father says starts april 16th. oh d w ah ah ah, this is dw is alive from birth. evidence grows of a civilian massacre by russian soldiers near hundreds of dead bodies. summit with their hands tied are discovered in the streets of the capital suburbs. already mir lensky visits. portia, where ukraine says countless atrocities occur. please golshani visa war crimes and will be recognized by the world of genocide when it was not what you were here

and can see what happened for yourself. the discovery prompted germany, foreign minister to announce moved to expel 40 russian diplomats and increased russian sanctions. coming up on the show the when's top climate scientists say it's now or never to save the planet. their new report warns that climate change could spin out of control without swift and drastic cuts to the use of fossil fuels. ah, hello, enquire richardson? thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian president volunteers. lensky has visited a butcher where hundreds of bodies were discovered. after russian forces retreated from the city. to lensky said the world needed to see the atrocities carried out by russia in ukraine. images of mass graves and bodies showing signs of torture have sparked wide spread international condemnation. moscow, meanwhile,

claims the killings were staged. a warning that our next report does contain disturbing images. hardy's line, the streets of blue church, evidence of russian atrocities. one was 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 being visibly shaken, president villani may zalinski, visited boucher on monday. he called on russia to come to the negotiation table before it's too late. i almost mitchum goodwood yet. i. she's given your thoughts as a dangling but the longer russia delays, the talks. yeah. the way it is for them he put into it laugh because every day when our troops advance and reclaim territory, but we see what's going on, what does look well, yet naturally, it's very difficult to conduct negotiations. when you see what they did here for eastwood which uncle is not as goliath away,

the image is out of butcher have shocked the world. he was president joe biden vowed to continue support for ukraine and echoed cold by other leaders. one international investigation may remember i got criticized for calling the war criminal, bothered years of the matter. so it happened rufus, this war, he is a war. but we have to gather the information. we advocate you to provide great without weapons lady. good, thank you. the fight. here we have been gather all the detail though this via an actual have a war farm trial. each commission that was left on, de leon said in a tweet, the european union was ready to send investigation teams to ukraine. russian foreign minister says a lover of denied his country's culpability and cold for debt of boucher as stage provocation. but the kremlin, the niles are becoming less believable with everybody retrieved from the ruins,

cities left behind lights, retreating, ami, and on monday our correspondent visited by chat. here is nick connelly, reporting on what he witnessed. i saw a city in sha, christie, that basically has been destroyed that even before it could be fully finished. this is a very young suburb of give lots of high rise new apartment blocks that had been had basically a ruined while still under construction. um, you see a lot of people on the shell shock, happy to see outside as they were cut off now outside, well for 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 in at the main or grave site next to our church. i am, we believe based on what people there told us that about 100 people along 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 short on the streets and then collected by neighbors and other ukrainian locals who brought them there to get them off the streets in the middle ave. got people who've been wrapped in the do vale since i kind of met cover. and then the top layer, people are in body bags, and the lrc associates tried as best they could to collect the passports, to where he, 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's holiday camp or whether ukrainian se, several people were executed with their arms type on their backs. the bodies had been recovered by go sorta stay, but there was still a stained blood stains on the walls, bullets lying around close. um, it's a very am extraordinary and disorienting place to be and the most extra because at

the rest of ukraine and most people here living here like the journalists, were hearing the artillery shells in the distance, it's only 25, which is 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 insect for a long time. so people was hearing this were fearing the worst. we're hearing awful things from people who might get out, but weren't able to actually go and take a look at themselves until the last few days. she w correspondent, nick connelly in cave after reporting from butcher and following the killings of civilians in butcher on monday us president joe biden called vladimir putin, a war criminal and called for a trial to find out more about what this could mean. let's get across to washington and speak to rachel rizzo. she's a senior fellow at the atlantic council, a us in tank. welcome to the show. first bite and calling for a war crimes trial. how likely is that to happen? so as, as you mentioned before,

i mean the image is coming out of which are just horrific. and we saw and said earlier that he got criticized for calling, putting a work criminal. but as we've seen these images of murdered civilians and mass graves, he said that should face a trial for these crimes. now were crimes are governed under the international criminal court founding treaty called the wrong got you and war crimes are one of the main crimes that i see does have jurisdiction over. this is not a quick process. there are preliminary examinations done by the office of a prosecutor to see if there's sufficient evidence. there are investigations pre trials, day to trial said, even if this process did start, it would be a long time before proving international punishment for the crime that the russian military has committed floods or something that perhaps could happen a bit more quickly on bite. and also calling for more sanctions on russia. what

