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rushes, grinding assaults in the east. as killing as many as 200 ukrainian soldiers every day is calling for more weapons from the west to defend itself. plus democracy endanger. the panel investigating the attack on the u. s. capital goes public with its findings. january 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup. lawmakers show previous the same video of the violence and lay the blame squarely on former us president donald trump. ah, hello am i rock? thank you so 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 denis 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 have denounced the trial calling it a sham and a breach of the rules of war. earlier the w spoke to was of gone, so they a friend of the moroccan national for him. so do we asked him how he learned about what happened to his friend for him to fall on april 17th. i figured out that he's captured by seeing the video paying being entered viewed, 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 also he's at that risk. so 1st of all, i started to, you know,

like i was saying 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 a few 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. 1 but and confirming that just signed that contract in november of 2021. and that was similar as i've gone so day a friend of the moroccan national for him. so junior has been sentenced to death. earlier i asked rachel denver of human rights watch what she makes of the cell declared. the nest people's republics claimed 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. the due to convention say that the people who are detained in comma has to be presumed to be peer w's until proven otherwise. so even if the, this person authorities, the russian 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 put out 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, warring parties to recruit and hire and to deploy foreign fighters as long as they

integrate into the military. so, you know, are subject to a, come in, 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 that 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 more time. so this is completely outrageous. it seems that 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. rachel denver there from human rights watch, a speaking moments ago to me while ukraine meanwhile 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 key russia has between 10 and 15 times as much artillery equipment. moscow's focus remains the eastern don't bass region, which has been partially occupied by pro russian separatist since 2014. did we of course want to nicoli is in mich, elias and southern ukraine, as the 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. we understand that the front lines presently about 20 to 25 kilometers away from the city. and the russians are bring 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 are to the 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 that they were trying to cut ukraine 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 a land bridge between those russian bank, separatist, moldova, and crimea. and don't bass to defeat. since that ukraine, current is

a country this fighting on several fronts, and lots of people dying every day across the country. if 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 eventually pulled back from cave and from the north. and they focused on don bassier the south and also had give and now they're basically throwing their hat have that don't bass at a small section. the front line around that city of sort of the network that has been so much the focus of media coverage recently. and i think the real basic problem here is that you can't have 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,

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 another 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 a water situation where you have fighting basically around the clock or a long 100 lumps for line, it just simply isn't enough. and ukraine's too often having to choose to carefully when to return fired to protect his people and having to basically sacrifice troops to keep back its weapons for the bigger target. so this is very difficult situation . the hope now that those livers will finally accelerate. and that was a did have is nicoli reporting from michael live in southern ukraine, on its own,

you know, about the other stories were keeping an eye on germany. as the offshore says, visited belgrade as part of his to day tour of the balkans, he called on serbia to follow e u countries by imposing sanctions on russia. earlier the chancellor visit a cause of which serbia still refuses to recognize what countries are trying to join the european union. portugal parliament as approved bills allowing euthanasia . and doctor assisted suicide is the 3rd attempt to pass the legislation that the president or the constitutional court could still block the measures. portugal would become the 5th you country to decriminalize euthanasia, thought police and iran say they've arrested a gang of bank robbers. they're accused of stealing hundreds of safety deposit boxes. the thieves cut into a vault you from a neighboring building and made off for jewelry, gold and cash to handle. let us from dorothy. when i turn our attention out to the

united states where the committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital has accused for president donald trump of trying to derail 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 election victory. ah, the us capital descending into chaos and violence. these images, a 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

balance was no accident. it represent senate tramps, laughs, spain, most desperate chance to haul the transfer of pow to try to prove that trump concise a de violent insurrection. the committee compiled testimony from those who stormed the seat of government in a video presentation. why? what really made me want to come was the fact that, you know, i had 40 trump 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 that's the only thing he'd go ask for me, i'll do it. we're going to walk down to the capital. you could 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. did it be as washington correspondents, to me some misconduct says the committee is clearly condemning the former president, donald trump? absolutely, and i think it's important to note that the novelty of the searing itself lay loves over 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 takeaway. and there was some new

information that also came out of this layla, that 11 minute video clips that was featured 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. some, some scott, they're reporting for you from washington. now, before we go, let's take a quick look at our top story this, our ukraine and its western allies have denounced

a pro russia court for sentencing 3 foreign fighters to death. they say the trial of 2 brits and one oregon was a sham, violates the rules of the watching dw news. the news continues right here on layla, iraq and braelyn on behalf of all of us here. thank you so much for making us part of your day. i'll see you next week with it is a secret war, the scene endless one absence of the conflict between iran on the one hand and israel in the united states on the other. for more than 40 years.