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this is bbc news — i'm lucy grey. our top stories... the bbc finds evidence of russian troops using ukrainian civilians as human shields in villages just north of kyiv. and they put them in that school, and they held them as human shields. thousands remain trapped in the city of mariupol — as the ukrainian government urges people in the east to flee. another demonstrator is killed in peru — as protests over the rising cost of fuel and food continue. and — the shape of victory — ed sheeran wins after he was accused of ripping off another artist's song.
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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe the bbc has found evidence of russian troops using civilians as human shields in their invasion of ukraine. families in villages just north of the capital kyiv say they were forced to leave basements where they were hiding. they say they were rounded up at gunpoint, taken to a local school and held there for 2h hours, as the russians tried to stop ukrainian forces, taking back their village. our correspondent, jeremy bowen, is one of the first journalists to reach the area of ivankiv and its surrounding villages. his report contains details you may find distressing. deepin deep in the forest, ukrainian forces for securing territory
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left. large areas are hard to reach as bridges are down. roads are blocked by mines. on the edge of the exclusion zone around the edge of the chernobyl nuclear disaster is this village. really swampy ground. everyone wanted to talk about the russians. bob dan cheryl a place where russian soldiers made him dig a shallow grave to bury a man they had killed. they had to sleep under these rugs? he said for other young men he was hailed as a prisoner with 15 days often bound, blindfolded, threatened with fake executions, then one shot him in the leg. translation: he put me on the bench, aimed his machine gun at me and he shot my knee. it is because my younger brother was in the army. they found his military
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equipment. ukrainian soldiers and others said the russians had used civilians as human shields in the next village. it is a small place. the russians tried unsuccessfully to blow up the dam before they left. the people of this area are still traumatised by the russian occupation. and by the 2a hours when they were held as human shields at the village school. ivan said it was chaos, children were crying, everyone was crying. how would you describe the experience? vandals, fascists. i don't want to think about the russians, he said. they are not people. what happened that day? they were getting bombarded, that's what, said ludmilla. she said at night the russians force them out of cellars where they had
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been sheltering, pointing their machine guns. they broke open the doors are people did not answer. on the 14th of march there was heavy fighting in the area, ukrainians were on the attack, the russians were losing men. that night, the russians went door—to—door in the streets around here and at gunpoint, marched estimates vary 100—150 people of all ages, children and old people, they put them in that school and they held them as human shields. maria said she survived the second world war. they work like the germans, except they spoke russian so i knew what they were saying. we were invited into the house, maria, the great grandmother, was left behind, terrified about the rest of the family being held in the freezing cold school gymnasium. she said her daughter still shows signs of
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anxiety. i daughter still shows signs of anxie . . , . . daughter still shows signs of anxie . ., ., ., anxiety. i was afraid we would all be shot _ anxiety. i was afraid we would all be shot in _ anxiety. i was afraid we would all be shot in that _ anxiety. i was afraid we would | all be shot in that gymnasium. i was scared for my daughter. i do not have the words. i am so frightened. the machine guns. the two year old girl, she should not see this. i am sorry. i am going to cry. slowly this part of ukraine is being reconnected to the rest of the country. a temporary crossing has replaced a bridge the russians blew up as they retreated. many families are using the chance to get out of the war zone. this woman was desperate. we had been in the cellar for desperate. we had been in the cellarfor more than desperate. we had been in the cellar for more than a month, my daughter has a new baby. they stole everything. i cut my hair so i would not get raped. further down the road is this
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village. destroyed in the fighting. the only person left is stephan. he used to have a neighbour. and he took us to his home. he died on his own three weeks ago while the village was in russian hands. animals have eaten the flesh from his head. he had basic medications but it is not clear how he died. it is clear that the occupiers did not help him. where ukrainian forces are back, evidence is accumulating that russian troops repeatedly broke the laws of war. the question is how the russians are treating civilians in the places which they still occupy. jeremy bowen, bbc news. the british foreign secretary, liz truss,
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has told nato colleagues that the age of engagement with russia was over. at a dinner in brussels, she said it was time for nato to toughen its response and take strategic action. she encouraged allies to arm ukraine quickly, giving kyiv the equipment it needs to make sure russia fails. russia has said it is pivoting its assault to focus on the eastern part of ukraine. the ukrainian government has urged people in some of those areas to evacaute, ahead of a renewed attack. efforts continue meanwhile, to evacuate an estimated 130,000 people who remain trapped in the southern port city of mariupol. the ukrainian authorities say they're trying to get civilians out through humanitarian corridors — with limited success. our correspondent, tom bateman, reports now from the city of zaporizizhia, north of mariupol — he's been speaking to some of those who've managed to escape the fighting. some of the people arriving here didn't know if their country still existed. these are the survivors of europe's biggest humanitarian crisis in a generation.
