this is the w.'s live from berlin marking 25 years since your its worst atrocity after the 2nd world war. thousands of posse and muslims were killed in the srebrenica massacre on this day and night in 95 ceremony is on the way to commemorate the victims also on the program. from kong's purdum ocracy parties hold primaries to choose their candidates for september's legislative elections that's despite warnings from government officials that their actions may be in breach of a new security bill imposed by china.

a math anyhow welcome 25 years ago today serb forces captured the bosnian town of srebrenica and carried out europe's worst massacres since the 2nd world war a ceremony is taking place to remember the thousands of muslims killed in the atrocity. the anniversary is being mocked in the shadow of the global coronavirus pandemic which is not only meant. that commemorations have been scaled back but it's also again the light appeal hearings in the trial of the main culprits said general latta was eventually convicted of war crimes and genocide but the families of the deceased say they are far from closure. just 3 bones in

a piece of cloth is enough to shed light on a sad fate one of 8000 victims of the strep an it's a genocide is recovered here from a mass grave in eastern bosnia the bones are later brought together. catherine baumberger is the director general of the international commission on missing persons she's been instrumental in finding and identifying the bodies of the disappeared she cannot put to the genocide behind her. in many ways every day it's like 95 we are eternally dealing with this issue baumberger moved to the hague from the bosnian capital sarajevo a few years ago and the state of the art lab where d.n.a. is extracted from skeletal samples and analyzed came with her the genetic codes can then be compared with the d.n.a. of survivors but this is not only about victims finding closure. lab results have been used in various trials in 2017 the international criminal tribunal for the for

me the slavia found the main perpetrator of the struggle needs a massacre the former serbian military commander ratko melodic guilty of committing war crimes and genocide. the us detected the genocide by analyzing satellite images of the victims have been varied to cross serbian controlled system both mia some skeletons were torn apart then years later under the eyes of the bosnian serb authorities the dead were seen. the aim is to allow family members to properly bury their dead and. i want to just a person together there on a articulation because it's possible that this came from one of his role in this case for the threat of. what was pioneered in is no widespread method for identifying victims used the world over to identify those killed in wars and other conflicts. and serve as

a reminder of what we're all capable of regardless of which country we're from that level of hatred results can have a very very bad ending and i am scared. catherine baumberger says it's up to us alone whether or not we learn from the past. well i'm joined now by katherina restates researcher and lecturer at lots university she's also the author of the book war crime trials and memory in for my yugoslavia kind of 5 originally from serbia and you with during the war from that subi in perspective what does this dining to you. yes thank you for the invitation it's nice to be here every under 1st century gun it's a genocide is a hope that serbian politicians will come out and acknowledge the genocide and take political responsibility for what has happened unfortunately we haven't seen that

happening so far and that is very troubling and i have to say that in my academic work i'm trying to understand how does this denial is discourse possible even 25 years later and despite all the facts that we know and all the triumphs and genocide convictions that we have so far as i lived in serbia in 1905 and during that war i remember july in 1905 by serbia and it was love basketball championship and yugoslav team won and that was the main you'll send that was what serbian public were talking about and discuss minimizing and not talking about straits that genocide continues till today we've just seen a report about the victims of the tribe and it's a genocide but there are also of course survivors have 5 received adequate reparations and do they feel justice has been delivered. i'm afraid that

considering tremendous atrocities that have been committed and those survivors who went through horrific crimes through mass rapes through this survived executions they lost extended family like whole numbers of family members and for dan it is understandable that they don't see all trials despite of they are numbered and they don't they don't see them at this factory in the sense of providing justice on the other hand step down it's cases in the eyes citywide but also in the regional trial and also serbia are exemplary for how we can combat and how we can establish accountability for such crimes. caterina wristed research and lecture at leipsic university many thanks.

