers who are part of your group and other organisations you work with, and indeed the state authorities in ukraine, in terms of collating and assembling the sort of evidence in the middle of a war? yes, it's been like this since 2014, in fact, and now it's just got a lot bigger and more challenging. it's a massive challenge for the domestic system because since 2014, obviously,

ukrainian domestic system was faced with the challenge of investigating and prosecuting allegedly committed war crimes, and crimes against humanity. and in this process, ukraine had to build its capacity and, you know, to be able to deal with these crimes, but now, since 2014, the scale of it, the sheer scale and the number isjust going to massively increase and by the time ukrainian legal system is again once more basically disabled by the scale. given all of that, presumably it will be some time after the actual conflict ends before we are likely to see any effective prosecution process. of any of those who are accused, even if it's possible to identify them.

what form should that take? ukraine will have been a party to the war. will it be possible, or if you like, will it be credible for ukrainians to be prosecuting these crimes when they were committed by a state enemy on other ukrainians? that's a very good question. there are several mechanisms already available or in the process of being launched, for example, there are various states that have opened already investigations, and they are forming joint investigative teams together with ukraine. there is also the international criminal court and also the regional mechanism, the european court of human rights, that's still available until september 2022. however, there is a great need for ukrainian legal system to be able to tackle these challenges, these crimes, as well, and be an active participant said that ukraine, ukrainian victims,

ukrainian witnesses, can see justice being delivered effectively. and ukraine is the state where it must happen. can i ask... sorry to interrupt, but we are a bit tight for time. can i ask, finally, what's the lesson of what happened in the former yugoslavia in the 1990s? is that a good, or at least, a potential model for ukraine this time around? absolutely, yes. this is something that ukraine should look closely at and adopt something similar because instead of the yugoslav tribunal we have the icc now, but at the domestic level, when it was set up, the bosnian war crimes tribunal, this is something similar we are aiming for as well. let's go live to be depressed now, the party headquarters of fidesz, the party headquarters of fidesz, the ruling party, were viktor 0rban, the ruling party, were viktor 0rban, the prime minister called the things he has won again. —— live to

budapest. he says, "we have won a great victory, victory so great you can see perhaps from the moon and certainly from brussels." you're watching bbc news. let's stay with the election in hungary. earlier our correspondent nick thorpe was in budapest, outside mr 0rban�*s party headquarters. the hungarian electoral system is based on a mixture of first past the post and proportional representation. in terms of the individual constituencies, 106 individual constituencies, fidesz, mr 0rban�*s party, is ahead in 87 and the opposition are ahead in 19. that's on the basis of 67% of the votes counted. whereas on the party lists, fidesz has 56% to the opposition�*s 32%. and there's also something of an

upset, an interesting result here. the far right mi hazank mozgalom, 0ur homeland movement looks set to get into parliament, with over 6%. so at the state of the evening, with well over half the votes counted, it looks like it will be a landslide victory for viktor 0rban and certainly this would be a remarkable achievement, four consecutive terms in office, if, of course, with the caution, if this is confirmed with the official results. what does it mean for the kinds of policies that viktor 0rban would pursue if he is re—elected, given that he has had this fairly combative stand—off with the eu over the way money is spent and whether or not hungary is sufficiently robust in its anti—corruption procedures? that's right. he, ithink, would interpret, on past form, this result, if that's what it turns into, as a massive vote of legitimacy.

he can turn around, as he has done so often in the past, to brussels and say, "look, i have the backing, the strong legitimacy, the strong democratic legitimacy, of my own people, so who are you to challenge that?" and i think that the eu's response would be, as it has been until now, "we're sorry, there are eu values and if you run roughshod over the rule of law," as the european court of human rights has often found, as the european court ofjustice has often found, then they will continue to challenge him. so i think it does increase the risk, or the strong likelihood of further conflict between the fidesz government and the european union in future. you might hear shouting in the background there, i am outside the fidesz headquarters and in the last minute, more and more fidesz supporters are arriving here and every now and then, we get a cheer as a new result comes in from around the country.

