[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah this is the w news live from berlin a sham trial that violates the rules of war. the west criticizes of pro russia court for sentencing 3 foreign fighters to death. russia back to authority,

say them mercenary, so no, not prisoners of war. will hear from a friend of one of the fighters also on the program. a warning about for january of usa macos a culmination of an attempted coup. former professional congressional committee investigation. we attack on the u. s. capital presented findings, including previously unseen video of the violence will make us warm that us democracy remains at risk. ah, ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. western countries have condemned. the death sentence is given to 3 foreign fighters by a pro russia court, which they say violate the rules of war. the court says the 2 britons and one moroccan are mercenaries, russian foreign minister. so again, love rob says that crimes were committed in the self proclaimed denette people's

republic. russia backed territory that has no international recognition. meanwhile, ukrainian president of all of them is lensky says he's forces are holding off russian troops in the se, in city of or easier and making gains elsewhere. the troops in severity net skull fighting street to street. as russia pushes for control of the key city. the w correspondent, economy is in because i live in south and southern ukraine. we started with the sentencing of those 3 foreign fighters. 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, even in recent weeks, we've seen even more direct russian control of these authorities with people who've been governors, another 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 be,

we'll soon aim to annex officially done yes. glue. hans regions may be adding the bits of the put asia and had so noblest 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 many western countries to ukraine, to fight and ukraine side. it's part of the propaganda war. it's maybe at 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 have 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 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. 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 situation is incredibly useful. the ukraine, y'all, me, that's basically training that's happening on the ground in officially because of the, the training provided by the u. k. and the u. s officially, that is not happening in country you having ukrainian officers having to leave the

country to learn to use different bits of kit to that's, that's the kind of importance of that. and 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, 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 cranes action, this part of the country forcing the russians back because the russians have focused all their attention there on don bass around city of said the nets, basically throwing everything they had 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, the ukraine is holding up, but obviously they are outgunned and outmanned, at least and on bus. thanks, rick, at the w, corresponded nick conley in mc alive. going back to those 3 soldiers who have been sentenced to death. one of them is moroccan natural, brought him as a dune, asked his friend mo, as a hans to that. why bry, him decided to join ukraine's military? well, the problem is, but she didn't find a job. he was a university, but so he was feeling useless. so he wanted to do something useful, and also he told me he wanted to get some military experience. and others court says he's a mercenary. what do you think is

a that's his not a mercenary. i have all the copies of his documents, all those contracts signed names, but they are meant for ukraine. so he's not a mercenary. he is, you know, like the, the folder of the ukraine and army. and i have all the documents verifying, but and confirming that he signed that contract in november of 2021. well, the sentencing of those 3 men is certain to raise concerns about the fate of other captured foreign fighters. as early as the 27th of february, ukraine announced the formation of a foreign legion. many of those who enlisted came from neighbouring battle roost. they now see ukraine is their only means of fighting vitamin proteins growing influence in the region. they w correspondent, mathias bullying as more there are no bullets to day, but soon these men will be fighting for the future against the russian army in this

south. and they are serving in the ukrainian army. but they're all from bellows. susan, living with the legs he joined up 8 years ago after that. my don protests when the conflict in the east starter ukraine is. the last 3 countries of the former soviet union in ukraine had lost its freedom during the my don protest if they had been repressed and there'll be no future for the whole region. and of course, it will not be crane, and not for that reason. the little there are now several $100.00 fighters in ukraine, enough to form a regiment. any fled to homes in 2020, when fellows dictator, alexander lucas shanker, correct down on huge demonstrations against him. this man who didn't want to be identified by name to part in the protest. no leader,

usually not post wins more than we were hoping to overthrow. peaceful me not. don't you proud you, but i have a dash to the question the regime held on we say my now is to do everything possible to destroy lucretia and co 3. she and my question mark tre, moves news to me. the idea is that the beller, russian, regina, so closely tied to russia that a defeat for putin would also be a defeat co shank up fighters. the war and ukraine is also about the future of their country. and they can't go home until things change. i mean, you took a tour with them, at least a lifelong imprisonment would await me the, the worst boys execution law off. and they had been extreme, his,

him on me for taking part in the protests in 2020. and on top of that, now that charged me as a mercenary for taking part was your wife, wasn't alexander, was injured during the 2nd week of the war, wasn't written mason's mission in butcher, when a shell blew away his legs. for now, he trains new recruits waiting for a letter prosthetic leg that will enable him to serve close to the front again. with a boy, i never thought that i made my sacrifice and that would be it. people make sacrifices every day at the front. that's life, that's was there was because we it may be a long way to go, but he says retiring from active duty is not an option. moscow's chief rabbi is reportedly stay out of russia because of fears that the support ukrainian refugees and the kremlin. a conference of european rabbi says that pink

has goal schmidt was advised not to return from a trip to hungary and israel, where he'd been raising money to assist refugees. now his whereabouts are unknown at a conference in munich this month for my goals. read told d w that many russian jews have left the country or are considering doing so. let's take a closer look at this with the w religious offense correspondent martin gas. 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. in 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 ice yesterday, and the claim is that they community, it's 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 faced in russia, especially in the years after put in. 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 of 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 poland, 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, it was not the only group confronted by big questions because of this will. what about a group such as the the orthodox a church and he did muslim community. well, those detox 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 of grain has broken away from the moscow by patrick kate. the muslim community has its own sort of, you know, break. i mean, we have seen muslim fighters, chechen fighters running into places like matthew paul, only couple of weeks after the valuable mosque and the valuable muslim community was essentially sitting under russian bombs. what we're seeing now with the 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 marketing. the guy that did up is religious 1st correspond. thank you. and the rush of a former soviet states applying for membership of the european union, it appears that georgia's application has been pushed behind those of ukraine. and moldova, that's according to internal e. u. document seen by d. w. use. the 3 countries are all waiting for the european commission to deliver its recommendations to heads of government. on the 23rd of june, d, w, 's at jack paris in brussels, has had exclusive action access to this document. the document we've managed to get our hands on here at dw, in brussels, says that the european commission could make

