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on the program of prime time boarding about the fragility of us democracy. january 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup and former congressional committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital presented findings including previously unseen video via lawmakers more that us democracy remain at rich. tyler gives the green light to matawan. a consumer was and growth in the country known for its strict anti drugs laws. many say it's high time for chick. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. western countries are condemning the death sentence is given to 3 foreign fighters by a pro russia court,

which they say violates the rules of war. the court says the 2 britons and one moroccan are mercenaries, russian foreign minister. so again, love ralph says that crimes were committed in the self proclaimed the nets, people's republic. that's a russia backed territory which has no international recognition. meanwhile, ukrainian president, volume is lansky says his forces are holding off russian troops in the southeast and cities apaloosa and making gains elsewhere. but troops in savannah done yet go fighting streets to streets as russia, pussies for control of this key city surveyor done yet is being pounded into rubble. the ukrainian governor of the surrounding lu. hence, gretchen says it's defenders will be forced back if the russian bombardment continues up to you. sure, the smart. ah, if the artillery shall he stays as intense as it is now. the time will come when their positions will simply be entirely destroyed that a full blue beach us,

there'll be no place for the soldiers to hide his memory, then they will most likely have to move to new positions. when you move it vp non move you put those new positions could well end up being here in this a chance. but severe done yet his twin city has also come under relentless shelling, ukrainian authority, say they been trying to evacuate residence, but thousands of them are either unwilling or unable to flee haphazard. just 30 kilometers to the south, provide some signs of what may await them. footage from russian state media shows the town which fell to russian troops last month after thea's fighting. lying in ruins. in a sign pro russian false is a tightening that grip on the region. cleanup has begun in parts of the don bass under that control. with a clear message sent ukrainian fighters on thursday,

a separate is caught in the region sentence 3 captured foreign fighters to death. the 2 britons and one moroccan were convicted of being mesmerized after a trial that lasted just 3 days. the u. k has slammed the ruling as a sham saying the geneva convention prohibits the prosecution of prisoners of war. but with russia opening over a 1000 investigations into other captured soldiers there and likely be the last to face trial or even death. will they w correspondent, nick connelly is in the caliph and southern ukraine. we started with the sentencing of those 3 forums fights us. hello. this is a court formerly run by the respect separatists and danielle could been in place since 2014. and these are essentially russian proxies, or even in recent weeks, we've seen even more direct russian control of these authorities with people who've been governors and other top officials in russia being sent directly to run

a things on the ground. there are we've good hearing talk at moscow that must get, we'll soon aim to annex officially done yet, sql hans regions may be adding the bits of the put asia and had saw nobody in the south of ukraine that they have been able to occupy since the 24th of february. so the idea that this is somehow independent call that it's able to do anything against the wishes or without direct instruction moscow's barely credible is basically not real. so this is, it seems an attempt to scare people who are coming from mainly western countries to ukraine, to fight and ukraine side. it's part of the propaganda war. it's maybe trying to raise the stakes and maybe get some kind of deal longer term to get more russian prisoners back in return. but there's no real sense that this is anything except a p r move and something to try. and i really scare people who've been thinking about coming in. and people have been thinking about going there after president zalinski invited many foreigners to come and fight when the war started. how significant a role are foreign fighters playing in this war?

was difficult to get a concrete figures on how many people have actually come, how many people of actually stayed? i think is important for 2 reasons. initially, it was about morale, building for ukraine, the sense that ukraine, even though it was outside nature, outside the u, that ukraine isn't on its own. the people around the world are paying attention that they care and they even willing to risk their lives to help ukrainians following this russian invasion. and the 2nd part, which is about technical knowledge, lots of these people have backgrounds in nieto military's. and now that ukraine is basically forced to learn to use this equipment, getting from the u. s. the u. k. another countries in very short space of time, that's basically all their soviet era. weaponry has been used up in the past 3 months. there now just using the tiller stems that they're given because literally they're, they're, they're storage units are emptied. that's the intensity the war here to having people who use these different types of equipment in battle situations is incredibly useful. the ukraine, your me, that's basically training that's happening on the ground in officially because

honestly the training provided by the u. k. and the u. s. officially, that is not happening in country, you're having ukrainian offices having to leave the country to learn to use different bits of kit. so that's, that's the kind of importance of that. as for the claim of these mercenaries, by that done yet, court will, that's also not, doesn't hold up, given the wages in ukraine's army, these people are getting official ukraine yomi wages. they are very, very modest by western standards. this is not a country, not a conflict. where anyone would turn up for the money. this is definitely for, for people who are coming here for the idea for the, for the symbolism of it. and the fighting, of course, is continuing both where you are there in the south. and of course, in don bass, where it's extraordinary thing. i'm here in mich alive, but 20 kilometers away from me. some extraordinary intense fighting going on artillery battles, the ukrainians action, this part of the country forcing the russians back because the russians have focused all their attention there on don't bass around city of said the nets, basically throwing everything they have have at a very small part of the front lines, the russians are making progress,

