all you. this is the w.'s live from revealing the truth about state death squads in the former soviet republic of bella bruce in a d w exclusive report we hear from this man who says he was part of a team order to kill opposition politicians also on the program. chief executive carol lam gets beijing's full backing president tells her he she has he's away from support this fight the demands of pro-democracy protesters that she resign.

i'm from gail welcome to the program will be given the former soviet republic of belarus and the story about death squads killing 3 opposition politicians who disappeared without trace 20 years ago bella who says been ruled by president alexander lukashenko for more than 20 years and he's widely considered to be europe's last to dictator the missing man include a former interior minister this man who resigned correct co member speculation at the time that the president had ordered the assassinations now in exclusive interview d.w. has spoken with a man who says he was a member of a death squad that killed them. yuri graff skeels living in a central european country and is seeking asylum there. in a deitsch avella exclusive he tells us about his time in

a regime death squad in belarus and reveals new details about a series of crimes. a number of opposition politicians in belarus disappeared 2 decades ago and it's still not known what happened to them on the evening of may the 7th 1909 yuri's a her ranko parked his car here near the old fire house in minsk and was never seen again. at that time the former interior minister was a leading figure in the opposition. her ranko and his supporters wanted to prevent the country descending into dictatorship and to remove president alexander look at schenkel look at shinto had organized and won 2 controversial referendums to expand his powers and neutralize parliament. since then has ruled the country alone. is considered the last dictatorship in europe. this reenactment of the murder of your is a harangue who is based on statements made exclusively to us d.w.

by your acre of ski 4 members of a special military unit abducted and shots of her uncle dead in a forest garage skee tells us he was one of them and an accomplice to the crime and that as a member of the armed forces he had no choice 20 years later he has a message for the hering close family. here but. i also my sincere condolences. i took part in the murder. i offer you my apologies. i can show you the burial site on a map the rest is up to you and better ruses law enforcement system. zaha records family is living in exile in the german town of minister his eldest daughter yelena hears from us for the 1st time details of her father's abduction and murder she calls the informant a man without a conscience. if you knew on it you would get sepsis it's knows about him it's

about the entire system that each one of us more familiar just said one can't blame him people are dependent on the system i'm not but you know he died they forced to connect bloody crime in its name. every autumn a vigil is held in minsk in honor of you resign and the other opposition politicians who disappeared. he says he also knows what happened to them so perhaps after 2 decades the truth about the regime death squads in belarus is about to come to light. the report was produced by the dublin investigative reporter christiane welcome christiane how did you 1st come across the story couple of weeks ago mr he wrote an email to the russians this is obviously a frequent user of programs in russian and that mail he claims that he has some important knowledge of these disappearances 20 years ago in his home country then

we set up an investigation team for colleagues of mine russian natives with a strong knowledge of the region and me responsible for the t.v. all put ok so some strong claims there how did you verify his story and indeed his identity 1st we decided to clear his identity asians with it for long very long interviews and and these interviews we again and again repeated the key questions related to these cases he was talking about and we even found minor contradictions in these interviews we did and worked on these contradictions and presented the evidence we've got to some legal experts in europe there are some few of them who are familiar with that case ok so if we believe him these are crimes that he was party to 20 years ago so why is he telling a story now good question you were told us that eventually he wanted to. go clear

that he wanted to remove a stone from his will that's how he put it and that's fair enough but there were we were not 100 percent sure that no other motives behind it perhaps even people who told him to flee to take refuge in the west and go out to the public with his story but we never never found any facts that gave us really evidence that there was more behind it than this person a motive someone who wants to go clear as it was so he's left bellerose presumably because these are allegations that as well as anywhere else is asylum seeker in a western country right so again if the revelations are true where does this take us. years ago the council of europe already conducted an investigation into these cases and. in the 2004 report council of europe investigators talk about a quote conspiracy of high ranking officials in belarus and in the light of this

new evidence we now know or have some evidence of what happened to the bodies we now know who shot who killed the politicians there might this might be reopened by the council of europe and there might be a new mandate to investigate officially investigate what happened so president to look at your career is not a man who broke opposition so does this have political implications for belarus itself i'm afraid yes and they might be quite dire and below us is a country pretty isolated pretty much isolated in europe no one wants to do business with that country due to the very dictatorial style mr bush anger is running his country and the situation of human rights and so on in the last 23 years below us was working on breaking the chain and finding being re accepted as a partner in europe and all these efforts now could suffer serious setback. d.w.