let's go back to party headquarters, that building nick was standing outside of, in the heart of budapest. the desk, the mood there is extremely upbeat foot of —— fidesz, the mood there is upbeat. and it's not hard to see why when you look at the preliminary results which show fidesz, the party of viktor 0rban, who famously said he was campaigning for a liberal democracy rather than liberal democracy, projected to win a majority in the parliament was of the opposition, despite the fact they had united several parties under a single leadership for the selection and thought they had a pretty good chance of lasting viktor 0rban, have won only 57 seats according to the preliminary results. bear in mind, some of the big cities still haven't complete accounting. 70% of votes have been counted have to say, that's a pretty

big margin for viktor 0rban. counted have to say, that's a pretty big marginforviktor 0rban. he first won in 1998, served a four year term then, lost in 2002, and has been back in office since 2010. bearin has been back in office since 2010. bear in mind... s, 29 may 2010 he was re—elected and has been in office continuously ever since. this would be his fourth term as prime minister of hungary. he has a significant amount of political clout, of course, from being a long incumbent, not least, of course, in brussels, where he is with the departure of angela merkel the longest continuously serving eu leader, and indeed, the eu leader who first got into office, earlier than any other eu leaders. it's worth remembering when he was first elected prime minister in 1998, tony blair had only been in office in the uk for about a year at the time. his critics say, of course, he's gone from being a liberal liberal to being one rather hostile to many of the things he once believed in what he campaigned against communism. we

will go to opposition headquarters. i would say opposition party but of course, it's not a party, it is an alliance of parties which looks like it is fails to break through. not sure if this is a concession speech by the party candidate to be prime minister, the alliance's candidate to be prime minister, but the position at the moment, with 70% of the votes cast, with the protection of only having 57 seats in a 190 member parliament, is that his brave attempt at dislodging the prime minister viktor 0rban by burying their own differences, this attempt has failed, it would appear to be the case. let me just check one more thing for you. yes, this is in fact the leader of the alliance, the 49—year—old leader of, there would—be prime minister who is taking on, peter marki—zay there, addressing the opposition alliance, and one assumes, they won cannot be

certain, i'm afraid i don't speak hungarian, one assumes, not least by his facial expression and the lack of response from the crowd, that that was probably something close to a concession speech, or at least, an acknowledgement that the alliance of parties in hungary has not done as well, anything like as well, as they needed to or as they hoped. the british government says — unlike some european countries — it won't consider energy rationing. energy bills have increased significantly for households in england, scotland and wales, partly due to the war in ukraine. and also the effects of an energy price cap which was revised again on friday. a new energy strategy is due to be released this week — as the bbc�*s politcal correspondent iain watson reports. with fuel costs soaring, some people are already rationing their own energy use. david blythen is on universal credit and, at his flat near sheffield, he has stopped using gas. he now relies on relatively cheaper electricity for washing and heating. we are living in the 21st century and ifeel as if i am

going backwards and doing things that, you know, are probably what you would hear people did in the olden days. the government has not ruled out more help for fuel bills in the coming months, but labour and some conservative mps have been turning the heat up on the government now. i feel angry at the scale of the crisis people in this country are facing and the lack of response from government in the spring statement and promises of things, announcements in the future, just won't cut it. but this week, the prime minister will focus on what the government will do in the longer term to secure the country's energy supplies in a more volatile world. it was almost a month ago when the prime minister promised us a new energy strategy within days, but the details and the financing have proved tricky. some of his own cabinet colleagues were worried that any moves to make it easier to build new, onshore wind farms in england, could prove politically unpopular, so i am told any specific targets for increasing wind production

onshore could be dropped. people could be given lower fuel bills if they agree to have wind farms in their area, but the core energy strategy will focus on new nuclear capacity over time and an expanding offshore wind. by and large, i think it is better to build significant wind power offshore. i think that is where it performs better, because it tends to be windier, apart from anything else, you can build it, huge masts, much, much bigger than they could ever be onshore. more controversial are plans to increase north sea oil and gas production in the short—term. the government says its commitment to reduce carbon emissions is unshakeable, but a lot of political energy will now be needed to change how we power our industries and heat our homes. iain watson, bbc news. the prime minister is reported to be trying to get more nuclear power stations built, not least because we

