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a friend of one of the fighters also on the show. deadly offensive ukraine says rush as a grinding assault in the east is killing as many as 200 ukrainian soldiers every day is calling for more weapons from the west to defend itself. also coming up democracy, endanger the panel, investigating the attack on the us capital goes public with its findings. january 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup. lawmakers show previous, i understand video, a violence, and lay the blame squarely on former us president donald trump. and st. ards, against the museum treatments new york plays host to one of the biggest banks the exhibits ever. with more than 100 pieces from the list of artist gathered under one roof.

ah. hello, i'm layla rock. thank you very much for your company. the united nation says the trial of 3 foreign fighters in ukraine by a pro russian court could amount to a war crime. the court in the self declared don't f people's republic sentence. the 3 men, 2 brits and one moroccan to death. it alleges they were mercenaries, and therefore not prisoners of war western nations of the now the trial calling it a sham and a breach of the rules of war was an earlier d. w. news spoke to mo, as i've gone as a friend of the moroccan national, but him so doing. we asked him how he learned about what happened to him. well, 1st of all, on april 17th i figure it out that he's captured by seeing the video paying being entered view. well, it's surrender,

and i read to go over news about like, you know, those british nationals being like they're at risk of being sentenced to death. so then i started doing research and i found out that my friend bry, him is toler, also with them. and so he's at that risk. so 1st of all, i started to, you know, i have, i was, and i was so sad, then i decided that i gotta, i gotta act, i gotta, you know, make actions and help my friends get out of there. so i started, the safe, brought him come pain, and yeah, pretty much what i'm doing right now. he's not a mercenary. i have all the copies of his documents, all those contract signing, but they are meant for you cream. 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 just signed that contract in november of 2021. that was similar as the i've gone as a day, a friend of the moroccan national have or him so don't who has been sentenced to death. i asked rachel denver of human rights watch what she makes of the self declared. the next people's republics claim that the 3 men are not protected by international conventions on prisoners of war. that is a completely false and defiantly, legally nihilistic claim. these men absolutely are protected by the geneva convention. due to convention say that that the people who are detained in come a have to be presumed to be peer w's until proven otherwise. so even if the, the, this person authority, the freshman proxies, even if they claim that these men are mercenaries, they would have to prove it in what's called

a status determination hearing. and that would have to be a fair and part of proceeding where they would without the facts that show that these men were in fact guns for hire, instead of foreign fighters who were legally recruited and integrated into the into the ukranian military. the geneva conventions absolutely permits warrant parties to recruit and hire and to deploy foreign fighters as long as they integrate into the military. since, you know, are subject to a command, you know, a chain of command and you know, where uniforms in obey international humanitarian law. so there was need this kangaroo court didn't bother to hold the status of termination, hearing a held a completely unfair, rushed sham hearing. and i think it's important to say that any, even, even if they were mercenary, they're still entitled to justice. the community conventions make it very clear

that anybody detained by a war party is entitled to a fair hearing and failure to provide a fair hearing is a war crime. so this is completely outrageous. it seems that in fact, it seems that there are a number of facts that point to the fact that these men are, in fact a members of the ukrainian military. and this hearing was a total sham and a nihilistic violation of the junior conventions. there was a racial number of human rights watches speaking to meet moments ago. ukraine says as many as 200 of its soldiers are being killed every day. with the war in the east, rapidly becoming an artillery battle. ukrainian officials are urgently calling for more heavy weaponry. according to keith, russia has between 10 and 15 times as much artillery equipment. moscow's focus remains firmly on the eastern dom bass region,

which has been partially occupied by pro russian separatists since the year 2014. and did have a correspondence, nicolai is in mid july of in southern ukraine as he reports from there. russia is showing the city that's right, layla, we're here mc alive, which is basically the closest big city to the front lines here in the southern part of the country. the whole world's been talking about don bass for weeks, but the fighting continues here. just as i speak to you now, i can hear artillery in the distance and we understand that the front lines presently about 20 to 25 kilometers away from the city. and the russians are bringing heavier artillery with a long range of firepower. close that front line. so basically anywhere in the city is potentially a target. people dying every couple of days. and it's interesting, see how people react. you kind of see them in going about their lives sitting in cafes, ignoring most of the re fire and then occasion when it keeps on going for too long . they st slightly start getting bit nervous, looking around, trying to understand how big the risk is for them. or to people who have stayed