investigative reporter christiane trip but thank you. on this well almost all on the web site the w dot com you tube channel the w documentary and i will take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the architect of france's controversial pension reform has resigned over alleged the conflicts of interest from paul della voice departure comes 12 days into nationwide strikes against his plans which are aimed to plug a chronic deficit in the pension system this is a blow to president a manual macro whose government remains a loss to the standoff with trade union. delegates from europe and the u.s. for attending the ceremony in belgium to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of the boat that was one of world war 2 was bloodiest to have results in which u.s. forces defeated a german attempt to stop advancing allied armies in december 1944. more

than 300 people were killed in iran's 3 day crackdown on protests last month a new figure from amnesty international of dates their previous estimate of just over 200 deaths iran has acknowledged that protesters were killed but has not released figures on. india has seen more violent protests over a new citizenship but criticized as being anti muslim thousands of university students marched in the capital separate demonstrations were held in the south and north east new legislation provides a fast track to citizenship for refugees from bangladesh pakistan and afghanistan but excludes muslims. not hong kong where the chief executive kerry lab has received the full backing of china's leadership despite the demands of pro-democracy protesters that she stand down chinese president xi jinping told this law that hong kong had had what he described as its grimmest and most complex years since its return to chinese rule for the 2 years ago president xi went on to say

that ms lam had beijing's and wavering support despite her government's poor showing in recent local elections and this month's huge pro-democracy rally. we will continue to firmly support you and your leadership of the hong kong government in exercising government policy as mandated by law we will firmly support the police of hong kong in strictly enforcing the law all. people of all walks of life in hong kong will unite and work together to push hong kong's development back onto the right track. straight to hong kong where we joined journalist laurel cho a welcome so when present gives carry law he's full backing his other diplomatic nicety how does it actually carry weight i think it does carry it shows that the

beijing government hasn't changed their stance they are still fully supporting not only carry on but also the police trying that they do can down everything they've done so are showing off that they are continuing to not address the protester demands it also shows that there isn't really a solution in sight the protesters aren't backing down from their demand or the aha government are not backing down from their stance either so the situation seems like it's just going to continue as it is right now after well. ok so the china backs the status quo the demonstrators don't change their demands does that we're looking at an escalation or are we looking at a further crackdowns. it's hard to say in the past few weeks there has been a slight well. or that we can we ask for the person in 2 weeks as it is quite rare and it's been quite rare in the last 6 months to get

a weekend that's the interior aspirating so also depends on the approach of the police to the stories of protesters we did get a new commissioner last month we seem to have slightly different tactics and doesn't provoke the consciousness as much so there's a lot of different factors in play. but whether the protesters can continue this momentum any longer is our same question they're tired about $6000.00 have been arrested so far so that is probably going to affect the numbers and make it out to the streets once they start actually getting convicted and going to jail or at least they're going to be afraid of being arrested again it in there as it winds so i think the protests will probably continue it's just a matter of whether they'll be able to continue with the scene intensity and see it regularity and i think we'll still see flare ups but whether i'll still be a weekly being is yet to be seen especially with the holidays coming up and so how people reacted to present the statement. i don't think anyone surprised or

even particularly angry about it it's nothing unexpected it seemed think that the government has that repeating for the past 6 months and it's nothing new from the government either so it doesn't particular and your people because it's completely expected we're talking to thank you for joining us chill in hong kong. sport football very draw for the 1st knockout round of the champions league taking place at germany's byron munich will face english premier league side chelsea they'll meet over 2 legs in february and march of byron famously lost the 2012 final at home to the lager this approach a dog and to have a showdown with their former coach thomas 2 who on his party sergeant onside last 16 debutantes sake will face last season's runners up taught them in the pick of the other pairings a record with madrid made english champions manchester city the holders liverpool play athletico madrid. now it would be the christmas season that overzealous

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