only have one nuclear power station in the uk after 2030, is all the others will have gone out of operation and it's not clear that hinkley, the new reactor, the hinckley site in somerset, will at that stage have come online. so could building more nuclear power stations in the uk help wean consumers of dependence on gas? it's a question i put to energy analyst david cox. new nuclear takes a long time to build. most of the projects that we we see being built around europe have delayed, well over budget and well over time to build them. so new nuclear, which i think we need simply to replace the nuclear that we're shutting due to old age, etc, but it's going to take ten years or more to build new nuclear of any significant volume. offshore wind takes time to build as well. it takes time to build the infrastructure of the wires to get the power onshore, and it's much more expensive than onshore wind.

0nshore wind is the cheapest. it's easy to build. it's easy to maintain. but people don't seem to like wind farms, looking at wind farms in our countryside. planning seems to be the real problem here. not so much the capacity to generate energy. it's whether people will tolerate, whether they're nuclear power stations up the road or wind turbines above their heads. i appreciate that your special interest with energy policy, but you presumably also want to see kind of variety and energy and more energy produced at a more affordable and sustainable way. how can politicians go about it in a way that perhaps they haven't gone about it before? are there lessons they could learn internationally about making these options more attractive? well, i think they've got to look at taking the public with them and maybe the shock of these very high energy prices we're seeing at the moment, going even higher because of the ukraine war,

is the shock that they need to allow them to, government to install things like onshore wind and new nuclear in the countryside. we need to make ourself much more independent of foreign suppliers of energy, and that does mean taking gas and oil from the north sea as much as we can, and taxing those companies and keeping the royalties such that we can subsidise other parts of government policy. but it does mean the public accepting some of these things, rather than maybe things like the lights going out next winter. if putin decides to turn off the gas next winter, we will have severe problems. i'm looking at the amounts of electricity we're producing at the moment from gas, and it's 42%, 14% from nuclear and 25% from wind. so without gas, even at the moment, we would struggle to keep the lights on. so we need to think about making our supply

of energy more secure as well as affordable, and those things often are in tension together. low cost airline easyjet says it's cancelled around 62 flights on monday, which it's blamed on high rates of coronavirus among crew. the airline says the cancellations are a small part of its entire flying programme for tomorrow but had no other choice. this decision comes on a weekend when airports and aviation business have been coping with increasing demand as people begin to travel again. the conservative mp david warburton has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital to be treated for shock and stress, his wife has told the bbc. it comes after allegations about his conduct that led to him being suspended from the conservative parliamentary party. accusations of sexual harassment are being investigated. mr warburton, the mrwarburton, the mp mr warburton, the mp for somerton and frome in somerset since 2018, said earlier he had enormous amounts of defence.

up to 40 cars and vans have been damaged in a series of arson attacks near bristol in the early hours of the morning. it's not clear what motivated the attacks, which the city's mayor called appalling and shameful. police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage. at least six people have died in an early—morning shooting in sacramento, california, on sunday, the city's police department has confirmed. police said several blocks of a commercial stretch of the downtown area were closed while they investigate. they also say 12 people have been injured in the shooting. kathy lester is head of the police force in the city. we had officers in the area that heard shots fired and responded to the area of 10th and k. they found a very large crowd here, and they also found that we had a number of people that were shot in the area. those officers, we know, rendered aid to our victims and called for additional assistance from outside agencies, as well as our medical responders

with the local fire department here. so the scene behind me is where this happened, and right now we do not have a suspect in custody on this, and were asking for the public�*s help. again, this is a really tragic, unfortunate situation. it is 40 years since argentina invaded the falkland islands — the moment that sparked britain's biggest military mobilisation at the time since the second world war, with the islands recaptured two months later, in june 1982. it was a transformative moment for the then prime minister margaret thatcher — who went on to win two further general elections. and it was a conflict with a lasting legacy for those who served — as allan little now reports. "every year at this time," he says, "i change. "the war comes back." there was just a wall of fire. it was an horrendous tracer filled, billet filled mountain.

