every thursday on d w. love has no limit in love is for everybody. love is live a matter. and that's my new podcast. i'm evelyn char, mom and i really think we need to talk about all the topics, the new divides. and tonight, with this, i have invited many deer and well known gas. and i would like to invite you to an in ukraine is a war zone. it's also a crime scene. today the country's national police chief said his force is opening criminal investigations into 12000 deaths from around the country. each one life ended since russia invaded its neighbour. many of them civilians, some tortured and killed before ending up in mass graves. atrocities like these are

part of ukraine's history. the countries president is asking the world, how can to be part of its present to? i'm william, look croft, and this is the day. ah, why is this happening in the year 20? $22.00? it's not the $1000.00 forty's, the push out to the knees. tell his people what tortured the hands tied behind the back with tape shows that they had been held hostage for a long time, a company. i asked you to double your efforts to stop brushing hatred, the hatred of humanity. can you copy a missile? hit our house yesterday? my child got very scared, so there's a huge will to be and we will defeat the russian hatred in the name of the children

who were killed by the russian army. also on the day, 1st signs in the united states of a bipartisan deal on gun control. we ask a firearms, legal expert, how effective it might be. tiny hobbins built with small mutilated and decapitated bodies fill us with great. it's a pertains ah let america lensky, ukraine's and battle president has spent 3 months of war, pleading with the world to help his country fend off rushes unprovoked invasion. although russia has failed to force ukraine's total capitulation, its forces are consolidating gains in the countries east. soon russia may have effective control over the entire danverse region, part of which has been in pro russian hands since 2014 relentless strikes on

military positions and residential areas have resulted in deaths on a scale. we can only speculate about as evidence of war crimes against the ukrainian population. mount zelinski made his latest appeal to a group that is particularly sensitive to crimes against humanity. here, some of what's lensky had to say to the american jewish committee, a leading global jewish advocacy organization. to tell me why this is happening in 2022. this is not the 1940s yet. how could these things become reality? mass killings, torture to burn cities, filtration come settled by the russian military in the occupied territories which resemble nazi concentration camps. nazis. and yet russia hopes that it will not bear responsibility for all these evils is for all these barbaric strikes at houses,

pointing hospitals and churches fish. russia still has the power to hope to continue the war against the ukraine, against our people from the unequal the world's reaction. embassy international has accused russia of war crimes. in a report released on monday, the human rights watch dogs that it found evidence that attacks on the city of 14 often involved cluster munitions which an international treaty banned in 2010. and the same conclusion results from a 14 day investigation, a carried out in april and may ukrainian officials have made similar statements get more about this report. and these allegations with donna tele rivera. she's a senior crisis response advisor at amnesty international. thank you very much for joining us. you investigate war crimes in human rights abuses and you are the co author of this report. so please tell us what did your investigation uncover?

so we focused on the indiscriminate attacks that have been launched by russian forces in the city of hockey, which is the ukraine. second city seems pretty much the 1st day of the war. every single residential district within the city has been at the receiving end of indiscriminate strikes. dane day off seems february and den. and often the strikes have been carried out using internationally bon cluster, munitions. but also the other strikes the other stripes that are not carried out with band munitions, but with the regular munitions such as grad rockets and artillery shells unguided artillery shells. these are battle field weapons. they should never be used in residential areas where there are civilians. they are simply to inaccurate. they cannot be used to pinpoint a target. and the result of being that the civilian population has been terrorized

more than half of the population of the city has been forced to leave because they are they are absolutely no way of protecting themselves. it is impossible to know when the next strike will be a can be any time anywhere day or night. people have taken to sheltering in underground in metro stations because that's the only place where they feel safe. and people have been killed and injured in their homes. why they were waiting for humanitarian aids. there has been a number of incidents where a crowd of people waiting for a manager and assistance. where shall buy one of the, you know, by different types of munitions used by the, by direction forces. as you describe the situation, the cities are incredibly hard to get into and,

and find out what's actually happening on the grounds, which is also a bit more about how you went about compiling this report. what your sources are. so i visited her keith twice in april and then again may in april it was more difficult to work because the strikes were de leon during the day as well as your in the night. but it wasn't the less possible to work. so i visited a 41 different strike locations and collected and examine the remains of the munitions that were used than in the overwhelming majority of case the where remains. and so it was possible to determine with certainty, walk you, nation has been used in this particular strikes. i interviewed in scores and scores of survivors and witnesses. we also examined material that was available in open sources, whether it's satellite imagery, or,