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they've had no contact with the outside world for weeks. and they faced the choice of a journey through the front line... air raid siren sounds. ..or starvation and siege at home. "the russians claim they came to liberate us," anna tells me. "mariupol has become a graveyard, and all the neighbourhoods are covered with the graves of civilians." "the air strikes were the scariest," nina tells me. "they are constantly shelling. one of their strikes killed seven people, two of them children. the craters in the ground were seven metres deep. it was terrifying," she says. yulia, with her two girls, survived in a basement for five weeks. their grandmother, tatyana, tried to ration the only food they had and says they drank
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dirty water from a well. translation: people - are having mental breakdowns. there's a woman we know who hanged herself. people are being buried in the streets. shallow graves, half—a—metre deep at best, with some earth on top, dead bodies all over the city. for every person on these buses, as they arrive, there are thousands more still under russian siege, under bombardment, cut off from the outside world. ukraine has said at least 5,000 dead have been counted in mariupol. today, local officials said the true number could be more than double that. but these are the pictures moscow wants the world to see, filmed by reporters whose access is tightly controlled. russian aid is being handed out. survivors from elsewhere in the south are living two families per room.
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ludmar�*s children say the tanks and artillery arrived next to their home. they tell me they hid in the basement. what did you feel like? was it frightening? "yes," they say. as the war moves to the east, ukrainians don't know how long their lines will keep holding, and they want more heavy weapons. they fear today's reunions could be short—lived. tom bateman, bbc news, zaporizhzhia, in eastern ukraine. us presidentjoe biden has described russia's actions in ukraine as "major war crimes" and urged the world to hold the perpetrators accountable. donald jensen is a former us diplomat, and now director for russia and europe at the us institute of peace — i asked him how you'd going about trying to prove such a case.
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it's long and its detailed but it's sometimes worth it. the ukrainian government, great humanitarian organisations like humanitarian organisations like human rights watch, the us government, the british government, the british government, i am sure they are painstakingly looking at the facts, building the case, seeing who is responsible and seeing who is responsible and seeing what happened, the pictures in my view speak for themselves. these are war crimes. but we have now, but we didn't have 20 years ago in the yugoslav crisis, for example, we have got much higher technology to identify troops, see who was in the area, we have overhead satellite images. we know for example in bucha what russian units were there. that unit has been pulled back already to belarus, perhaps to keep it safe. so these cases are tedious and i remind you of the notorious mh 17 airliner
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shutdown injuly the notorious mh 17 airliner shutdown in july 2014, the notorious mh 17 airliner shutdown injuly 2014, that case is still on and it looks like they will have a conviction and this looks like rush and brutality. i conviction and this looks like rush and brutality.— rush and brutality. i thinki can rush and brutality. ithinki can remember— rush and brutality. ithinki can remember all- rush and brutality. ithinki can remember all of- rush and brutality. i thinki can remember all of these | can remember all of these images being short on individual mobile phones. we have a lot of footage, together will form a big part of this, i would presume, as well as all of the high level stuff that you talk about.— you talk about. you're absolutely _ you talk about. you're absolutely right. - you talk about. you're - absolutely right. absolutely right. any ukrainian citizen can take a picture, send it to the authorities and get the ball rolling in that way. i would add that this is a testimony to what we have seen in the last eight years in a very vigorous, lively, important civil society, they know what is wrong and what is right and these things are crimes. ~ . . , right and these things are crimes. ~ . ., , ~ ., ., crimes. we already know what the russian — crimes. we already know what the russian counterargumentl the russian counterargument will be, it will be about claiming that apartment blocks
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that have been bombed or housing military equipment or personnel. we have also heard them say things like the ukrainians are shooting other ukrainians are shooting other ukrainians in order to set up russia. we know what their counter argument will be but i suppose the question is, who do you go for?— you go for? these kinds of trials tend _ you go for? these kinds of trials tend to _ you go for? these kinds of trials tend to look - you go for? these kinds of trials tend to look for - you go for? these kinds of trials tend to look for the l trials tend to look for the military commanders, the leaders, perhaps vladimir putin himself who are ultimately responsible for these kind of outrages. that tends to be who they will target whether it is slobodan milosevic, vladimir putin. the issue of command and control, in this case it is clear there was not much control, it is important. it could well be these are poorly trained russian kids, thrown into battle, who arejust acting on their own and that is acting on their own and that is a fault of the russian military for giving them bad training but it could also be a direct orderfrom but it could also be a direct order from the commanders of
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the regiment, the division, perhaps vladimir putin himself and that is what this kind of investigation will show. donald jensen talking _ investigation will show. donald jensen talking to _ investigation will show. donald jensen talking to me _ investigation will show. donald jensen talking to me earlier. . in his latest video address, the ukrainian president said the new package of sanctions announced by britain and the united states did not go far enough. volodymyr zelensky added that moscow was making so much money from oil exports that it did not need to take peace talks seriously. translation: if there is not overly painful package of sanctions against russia and if we don't get the supply of weapons that we really need that we have asked for many times it will be considered by russia as permission. permission to go further. permission to attack. permission to start a new bloody wave in the donbas. our north america correspondent, david willis explained more about the latest us sanctions. president biden was very emotional today as he talked about atrocities committed by russia in ukraine. he said they amounted to nothing less than war crimes and he said there
