ah, ah ah, this is news life from brilliant shark and war evidence mounts of a civilian massacre by russian soldiers near keith. the devastating toll of the war becomes clear as dead bodies with hands bound like the streets of the capital suburbs increase presents lensky accuses russia of genocide. moscow claims the killings were stage on our calls were louder for more sanctions on russia. germany, chancellor and other western leaders express their outrage in the face of the

atrocities and the music's vegas made their grammy awards more is back to life for the 1st time since the pandemic. but the superstar celebration gets a dose of reality with an address by none other than the ukrainian president farmers landscape. ah. hi everyone, i'm landmark. thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian present voluntary zalinski says it will be more difficult to negotiate with russia following the alleged atrocities committed by russia's troops. missus ascii made his comments during a visit to the town of butcher, near the capital cave o following its can recapture by ukrainian forces. evidence of mass murder by russian forces has emerged. mass graves and images of dead civilians,

many with their hands bound or showing signs of torture, have sparked widespread international condemnation. in creating authorities say over 400 bodies have been discovered as hello the other one. now several you countries are pushing for tougher sanctions against russia. with some leaders calling the killings, war crimes, and a warning to our viewers that is next report contains, graphic and disturbing images. as ukrainian forces recapture territory to the north of cave reports of what russian troops left behind continued to emerge. civilians with their hands tied apparently shot at close range. dozens of other bodies had been found in mass graves. fisher missouri for what we seen her being ready for. you will be seen butcher,

a horrible images. unfortunately, these images are not from a film. but reality, you look for, it is the terrible reality where civilians are shot dead. with hands tied behind their backs, her little crown royal ukraine's prosecutor general says more than 400 bodies have been found in town. surrounding keith, president vladimir zelinski, said russian forces must be held responsible process. ziegler, go as soon as i call on all our citizens and friends of ukraine in the world who can join his work and help establish justice to do so. the world has already seen many war crimes at different times on different continents, but it is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the russian military, the last manifestation of such evil on earth. because law miss emily, russia has rejected the claims calling what happened in butcher a fake attack,

and yet another provocation by the ukrainian government but people here described killings by the russians issue. he went to get some road when all of a sudden the russian started shooting when it hit him above the heel, crushing a bone over it. he fell down. ticklish at betty. oh, i'm up up. are you all the people who were going to this area were shot? well, thought we were afraid to go out because if they saw you, they would shoot you that a good if, if you, if i am so free to talk to you, i mean, i'm afraid they will come back home for the talks were set to resume between ukrainian and russian negotiators to day, the horrifying images from butcher will no doubt make the hard task of finding a diplomatic solution, even more difficult, horrifying scenes out of which f as go to live even western ukrainian abuse. rebecca ritters is covering a development set for you from there, rebecca,

do we know more about what exactly happened in boucher? well, you said it there, these scenes are horrifying. i mean, really unspeakable acts that, that the soldiers of finding the journalist and now witnessing in these liberated towns in the towns that the russians have now been pushed out of retreated from. i mean, it's truly difficult to, to find the words to describe them. you saw some of the images there in that report . we saw this, you know, innocent people, civilians, people in civilian clothings, kit killed on their bicycles, people with their hands tied behind their backs, shot in close range in the back of the head. i mean, we've seen mass graves of people with child bodies, it really unspeakable acts. zalinski, president lensky and others here, calling this a at the calling these crimes will crimes. and, and that is being echoed in the international community. many other ladies from other countries, echoing those claims of war crimes,

president zalinski was actually in butcher. he visited that town to day and he said actually took it further. he said, these crimes are really tantamount to genocide. now the russians have denied these claims. they say that they couldn't possibly have done them because they left days ago why the pictures of these crimes only coming out now. but in fact, we have seen satellite imagery from a time before the russians had retreated, showing these graves already dug. and the testimony just the eye witness testimony of people being spoken to really matches up in all of the places that people have been in and visited. so it's very hard to understand how this was a done by, by russian soldiers are very harrowing accounts from those eye witnesses. rebecca, the governing key of re understand is appealing to the world a saying they need more support. what exactly are they asking for right now? they're asking for exactly what they've been asking for all along late. i mean,