here have made that choice. knowing the threat, knowing that this is a city that the russians have been trying to get since the start of today, we're trying to cut you crane off from the black sea in its entirety. they got hit on which is a city near by just from leaving annex crimea, and they were hoping to take the whole coastline maybe move towards moldova, to basically create land bridge between those russian back temperatures, moldova, and crimea, and don't bass to defeat since that ukraine currently is a country this fighting on several fronts, and lots of people dying every day across the country. it doesn't make the headlines abroad. and the war and nick is continuing to take a grueling toll ukraine is saying it's now losing as many as 200 fighters a day. that's almost double the official figure of just a week ago. what exactly changed on the ground? that's right later. well, russia has been changing his tactics since the start since those failures in the north, when they were basically trying to take the whole country in one go with none of troops then surely pulled back from cave and from the north. and they focused on don bass here,

the south and also had give and now they're basically throwing their hat have at don bass at a small section. the front line around. that's if you have several minutes that has been so much the focus of media coverage recently. and i think the real basic problem here is that ukraine has enough people who want to fight, but it doesn't have the kit to give them the weapons to put them in uniform and put them on the front lines. russia is able to out gun ukraine currently, and lots of different figures doing the rounds, but present lensky saying that every artillery piece are every bit of ammunition that ukraine has. russia has not the 10. now ukraine is proving more effective and better using what it has using more wisely, more effectively in a more targeted way. but also that's a very dis, a very unfortunate ukraine that can proportion of power. and right now, the kinds of things that the western countries that tried support ukraine just simply don't get it. they think they're delivering ukraine a lot of weapons. and it might be compared to what the european country gets through in a normal year of doing exercises. and piece time,

but compared to what's on situation where you have fighting basically around the clock or a long 100 lamps frontline, it just simply isn't enough. and ukraine is too often having to choose to carefully when to return fire to protect its people having to basically sacrifice troops to keep back its weapons for the bigger target. so this is really difficult situation . the hope now that those livers will finally accelerate in a few words, and nick, having said all that, can ukrainians still turn the tide? i think the belief is here when you see be with him. michel over in a city that was attacked like the place i am here with the destroyed government buildings. people going about their everyday life near by. i think they are confident that the army here is able to hold up, that people haven't just run away and that the people in charge have been willing to turn up and take the risk. but there is different the fear of ukraine fatigue in the west was basically ukraine has used up all its own supplies of weapons of soviet produce weapons. so busy everything it fires now front lines comes from america,

comes from the u. k. come to the western countries and without those deliveries they really believe will be in a very big, difficult position. so they're just worried that rising prices and other crises going to distract decision makers and only people in the west and stock that flow of weapons. that is keeping this country going to double correspondence at nicoli reporting from the goliath. thank you so much for your continued coverage, nick. well, in the russia former soviet states applying for membership of to the european union, it now appears that georgia's application has been put behind those of ukraine. and moldova, that's according to an internal documents seen by dw news. the 3 countries are all waiting for the european commission to deliver its recommendations to heads of government. id abuse jack parrot in brussels, has had exclusive access to the document. the document that we manage to get our hands on is an internal document from the european commission. and what it says is that they could, this is a quote, make

a distinction between mo dover slash ukraine and georgia, whereby only the 1st 2 would be granted. you candidate status, this is significant because the 3 countries all submitted applications to become in you candidate countries. the same time off the russia invaded ukraine, and it's a symbolic move from countries that have always been in the sphere of influence, or traditionally been in the sphere influence of russia. and i also the commission that says in this document is considering granting candidates status, which does come with conditions as opposed to opening accession negotiations for ukraine, moldova, and georgia potentially. so what these countries want and what they were told was that they would, the european union would move quickly in this process of accession. but what we're seeing is that they would be granted candidate status and not see the negotiations opened in order for any country to become a new country. they need to apply for membership, and then they negotiate 335 chapters, for instance,

