a ah ah, this is either a news line from rural and ukraine puts a russian soldier on trial for war crimes. a 21 year old man will be the 1st russian soldier to stand trial for war crimes and ukraine since the start of the invasion is accused of killing an unarmed 62 year old civilian. also coming up ukraine calls on his allies to seize russian assets. russia must pay politically economically, but also financial. the ukrainian foreign minister was addressing

a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in germany, and a final goodbye thousands of mourners paid their last respects to a veteran. al jazeera journalist fatally shot while doing her job reporting a shooting accolades, burial, israeli forces charged into the funeral procession, carrying her casket as good an outpouring of grief across the palestinian territories and the arab world. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla rock. it's good to be with you. we begin this broadcast with the opening of the 1st trial of a russian soldier accused of war crimes during russia's unprovoked war in ukraine. a 21 year old stands accused of killing a 62 year old, unarmed civilian during the 1st week of the war to other cases are expected to be

heard in the coming days. a media scrum at ukraine's 1st trial of a russian soldier on war crimes charges. the 21 year old is accused of carrying a 62 year old man, shooting him dead to stop him from reporting the russian soldiers presence to the ukrainian military. oh, what a voice that the record here, so screw on february 28th and a village northwest of hockey eve. this new, the accused shot an unarmed and on threatening civilian in the head with an assault rifle. mistletoe, the whoops. reuben was broiling. the trial marked the beginning of a ukrainian judicial probe into alleged russian atrocities on its territory. the attorney general says prosecutors are examining more than 10000 alleged war crimes committed by russian forces against ukraine's civilians. so that should. meanwhile, german chancellor, olaf schoultz i spoke with russian president vladimir putin for their 1st direct

communication in weeks and rushes foreign minister had harsh words about ukraine's ambitions to join the european union. should the list though you will, so uses uncles through illegal you has evolved from a constructive economic union into an aggressive militant actor who sheila, you good luck with ambitions? far beyond the european continent that it was a big deal in europe. musical continue in the yellow ukrainian president followed him as a lansky also declared himself ready for direct talks with russian president vladimir putin but stressed that ukrainians would not look kindly on it as things stand. he said he is, i mean, as if is in liveth and told me about the significance of this 1st war crimes trial . since the start of the unprovoked war in ukraine. it's a drop in the bucket layla in terms of the number of crimes, the number of alleged crimes that have been committed by russian troops and ukraine and which ukraine hopes to bring before

a court. but it's the 1st draft. so this is very significant. symbolically for ukraine to show that it's upholding some kind of standard of international law. there have also been accusations that ukrainian troops have committed war crimes. and ukraine has bowed to investigate those as well. so what ukraine is doing here is showing that despite the fact that it's country has been forced into a state of war by an invasion, which it considers illegal and against international law is going to continue to pursue a legal efforts to bring those who invaded accountable for their actions, especially when it's considered a war crime and there's evidence that it, it happens later. and i mean at we understand that fighting is still ongoing at the steel plant in marty you, paula? but more can you tell us about the latest the ukrainian military confirmed that russian troops continued to bombard the steel plant throughout last night and into the early morning with artillery. so that's ground fire and also from aircraft

. this is a probably drones which the as of stall fighters have the fighters who are defending as a style plants said is one of the serious problems for them because they have no way of defending against drones. now, what russia has also done is blocked off the exits and are, are in. it seems that they're hoping to starve the troops out so that the m, as of battalion a, eventually surrender is to russian troops, which would be a win for russia. and so far, any kind of prisoner swap has been denied by russia because they said that 1st those as off stall defenders would have to surrender to russian troops before they would consider any kind of prisoner swap. and i mean, in conclusion, what can you tell us about the situation in the dumbass region while the fighting continues there, and for every ukrainian, when there seems to be a russian win as well. but this destruction of the bridge has been celebrated in the area of several done yet because that city is the last large city in don bass

to be held by ukrainian troops is almost completely surrounded. but if russian troops had managed across the river, this would have been a disaster for ukrainian troops. and it shows a tactical superiority to ukrainians of their own military over russians that they were able to stop this. and what also happened in that situation is that the allowed russians to cross over this pontoon bridge and then destroyed the bridge so that the russians were stalled on the ukrainian side of the river, at which point they hit them with artillery and also air power. so this is being celebrated as a major win for ukraine, but will you also down here? and ukraine is the many wins that are coming out of the russian side with village after village and falling to russian troops and where they're showing up the dominance in that region that they had. mostly since 2014 did have used ammunition reporting from of if you great, thank you very much for your continued coverage and had

a meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in germany. ukraine accused russia of preferring wars to talks, attending the summit as a guest, ukrainian foreign minister, demitra, co labour called on the gathered representatives of some of the world's largest industrialized economies. to step up, i'm supplies to his country and put more pressure on russia. as, as the foreign affairs chief just a barrel use the meeting to announce another half a 1000000000 euros in military aid to ukraine. g 7 countries have promised her support ukraine until victory did of his chief international editor richard walker is at the g 7 meeting in bison house in northern germany and sent us this assessment unity very much the buzzword here. it's a g 7 form, and this is meeting in a blustery northern germany with minister after minister coming out and extolling the united response from the g 7 countries to russia's invasion. and also their

unity in their support for ukraine, where the financial support or, or military support during the course of this war and ukraine's foreign minister demitra caliber here as a guessing clearly very satisfied with how far western countries have come in there debate about how much support to provide ukraine with to the extent that when the e u foreign policy chief announced another half 1000000000 euros of military aid for ukraine for heavy weapons like tanks and heavy artillery. that it almost seemed like par for the course. but this unity among the west will be tested in the days and weeks to come, particularly in the european union. first test is coming up at the beginning of the week in brussels, where the european union is trying to get hungary on the side for a ban on the imports of russian oil into the european union. demitrix labor saying that it was ridiculous that russia was still able to sell so much energy to europe

. and then a 2nd test, a slightly longer term question, is ukraine's desire to join the european union. it wants the you to grant it as soon as possible, official candidate status or as a country that is on the path to membership of the european union. it's not yet clear how much support there is among you countries for that. they have been questions, for instance, about whether france was wavering on such an idea. what caliber was here saying that he has received insurances from france, that it is not trying to block such a move. so this will be a question in the weeks ahead. will the you come around and say by a big meeting coming up in june, that yes, it once ukraine to be an official candidate countries, richard walker, they're reporting from that cheese 7. want to tell you about the other stories in the headlines, right. sweden's foreign minister says her country's session to nato would prevent conflicts in northern europe. on linda was presenting a parliamentary report on security of sweden considers applying to join the

alliance in the face of russia's invasion of ukraine, a russian energy supplier. i said it will stop exporting electricity to finland, beginning on saturday because it has not been paid. the nordic countries group companies that the move will not affect supplies from power from russia, accounts for just 10 percent of its total consumption. even must says he has put his $44000000.00 deal to buy twitter temporarily on hold. he tweeted to say he's waiting for data about spam or fake users. the new sent shares in the social media platform. plunging, walking away from the deal now would cost in $1000000000.00 in contract penalties. in another tween, however mosque insisted he still committed to buying the platform. thousands as mourners have paid their final respects at a funeral procession for prominent al jazeera journalist,

sharina abruptly in jerusalem. before the service began. israeli security forces charged into the crowd carrying her coffee. the you says it is appalled by what it calls unnecessary force used by israel police. the veteran out as they were reporter was hilderman is really army rate on the janine refugee camp and the occupied west bank on wednesday is really an palestinian authorities dispute, who killed her journalist eye witnesses, and broadcaster al jazeera se sharina was fatally shot by israeli forces israel says is not yet possible to determine what happened or drew some correspondence. tanya kramer is it in jerusalem? she joins us right now. tanya, you were at saint josephs, hot st. joseph's hospital when is really police charged the funeral procession. he tell us what you witnessed while absolutely, there were a disturbing scenes and we were reporting on that in the early afternoon. we were

actually all waiting outside the gate off the st. joseph's hospital in east jerusalem in the neighbourhood of shakes at our very residential neighbourhood. here inside where people waving a polishing mourners or waving palestinian flax and a one said the cost good actually appeared. the police that was there in high prisons around the hospital, suddenly charged in there was mounted police that was pushing of the people and also the price outside in all directions. they charged in the heard a stun grenades. and then you could see on the videos, some of the mourners being clapton that this these so shocking a scenes of the poll barris, almost a tropic, a casket or with so sharyn. now the police released afterwards a statement or saying that the mourners went chanting, nationalistic songs, incitement and stones were thrown prompting the police to rush in. but for most of

the people there wanting to, to pay their respect a, it doesn't really explain the amount of force are being used. and you could really see the shock and disbelief on their faces are what should have been, you know, a very r. com. and a respectful, dignified beginning of a funeral, a turned very ugly. and that moment he efforts that are underway to investigate who killed sherry the are there lot of calls, of course for a thorough and transparent investigation of calls for accountability. the investigations are, have for just started, you said already the palestinian authority and also al jazeera are holding is were responsible for the killing of sharina barkley and a there was

a autopsy performed adaptive and gave a clear result in or to see it performed by the palestinian authority. now d r. israeli military released initial findings of an initial investigation earlier today. they also said that it's not possible. i'm quoting for at this stage to determine the source of the gunfire. and they also said they're looking at a 2 and events around the time when i sharina barkley was killed or near the jenin refugee camp in the occupied west bank one. they're looking to palestinian gunfire or possibly fire from an israeli sniper. so there are a lot of calls, of course, and pressure from the international community as well, from the use of ministration. sharina barkley was a palestinian american, a journey less, but of course we have to wait and see or where these investigations or will lead to

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