they have reiterated calls for more weapons and of course, more sanctions they, they don't want sympathy. they want the ability to be able to push back the russians they want. they want real time support, real world support him to be able to, to fight this war. and of course, i won't sanction there the calls for stopping oil and gas from russia to be delivered to europe a growing louder, and those calls are starting to be heard from the european side. we think some countryside they are going to stop those imports and other countries saying that they're really looking into speeding up the stopping of those imports. so the similar coals they also of course want justice for the victims or in, in the towns that we're seeing that have been so brutally treated. they definitely calling for that. they said that they want this to be the last humanitarian. you lost a series of war crimes ever in the world. now reco, we understand russian troops as seemed to be retreating from the chief legion. tell

us more about what the situation is at the moment. yet while these troops have been retreating, they're being pushed out of these areas that we've seen around cave and in other cities in the north, the china here area. ah, that is being seen as a victory by the ukrainian army of course. and definitely a morale booster. for the military and potentially a morale, a down of for the russians in terms of morale there. but this war is by no means over layla as we expected. and as we were hearing ukrainian military saying that russians are regrouping reorganizing to intensify attacks in the eastern region, particularly the area of don bass home to lu hans and don. yet we both rush and held town since 2014, but they want to widen out the attacks there. then of course, all the seeking a cape port city of mattie, who paul, which has been under bombardment since pretty much the beginning of this war. and

on the weekend, we also saw an attack on the other key port city of desa. that's the 1st time that had been attacked, but ukrainian military and everyone here is expecting those attacks to ramp up now that russian forces regrouping and focusing on that region. d. w correspondents, rebecca renters reporting from western ukraine ukraine. levine. rebecca, thank you. well we can talk now to ashley reedy. she is a human rights lawyer and an expert on war crimes. she's the senior legal advisor at human rights watch a very warm welcome back to w news. ashley. i want to start by asking you has human rights watch been able to establish what exactly happened in butcher thank you. layla. no, we haven't been able to establish i'm serving the scope of what's happened in boucher we are i think in the same position as other people investigating in the

sense that access to the area has only recently become available. we have been so what we have done and what we can, what came out as the weekend was and we were able to document one witness account of a woman who had, you know, actually i witnessed a summary execution where men had be lined up in a row for them kneeling down, and one of them had their t shirt pulled over their head and then was shot on the back of the head. and the others were ultimately not killed, but the body was left line there. so we do know that there have been war crimes that we've spoken to people who witness war crimes being having, being committed there. obviously we're seeing now other evidence of suggest there has been a number of war crimes committed, but it's still early stages. and like everybody else were trying to piece together, both in boucher and in other areas where which were under russian occupation since you know the end of february already march what, what has happened. so it's going to be, i think people have to be careful not to rush to too many conclusions. it's going

to be important to carefully document the evidence to try to tell the stories of each of the bodies that have been discovered. and then to put together in a whole and compelling case about what happened to, to, to the victims and how they can, we can move forward and get justice for them. what constitutes a war crime? this is a very, it's a good question kind of, it's a very question in a way, i mean a war crime is a serious violation of the laws of war when committed intentionally, so that's deliberately or recklessly. so for example, up until recently people have been mainly focused on the attacks in which many civilians have been killed or several buildings have been damaged and that they may also be war crimes. and when they were, depending on what exactly the russians were targeting and the weapons that the russians used. so for example, we know they use cluster munitions, cluster munitions is an indiscriminate weapon. and it was a war crime to,

to use them in a civil in area. in this case, you know, where we actually have eye witnesses, who are able to identify summary executions. whether that was of a soldier or a civilian, or a p o w. it's not so much as a matter because that form of summary execution is a serious violation of the law of war and would be a war crime. so there are arranged, there are a lot of different types of actions which can be, which can be war crimes under the geneva conventions and under the statute of the international criminal court. now if you allow me, i want to bring up a quote from the french president amendment that my car, who were to day said, referring to the killings in boucher. he said that international justice must take care of this and those who committed these crimes. we'll have to answer for them. so that brings me to you and your important work that you do. how likely is it that an individual or a group of people can be identified as being directly responsible for