or videos and photos that residents are taken at the time of the attack. and so this is, this is what we were able to do in april and the may all over the city. so since you were there on the ground, can you give us a, a better picture of what cluster munitions due to a city or to a building or to a person that makes them a band musician? so the cluster munitions that have been used in, in hockey by the, by the russian forces are dispersed by rock had, generally what i've seen mostly it's been 220 millimeters, were a gun rockets that contain 30 to 32 individual cluster munitions. each of these class munitions if then packed with explosives and hundreds of pieces of metal fragments, which are essentially

a steel rods cut into small pieces. hundreds of those in each of these munition. and as the rocket explodes and let out these individual munitions, they then further spread through an area of sort of several hundreds of meters. and each attacks that i investigated in most cases are involved multiple rockets. and so we're talking about dozens and dozens of cluster munitions exploding at different locations all over at large areas, streets and streets, apart in playgrounds where families where, where, you know, taking their children's due to play, where people were walking around humanitarian aid to. ready a church that also doubles up as a humanitarian up hub, was also struck by class to the nation. so there is really nothing that is off the

limit. all right. got a tele rivera. thank you very much for bringing us 1st, sam reports there from amnesty international. thank you. half a 1000000000 people around the world rely on ukrainian food exports that includes wheat, corn, and sunflower products. but with ukraine's ports blockaded by the russian navy, consumers are seeing prices rise sharply for everyday staples. now it gets even worse, since most of the intense fighting is focused on ukraine's agricultural heartlands in the south and east w's nic colony went there, visiting a farmer on the front lines near nichol life. boots on contract is not the only sounds on india, even of his 4000 hector's artillery far in the distance never really stops. but in a d and a team, a preoccupied with other things like what i'm going to look at the suite. it's

under fed. it's under love to that, i think but that wasn't for want of trying on the ideas, but for most of the crew slowly growing season, she couldn't even get to her fields. they were a war zone. fighting is now at least 25 kilometers away. far enough from the d n. her team to get back to feeding the world the glare of the missile fly over our heads towards mc alive over there. we're in the fields catches fire really easily with all the dry straw. if you do get a direct hit, you could lose hector's to the flames. in a matter of minutes, this unexploded russian missile had dug its way a meter into the ground. to some the ordinance of the russians left behind them. no said landmines and countless shells. they also took a lot with them from chainsaws to food, even cutlery. deer is still tilting up the losses. this

crops spray the form's pride and joy that just been bought for more than a quarter 1000000 euros was destroyed, for it could be used. the fed on for the use cassette bombs. it has the insides of equipment like this to mid zealand. it's a mass. see that the spray tank whittled with holes with months of field work missed, and much of a machinery either destroyed or shorter diesel. tedious as this is harvest, remotest at best unlike the harvest up behind these walls, one with is a 2021, was a recorded across the ukraine, with full grain storage units. almost everywhere. much of the bumper crop hadn't even reached world markets when war broke out in late february. that's because many farmers keep their grain back until prices are highest during the winter months uniform. that is caisson past thousands of tons just more so the 1st of this is how

this bali is just 10 days away from the hilton most homes here. i will barely have any way to put it what that is. that grain used to be like gold. he could always salad easily, whatever you want it. this is the 1st time ever. we can't get it off. i hand void with you grains, portly shut. but also mind lead deal with russia to reopen, not on the cards. alternatives from river barges to rail freight a desperately being sought. but none of them come close to even matching the capacity and price of transport by sea. even when you have been found trucks now face weeks, long tail box to unload the now grain from this form of thousands like it. you know, it's a situation that the dia, struggling to pay her work is wages the same time the world desperately wait for the greens she produces. but at least she still producing at all. and when the