on financial cooperation. another one is on institutions, another one is on rule of law and there are $35.00 in total that need to be signed off on agreed on to say that that country is in line with european union values enough to become a member and what it looks like is that when you lead us meet here on the 23rd and 24th of june, they are expecting an opinion from the european commission on the application, on the applications by the 3 countries. and that they're likely potentially to be told to only grow, grow and candidate status, but not to fully open the negotiations. check mark there for you with that exclusive report from brussels. let's fill you in now. we're on the some of the other stories in the news right now. the leaders of 9 central and eastern european countries are meeting in the remaining capital. bucharest, native chief in stoughton. burke will join them. they are expected to ask nato formerly to declare russia

a threat to the western military alliance. portugal parliament has approved bills allowing euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide is the 3rd attempt to pass the legislation. president or the constitutional court could still block the measures. portugal would become the 5th country to decriminalize euthanasia. the leaders of the us and brazil have agreed to work together to protect the amazon rain forest drive. jo, bye and dryer boston arrow, have been meeting in los angeles. present by says democracies need to cooperate with each other. they're ready to work. a partnership with all the committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital has accused former president donald trump of trying to de whale democracy. members have presented their findings after a year of collecting evidence, the chairman says the riot last january was not merely

a protest that got out of hand. rather it was an orchestrated attempt to stop the peaceful transition of power and overturned joe barnes. victory ah, the us capital descending into chaos and violence. these images are part of a mess of evidence presented by a house select committee investigating former president donald trump's role in the january 6th riots halted 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 violence was no accident. it represent senate tramps, laughs, fan, most desperate chance to haul the transfer of power to try to prove that trump incited a 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 forwarded jump all the 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 and 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 that did it was washington correspondence to me. so misconduct says the committee is clearly condemning the former u. s. president donald trump. absolutely, and i think it's important to note that the novelty of this hearing itself lay lovers here saying they've never really seen anything like it. this was on prime time tv. it wasn't like the usual dry congressional hearing. this was really a carefully calibrated event to tell a story and that in itself has been an important take away. and there was some new information that also came out of this layla, that 11 minute video clips that was featured in the report. you just saw there that slice together police body cam footage we hadn't seen before. some of the audio of the protesters and officers also some video from the capital that we hadn't seen before. and taken together,

this was really chilling evidence. we also heard that members of president trump inner circle were aware that he had lost the election. that includes his attorney general bill bar and his daughter, yvonne could trump. and we also heard that multiple republican congressman asked president trump to pardon them for their rolling, trying to overturn the election results. so, as you said in very clear terms, what the committee is trying to do here, what they were setting out in this opening hearing is to show that this was an insurrection fired on by former president trump, who was trying to subvert democracy. do, do we know if enough americans care about these hearings? are they following these hearings? well, i mean, i think there were concerns that now it's been 2 years since the storm on the capital. people wouldn't be interested in these hearings because the countries essentially moved on. and the committee, i think, made a pointed to make the story as compelling as possible with this story telling aspect of this video. and the video is indeed shocking. so people who are paying

attention to the hearings, democratic voters, they are likely to be reached by what ways of what they saw. and they will likely continue to watch these hearings as they move forward. but if you look at the fact that fox news, which conservative many conservative voters in republicans here consume, they counter the coverage by barely showing any of it on their networks. and they put it on the fox business channel, and they call this a show trial. so they didn't even really show many of the, the much of the video clip at all. many americans who watch that channel are not getting the same hearing coverage. so it's hard to say whether american a whole is really going to care about these hearings moving forward when you have such a politicized divide in how media is consumed. and so we will these hearings lead to any legal prosecution, accountability that's going to be the interesting aspect here. i think the committee, certainly the democrats, they know that a lot of republicans are not likely to be swayed by these hearings. but by laying out this insurrection, step by step, linking it through messages in evidence to the former president,