these acts? i think they're there. i think it's very, it's quite likely. i mean, i think that for, i think there's probably quite a lot known about the, the russian military and how it operates and who might be in charge of, of different battalions and different units. so it's, i think there's going to be evidence there of, of who was operating, where, when different war crimes were committed, there is going to be in to some extent, you know, i witness testimony that may help narrow down who's responsible. but i think we should also bear in mind that both under international humanitarian law and for the purposes of the international criminal course, they're going to look to go after those who are most responsible. which may not mean the person who pull the trigger on the ground. but who was in charge of that particular operation who was to commander and should have known what was going on, could have prevented, is failed to punish it. and that's known as command responsibility. so i think what you're likely going to see is

a number of prosecutions brought against people at different levels within the russian military who bore responsibility for the operations for areas that were under occupation where evidence becomes available, that war crimes to place. and those are the sorts of people who may end up ultimately in the international criminal course. or indeed, any number of the national investigations. we know that a number of national prosecution officers have open investigations and which may lead to prosecutions. and so, as i said before, actually tomorrow is the opening of a trial against the leader of a militia in dar for, for very, very serious crimes that were committed there in 2003 in 2004. so sometimes it takes some time for people to, to be brought to justice. but i think just given a strictly the, the focus on ukraine and the number of international organizations on national prosecutors who are alert to the need to investigate. i would be i would be

pretty optimistic that we will see people brought to brought to trial for some of the crunch ashlyn already senior legal advisor, human rights watch an expert on war crimes. thank you very much. we appreciate your insights. thank you very much. either germany has condemned the killings of civilians in boucher as terrible war crimes that cannot go unanswered by chance. sir. an economy minister, robert ha beck says berlin is preparing fresh sanctions together with its european allies window testimony. i strongly believe that we can go much further design with see now effected the sanctions are we have also seen were sanctions that potentially been able to be circumvented. um we have seen were we can impose more bands on technical goods and thus further the stabilize and weaken the russian economy. digital museum on sham cry. assume that this will also be reflected this week and a further 5th largest sanctions package invert the german vice chancellor speaking

a short time ago. did of use chief political editor, me here. ella christner is joining us. mckayla. i understand they're breaking developments that you can share with us is absolutely because we've seen the whole havoc and once again hold a press conference and impromptu one announcing that gas problems, german operations, a gas from ga manya, would effectively be dis owned. and in the trust of the german network agency as of last week until the end of september, at the very least, i add a to ensure energy security here in germany. that is quite remarkable step. that means the gloves are clearly off. also on the german side, when it comes to energy security using energy as leverage. and this is the after gas from announced it would sell. it's german infrastructure provider here, a gas from a guy manya on friday and then disclosing who the buyer would be. but there was no

transparency who is behind that, and that is now prompted this under german law, legal, an operation by the german government effectively putting gas problems, german infrastructure operations, which include gas storage, under german agency control. so a remarkable step with germany still drawing the line though when it comes to an energy embargo, we again heard from the german concept, also vice chancellor. but habit, who is also the energy minister that this simply would be to damaging, but clearly as we await that 5th sanctions package, the scope of that could potentially become wide and wider. indeed, and in anticipation again, germany has come under a lot of criticism for it's a refusal to support a complete embargo on russian energy in ports

a short time ago. earlier in the day, the polish prime minister weighed in and he accused germany of being the biggest break when it comes to tougher sanctions. essentially saying the it's not the voices of german companies, german, billionaires, that should be heard loudly in berlin today. it's the voice of these innocent women and children, the voice of those murdered that should be heard. he is not missing his words there . has there been a response to that type of criticism being leveled against berlin by poland? well, the responds here in germany so far is that look, there has been this ton around to just days off to the russian invasion and that yes, germany is moving very fast. but clearly, eastern states, a 1st and foremost, poland, but also the baltic states are seeing a lack of leadership when it comes to facing up to rasa. but since that statement,

we've now had this announcement from advice on what topic which clearly goes into the direction of taking those gloves off and squaring up to what is seen as rawson interference. that is expected to continue, particularly when it comes to critical infrastructure as well. but still mounting criticism that may become less loud yet. it's still that here in europe did have you. so chief political era, mikayla hafner reporting there on breaking developments. thank you. on the war and ukraine has from many european countries to take steps to decrease their reliance on russian gas and accelerate a shift towards green energy. but experts say climate action is still not happening fast enough. the united now, united nations climate sciences have just released a landmark report on what needs to happen to ensure