but much slower pace than they'd expected. basically, a question of hundreds of meet the day, not more than that. we've been hearing reports from so the nets for weeks now that they weren't expecting it to fall to russians finally, you know, tomorrow day, often it's just not happening for now that ukraine is holding up. but obviously they are outgunned and outmanned at least and on bus. thanks, nick. i think doubly correspondent nick, commonly indic alive the russia former soviet states applying for membership of the european union. it appears georgia's application has been pushed behind those of ukraine. and moldova, that's according to internal e. u. documents seen by d. w. news. the 3 countries are all waiting for the european commission to deliver its recommendations to heads of government. on the 23rd of june talked to jack a para in brussels, who sat exclusive, accessed it to this document. welcome a jack. what will can you tell us? i fell indeed. so we've got our hands on a bit of a snippet of

a document which was essentially says that the european commission could make a distinction between mo, dover ukraine and georgia, whereby only the 1st 2 would be granted you candidate status. so this is a, this is pretty important actually because all 3 of these countries applied to become a candidate countries in the wake of the invasion of ukraine by russia at the beginning of march, they made those applications. brussels has told all 3 countries, but specifically ukraine, that they will use a fast track process that they will try and move this as quickly as possible. but it's now seeming that the process for all 3 is going to be a little bit more complicated. now also in this document, what we can read is that the european commission is also considering only granting the countries candidate status rather than beginning the negotiations for them to become accession countries in order to become a european union country. each government has to negotiate 30 to what are known as

chapters, and they get opened as a chapter. so this could be on economic cooperation or rule of law. and they negotiate those issues. the european union checks that they're in line with the values of the you and then the chapter gets closed and 32 of them need to happen. now what we're seeing is potentially in this document that the european commission is going to tell leaders at the summit on the 23rd and 24th, that they should be granted candidate status. but that they wouldn't be opening and closing those chapters and actually getting into the nitty gritty of the negotiation. so that is also not great for the governments in moldova, and ukraine as well. so. so when are we likely to see moldova and ukraine actually joined the a you well, it all looks like a long way off and it looks like this fast track that was promised is starting to stumble when you look at other countries. it's interesting that this e u summit here in brussels at the end of june. they will also be countries from

the western leaders from the western vulcans, including north macedonia, which became for instance, a candidate country in 2005. but it's still waiting for, it's a processes negotiation process for those negotiations to be opened as well. i think what's significant here as well with, with regard to georgia as well is it's important to say that, that there is some, there is a lot of concern him in brussels about that specific application. georgia in the last few years has really aligned itself economically with the rest of the european union as part of a deep and free trade agreement that was, that was signed. but here in brussels, there's real concerned about the political status in the country back in 2018 join election. there was widespread accusations of major mass vote buying and in brussels. they're worried about that. and i think while the georgians will be very unhappy to hear this, and especially if it does come to light in the coming weeks. i think it is somewhat predictable from the european commission who's going to start opening up these

opinions. and we'll start here the more publicly within a week or so. so thank you for that. so jack jack park in brussels and moscow's chief rabbi is reportedly staying out of russia because affairs, that his support for ukrainian refugees has angered the kremlin. the conference of european rabbis, sesa pink, has a goal. schmidt was advised not to return for a trip to hungry and israel, where he'd been raising money to assist refugees. now his whereabouts are unknown. at a conference, a meeting in munich this month. he told the d w that many russian jews of left the country or are considering doing so. let's take a closer look at this with religious offense correspondent martin gal. welcome martin. is the war having a particular impact on russia's jewish community? it seems to be actually quite a strong impact. i mean it's a story that has been more or less under grown. we have been mostly focusing in the

religious test. in any case, i mean on the orthodoxy. sure. and the relation with the vatican. but the fact is that the jewish community has also been transferred by these among other things because there is a very important jewish communion. russia, part of it is very close to the kremlin part of it. and there is also a very strong and very important jewish community in the ukraine in ukraine. sorry . so the fact is that there is a lot of discomfort and there seems to be a lot of uncertainty. i talked personally with the organization with the european conference for advice yesterday, and the claim is that the community is actually very concerned. they do not report any uptake on anti semitism or anything of the kind. but there is, there seems to be a lot of concern. and so tell us more then about the complicated situation, juice of faced in russia, especially in the years after putting i mean, the issue at this stage is that the russian community has very strong relation with the ukrainian community. as a matter of fact, for instance, one of the main most important writes of here is actually russian born. and you

