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ukraine says that russia's assault in the east is killing as many as 200 ukrainian soldiers every day. it's calling for more weapons from the west to defend itself. also tonight, democracy in danger of the panel investigating the attack of the u. s. capital, those public with its fine january 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup on west wall makers and show previously unseen video of the violence, and they put the blame squarely on former us president donald trump. and st. art gets the museum treatment new york is playing host to one of the biggest banks the exhibits ever more than a 100 pieces from the elusive artist gathered under one roof. ah,

i'm brent gone to our viewers watching on tv us in the united states and to all of you around the world welcomes the united nations. it says that the trial of $34.00 in fighters in ukraine, by a pro russian court, could amount to a war cry. the court in the self declared don't escrow people's republic sentence. the 3 men, 2 of them from the u. k. one from morocco to death. it alleges that they were mercenaries and therefore not prisoners of war. western nations have denounced the trial saying that it reaches the rules of war. or earlier we spoke to mo, as of on saddam, he's a friend of the moroccan national. brought him so do. and we asked him how he learned about what happened to bright the fall on april 17th. i figured out that he's captured by seeing the video of him being interviewed bell is surrendered as a week ago. there were news about like, you know,

those british nationals being we like they're at risk of being sentenced to death. so then i started doing research and i've found out that my friend bry, him is also good them. and also he's that, that risk. so 1st of all, i started to, you know, like have, i was an attend, i was so sad, then i decided that i got, i got to 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 with the arm. it's for the 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. that was

mo, is yvonne. so dod, they're speaking with his earlier about his friend, the moroccan who has been sentenced to death by this pro russian court in eastern ukraine. actually read it from human rights watch. she told me that the 3 men are protected by international law. thank you, brick. yeah, absolutely, i mean the, whatever the court internet is saying is simply there is no relation either to, to the socks or to the law of checkable in this situation. it's very clear not the 3 men are covered by the 3rd geneva convention. they are entitled to prisoner of war status, and even in the event that the russian authorities are their proxies and don't ask, want to challenge them. the geneva conventions is very clear. you have to set up a competent tribunal to look at the evidence. ringback that would determine the status that they are not prisoners of war. and even then,

let's say we ignore all the facts and we suggest these are in teach 3 sliders who were not in time the prisoner of war started. they are still entitled to a fair trial. it doesn't matter whether the presence of war is given. prisoner war status protects them from being prosecuted for the kinds of acts that the, that the authorities and don't ask. have headboard against some so either way, one they are prisoners of war and or the geneva conventions. and secondly, even if there had been a fair determination that they were stripped about, if they weren't tied to a fair trial. and it's clear here that that didn't happen it including the fact that they were given the death sentence, which does not exist, in fact, either in ukrainian or russian law. so it is very clear what law these authorities in in don't have thought that they were applying, that they could sentence 3 individuals to, to the sentence. and this really shouldn't even be an issue. it shouldn't, if they have the proper identification, they can prove that they are members of the ukrainian army. we know that president

zelinski, he invited foreign fighters, foreign nationals to come to ukraine in to fight with the military when this war began. i mean, that's a proven fact. absolutely. i mean, any, any army going to any state country going to war can have foreign fighters in the right. they are not mercenary simply by the fact that they have another nationality . if they're integrated into the army, if they're working, either with the regular forces or with the militia that's aligned to the regular forces, they're entitled to prison of war status. and it's, and particularly in an international conflict which, which is you know, to be a mercenary, is a very, actually quite a narrow definition. it is a foreign slider who is not attached to any particular regular, regular army, and is recruited for personal gain and gets a lot of financial incentives to fight. and i think as the other facts on the 3 seem to suggest that none of that is in play. and also the geneva conventions. it's

very clear that when you catch someone who is a fighter, has committed what they call a belligerent act. they are entitled to be presumed, prisoners of war, unless you prove otherwise, and there has been no process undertaking that would suggest you know, to try to disprove any of the other evidence that these 3 were fighters with the regular ukraine forces times a prisoner for us so, you know, and i, yeah, and it is very clear that to, to do what they've done in terms of denying both the prisoner of war and anyone that for a trial is a war and, and can be prosecuted by in the international court. ashley reedy, with human rights watch, as we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. then say, lippard, 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 equip. moscow's focus remains on the eastern dawn best region which has been partly occupied by pro russian separatist since 2014. the eastern don't bass region remains the center of the fighting, but it's not. russia's only target, as our correspondent nick connelly told me, definitely not. we were in mccullough today. and as you mentioned that it is not at the focus of the most intensive fighting right now. but still the whole day we heard artillery pretty relentless. not that far away mc alive is a big city of hundreds 1000 peoples, just 2025, glanced away from those front lines and not much for the way from here. so one of the big major you crunched is that the russians had taken early on in this war, and people are losing their lives here. that city that in, in its entirety, is within range of various different bits of russian artillery. and time time again,