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must be an immediate and severe price paid by russia for what he called sickening brutality, hence these new sanctions which are being directly linked to those latest reports over the weekend from ukraine. they include a ban on russia �*s two biggest banks on dealings by vladimir prudence two daughters and also targeting the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov �*s wife and daughter and various other oligarchs and diplomats. and president biden is also intending to sign an executive order which would ban any new investment from the united states and russia. this was all hammered out between the uk and the us. the eu has yet to come on board because it has been talking about other things, whether it can afford for example to ban imports of russian coal. about 40% of
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natural gas to europe comes from russia, 33% of oil comes from russia, 33% of oil comes from russia, 33% of oil comes from russia so the eu is heavily dependent on and not likely to go as far as the us has gone in that particular regard. any time soon, i think. stay with us on bbc news — still to come... ed sheeran wins a legal battle over claims part of his track shape of you was copied from a song by another artist. 25 years of hatred and rage as theyjump up on the statue. this funeral became a massive demonstration of black power, of power to influence.
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today is about the promise of a bright future, a day when we hope a line can be drawn under the bloody past. i think that picasso's i works were beautiful, they were intelligent, and it's a sad loss - to everybody who loves art. this is bbc news — the latest headlines... the bbc finds evidence of russian troops using ukrainian civilians as human shields in villages just north of kyiv. in peru — a protester has been killed and several people injured in clashes with police.
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people there have been taking to the streeets for several days now demonstrating against the rising cost of fuel and food. the protesters were blocking a major highway in the south of the country. shelley phelps reports thousands of peruvians taking to the street in nationwide anti—government protests sparked by rising fuel prices. some protesters set fire to tyres, looted government buildings and clashed with police. in the capital, lima, residents had been surveying the damage. people do not understand. they should not destroy things. just look at this. i came to drop off some documents and i can't because everything is destroyed. i don't agree with vandalism. the war in ukraine has set the price of fertiliser and fuel in peru soaring. at a time when the country was already suffering from high inflation. on tuesday, peruvian
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president pedro castillo called off a curfew in the capital that had been widely criticised as authoritarian, by critics. translation: peru is not going through a good time but it is the powers of the state that have to solve it. the peruvian government says it is doing what it can to try to stabilise prices and calm the situation, but the president is fending off calls for his resignation from the opposition. translation: we will not allow new dictatorships, nor— will we allow peru i to continue sinking. the fury of the people is unleashed. - peru is outraged. plummeting approval ratings and calls for fresh elections are the latest challenge for the president who recently survived a second impeachment attempt less than a year into office. protesters say they want to send a message.
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this one reads, "castillo out". shelley phelps, bbc news. ed sheeran has won a high court copyright battle over his 2017 hit, shape of you. ajudge ruled on wednesday that the singer—songwriter had not plagiarised a 2015 song by the grime artist, sami chokri. chokri had claimed the famous "oh i" hook in sheeran�*s track was "strikingly similar" to an "oh why" refrain in his own track. let's have a listen. music plays. shape of you was the best—selling song of 2017 in the uk and is spotify�*s most—streamed ever. after the ruling, ed sheeran posted a video on his social media — here's some of what he said.
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i feel like claims that this have become way too common now. evenif have become way too common now. even if there is no basis for the claim. it's really damaging to the songwriting industry, there's only so many nodes and very few chords used in pop music, coincidence is bound to happen. earlier, i spoke to forensic musicologist sandy wilbur who's testifed during previous court cases over music copyright. i asked her what she made of these two tracks. let me first of all say that i was not involved in this case, and that i heard the two pieces today for the first time. but, as a forensic musicologist, i can say that the first thing that struck me is that the emphasis on the different words, the different syllables, are quite different. in the ed sheeran song you have" # oh—i, oh—i, oh—i, oh", and on the other one, you have" # o-why, oh-why, o-why, 0..." and there's a difference. and "why" is emphasised whereas in the ed sheeran song these are more nonsense syllables which are used often in pop songs. and i agree with him
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that there are too many cases and there are many frivolous cases, and having testified in the blurred lines marvin gaye case i can only say that that tended to blur the lines between what is permissible and what is not. and confusing for the public. you have another example, talk us through the led zeppelin case. this is one and i am going to show you a little bit of a chart that i put together. as you can see, here, you can see that the red notes are the ones that are in common and the black notes are the ones that are not in common, so you have the first three notes that are the same and a descending chromatic scale. now, i'm not going to sing, so you may be going to have to sing, here! to remind people what we are talking about. ok, i'm going to play the piano, and i am going to play the led zeppelin song, then i am going to play the ones from spirit, chorus.