know, we have less out who is a one of a very important orthodox orthodox group with very, very close to put in. but there is also in the same group, sort of a lot of for advice, operating ball and operating in ukraine. what that meant is essentially that, you know, as every other religious group, essentially people that our clergy, that he's very close to the kremlin, finds itself at odds with clergy that he's on the receiving end of this war in this operation. ok, so it was not the only group confronted by big questions because of this will. what about other groups such as the the orthodox, the church and the muslim community? well, those are talks, church has been the one that we've been following the closest. and in fact, i mean we have seen nothing short of ski, some so i mean the, that ukrainian church has essentially broken away. the russian orthodox church grain has broken away from the mosque of. i'd patrick kate. the muslim community

has in its own sort of, you know, break. i mean, we have seen muslim fighters, chechen fighters running into places like matthew paul, only a couple of weeks after the valuable mosque and valuable muslim community was essentially sitting under russian bombs. what we're seeing now with this story is that, that break, it's really just transverse thing, all religious groupings. and i think it's essentially, as i just said, it's doing it for the very same recent, which is that we have strong religious commitments. but we have strong sort of element of religious identity around the question of the conflict, and that has actually divided the waters quite radically in this case. thank you for that. much in the gap at the top is religious 1st course. thank you. take a look at us more headlands making news today. german chancellor, olaf schoultz is in kosovo and the 1st leg of a 2 day tour of the western balkans discussions are expected to focus on re energizing stalled applications to join the u district where it comes after

russia's war in crane brig nighted key security concerns in the region portugal parliament has approved a series of bills permitting a euthanasia and physician effects assisted suicide. it's the 3rd attempt to pass such a law after previous bills were blocked by the president. if pastor fortune portugal would become the 5th country in the e. u to decriminalize euthanasia. u. s. president joe biden, and his brazilian counterpart, the giant bowl fernando agreed to work together to prevent further destruction of the amazon rain forest with 2 leaders are held talks that are some of the americans taking place in los angeles dressing, delegates, president by the side leaders of democracy needed to work together. government institutions. so the congressional committee investigating last year's january 6 attack on the u. s. capital accused of former president donald trump of trying to derail democracy. it was presenting its findings after

a year of collecting evidence. the chairman of the panel explained the attack on the capital. it was not just a protest that got out of hand, but an orchestrated attempt to prevent the transition of power to incoming president, joe biden. the u. s. capital descending into chaos and violence. these images are part of a mass of evidence presented by a house select committee investigating former president donald trump's role in january 6th riots policy. georgia officials urging them to quote, january 6 was the culmination of an attempted cou. a brazen attempt as one right to put it shortly after january 6 to overthrow the government. the balance was no accident. it represent senate prompts less than most desperate chance to how the transfer of pow to try to prove that trump incited to

violent insurrection. this is a committee compiled testimony from those who stormed the seat of government in a video presentation. hi. what really made me want to come was the fact that, you know, i had supported jump all that time. i did believe you know that the election was being stolen and trump asked us to come. he personally asked for us to come to the see that. and i thought for everything he's known for us. if it's the only thing he'd go ask me, i'll do it. we're going to walk down to the capital you to share the committee also heard from a police officer task to with defending the capital that day. i couldn't believe my eyes. there were officers on the ground. ah, you know, they were bleeding, they were throwing up. they were, you know, they had, i mean,

i saw friends with blood all over their faces. i was slipping in people's blood. 6 more hearings are scheduled. but with so many republicans behind trump, it might not be enough to alta perceptions of what happened on that january 6th they w reported newest political unless william blew croft can talk us through this. welcome, william. so i key takeaways then from yesterday's, this was televised across on quite a number of networks. yeah, it was, it was prime time a pm. that was the committee's goal. they wanted to try to reach as much and broad of american audience as possible to try to reveal what one congress versus that would blow the roof off the house. i think that was said expectations rather high. i think we should importantly point out that the we are no longer the error of watergate or iran, contra, or we're in a much more partisan environment now that the comparisons to watergate, for example, are not so well founded. because in that case,

the republicans turned against their president richard nixon. and in this case, we have republican still in lock step, or many republicans in lockstep with donald trump. but for me, what was a big takeaway here was just how much the committee is trying to pin this. what happened on january 6th, as an orchestrated plot orchestrated by donald trump, that all the evidence as they're trying to point to leads back to donald trump. whether that is to politically damage him that he can no longer realistically run and be a threat politically in 2024 or be supporting a like minded candidates in 2022 or beyond, or even legally, to try to get any of this evidence to stick against not just advisors, not just supporters, not just people are on the ground on january 6 at the capital, a meeting out this kind of violence, but donald trump, himself, those things remain to be seen, of course a. but that seems to be the big effort to of this committee,

