by fraud, oh ah ah, is it a w news live from berlin? evidence of a civilian massacre by russian soldiers near keith, hundreds of dead body, some with their hands bound, i discovered in the streets of the capital suburbs. not a minister lensky accuses moscow of genocide. these guys alleged needs of these are war crimes and will be recognized by the world as genocide which when you're building up when you are here and can see what happened for yourselves feel. good bush. the discovery prompts germany's foreign minister to announce moves to expel

40 russian diplomats and increased russian sanctions. also on the program, the un top climate scientists say it is now or never to save the planet. the latest report warns that climate change could spin out of control without swift and drastic cuts to the use of fossil fuels. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. he cried, you present, thought him as the landscape has accused russia of genocide after hundreds of bodies were discovered in the town of butcher, near the capital, keith images of mass graves and bodies showing signs of torture, of sparked widespread international condemnation with several e. u. countries not pushing for tougher sanctions against much russia. moscow claims the killings were staged. and next report contained some disturbing images.

bodies lined the streets of blue church, evidence of russian atrocities. coming to light following the liberation of this town near keith. ukrainian authorities say over for when it corpses have been found in areas retaken by its forces, we have visibly shaken president. vladimir de lensky, visited boucher on monday. he called on russia to come to the negotiation table before it's too late. almost here it's you don't, shouldn't i? she's given your answers at daniel, but the longer russia delays, the talks law, the worse it is for them he put into the lab. because every day when our troops advance and reclaim territory, but then we see what's going on, what does and late it's very difficult to conduct negotiations. because when you see what they did here, 4 eastwood which is close, not as goliath away. the image is out of butcher,

have shocked the world. he was president joe biden bowed to continue support for ukraine and echoed cold by all the leaders when international investigation. may i remember i got criticized for calling the war criminal, bothered years of the matter, though it happened to fit this warrant here the war. but we have to gather information. we have to provide re without weapons. maybe we could send you the fight. here we have to get all the detail. so this to be an actual have a war farm trial. each commission that was left on the lion said in a tweet, the european union was ready to send investigation teams to ukraine. russian foreign minister says oliver of to night his country's culpability and cold, the dead of boucher a stage provocation. but the kremlin denials are becoming less believable with everybody retrieved from the ruin cities left behind lights,

retreating, ami it's showing. did have the correspondent nick connelly who was in boucher oh, you're welcome, nick. what did you say? i saw a city in sha, christie, that basically has been destroyed even before it can be fully finished. this is a very young suburb of give lots of high rise new apartment blocks that have been basically a ruined while still under construction. and you see a lot of people on the shell shock, happy to see outside as they were cut off from the outside world. basically a month, but a mix of kind of hope relief and a very am shocked energy. people very keen to tell their stories to share what they've been through the last few months am and we were at the main a grave site next to our church. am we believe based on what people there told us that about 100 people are lying there in several layers. those right at the bottom

that you can see in parts have, which is buried in what they were walking in when, as the locals told us, they were shot on the streets and then collected by neighbors, another ukrainian, or locals who brought them there to get them off the streets in the middle ave, got people who've basically been wrapped in the do vail some so i kind of bed cover and then the top layer people are in body bags around the lrc associates tried as best they could to collect the passports or, or any i the kind of id that were on these people when they were found on the streets to will to reconstruct who they were and to let their next of kin know. we went to the cellar of a children, saw their camp, where the ukrainian se several people were executed with their arms type on their backs. the bodies had been recovered by the 30 stay, but there was still a stain, blood stains on the walls, will it's lying around close, ma'am. it's a very am extraordinary and disorienting place to be and the most x ray,

because the rest of ukraine and most people here live in care of like journalists, we're hearing the artillery shells in the distance. it's only 25 kilometers, kind of direct line from downtown kia but they weren't able to get there for weeks and weeks and weeks. there wasn't reliable phone or in 2nd act for a long time. so people was hearing this were fearing the worst we're hearing awful things to people who managed get out, but weren't able to actually go and take look themselves until the last few days. and it sounds from, from what you're saying that there was no shortage of people that are to witness what actually happened. that's right. and if any authorities are now being very proactive in trying to collect those, i witness counts a few days ago or another part of the care region where the ukrainians have come back and re taking a troll in recent days. and as soon as you enter that region, you get an automatic text message encouraging you to a report, whatever you've experienced to a government websites, and even on a local level. so those people who collected the bodies and talking about their