a livable future on this planet. and it's a serious cuts to carbon pollution are necessary and the world needs to act. now. they're the silent killers destroying our planet. but for decades, fossil fuels have been power in our economy, band, our lifestyle. all that needs to stop. i'm soon if humanity have a fighting chance and the battle against climate change is right here that we just need to reduce the machine immediately and very fast. so that's no question about that. in september, the intergovernmental panel on climate change founded the alarm that people are warming the planet faster than ever. then in february, they explained how that has devastated ecosystems and livelihoods.

now they're telling the world what we can do to save ourselves. but even as well as leaders have signed treaties to slow global warming, dangerous carbon pollution has continued to climb. the result is a hotter, less hospitable planet. well, leaders have pledged to limit warming to well below 2 degrees celsius. and ideally, $1.00 degrees by the end of the century. but their policies put the planet on track the close to 3 degrees of woman. it's a bit scary to interact with that because we have so much limited time to a fastest. and a lot of dynamics going to the wrong direction. so it seems like quite important to

get measured done now and not use, excuse us, to delay these further. any further delay, the climate scientists found risks missing a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable and sustainable future for all the challenge now is getting society to shift away from fossil fuels and to do so fast enough. let's find out what was in that i p. c. c. report release today. due to your environment reporter sam baker joins me now. good to see you, sam. so are some of the proposals that that were outlined in today's report? yes, there were many solutions included in today's report. i mean, we have the science and technology, the strategies to tackle climate change. and the things included making building more energy efficient, making our city more efficient,

particularly as cities around the world grow, electric buying our vehicles that we use and cutting back. i'm driving fossil fuel vehicles, really completely transitioning it to renewable energy in both our homes and businesses, as well as conserving forests and land. although the authors did point out that they should not be used to that delayed action in reducing emissions, which would the real heart of this report. but we need to stop using fossil fuel. we need to see a rapid and deep reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors. and for any remaining emissions that can't be dealt with, we will have to use carbon capture and storage that's going to be that's a 3rd to take the last few emissions. these are many change that we can see again across all sectors, but they really need to come from the government level, not just individual to be effective. now i understand that the release of the

report was pushed back. what are some of the most contentious issues that they couldn't see eye to eye on? well, this report dealt with her being a mission. so it was perhaps one of the more contentious ones this year. we saw pushback from and we'd like india arguing that they should've had to make such a cut in their emissions. and also that they need help financing a transition to clean energy on the other side of the coin. and countries like the us pushing back on having to finance or countries energy transition so much. there have also been reports that saudi arabia wanted to see a continued role for fossil fuels. so the fire says, this cannot be the case. so with these reports, all countries have to agree on the final language there, there needs to be consensus there. so it can be quite a semantic debate at the end. but this means that the countries have,

by end of what the final report says. so it can be quite important and i think it signals that these reports are very crucial and the government are taking them very seriously. say they're very crucial. and of course, you know, we're living through this war now that we're seeing unfold in ukraine and fossil fuels. playing out size role in that conflict, could the more and ukraine help speed up the exit from fossil fuels? that is really going to depend on government's worth all of these other actions that there is an opportunity there to make a rapid transition to renewable energy. renewable energy is like women's solar are relatively cheap right now. and of course, we've seen the price of oil and gas really go up in recent weeks. but we've also seen countries including germany looking for additional liquefied natural gas from

places like the u. s. and guitar. so that's more fossil fuels coming in to be burned as energy. so it's going to be up to government to see where this goes. and countries like india and china are also taking that cheap gas from russia. so it's been ira. did ever you environment reporter sam baker? thank you, sam for joining us. while the grammy's got a dose of reality this year, when ukrainian president of a lot of mary zalinski appeared in a pre tape speech, him at the ongoing vision of his country by russia were making a powerful speech in english to the audience at the music awards ceremony in the us city of las vegas. mister zalinski spoke out about the power of music and dark times. equating war with silence. we defend our freedom to live, to love, to sell on our land. we are fighting russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. the dead silence filled the silence

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