right. and when you say that the makes it sound like this is not a committee that are necessarily fact finding. this is a committee on a mission to point blame us a form of presidents. so this sounds like a part is an effort. well, we should point out that the democrats who control the house and set up this committee did try to have a non partisan investigative committee, much like what we saw after 911, a republicans. i pulled all of their potential up candidates, so to speak, to sit on this committee. i. so there was an opportunity to have a bipartisan or a non partisan committee that broke down until the democrats went ahead with what we're currently seeing, where it's 7 democrats and 2 republicans. the few republicans who have turned against their party and turned against donald trump to side with democrats on this . they are obviously trying to show the evidence leading back to donald trump. and it is important to note that regardless of where the legal culpability is, that's a decision for the department of justice, that of decision for prosecutors,

for courts. if donald trump is really legally culpable in any of what happened in the events after the election, what's important though is to note that this was there was coordination here on the ground. it wasn't just random people as we see here who got caught up in the spirit in the chaos of, of the moment. there were far right groups on the ground. there was communication in advance. this is all well documented evidence. there was some level of coordination and, and, and intent here. the question is, is donald trump responsible for it? and that's something that, that courts and, and prosecutors are gonna have to look at very closely in the weeks at, okay. and they'll be more of these to come. yes, they'll be more public hearings. and of course, more investigation. evidence being collected in the weeks leading up to november mid term elections. that database would include cross, thanks so much. not to thailand, which has become the 1st country in asia to legalize the growing and possession of marijuana. although smoking in public is still banned and grows. we'll have to

register with the government, and when marijuana is offered in food or drink it, strength will have to be limited. ah, there's plenty of public interest. and a triumphant 1st customer with options resembling a fast food menu. closely scrutinizing the product. wow. oh, and buying some apparel as well to mark the occasion. country me the man, sam, i got here last night after work a showered and took the bus. i knew the shop was still closed, so i waited with some beers and watched the staff getting ready. i wanted to witness the beginning of change will be the hold that i had on. now i got it. galvan but too much change is not what authorities want. the cannabis on sale is low potency and people are being warned against smoking in public and creating

a stink violations can bring fines and even jail and beyond. the head shops getting lit is not something everyone approves of. oh yeah, melissa. wow. i think i made my mom and i feel like tie people are not fully ready for the legalization because people do not properly understand the use of cannabis . that's why they need to be educated on how to use kind of it and also the limitations. because as we all know, it could cause more harm than benefit. there are also concerns about unwonted drug tourism that bangkok could become an asian amsterdam. others are less worried. i just think that she's got a lot more to offer than just paid out despite cannabis mother is a beautiful, beautiful part of the world. and so i think can it's kind of explain legalized

would make me come any more. so for better or worse, thailand's cannabis experiment is open. for business. a bank says one of the world's most celebrated contemporary artist sandy's unknown identity just adds to the mystery. many offers installations are only temporary, so fans often have to move fast if they want to see the works for themselves. now, thanks to exhibition in new york for this is, can marvel a dozens of banks is all under one roof. girl with balloon? probably the best known image and the phantom artist who shows himself on walls and streets around the world. $120.00 original works for private collectors and now being brought together for the 1st time. what was once considered vandalism is now art worth millions. there is no public collection about banks, it's artwork. all built education browsers have been down with best control,

which is the company that bank see olds for dis, process authentication. thanks. he said 1st of protests as established art and yet keeping with the times against war and weapons, consumerism and police violence. it wants to be disrupted. ah, because he wants to take a precise stance. a gaze was in his mind is unfair, and unjust. visitors can also try their hand, a street artist and leave behind a message of the room. really makes us think about like what we're do and the consumer is in a lot of global issues. he wants to, you know, make change through his artwork. and i respect that and you know, he and he gets around since the pandemic and ukraine war banks, he has been quiet. many fans are hoping the graffiti gorilla will soon be visible

again. and not just in the museum. i just a quick look at our top story of this, our ukraine and it's western eyes of denounced. the pro russia caught in the danbury sentencing 3 foreign scientists to death to say the trial of the 2 britons . and one morocco was a shop on fire made the rules of a teacher today. little world news at the top of the, our discussion panel to the point will be looking at where the child will be the big with falling west isolation of good ah, ah, with

who to the point. strong opinions or positions international perspective. as western sanctions take a total on russia's economy, it's looking elsewhere for markets and finding a welcome partner in china, russia,

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