you a check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com slash science. this is d w news live from berlin marking 25 years since europe's worst atrocity after the 2nd world war thousands of bosnian muslims were killed in the shriven it's a massacre on this day 995 a ceremony has been held to commemorate the victims also on the program. and calls pro-democracy parties hold primaries to choose their candidates for september's

legislative elections that's despite warnings from government officials that their actions might be in breach of a new security law imposed by china. a math anyhow broken 25 years ago today so forces captured the bosun in town of stripping and carried out europe's worst massacres since the 2nd world war a ceremony has been held to remember the thousands of muslims killed in the atrocity anniversaries 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 delayed appeal hearings in the trial of the main culprits. so the general director of the lad it 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 yet it's enough to shed light on a sad fate one of 8000 victims of the strep an isa 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 the strap on it's a genocide behind her. you know a good many ways every day is like 95 they 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 former yugoslavia found the main perpetrator of the strabane it's 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 buried across serbian controlled system both media some skeletons were torn apart then years later under the eyes of the bosnian serb authorities the dead were seen to. the aim is to allow family members to properly bury their dead and. i want to just piecing together their ongoing relationship is it possible that this came from one of his role in this case for the credit. 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. thank you thanks it's also not whether or not we learn from the past well i'm joined now by kind of a number stitch researcher and lecturer at the law to seek university she's also the author of the book was crime trials and memory inform yugoslavia caterina 4 originally from serbia and you were there during the war from that should be in perspective what does this mean to you. yes thank you for the invitation it's nice to be here every under bursary certainly it's a genocide is a hope that serbian politicians will come out and knowledge 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 we're kind 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 trials and genocides convictions that we have so far as they lived in serbia in 1905 and during that war i remember july 1905 by serbia and it was love basketball championship and yugoslav team wanted and that was the main news and that was what serbian public were talking about and discuss minimizing and not talking about straits of 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 don't fade that's considering tremendous atrocities that have been committed and those survivors who went through horrific crimes through mass rapes through they 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 case is in the eye citywide but also in the regional trial in. serbia are exemplary for how we can combat and how we can establish accountability for such crimes. that are interested researcher and lecturer 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 milan capital bamako as anti-government protest turned violent demonstrators block streets attacked the parliament building and stormed the state t.v. broadcaster for weeks mass demonstrations have called on president abraham. to resign . singapore's prime minister lee hsien long says his 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 jump. us prosecutors have filed a new 6 count indictment against maxwell before my girlfriend and longtime associate of late financier jeffrey epstein maxwell has been charged with recruiting and grooming underage girls to include sexually abused them she is

seeking citing the risk of contracting 19. or pro-democracy parties in hong kong have helped primary polls to choose candidates for the upcoming legislative elections thousands queued it on official polling stations across the city many pro-democracy supporters held up signs are urging people to vote it's an attempt to demonstrate a popular mandate for candidates whom the or thirty's might try to disqualify before the elections government officials had warned the poles may be in breach of the new security law imposed by china. well joining us now from hong kong is correspondent phoebe come phoebe given the new security legislation and the threat of arrest and imprisonment that's inherent in the government warning about these elections how many people did to turn up and vote. over the past 6 hours of the primary election organized at least.

over $130000.00 people have already turned out to vote so this is. why i suspect it might be all night so we have we're standing at one of the polling stations in the city where you can see all sorts of people lining up right next to me right here to point casting their vote so this is not only a primate actions issues they can't even upcoming legislative elections but also in this opera but it's not my friend the top 30 percent asian national law that this is the 1st time that people can actually falsify that public opinion expressed at this conference was a government especially under the new national security all people are way too afraid to dissipate in the government protests so we have spoken to a number of voters here so they tell us the reason behind that attendance today and

that's half of this. year will be gobbled 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 to this might be the last chance for us to do so. i want to express my distrust in beijing for the opposition. i'm going to gain a lot 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 why all the fussing the sophie b. 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 that. the raid happened just one day before the primary election which is quite

surprising for manis it seems oh oh the police searched the public open it is to do which is one of the main all the nicest all these primary elections which is in charge of setting up the whole * polling mckinlay some system so police now accusing the of the saying that they are now conducting the n.p.v. investigation into one of the complaints related to the leak our police officers present no better related to surveys conducted actually stuff those several years ago so actually police i'll wait until today to conduct the actual investigation so it leads to skepticism off like what the authorities trying to pressure on the opposition came pro-democracy movement by using light of the police force to pressure on politicians and stolen i'm favorite off them with an os but as we can see this is actually a county in fact that actually puts these kind of off the i mean. on the streets of

hong kong thank you. russia and china have again vetoed an attempt by the un security council to continue he met material deliveries to rebel held territories in syria and aleppo provinces 13 countries voted in favor of extending the permanent members russia and china opposed the resolution humanitarian groups like cutting off the could spell disaster for millions of civilians who are already in a desperate situation. you said ohso fled to northern syria with his wife they've been here for 5 months they have sold almost all of their possessions to get money to buy essential and i'm not about senator we're 60 to 70 percent dependent on the aid delivery. it always depends on the situation you find yourself in there is no work here so the aid packages are often all we have and the difficult conditions here in the camps that. most of the displaced

people here have no financial reserves left. like deal for his wife and their 6 children. the family is completely dependent on outside aid. for. more of these food packages last for about 20 days. it's enough for us thank god the halls were careful we are relying on god and the aid that comes to us from the donors. the aid is transported to the refugees across turkish syrian border posts that is allowed turkey to massively expand its influence. a few months ago the turkish lira began to replace the syrian pound which had dropped dramatically in value. everything is becoming more expensive for the people here turkish companies are doing lucrative business for

example selling petrol from turkey paid for in turkish lira. syrian president bashar assad believes turkey is consolidating a defacto turkish enclave in northern syria assad wants to close all of the border crossing points to turkey. already only 2 of the 4 crossings are open. the assad government wants to distribute aid across the country itself to regain control but the refugees fear that little or no aid would arrive they are afraid of being starved out. that obama if you can satisfy your daily needs that's one thing that is seized means a slow death a death were no blood flows. despite their desperate situation the people here still hope to be able to escape and provide a future for their children. italy has successfully tested a system of jive barry is designed to protect the city of venice from flooding

engineers pump compressed air into individual units causing them to rise and block off inlets into venice is look good areas are designed to protect the city from total surges the system cost more than $6000000000.00 euros and was supposed to be in operation by 2011. and we thank you out today remember you can always stay up to date on our web site that's day w dot com for now about math and how to unburden from maine over to thanks for your company. on middle and i'm good welcome to the 2nd season of only good things. the planet on the brink of disaster we did long in your experts about one question how to change that you are insane.