mike carr was a 19—year—old paratrooper. he fought in the battle to take mount longdon, overlooking the capital, port stanley. we went back to the basics of war. it was back to bayonets, back to grenades, back to guys on the ground and hand—to—hand fighting. it's the reality of war. with all the modern technology, someone has to still go and clear that ground, and that's what we did and i believe we did a brilliantjob. an experience like that changes you, doesn't it? totally. argentine forces seized the islands on april the 2nd. their poorly trained, mostly conscripted soldiers had no idea what was coming. within days, britain began assembling a huge naval task force. military commanders warned the prime minister, margaret thatcher, that a war to retake the islands could cost many hundreds of british lives. margaret went right round the table and asked each member to give theiropinion,

and i rememberwhen it came to my turn i said, "if the fleet doesn't sail this "government will fall", and i think that was an accurate perception of the fragility of margaret's position. it is easy to forget now how unpopular mrs thatcher had become before the falklands. the risks of going to war were huge, but british sovereignty had been violated by an act of aggression and, for her, the imperative was clear. the government has now decided that i a large task force will sail as soon . as all preparations are complete. the first ships set sail on the 1st of april. the war began at sea, a british submarine sank the argentine battleship general belgrano, on may the 2nd. two days later, the argentines struck the royal navy destroyer hms sheffield. when they landed on the islands, british troops had to walk 90 miles

across rough ground, carrying 50 pound packs. a new verb entered the language, tojomp. 255 british servicemen were killed, more than 600 argentines. it now took just three more weeks to defeat an ill—equipped argentine force. the troops returned to a different britain. the 1970s had been a bruising and demoralising decade of economic decline and industrial strife. a new sense of pride now swept the country. it transformed mrs thatcher's standing. she would govern for the rest of the decade and largely reshaped britain's economy and society. many of the men who fought that war live with it still. it was the defining experience of their lives. the guys in 3 para, it is a brotherhood, and once you join, and fought like we did, you're always a member of the brotherhood. my wife has said, on some of the reunions we have been on, "you are just young guys again in old bodies", which we are. alan little, bbc news.

now, i should say that i don't speak hungarian but it wasn't a difficult gas, let's be honest, peter marki—zay has conceded defeat in the hungarian general election, viktor 0rban has been re—elected for a fourth time. no time for a look at the weather. hello there. a big change is taking place in our weather. some places started on sunday morning with temperatures below —7 celsius, but monday morning will start on a much milder note, but with some damp and breezy weather, courtesy of a frontal system pushing in from the north west. it is a warm front, so, as the name suggests, behind it, the air will be turning warmer, or at least milder. this wedge of milder air spilling south eastwards across the uk dominating the weather as we head into monday. so, as we go through tonight, that frontal system will bring cloud and outbreaks of rain, moving south eastwards and particularly heavy rain over higher ground in western scotland and after a chilly evening in the south, temperatures will tend to climb through the night,

so by monday morning, 6—11 degrees. a very, very different feel, with lots of cloud, some outbreaks of rain, some heavy bursts of rain, clearing southwards through the morning and then in england and wales, seeing something a little drier, still with a lot of cloud, the odd spot of drizzle, limited brightness, showery rain then returning to northern and western scotland and parts of northern ireland, as we go through the afternoon. top temperatures typically 11—15, so milder than it has been, colder than that, though, across the far north in shetland and as we move out of monday into tuesday, we bring this weather front southwards. this is a cold front, so it tries to reintroduce some cold air. now, at this stage, it looks like the cold air will not make a lot of progress southwards, so most of us stay with mild conditions. some brightness down towards the south, generally quite a lot of cloud, outbreaks of rain especially through northern england, northern ireland and southern scotland and then on the northern edge of that weather system, well, remember that cold air? it is likely that we will see some snow, especially

over the high ground, in the highlands, and the grampians. we could be looking at 10—20 centimetres of snow, particularly as we head into tuesday night. just 4 or 5 degrees here on tuesday afternoon, 4 in aberdeen, 10 in glasgow and from glasgow, edinburgh southwards, we stay in the mild air. through tuesday night into wednesday, this area of low pressure moves its way eastwards, deepening as it goes, so there will be some brisk winds, still some snow in northern scotland, blustery showers elsewhere on wednesday and that cold air tries to sink further south as we head towards the end of the week, there could be some further wintry weather for some.