you have people just going about their, their lives, trying to kind of get some kind of similar from 20 and having the houses hit far away from any kind of strategic targets and losing their lives. that is just the norm here in this part of ukraine, even if of the attention over a 100 days into school is starting to wayne and stephanie nick, ukraine says that it is now losing as many as 200 fighters every day. that's almost double the official figure that we received just a week ago and what is changed. i think the main difference here is that russia has focused all its efforts on very specific, very targeted parts of the front lines. they've learned from their mistakes of the early days of this war, where they spread themselves too thinly and allowed the ukrainians to really attack logistics. and now they're massive or superiority in terms of just weapon systems. you know, those figures 10 times more, 15 times more in certain weapons categories than the ukrainians is really making

itself felt. obviously, ukraine's have been a lot more efficient in the way they use. what they do have their look better at using drones about coordinating the intelligence they get from drones and see from the u. s. and other western buttons with the people on the ground. but still that more agile style of warfare is not enough to make up for that huge discrepancy in terms of munitions and the weapons to use them. we've been hearing from you. can you come on to say they actually have maybe the weapon systems, but in this we have the munitions left to work them. basically, ukraine's supplies of soviet era. shells are now used up and everything they're gonna be using in the weeks to come is delivered from the west. so their success is gonna depend on the speed of that western ammunition and western equipment arriving here. yeah, that's right. the speed will make the difference. and what can the ukrainians do in the meantime? play for time, that's basically what they're doing. they're trying to inflict as high price possible on the russians trying to slow their advance. i think there's no illusion here that they can stop the russians taking several of the nets,

say that city and don't. but that's been the scene of so much fighting in recent weeks, but they can pull this out. they can make it slow and they can try and make sure that the russians lose more men than they do achieving less. so basically, you know, all the experts thoughts, other than that would fall to russians weeks ago and hasn't happened. but they are very conscious that they are here on a week position and they need to, it was a, do a lot of p r and a lot of explaining and convincing especially western europe about the kinds of support they need. i think let's ukrainians here really get the sense that lots of european countries certainly think they're doing a lot. they're sending a lot. maybe they are by normal standards of known that wolf time kind of piece time exercises. but if you're fighting a war and hundreds comes the front lines and is fighting 24 hours a day, basically, you're just into totally different scales of material and of equipment needed. they've got enough people here. they've got more than not people who want to fight, but they don't have the kit to, to give them and to send them to the front lines where they really need. now,

all those it is the equipment and that the, the material that the ammunition to make it work. a correspondent connelly joining us tonight from nikolai, as always nik thank you. here's a round of now of some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the leaders of 9 central and eastern european countries are meeting of the romanian capital. booker rest nato chief un stoughton bare will join them. they are expected to ask nato to formally declare russia a threat to the western military alliance. heavy storms and lands lines and central china have left at least 17 people dead. flooding across the central province of man is effected nearly 2000000 people. rescued schemes are still searching for survivors. striking truckers and south korea have disrupted shipments and what courts the drivers are demanding higher wages to offset wising fuel calls strike of such a drastic cut in production at home days. biggest car,

fact portugal parliament has approved bills allowing youth in asia and dr. assisted suicide, it's the 3rd attempt to pass the legislation, the president or the constitutional court can still block the measures. portugal would become the 5th e u country to decriminalize euthanasia. across the atlantic to the us, the committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital has accused former president donald trump, of attempting to derail democracy. members have begun presenting their findings after a year of collecting evidence of the chairman of the committee says that the january 6th riot was not merely a protest that got out of hand. but rather, it was an orchestrated attempt to stop the peaceful transition of power and to overturn joe biden's election. victory ah, the u. s. capital descending into chaos and violence. these images, a part of

a mess of evidence presented by a house select committee investigating form a 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 represent senate trumps less than most desperate chance to haul the transfer of pow to try to prove that trump incited to violent insurrection. miss 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 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 it's the only thing he asked me, i'll do it. we're going to walk down to the capital she of 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 why asked our washington correspondent to me, she was gone. is this committee?

is it holding donald trump responsible for what happened? that's right. you know is something that we knew the committee was gathering evidence on ahead of time. but you heard there in that report, this committee absolutely considered donald trump responsible for attempting to carry out a coo and for instigating the attack on the capital. and like you said, this hearing itself was spectacular. it was in the evening on tv, and usually congressional hearings are pretty dry. this was a step by step retelling of the insurrection. it was in careful detail. it was highly produced as well. and i just want to take you through some of the new snippets of information that we saw and heard there was this 11 minute clip splice together that you just saw some images of in the report that included new police body cam footage, new images from the capital also some voices from protesters and officers, it was incredibly chilling that we hadn't seen before. and we also heard that members of president trump's inner circle were aware that he had lost the election