attempt now to try and find those next of kin to they have lists of the dead that they found. and now trying to not having to, you know, in part for the most part, there still is an internet or mobile phone connection in butcher. but now trying to get back on social media to then try and find the road to these people based on the names based on the place where these people were found. and one of the most haunting things i heard today was from an older woman who had spent the most past month hiding in house scared of leaving. and she talked about her son in law who had gone out to try and buy some food can been shot. but only that, they found him fairly quickly, but they weren't able to recover the body for weeks because they were scared that if they went out onto the roads where it was dangerous, that they would also lose their lives. and they also took a mines, supposedly bodies being covered with mines or booby traps, so that there would be a direct physical danger threat to people's lives if they tried to get those bodies back and they'd only be able to recover that body in the last few days after weeks of that body lying on the road,

a quick word about the russian response an acre sag. a lot of the foreign minister has dismissed this as part of a west and dis information. so presumably we were not going to expect any help from the russian side in investigating these deaths. i think that's a given, but for now, it doesn't seem like they're advancing any alternative explanations as to how these people died. i think it's worth taking a look back to 2014 and the dumbass conflict in the downing of the image. 17 for flight over dawn, best buy what was then later established a russian missile back then, the russian government came up with new versions. every couple of weeks that were then soon discounted or just ignored by their own side. but i think back then that the tactic seems to be into the advance whatever it took any kinds of kind of possible explanations to distract from the situation on the ground in the hope that eventually people will lose interest and not bother following it up. but as we've seen since the dutch will thirty's have spent years investigating that,

finding out down to the last person who was responsible down the chain of command and then now advancing those charges against people who will be tried in absentia over there. in russia, they're not available to that court, but years of work did minister achieve a clear picture of what happened back then in 2014. so i think the hope here in ukraine will be that something some will be possible. okay, thank you for that sir. nick nick connelly was following those discoveries in boucher germany has declared 40 officials of the russian embassy in berlin to be undesirable persons effective lake. spelling them from the country. france is also expanding a number of russian diplomats, a german foreign minister, analynn, a bare box at her country would also boost it support to for ukraine's armed forces and to tighten economic sanctions against russia. he let us again involved in the sandy images of the past weekend have once again highlighted a new, brutal dimension of this war with the most serious war crimes and crimes against

humanity have. and that is why i made it clear over the weekend that we must not only close the remaining loopholes in the sanction systems, but that we must also intensively and rigorously implement this package. once mit blick and with regard to ukraine's self defense, as i said, that we will now also examine things that we have not examined before us get more from t w political correspondent at thomas sparrow. thompson spot wouldn't start with a simple question. so we're all clear, germany's a call for even more sanctions. this is a direct result of these discovers a boucher absolutely and something else as a direct result of the discoveries of those bodies and that massacre in boucher is the decision to expel those 40 diplomats with germany's interior minister only a while ago. stressing that it's all about securing germany, maintaining official security, if you will,

public security against russian lies and propaganda as germany is interior minister stress. and we've also heard the official russian reaction to all that coming from the russian embassy here in berlin. stressing that they presented their view to german officials of what happened in butcher. they rejected germany's announcement of those 40 diplomats being expelled. stressing that germany's unfriendly actions would not be left without consequences. we still don't know exactly what those consequences would be. but according to the russian officials, they stressed that this basically damage is russian. german relations even more and makes dialogue even more difficult between both countries. from a german perspective, clearly decision related to what we're seeing from ukraine. and also an alina babel, the foreign minister stressing that this is only the beginning, that more actions are actually expected. okay,

so what other cars does germany have to play? because as you say, they're already stringent, are measures in place. strengthening already existing sanctions is something that germany is government and i know babcock in particular stressed. but that is something that germany will probably not do unilaterally that something of germany will probably work hand in hand with its european allies. what germany is still reluctant to do, unlike some of its european allies, is to impose an embargo on russian energy imports that some the german government, the german go and believes it would actually harm germany more than it would harm a russia. and that's why germany has said that it needs more time before supporting such a decision that it's not entirely against it. what it's entirely against is doing it immediately. because that would certainly affect germany to an extent that germany does certainly does not want. in fact, we've heard from german officials in the past say that that could lead to

