ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, calling the trial was sham, the west condemning a pro, russia court, or sentencing 3 forward fighters to death. russia backed authorities say that the men are mercenaries and not prisoners of war. also coming up denies ukraine's has russia's assault,

the east is killing as many as 200 ukrainian soldiers every day is calling for more weapons from the west to defend itself. also to night democracy in danger, the panel investigating the attack on the u. s. capital goes public with its fine. january 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup and plan u. s. law makers show previously unseen video of the violence and they put the blame square on former us president donald trump. blue eyebrow. gov. it's good to have you with the united nation says that the trial of 3 foreign fighters in ukraine, by a pro russian court, could about to a war cry. the court in these self declared don't ask 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. earlier we spoke to mo, is up on saddam. he is a friend of the moroccan national, brought him so do. and we asked him how he learned about what happened to his friend for a he principal, on april 17th. i figure it out that he's captured by seemed a video of paying, being interviewed. 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 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 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. well, he's not alone there, but that statement. ashley reedy from human rights watch told me that the 3 men are protected by international law. yeah, absolutely. i mean the, whatever the court internet is saying is simply bears 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 for stop. and even in the event that the russian authorities, are there proxies and in 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 that. ringback that would determine the status that they are not present before. and even then, let's say we ignore all the facts and we suggest these are and teach 3 slider. we're 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 don't ask have have, or to get some. so either way, one, they are present the warrant or the geneva conventions. and secondly, even if there had been a determination that they were stripped out of their time to

a fair trial. and it's clear here that that didn't top on 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 there were applying that they could sentence 3 individuals to, to the sentence that was actually read from human rights watch. 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 of the government and even says that russia has between 10 and 15 times more artillery. equip moscow's focus remains the eastern don't bass region which has been partly occupied by pro russian separatists. and since 2014, the eastern beth region remains the center of the fighting. yes, but it is not. russia's only target, as our correspondent nick connelly told me,

definitely not. we were in mccloud today. and as you mentioned, there it is not at the focus of the most intensive fighting right now, but still the whole day. we heard our theory pretty relentless. not that far away. mccullough is a big city of hundreds 1000 people. just 2025 companies away from those front lines and not much further away from here. so one of the big major you crunched is that the russians had taken earlier in this war. and people are losing their lives here . that city, that in its entirety, is within range of various different bits of russian artillery. and time time again, you have people just going about their daily lives trying to kind of get some kind of someone from the warranty. 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 waning sesame. nick, ukraine says it is now losing as many as $200.00 fighters every day. that's almost

double the official figure that we received just a week ago. i mean, what has 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 lot better using drones about coordinating the intelligence they get from drones and see from the us 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 going to 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 him. 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 7 of the net, 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 at wolf time kind of piece time exercises. but if you're fighting a war and on 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 give them and to send them to the front lines. will 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, nick, thank you. let's get 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 in the romanian capital book, arrest nato, chief un stoughton bear or joined them. and they are expected to ask the nato,

formerly to declare russia a threat to the western military alliance. the british government has beaten off a legal challenge to its plan to deport asylum seekers to rwanda. the high court dismissed efforts by rights groups to halt the action. the 1st lights are set to leave the kate next week. portugal parliament has approved bills allowing euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide. this is the 3rd attempt to pass the legislation, the president or the constitutional court could still block the measures. portugal would become the 5th e, you country to d, criminal wise, you the next across the atlantic to the us, the committee investigating the attack on the u. s. capital has accused former president donald trump attempting to derail democracy. members have begun presenting their findings after a year of collecting evidence. and 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 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 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 trumps less than most desperate chance to hollow the transfer of power to try to prove that trump incited a violent insurrection. miss of a 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 sported 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'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 in and 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 joe bridges are a lot, shows his urging serbia to follow the european union in sanctioning russia over the war in ukraine. schultz was in belgrade during a tour of the balkans. today he also stopped in kosovo. another aspiring member of the european union, sholtes called on both countries to normalize relations and to recognize each other if they want their candidacy to succeed. a warm welcome from the serbian president for the german chancellor shalt has big goals for his balkan visit, bringing the region closer to the you. yet survey approved a rather awkward stop. despite the warren ukraine belgrade has maintained its pro moscow stones. present vigil also refuses to join the

e u sanctions against russia. but schultz made clear that those who want to join the you should follow its lines that if we can, how much cable for them to dim rossville toronto, what we're doing, of course is imposing sanctions. and therefore, it is right that we work towards ensuring that as many countries as possible take part in these sanctions against russia was lumped the tiling model. but boutique think sanctions a not the way forward you said was costano. don't forget that. we've had friendly relations with russia for centuries, amusement, but that hasn't prevented us from condemning the attack on ukraine. it's not an cardinal photo. of course. you'll puddle crim also on the agenda for shelter. the cost of oh, situation. before the end of the year costs most prime minister cutty wants to submit an e u. membership application. customer has been independence in 2008. but so the a doesn't recognize this and still lays claim to the territory. so far talks have

failed to find a way forward. this is miss fortune. it is inconceivable. the 2 countries that did not mutually recognize each other will become members of the e. u. o. else both sides. once again, for a clear commitment to this dialogue, according to sholtes, they would then be able to join the e u something. the western balkan states have been waiting 19 years full. watching the w news, g w business things as of next with christie plants and have a good weekend everybody to the dark side where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings. there was a before 911 and an after 911. he says after $911.00, the clubs came off.