. that includes his attorney general bill bar. his daughter, yvonne could trump, by the way president trump has responded to that today saying that both of them had essentially checked out of the process. but we heard also that many republican congressmen have had asked president trump to pardon them for their role and trying to overturn the election results. and that there were some witnesses cooperating with the department of justice as well. so a lot of information to process their brand, but certainly this was an incredible hearing that we witnessed in as you said, for on primetime tv. yeah, and this is a georgia territory. it's one thing to accuse a former president of and attempted to it's another to indict and prosecute him is, is that going to happen? that's going to be interesting to witness. i mean, i think the committee and certainly, democrats know that republican leadership, republican voters, are not going to be swayed by what we're going to see here over the course of these hearings. but what they wanted to do, or trying to do by laying out this carefully calibrated story with all of this

evidence, is they want to make it very clear that this has to lead to some sort of accountability . and that has to go through the department of justice, that is the only agency that can actually prosecute people with crimes linked this insurrection. it has been 2 years though brent and the agency has already come under fire for not carrying out his own investigation, not pressing charges, 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 this evidence to put together cases. but as i said, this is just the beginning. so whether president trump himself will be held accountable, we'll have to see what the, what the justice department decides to do. the new, the build up to last night hearing was tremendous. a prime time audience. and do we, do we have the numbers? do we know i me was the american public watching well, we have some numbers that have come in that have shown that there, the ratings were relatively good for all of the major networks that showed

mainstreamed networks. i should say that showed the hearings live on tv. there were concerns that people would not be interested in watching this coverage because it has been 2 years. people believe the country has moved on. but as i said, this was very compelling evidence to be watching extremely effective storytelling for those who are paying attention to the hearings democratic voters, it is likely they will continue to watch. but i should know brent that fox news did not cover this hearing. they put it on fox business, which has much lower viewership. they called it a show trial. they didn't show any clips of the violence. so for the many americans who watch fox news, they were not getting the same coverage. and that's important because that means it was not reaching a large number of americans either through the echo chamber effect continues in the u. s. jamison misconduct from washington to nice whom you always think germany's dancer. oh shoulds today met with the leaders of serbia in kosovo. on his tour of the balkans and both countries are trying to join the european union. in

belgrade schultz met with the serbian president, alexander who church on the agenda, normalizing relations between serbia and kosovo, which serbia does not recognize. serbia has not imposed sanctions on russia due to its close ties with moscow and its dependence on russian gas. the german chancellor says that countries that want to join the european union should follow its line when it comes to sanctions, some folks, and it's a terrible and pointless war for it started because of russia's imperialistic agenda, etc. that's why it's important for the european union appears and for all of us to stand in solidarity them and help ukraine to defend itself against russian aggression with a title under our expectation is that these sanctions find support among those countries which want to be you members if you will just stop the dresser is also in

griefs meeting representatives of the se, european cooperation process. many see his visit as sending a clear message to turkey. well, grant a political earthquake hit greece. yet the day when turkish president adel gun tweed, it in greek, telling the greeks not to do anything they might regret. l. threats of war echo in these words. and it's very aggressive rhetoric leads to writing tensions between on kara and ethan. this indeed seems to be the main reason for cancer will show it to at the dinner and to throw nikki here to visit observers. they, at that this did it in, in greece, is to be seen as a clear diplomatic gesture and paper off athens tell in, i'm color to back off people here however, don't really have high hopes that the shortest is it will actually lead to a death collation off the situation. earlier in belgrade we heard the german

chancellor calling on potential e u. member states to join sanctions against russia. and how was that receipt when people actually wait for something to actually happen? when you tell us said that he clearly and explicitly ment alexander would cheat the serbian president who is also a very good friend of latin, the of putting the russian president and which is not really shown any sign of changing that any time soon. now, until the war ruffles and berlin would let this light, but now with the war and the west trying to show unity to stand together. a clear commitment from the site of belgrade is being expected, but it would teach will actually act one if his promises regarding loyalty towards the state law remain a mere lip service. well,

we will see that in the future. and we know that the german chancellor wants to improve relations with the balkan states also to counter russian influence in that region. was his message on that you know, it starts really doesn't have a new method should to these countries here. nothing really is new. the only thing that is changing at the moment is that because of the necessity to become independent of russian guess southeast europe becomes much more important for the you, for the european union. a good example is that a terminal for liquefied natural gas is being built in the greek coastal city of alexander, hopefully right next to the turkish water. the plan is to transport natural gas from there through countries like like will guerria and therapy it to what the north collaboration between the country is

a good sign for the region the one ukraine leads to reshuffling off economic and political alliances. and the countries here in the region see a chance to, to, with their economies. and they know that in order to profit they need to pull on the same string this time that you really depend on these countries and not vice versa. you know, it's a very good point to make a correspondence. florian schmidt's, tonight's reporting for you on thank you. banks, it is one of the world's most celebrated and secretive artists. is works are usually fleeting, appearing on walls in cities around the world. fans have to move fast if they want to see the originals, but thanks to an exhibition in new york. visitors can now enjoy dozens of bank sees all the same place and they're not going anywhere. least not now. girl with balloon

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school. and before we go, here is a quick look at our top stories this our ukraine and it's western allies have denounced a pro russian court for sentencing. 34 in fighters to death. court says that the trial of the 2 britons and one moroccan was a sham, and that it violates the rules of war. you're watching the w news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day to night. the hearing in washington and the blame on donald trump will be right back with

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