sanctions do you think we can expect to see? sure, so i think something that's very important to note is the western solidarity that we have seen over the last month in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. we've seen swift sanctions. we have seen sanctions on the russian central bank. we've seen multiple banks and, and oligarch sanctioned. and i think that we should see these continue and there will be continued unity on this particular package that i've sanction experts here in the united states. say we're about a 7 out of 10 in terms of the strength of b. there is always farther to go. i think the european, specifically, especially in germany, will start getting a lot of pressure to institute sanctions against russian energy and gas coming into the european continent. so that's something that i know

a lot of us will be watching very closely over the coming days and weeks, especially as pressure continues to grow. now, president will let him as lensky has called, russia's actions in which i genocide abide and ended by an administration. have stopped short of doing that. can you explain what is behind that thinking? sure, the biden team has stopped short of using the term genocide because it has a very strict legal definition. and there are heavy implications that using that specific term carries the aim of genocide is to systematically destroy an entire group of people. and so when that term is used, i think national leaders want to be very specific when they, when they use that term. i think what we're also seeing in the coming days in terms of punishment that the russians could face, is that the potential for it to be suspended from the united nations human rights

council. this is something that the u. s. britain and other countries have indicated that they are calling for. this is going to take 2 thirds majority vote by the united nations and linda thomas greenfield, the us ambassador to be when said that this is something that they want to vote on this week. so a lot to watch, i think coming up in the coming days, we will be keeping an eye on that for you. rachel, risen from the atlanta council. i want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. thank you. and those discoveries in which i have prompted a germany to expel 40 russian diplomats. france and lithuania have announced similar moves in german. foreign minister anna lena bear. bach said her country would also boost its support for ukraine's armed forces and tightened economic sanctions against russia. and despite germany's dependence on russian gas calls to halt, imports here are growing louder. berlin is shocked by the images of russia's

attack on boucher. germany's foreign minister spoke of crimes against humanity that will be countered with immediate weapons supplies to keith. i'm from you not to been affected by the van will you will strengthen our support for ukraine's defense . i admired boucher and mary you. paul, have shown us this is a life or death situation for millions of ukrainians. my mention in that we are considering delivering weapon systems that we had held back until now. deviate busy, and nist khalifa. hobbin. on top of this, the german government has declared that 40 diplomats from the russian embassy are now persona non grata, and will be expelled from the country. and the voices demanding an immediate hall to all russian guests imports are growing. louder. politicians say it's not possible according to the economy minister, germany was following the wrong energy policy. for far too long, just on we're now reversing our energy policy every day. we are working towards grading the pre conditions necessary for an embargo. and it's my opinion and that

of the government that this is the correct way to proceed. and once carried out, it will harm putin on a daily basis. 14 teachers shot it, a gas embargo would hit germany's middle class, the hardest, the opposition see the you warns that this must be taken into consideration. if it's not only important to think about how this will affect russia, it's also very important how to measure the effects this will have on millions of germans. this is a deciding factor. this is why we should exit our dependence on oil and coal consumption quickly. but reduce gas consumption more slowly, middle felicity to enable the continue will supply of gas. germany has decided to appoint the federal network agency. as trustee for the germans subsidiary of russia's gas prom further sanctions against russia will be decided together with the you. the commission has already recommended more disciplinary measures

so the war in ukraine has prompted european countries to take steps to decrease reliance on russian gas and to accelerate a shift to war green energy. but despite this experts, a climate action is not happening fast enough. un climate scientists released a new report and its findings are stark saying that serious cuts to carbon pollution are necessary and if 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. record is clear, drastic action is needed to avert catastrophic global warming. the un secretary general set the report reveal the litany of broken, climbed promises. some government and business leaders are saying one sing. 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 the $1.00 degrees celsius warming limit agreed at cop $21.00 in paris. if we continue acting as we are now, we're not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees. never, never mind 1.5 degrees. emissions are in the last decade were the highest they have ever been of 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 hopeful message that we are 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

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