a recession to, to mass unemployment, to poverty. so that's why german officials in particular are so reluctant to support an immediate embargo on russian energy inputs. thank you for thomas. i did of the political correspondent, thomas barron, when russian forces invaded ukraine, a russians who were against the war joined, protest around the world. but they had no way of showing federal protesters that they were russian. so the idea of a new russian peace flag was born on the very 1st day of freshest invasion of ukraine. designer chi katana took to the streets of berlin in protest. first with banners. then i realized that russians like her who opposed to the war, need their own flag, will appoint a leash though when the still the russians are invisible, it is protest, last new, even we don't look any different from ukrainians. so everyone think that we are not protesting and that we support the war. so we realized that we needed

a symbol to show we are russians war against the war. even there is a young for to, for a me a white flag with a blue stripe became that symbol. it wasn't the idea of a single person, but of many, for them, the red in the russian flag represents blood and violence. so they replaced it, came, makes the flags only soon. musson at home flung border with against the bomb of his jojo boy. d, idea is that every one can make the flag from fabric. they can buy at the local store. the color on my flag isn't a deal. i've got paper that is better. the fabric is too green. many people are using colored paper belonging to their children. that's why there is no specific tone of blue that should be used. no one is mass producing dyslexia,

tamara. exactly. we did the watson to lavon. we have the flag has appeared at rallies around the world in london, new york, tele leaf and other cities. russian authorities have also noticed it and banned from being used at public events. on the streets of berlin, the new flag has parked a lot of interest. kate has received lots of positive feedback from germans, russians, and ukrainians. the main colors of anti war movement in berlin. a still the yellow and blue of ukraine's national flag. but white and blue and becoming more prominent every day. let's consider the russian resistance to this war than with natalie ana who is president of the free russia foundation that the u. s. based at india, that informs you as policy makers on events in russia and supports the countries democratic development. she joins us from washington. welcome to

d. w. a if said the pro democracy russians are in this tragedy together with ukrainians, what did you mean by that? well, i mean that her, this was this song, worst possible nightmares or worst possible scenarios at this happening is a moment. this is not the war only as a war, ha, russia against ukraine. it's actually a war between the dictatorship funds, a democratic world. and we put them on the russians. we are fighting with his dictatorship, from the very like from the beginning and occupied the russia 1st before he started to attack its neighbors before he started to attack the democratic world. and that's why we ought to be other. we do a never thing even in 2008, we were standing together with georgia in 2014. were standing together with ukraine and we're doing a lot of things. one of the main programs of my organization, the advocacy on behalf of criminal political prisoners and the very big group of

those is ukranian hostages of the clam and crimea that are yes. so this is why it is as soon as this war began, we are together, we are doing a lot of things. we're doing vacations, we are doing so many days in a plane and we do everything we can locate and for market, military and aid for more military on the sink. some suppose people are going to look at this and pop, so command your actual book, but wonder how effective you can be from outside russia. well, hi, if you are inside russia, there are a lot of repressive legislation which keep coming constantly. one of the latest on this least as, as the law on the state prison, i am the you can be in jail even using the word the war for 15 years. so it's quite dangerous to express your anti war position being in russia and the,

even before that's the way enough depressive legislation to be does that, the criminalize, all the area. so any activity, any expression of, of dissent with a current rationalism, right? so for many russians it's, it's safer to continue the fight for a free russia for the soul of our country been abroad. this is actually my story in 2012. i was threatened to be in jail for 20 years for a reason just for leading democracy promotion organization. and so i had to flee on a 48 hour notice. and then in freedom, in the democratic world, i establish rush foundation just from scratch from my kitchen table, the one person. but now what is in my organization, it's already a global movement of rush and we are everywhere. so it's, again, everybody can be much more influential and insightful being free. and so there you are in washington, your organization informs us,

policymakers are on events in russia. what more would you like to see the bite and administration do? well, how real was sir? i thought that whole the thing since i'm good, but there would be too late or with the toledo. and of course if for all the sanctions we're producing something for 2014. lisa foster and larger distribution might be completely different. and what is more important at the moment is trans atlantic unity. because for us, many much more hurtful sanctions, our sanctions from the you and what we see while this new package of things, because of the war, is still very impactful, especially in the long term perspective. our seal, again, all this energy export the money from an inject, but the trash is going to get this year will be even bigger than the one before the

war. yes. so it should be much more much more condemnation between the u. s. and p in union and it should be definitely in energy embargo, russian gas, and oil and petroleum products understand. thank you so much for learning, a physician that natalia on of the free of russia foundation. thank you. thank you . hungary prime minister, victor all been has secured a 4th term following of this weekend's election. he also got a super majority in parliament for his right wing to feed us. party is faced, accusations have been voting, democracy journeys 12 years as prime minister and his class to frequently with the european union over rule of law standards pro government newspapers have election winner, victor or bonds, splashed across different pages of 4th victory. that for some comes as little surprise in these on, but i trust they will be wise when investing the money they stole. despite some