ports of entry do reopen, phobia crop to sell in spite of mines in the soil and shells overhead. ah, the stockholm international piece research institute that slippery for short says the world supply of nuclear weapons is likely to increase in the decade to come. that's according to their report that just came out. it says the stock of nuclear warheads actually decreased last year. but this year, due to dismantling old war hands taken out of military service to pre said that nuclear armed states have increased the role of nuclear weapons and their military strategies called it a very worrying trent. and we can get more on that from one of the people behind the report that is mac cordy's, an associate researcher with supreme weapons of mass destruction program and director of the nuclear information project at the federation of american

scientists. welcome to the day. so maybe you can tell us 1st more about this report a little bit that says post cold war reductions, nuclear arsenals are coming to an end. how are you able to make this assessment? yeah, absolutely. so i guess i'd start by saying that if you look purely, i found the total number of nuclear weapons in the world is changing from year to year. you'd probably come away from that thinking bass. the disarmament picture is a lot better than it. actually. it has, as you mention, each year, the overall number of nuclear warheads in the world declines on a relatively city basis. but what we're seeing is that this is pretty much entirely because of the united states and russia, dismantling a couple 100 retired warrants each year. and that is really where the good news ends from and disarmament perspective, right? both the united states and russia as well as every single other nuclear armed state

are in the midst of expensive and extensive nuclear modernization campaigns. as they replaced many of their cold war era legacy systems with newer systems. so, you know, in this particular report, we've noted that over the past year, the total number of nuclear weapons in the world did decline. and i would be really close attention to the number of nuclear weapons in global military stockpiles, which is the number that represents the number of effectively operational nuclear warheads. that number is actually increasing, and this is his unfortunately global phenomenon that applies to to basically every we are on stage and quality, not just quantity. let's pick up a little bit more there because on one hand, nuclear stockpile as are noting are shrinking in a certain way. on the other hand, we have arms control treaties that seem to be expiring. what does that tell you about the risk of using nuclear weapons? yes, so you know, in recent years we have seen the decline and the general kind of just distant trust

in arms control writ large. you know, the only bilateral treaty remaining between the united states and russia on that regulates the stock piles of strategic nuclear warheads. that treaty, new star, was rescued from the very brink of extinction. you know, last year. and that treaty is doing its part to keep many hundreds of warheads in the united states and russia in storage under normal circumstances. but that's really is eventually going to expire in a few years. and it's really difficult to imagine what a follow on treaty could look like a given the political environment that we're seeing today, given the fact that states are not particularly interested in negotiating. in many cases, they're often more interested in kind of blaming and shaming their prospective arms control partners than actually pursuing measures that would offer some elements of transparency and unpredictability. and arms controls are really important tool for

decreasing nuclear risks, right? so, so it's incredibly important that states, i'm come back to the negotiating table, but of course, you know, as we're seeing with the warning crane and things like that, we're seeing that the political willis is diminishing. right. the political is diminishing in the cold war when there were 2 enemies facing each other. there were still a willingness to have arms control. and now there doesn't seem to be what do you make of that? yeah, you know, it's, it's a great point that you bring up the cold war because i'm, you know, as, as you mentioned, you know, the nuclear threats during that time we're credibly high. and yet countries were still willing to sit across the table from each other and, and talk about these things. i'm, and especially because military tensions are so high. that's exactly the reason why it is so important for countries like the united states and russia and china and others to engage each other in arms control and nuclear risk reduction, right? if there was no risk of conflicts, then there wouldn't be any nuclear risk for countries to try and reduce, right?

but because the risk of nuclear escalation remains really high amount more than ever in the, in the post cold war era. we need countries to be sitting down at the negotiating table and thinking about what the next 10 and 2030 years of, of multilateral ons control should look. all right, matt quarter from separate webs. mess struction program behind that report that came out. thanks for your views. thanks very much. ah, a group of democrats and republicans in the bitterly divided united states that have agreed to push forward new legislation aimed at reducing gun violence. now if past legislation stands to be a major reform but still falls short of gun control, advocates demands way home. several republicans have joined democrats in drafting the proposal, which needs to pass the senate in the house. before going to the white house for president jo biden's signature,