a distinction between moldova, ukraine, and georgia. this is a quote whereby the 1st 2 would be granted e u. candidate status, meaning that georgia would therefore be left behind. also in this document, what we're reading is that there the european commission is considering granting these countries candidate status, but not opening the accession negotiations in order to become a european union country. any applicant needs to open and close 32 chapters, these chapters could relate to rule of law or they could be on economic cooperation, etc. so what we're seeing is that this potentially fast tracked process that ukraine was promised. all 3 of these countries mold over in georgia as well applied for a u candidate status after rushes invasion of ukraine at the end of february. and that actually this might not be quite as quick as perhaps they might hope you leaders are expecting the european commission to outline its opinions. only

questionnaires that was sent by the 3 capitals into brussels. or are there summit on the 23rd and 24th of june. and what we see now is that perhaps, as i say. ready might not be as smooth sailing, especially for georgia, but even for moldova and ukraine, as perhaps they might have been hoping a jack barrack will get a round of birth. some more headlines are making news across the world. a german chancellor, olaf shots in kosovo on the 1st leg of a 2 day tour of the balkans discussions are expected to focus on stalled applications to join the european union. the war in ukraine has re ignited security concerns in the region. meanwhile, leaders of the so called bucharest, 9 regional defense group of meeting in the romanian capital, nato chief, yes dalton, burke will not join the talks with the focus on ukraine. portables. parliament is approved bills allowing euthanasia. i'm dr. assisted suicide. it's the 3rd attempt to pass the legislation,

the president or the constitutional court could still block the measures. portugal would become the 5th you country to decriminalize euthanasia. u. s. president joe biden and his brazilian counterpart j are both agreed to work together to prevent further destruction of the amazon rain forest. l talks at the summit of the americas taking place in los angeles as an ant bite and told the conference leaders of democracy and need to work together. government institutions in washington, the congressional committee investigating last year's january 6th attack on the u. s. capital accused 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 explain the attack on the capital was not just a protest that had got out of hand, but an organ, an orchestrated attempt to prevent the transition of power to incoming president,

joe by 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 the january 6th riots call to 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 represents senate tramps, let's stand, most desperate chance to how the transfer 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. i 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. ready 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 you're asking 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 will be w reporter, newest political, unless william blue croft can talk us through this. welcome, william. so key takeaways then from yesterday's, this was televised across on quite a number of networks. yeah. was it was prime time a pm. that was the committee's goal. they wanted to try to reach as much and broad of an 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. 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 lockstep, were 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 who are on the ground on january 6th, at the capital meeting out this kind of violence. but donald trump, himself, those things remain to be of course. 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 is necessarily fact finding. this is a committee on a mission to point to blame as 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 nonpartisan investigative committee, much like what we saw after 911, a republicans. i pulled all of their potential job 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 at that decision for prosecutors and 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? that's something that, that courts and, and prosecutors are gonna have to look at very closely in the weeks at, okay. and there'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 will include cross, thanks so much. is on the round upper verge. nicer world news headlines, striking truckers in south korea have disrupted shipments and blocked ports in the southeast. as the action enters its 4th day, protest is demanding higher wages in the face of rising fuel costs strike is led to a drastic cutting production as hyundai. hyundai, hyundai motors, biggest factor amongst other places. heavy storms and landslides in central china

have left at least 70 people dead. flooding across the central non province is affected around 1800000 people. the region grapples with historic levels of rainfall. rescue teams are still searching for survivors. police in pakistan are investigating the sudden death of prominent tell evangelist and politician emilia quiet, who say a controversial t. v host was fine unconscious at his home in karachi on thursday, mistaking the hospital, pronounced dead on arrival. banks, he is one of the world's most celebrated contemporary artists on his unknown identity just adds to the mystery. many of his installations are meant to be temporary, so fans often have to move fast if they want to see the works for themselves. now, thanks to exhibition in new york or visitors, can marvel at dozens of banks is under one roof girl with balloon probably the best known image and

a phantom artist who shows himself on walls and streets around the world. $120.00 original works from 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 process. i've been down with pest control, which is the company that bank see old score this process authentication. thanks. he said, 1st of protest 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 fence against what amy's mind is unfair and unjust. the visitors can also try their hand, a street artist and leave behind

a message or the room. really makes us think about like what we do and the consumer is more a lot of global issues he wants to, you know, may change through his, our work. and i respect that and, you know, and he gets around, says 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 any museum. quick line of sports football, the chaos amazed at champions league final in paris caused severe damage to france's image. according to a report by the front government kick off was delayed, after thousands of supporters were locked out and then tear gassed by police authorities at the time blamed ticket. last liverpool fans. the government reports at the scenes were actually caused by failures of those in charge. which cast doubt on frances ability to host upcoming sporting events, such as the rugby world cup in 2023. quick reminder

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