ah, ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, mounting evidence of russian war crimes in ukraine, investigators exhume bodies from mass graves of the international criminal court. that's the whole country as a crime scene. u. s. president joe biden describes the war as a genocide and flooding in south africa, claims hundreds of lives and lots of people are still missing after heavy rain and mud slides sweep away homes and infrastructure in one of south africa that deadly storms.

ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program is growing evidence that russia is getting war crimes in ukraine. u. s. president joe bright biden has described. vladimir putin was a genocide of the ukrainian people. and the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court said ukraine is a crime scene. made the comment while visiting the town of butcher near keith, where hundreds of civilians were found dead after russian forces withdrew. russia dismisses it as fake or staged, but evidence is mounting of woe, crimes committed by russian troops in ukraine. a 2nd mass grave has been excavated in boucher investigators say it contained 40 to 60 bodies less than a week ago. 57 bodies were exhumed from another mass grave in the town near key. if

this and news of other atrocities led president joe biden to break, or to bu and accuse the kremlin directly of genocide, i call the jealous i become clear, clear good, finer, white above the idea of the baby brain. mama, the evidence of mary the different or last week, the more evidence coming out literally fall of the rushes have done in ukraine in a press conference with reporters kremlin spokesman dmitri bess. gov rejected the accusation and said washington's past means it has no right to make such judgments or greedy, reddish human, if only of her glee categorically disagree. and consider this kind of effort to distort the situation unacceptable. kimberly moreover, as we've said before, this is hardly acceptable from a president of the united states,

a country that has committed well known crimes in recent times, vienna kit union maury, in irish history. the southern port city of matthew pope was long the focus of the fighting. now the besieged city has been largely destroyed. ukraine accuses the kremlin of using chemical weapons there. but president zalinski admitted it is difficult to verify the claim while the city is under siege. mario paused mer, said russia was doing all it could to destroy the evidence of atrocities woocommerce. our intelligence has confirmed to day that 13 mo, bile crematory, i have arrived in the city and are being prepared to get rid of the evidence of war crimes committed by the russian federation in the city. as russia apparently prepared to shift its military focus to the east of ukraine, there are fears. many places in that region could suffer the same fate as matter. you all. when you cried says he can't confirm russian. meteor reports at more than

a 1000 ukrainian marines, defending a matter of all have surrendered. asked the dw correspondent, alexandra phenomena in keith, what she's been hearing. well, indeed, the russian forces some are intensifying their assault on the city of from our yo pole. and it seems that they are determined to capture this strategically so important city. they are trying to secure a land bridge between their forces in the next crimea and at the russian army in the eastern part of ukraine. and according to the russian defense ministry, more than the 101000, i'm sorry, 1000 offer service, a members of the ukraine armed forces said they are and have already surrendered and are held her captive. however, this isn't information that the ukrainian government is saying they cannot confirm

because of course at the moment exit say to the port city of my you pull is a very difficult if not impossible, from the outside world. but according to western of military officials or the city could fall in the next days. right. i'm, we're, we've heard a u. s. president joe biden describing a vis at war as a genocide. how has president zalinski a responded to that? well, zelinski praised biden for using this term general side against ukrainians. he took to twitter saying that those are true words from a true leader. he also said that it is now essential to cold the things by their names. he encouraged other leaders to do the same. however, we also so already that some of them in particular, the french president in manuel my call, our warning against using this to him, saying that to there are against are the escalation of words. however,

for the recording and president who has been accusing the russian forces of carrying out a genocide again, sir, he's people, it is very important now to hear from the you as president tooth using the same term because of course, he's hoping for more help from the you ask for more weapons. however, the key question he would be whether you ask would fundamentally change its response to the war. whether they would, for instance, decide to have american boots on the ground. that is not likely to happen because joe biden has rolled it out from the beginning. right. and these are these accusations from the ukrainian side that russia has been using a chemical weapons in mary awful presence zalinski. and i say, he can't say with certainty whether that's the case or when we likely to know more i'm not sure whether we will really learn more in terms of whether we will really be sure what kind of substance,

what kinds of weapons were use in this particular case, because for that international teams, international experts would have to have access would have to collect samples on the ground to talk to victims. and that is at the moment not possible. did almost alexander phenomena speaking with me a little earlier from keith, finland's prime minister says her country will make a decision within weeks i'll know whether to apply to join nato. santa martin has been holding towards in stock home with a swedish count, bought magdalena anderson. russia has warned finland unsweetened against joining the western military alliance. they say the warn you cried as drastically changed europe security landscape. their joint appearance demonstrates neighborliness, but mil sweden and finland hands of government, both moved toward nato membership. that's the main question being addressed at today's meeting. and stockholm we have to really think through what is best