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take it away! hopefully people will be able to hear the difference. i've always wanted to say that! plays melancholy tune. here is the other song. ok, first three notes are the same... and then after that, the only notes that are really similar are the descending chromatic scale... you cannot own those things. you cannot own chords, you cannot own scales and i would also say that in the ed sheeran song, he is using a very common pentatonic minor scale... and those notes
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are very common and obviously i have explained what i thought the difference was. you cannot own scales. and that was what was said in court in the led zeppelin case, that it was just too common, that they were so commonplace, that, that is why the challenges in this case didn't win, because it was, there was some mention of mary poppins being similar to stairway to heaven, wasn't there? there are many pieces of prior art. that is one of the research things that i do. in cases where you are trying to defend something, to show that there are similarities from well before, and a chromatic scale like that has happened even in the 15th century. it's quite hard to prove coincidence, isn't it? this is what he argued. he claimed he had never heard it before, ed sheeran, and he claimed it was a coincidence, which was hard to prove. well, it is but it does happen. there is a limited number of chords, a limited
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number of scales, particularly in the pop music area. let's leave you with some animals in colombia, being released back into the wild. this anteater is one of more than 160 animals released back into nature by wildlife officials after a crackdown on animal trafficking. 15 diffferent species were released including snakes, turtles — and even a leopard. they were reintroduced to their natural habitats in the lagoons and forests to the east of the capital, bogata, having been nurtured back to health by vets working for the government. before we go, a reminder that you can follow all the latest developments on the war in ukraine by going to our online live coverage. the latest story on our site is that the pentagon says russian forces have completed their wihtdrawal from the area around kyiv. follow it on bbc news online
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or the bbc news app. hello. i think skies like this on thursday — large cumulus clouds — and over the high ground, certainly the possibility of some wintry showers. but wherever you are on thursday, there's a chance of catching a little bit of rain. but there'll be lengthy sunny spells, too, so it's not all bad. but the weather is unsettled, and you can see low pressures there moving off the atlantic in our direction. one such area of low pressure currently crossing the uk, giving a spell of some very windy weather from northern ireland through the irish sea, but particularly windy around the lancashire coastline around merseyside. northern parts of wales, gusts of wind here approaching 60 mph for a time during the early morning, and also across the highlands of scotland, the cold northerly wind bringing a covering of snow across the hills there.
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now the temperatures early on thursday morning, three celsius in aberdeen, eight celsius in london. and then this is the picture through the day — the low pressure is out in the north sea by this stage, but on the backside of it, the winds are coming in from the north. so it's a cold wind, a really gusty wind, it really will feel very chilly. these are the gusts of wind approaching, 40—50 mph in places. so with temperatures of only around seven celsius, it really will feel very nippy on the north sea coast — only seven there in newcastle. and again, i said those showers could be wintry across the high ground. further south, i think the sunny spells will be most prolonged, so actually feeling pretty decent in the southwest. now this is the following night — so thursday night into friday — the possibility of some rain grazing the south of the country. here temperatures will be four celsius, but for the rest of us the following night, it will be quite frosty. so a chilly start to friday morning, the possibility of some rain along the southern counties, and also the possibility of further wintry showers across scotland, mostly across the hills there. but i think, again, lots of sunny spells on the way,
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and disappointing temperatures between 8—12 celsius so below the average for the time of the year. here's the outlook, then, as we head over the next few days and into the weekend — it will calm down, i think saturday is actually not a bad day for most of us. sunday will become more unsettled once again. that's it from me, bye—bye.
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this is bbc news. the headlines... the bbc has found evidence of russian troops using civilians as human shields in their invasion of ukraine. families in villages just north of the capital, kyiv, say they were forced to leave basements where they were hiding. they say they were rounded up at gunpoint. in peru — a protester�*s been killed and several others injured in clashes with police. people there have been taking to the streets for several days — demonstrating against the rising cost of fuel and food. they were blocking a major highway in the south of the country. ed sheeran has called for an end to what he described as baseless claims of plagiarism after winning his london high court battle over whether he copied another artist's song. the british singer said
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such cases were damaging the pop industry — and coincidences

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