now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. at least one person has died in the mainland capital as and government protest and violent demonstrators block streets attacked the parliament building and stormed the state t.v. broadcaster for weeks mass demonstrations have called on president it bring him back to back a to rob to resign. singapore's prime minister long says he's long governing people's action party is on course to retain power after friday's election but its support dropped to just over 60 percent there were celebrations among the opposition workers' party which saw its number of seats in parliament jumped. u.s. prosecutors have filed a new 6 count indictment against maxwell the former girlfriend and longtime associate of the by financier jeffrey epstein axwell has been charged with

recruiting and grooming underage girls staying could sexually abuse them she is seeking by all citing the risk of contracting 19. or pro-democracy parties in hong kong i fell primary polls to choose candidates for the upcoming legislative elections thousands queue on official unofficial polling stations across the city many pro-democracy supporters held up signs edging people to vote it's an attempt to demonstrate a popular mandate for candidates in the authorities might try to disqualify before the elections government officials had warned the poles might be a breach of the new security law imposed by china. joining us now from hong kong correspondent phebe come freebie given the new security legislation and the threat of a wrist and imprisonment that's inherent in a government warning about these elections how many people did to turn out and vote

. over the past now with all the primary election organized least that. over 130000 people have already i don't know think these are why i am back to my the all night so we have we have standing at one of the polling places enough to where you can be on top of the people lining up right next to me right here at 2 point counting them so this is not only a crimea election because she is a candidate in the upcoming legislative election but also seeing this. it's not my friend that. mentation our national security at all that this is the 1st time that people can ask the pontiff by their. ok me to express. this concept was the government especially the new national security all people are way too afraid to participate in our anti-government protests so we have spoken to

a number of our bill just here so they tell us the reason behind that attendance today and that's happened as. well the if we don't turn out to vote today there seems to be no other way for us to avoid our anger towards what the government is doing we are afraid that this might be the last chance for us to do so. i want to express my distrust in beijing by voting for the opposition camp. i'm going to get out because we can't be frightened by the national security law i want to treasure the remaining opportunities that i can express my opinion and to support those who speak up for us you know my other thing though so maybe the people want to express their anger at the newly imposed order at the same time though hong kong police have searched the office of an independent political pollster what more can you tell us about. the raid happened

just one day before the primary election which is quite surprising for many citizens the home home the police search the public open it has to do with just one of the main all the nicest of these primary elections which is in charge of setting up a new poll polling mechanics on and system so police now accusing the the thing that they are now conducting the n.p.v. investigation into one of the complaints related to leave our police officers present or better related to surveys conducted actually several several years ago so actually felice i'll wait until today to conduct the actual application so at least to skepticism off like what the authority is trying to pressure on the opposition came pro-democracy movement by using the police force to pressure on politicians and although i'm favor often with an os but as we

can see the basis actually accounts for the fact that actually puts the turn off i mean. on the streets of hong kong thank you. u.s. president donald trump has commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend and former star he had been convicted of lying to congress and a witness tampering during the. investigation into alleged russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential race the move marks another extraordinary intervention by mr trump in the u.s. justice system and it has been met with fierce criticism from his political opponents . he has reason to celebrate only days before a vote just own was to begin a 14 month prison sentence his friend donald trump came to his aid the president has said numerous occasions that he thought there was a good chance i could be exonerated i agree with that recent book this is this is

a this is a horror off or if it right mary when you realize that this is this investigation never had any a legitimate or lawful beginning it was a witch card and february stone had been sentenced for lying to congress witness tampering and obstructing the house and mr geisha into whether the trunk and pain colluded with russia to win the 2016 election what's the word. comment on the courthouse steps written in an official statement that was published on friday the trump administration called stone a victim of the russian hoax that the left and its allies in the media perpetrated for years in an attempt to undermine the trump presidency of the us president donald trump has repeated these stepped in to protect his associates this marks its highest profile intervention in a criminal case house intelligence committee chair adam schiff treat it with trump there are now 2 systems of justice in america one for trump's criminal friends and

one for everyone else and trumps rival in the upcoming presidential election joe biden vote but donald trump has surrounded himself with people who flout our laws we shouldn't be surprised that he thinks he's above the law. even if critics might be shocked at trump's use of his unlimited pardoning power his strongest supporters are unlikely to be deterred by it for his longtime political confident roger stone the president's willingness to help out his friends has helped pave the road to freedom. well italy has successfully tested a she's to my jive barry is designed to protect the city of venice from flooding and she is pumped compressed air into individual units causing them to rise and block off in let's into venice as lagoon barry is obvious on to protect the city from total surges the system cost more than $6000000000.00 euros and was supposed

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