for sweden and our security and our peace in this new situation. and of course, what is happening and the discussion of finland is important for us to follow. therefore, we need to have a very close contact. this is a completely new security situation for finland and sweden until now the countries have been neutral viewing themselves as negotiators between east and west. but the war in ukraine has changed all that, including their attitude to nato are there is no other way to have security guarantees done under nato's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by natives . article 5, the mood has shifted in both countries. more and more people now support nato membership. ve mison walk out and i've changed my mind over the last month. what none of finland cannot defend itself alone. a book very m. m is good of all. it

would be safer for us swedes to join. yet we should do so as quickly as possible. finland plans to decide in the coming weeks. sweden, probably by summer, russia says any expansion of nato will have negative consequences. so, more than $250.00 people have died in floods close to the south african city of durban days of record rainfall, of less thousands of homes and critical infrastructure destroyed. ministry have helped evacuated residents from the worst effected areas of african presidents. total rum, oppose infinity devin on wednesday. well they w corresponding to other increase told me more betsel and to meet the particular said how many children were affected when pending right now you can see beyond me where the lamp light, it's happening. this was the room of 10 year old. that collapse on her, she passed away. family just told me about it. they obviously devastating and just

next to the camera and just shown it is another place that collapse the neighbors plays with grandmother. stayed with 3 children, only one of the kids, the wives, all the, the others died. the youngest one was just 3 years old. and as you drive through durban, today, you can see this devastation and these kind of life all over the place on a different area. so it is likely that the death toll will continue to increase the risk to works continue, and was the city prepared for this, this massive rainstorm? well, obviously not prepared enough. some city officials even said took us by the price. i was strong installment it's rainfall. where some critics already complaining that the drainage systems were not in place, that there was not a proper investment into the interest structure and the part, yes. so this might have accelerated biscuits, esther fee that to y'all ever keep on saying that a major issue was landslide, so they try to push away the responsibility. but when it's clear that this area has

seen those events in the past, it is whether appearance has been happening in the past years. 2019, for example. also 60 people died when it's similar with the current came to this area as well. but it's all over southern africa that's especially this year, we're seeing an increase the number of these. then they truly have that cycle and tropical storm. we've seen almost 200 people are killed in a tropical storm and my gas got in february and march. and scientists are saying that this is clearly in relation to the global climate change. we see more intense rainfalls. we see these cap fees, and this is something also south africa as president theorem up with. i mentioned. you also said that this event, what we're seeing here now is part of climate change, right? and so what help is the government providing as we speak as we are and i was, i just came to visit this place and he went to several locations, the president himself to talk to the residents, to see what the needs are likely that they're going to declare the state of disaster for the entire province to facilitate and help on the national level as

well. but we've had also critical voices from residency, who said, well, when we had the last year, we got lots of promises and little happened. many people have been waiting for for new houses ever since then. the summer, not optimistic. on the other hand, we do see that help is coming in here. mentors abroad in the relief organizations are trying to help those who are affected of this disaster at the moment the government, that's the key priority is to get shelter for the thousands of people who became homeless overnight. ah, all unborn munich has been kicked out of the champions league by spanish sy via rail danya, barcelona from deed of use forties here to talk us through bounced, shock exit in the quarter finals are welcome danya. what went wrong for a buyer? well, in order to win football games, you need to be able to score goals and buy, and they really just couldn't do that over 2 legs. now they lost the 1st leg, one nail in spain. everyone really expected them to be able to turn that around

easily learned ascii did give buying the lead in the 2nd half, but they really could not capitalize on their chances in the game. and in the 8 minute, very i'll through sam roger crazy. they scored the gall tied the game up and that ultimately sent them into the semi finals. now after the game nag was man by his coach was pretty disappointed. he even called out one of his players, which we can actually see here. ah, it was not a good day for buying ma'am indigo yet. so we were missing the 2nd goal, a little bit in the end chosen went to was we had a great chance with thomas miller. and if we did school that we would have one miss westlake over all the pressure was group today. i think it was very good defensively we allowed in. it's a lot more, but of course that's normal. when you need to score, you have to take a bit more risk than the opponents of the. nevertheless, i think we dominated for long stretches. it just doesn't matter because we eliminate isn't. so where does this leave by?

well, it leaves them in a bit of a mass actually, because as buyer munich, you're really expected to make it as a minimum to the semi finals of the champions. like now they're out of the d of people cow this season. they're out of the champions league. ok, they're going to win their template is the good title probably, but that's just not enough. if you're byron, you can also see that this year they might lose some top stars like you and dusky now breeze. so it's a bit of dark moment. and so how big a wind is this for via radio and who the big names still left in the competition. so this is a massive victory for various. i mean, they're small club, an underdog. everyone loves that kind of story. but they did when the euro believe last year, they knocked out event as an buyer now, so people will not be taking them so lightly. now we have real madrid still last. we could have athletic coal, or man city, or liverpool. so it'll be interesting to see now what goes on. i thank you for that . down your bossa. d w. school. the world's oldest female gorilla in captivity has celebrated her 65th birth, bad, burly,

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