pull predictions, the results were clear. the governing party feed us once again 12 thirds of the popular vote or bonds. supporters partied into the night, celebrating his victory is lost, is an our message to europe is we are not history. we are the future where the opposition alliance was disappointed. challenger peter marquee sees himself as a victim of the pro government media system to the natural gas, and it should be clear to everyone that the media tip, the scales in favor of fidel starts copied us back. there was one big surprise, the extreme right wing party, our home land, made it into parliament, shifting the country further to the right. oh se election observers say the election was well organized, but not completely fair because of government influence on the media pond and say the effects of orbits latest victory will be felt at the

e. u. level of august. thank of the election promises have to be financed high inflation has to be fought. and to do this we need the support of the e. u is on your own, but it looks like the relationship between hungary and the e. you will continue to be difficult for the war in ukraine has prompted european countries to take steps to decrease their reliance on russian gas onto accelerates a shift towards green energy will. despite their sex birdseye climate action is still not happening. fast enough, united nations climate scientists have just released a new report on its findings of stock, saying that serious cuts to carbon pollution are necessary and the world needs to act. now. the world is hurtling towards a climate danger zone and the options to avoid it of running out the assessment of the new i. p. c. c report is clear, drastic action is needed to avert catastrophic global warming. the un secretary general set the report reveal the litany of broken climate promises. some

government and business leaders are saying one thing, but doing and others simply put, they are lying and the results will be catastrophic. these is a climate emergency. climate scientists sworn that we are already perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts. climate impact that is leading to more extreme weather events. the world is on a pathway to exceed that $1.00 degrees celsius. warming limit a great at cop 21 in paris. if we continue acting as we are now, we're not even going to limit warming to, to decrease. never, never mind 1.5 degrees emissions in the last decade where the highest they have ever been and have continued to increase. scientists say emissions must peak by 2025 to prevent disastrous climate effect. and that only a drastic reduction will secure a livable future. the big message we've got,

you know, human activities got us into this problem. and human agency can actually get us out of it again on i think that's the whole for message that we're trying to get over in this report. it's not the hope, it's not all lost. we really have the chance to do something. the world must leave behind the age of fossil fuels. the un says of phase the disastrous consequences of climate change and music's biggest night. the grammy awards on the event returned on sunday evening for the 1st time since the pandemic with a 64th edition and a full capacity show. this year superstar celebration was tampered with a dose of reality. when the ukranian president address the audience in a pre recorded video. oh, john legend teamed up with the exiled ukrainian musician leaky with a pre recorded video address for me, premium president, a lot of mir zalinski. we defend our freedom to live,

to lots south on our land. we are fighting russia, which brings horrible silence with its bumps the dead silence filled assistance with your music, philip, to day, to tell our story. tell the truth about the war on your social net source on tv support. ask in any way you can and by not silence. and that visual. ah, there was also a lot to celebrate. silk sonic the r and b supergroup from bruno mars and anderson packed both record and song of the year for their single leave the door open. best new artist winner. olivia rodrigo performed her head driver's license with in her performance, billy irish paid tribute. who fighters?

drummer taylor hawkins, who died suddenly while the band was touring in south america. but the night belong to one artist. we ah, multi genre artist john batista was crowned grammy king with 5 wins, including album of the year with just dw life from bud in his reminder about top stories at this hour training present, valadez lansky has accused moscow of genocide and war crimes. this follows the discovery of what appears to be a civilian massacre. russian troops in the town of butcher, a near keith. hundreds of people were found dead in the streets and in mass graves, walking international outrage. if you are planning further sanctions against russia,

the german foreign minister and i've been bad off as announced, moved to expelled, 40 russian diplomats in response to those killings from lithuania, also expand expelling numbers of russian diplomatic staff. a set you up today will world news at the top of the hour. i'll be back in a moment to take you through the big stories of the day in the day with ah, with

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how can we protect habitat? what to do with all our waste? we can make a difference by choosing smartness solutions over stains, said in our ways global ideas. the environmental series included $3000.00 on d, w, and online. the devastating toll of the war and ukraine has become clearer as bodies somewhere their hands bound discovered in the streets of a keep sub apparently evidence of a civilian massacre carried out by russian soldiers. so how much responsibility lies with vladimir putin? i'm phil gail in berlin. and this is the day ah.