they are making it clear that there has to be some sort of accountability and layla that has to go to the department of justice. that is the only agency that can prosecute people with crimes. we've been linked to this insurrection, and the agency until now has come under fire for not moving fast enough, not pressing charges of their own, but the department of justice has requested transcripts from the committee. hearing so that could be a sign that they're looking to build on some of this evidence, but a lot is still to come layla, so we'll have to wait and see if there will be accountability, right? you'll be across it and we will be checking in with you some, some kind of reporting from washington. thank you so much. so me german chance all the faults has been in belgrade as part of a 2 day tour of the balkans. the chancellor met with serbian present alexander from get out on the agenda was normalizing relations between serbia and kosovo. serbia has refused to recognize kosovo since it gained independence in 2008. earlier

sholtes met with casa those prime minister alban corte impression of both countries are trying to join the european union. in belgrade, chancellor schultz called on serbia to follow you countries by imposing sanctions on russia. ticklish says and talked, anita, terrible and pointless. water started because of russia's imperialistic agenda, etc. that's why it's important for the european union and for all of us to stand in solidarity ethan smith and help ukraine to defend itself against russian aggression for tidy, under our expectation, is that these sanctions find support among those countries which want to be you members of german chancellor shall speaking their moments ago. let's tell you about 30 days sir. world news headlines are heavy. storms and landslides and central china have left at least 17 people dead. flooding across the central province of hunan has affected nearly 2000000 people. rescue teams still searching

for survivors. striking truckers and south korea have disrupted shipments and blocked ports. the drivers demanding higher wages to offset rising fuel costs. historic has led to a drastic cut in production at hewn days. biggest car factory. police and pakistan are investigating the sudden death of a prominent tele evangelist and politician amir the a quart, who st. the controversial tv host was found unconscious at his home in karachi. he was taken to hospital by pronounced dead. oh, no way has a new cultural attraction. the national museum of art in onslaught is the biggest of its kind in the region. but the buildings design and the cost of nearly $600000000.00 euros are dividing opinion. it might not be much to look at,

but norway's new national museum of art bosa collection on par with the guggenheim in bilbao or apps, dams, writes museum some $6500.00 permanent works from modern art installations quite to classical sculpture and painting. it's something to think about. we think of the site and costume design. included several paintings from norwegian, master of despair, edward monk, among them the iconic, the scream. even before the official opening, the museums, german architect has caused a scandal accusing organizes of breaking with his original design. i'm very disappointed i bought some decisions which were dumb completely against her, against the architecture and against the culture,

against the resolve. and that is the furniture the signage share where we have made the drawings for debbie. hi. we have a very engaged architect who was concerned with the data little consequence. we discussed many of them. yes. including what kind of art we were to show and what kind of furniture we should have in the museum. if i'm confident that there are limit that's nibbler. yes. ok. i heard the discussion will continue. i that it will never be completely quiet around the national museum. to that of if nobody says anything that's not right either in sienna, with sir eddie with her leg a hate like that. with the new museum finally opened to the public art and architecture funds can visit all slow and make up their own minds. looks amazing. bank see is one of the world's most celebrated and secrets of artists. his works are usually temporary appearing on walls and cities around the world. so fast have to move fast if they want to see them in their original setting. but they soon exhibits in new york. visitors can now enjoy dozens of bank,

sees all under one roof. girl with balloon, probably the best known image of 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 process have been dawned with bash control, which is the company that bank see olds for dis, process authentication. thanks. use aversive 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, a gaze ought amy's mind is unfair and unjust. the visitors can also try

their hand, a street artist and leave behind a message of their own. freeland makes us think about, like, what we're 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, he and he gets around, says the pandemic an 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. and for bol, the chaos at last month's champions league final impairs caused severe damage to france's image. thus, at least according to the french government kick off, was delayed. after thousands of supporters were locked out and then tear gassed by police authority say at the time blamed ticket. las liverpool fast. but the government report singles out those in charge. he hasn't cast down on france's

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