he sent it negotiations follow the most recent spate of mack shootings including one in texas for a teenager, killed 19 children and 2 teachers in their school. now though, the compromise is limited in scope activism, both sides of the issue were quick to comment on it. you have not seen the life of a framework like what we can package for for the last 30 years. and i think, you know, it's significant not only because of how this can have a real impact in lives, but to me it feels like a moment in time and, and they sign of things to come, right. this is, this is sort of testing ground that we can pat my hardest gun laws and this guy won't fall. and for all of those reasons, i think this agreement is really important. you know, if it's sad and terrible, but i like, i don't know what additional layer of federal legislation wouldn't put in place to

to keep someone like the shooters in buffalo or you've already from doing what they did. get more on this with jake charles, a constitutional lawyer and executive director of the center for firearms law. duke university joined me from durham, north carolina. thanks very much for joining us. let's pick up on that last sound bite there. does this compromise stand a chance at effectively preventing mass shootings? right, so i think the speakers are correct that this is a significant moment in the gun to be in the united states. the 1st gun legislation in a quarter century. and what it's going to look like in terms of reducing gun violence and gun injuries is really gonna depend on the details of how these laws are fleshed out. we don't have the statutory language yet, so we don't know what exact provisions are going to be in these laws. some of them like increased mental health counseling, increased interventions at schools, may in fact get these potential shooters earlier in the process and prevent these

kind of incidents. on the other hand, it's certainly correct that there are not laws that would directly implicate the kinds of actions we saw in these recent mass shootings. there are not bands on specific kinds of weapons. there are not limits on what weapons those who are under 21 years old can purchase. although there are some moves in the direction of regulations on those under $21.00. but it's, i think it remains to be seen what the legislation will look like once it's actually put into statutory language. well, one thing that we're pretty sure is not going to be in the statutory language is an assault weapons ban. it's not part of the deal, but the u. s. had one for a decade until 2004. that's not that long ago, or maybe it is what's changed to make it so difficult now to ban these kinds of weapons. right, so there was a band from 1094 to 2004. so 2004, not that long ago, 1094 quite

a bit longer ago. and what happened in response to the gun legislation we saw at the federal level in the mid 1990 s. was that after that legislation, when to effect democrats last reelection pretty badly. and the conventional wisdom taken out of that fight was that gun control was a losing issue for democrats. and so, since then, all the way up until a few years ago, maybe a decade ago after the city of shooting, national democrats have been reticent to propose bold new gun laws for fear that it was a losing issue. i think what we're seeing is that there is now a national movement for stricter gun regulation that is almost parallel in passion and intensity to what has been for the past really 3 or 4 decades, a gun rights movement that has had a lot of passion. so why now is my question because there's been tragic, awful shootings for gears. what is happening now that is causing that kind of

movement. right. i think it really started after 2012 in the sandy hook shooting. that's when a new movement got increased funding, increased resources, increased mobilization from activists. and in the 2018 shooting in parkland where younger, a younger generation was activated as well to push for increased gun regulations and the cumulative effect of these 2 movements over the course. of the past 10 years where it's been seen as a issue that can be winning in states. it's seen as an issue that can be winning younger voters and getting more voters to turn out to election. so i think that we've seen that happening at the state local level is an indication to those on the national stage that they don't need to run away from the issue. before we let you go, i think we should touch on the supreme court case that might be decided within weeks or a couple months that could also have significant impact on gun control in america.

can you give us a quick insight, an update on that situation? absolutely. so this is a challenge to new york's restrictive concealed carry license in law. so new york requires those who want to get a tier carry permit for a concealed handgun to show what the statute says is proper cause. and what that means is an individual has to show reasonable fear different than just wanting to carry a gun for self defense. and the lawsuit challenges that law on 2nd amendment round saying that anybody who qualifies anybody who is not doesn't have a criminal record. anybody who doesn't have a mental health disqualifier, they should be able to get a permit without showing anything other than that they want to carry that gun and public. and the supreme court is going to issue its decision in the next 2 weeks here, most likely. and we'll get a sense of whether or not that law's gonna stand. i think most court watchers, myself included, think the court is going to strike that down,

in which case is going to be the rule in the united states. that anybody who passes a background check and maybe a train requirement is going to be allowed to get a concealed carry permit, or have to wait and see how that ruling comes down. jake charles ma, center farms, logic university in durham, north carolina. it's very much. thank you. and that was the day you can stick with us for all the latest dw news on instagram and twitter, and of course my website at w dot com. we'll catch you also tomorrow i'm way with with

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