w for mines a vibrant habitat ended glistening plates of longing. the mediterranean sea. we have l muster and to follow dual korean drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and the mediterranean meeting, people hearing their dreams ready to eat journey. this week on the w. ukraine says it's an earthy hundreds of bodies from mass graves in an area recently liberated from russian occupation most i believe, to be civilians, some show signs of torture. president vladimir zalinski says russia must be held responsible for leaving behind a trail of death in what the litany of atrocities i'm glad else is in berlin and

this is the day. ah, boucher murray, appalled and now unfortunately, is you. where again, the horror of the russian invasion is once again laid bare. so the same destroyed field guilt people clear away report which more than 400 bodies were found in the collective glazing, easy and using radius of weapon of war, hunger as a tool of war. not the war, genocide of random population also coming up in a world changed by the russian invasion of ukraine. germany is chancellor stresses the countries willingness to step up to the plate and make the german armed forces

. the corner stone of europe's defense does is to see if that is the goal. when does, and we should be motivated by the knowledge that our european partners and friends do not proceed this go us or threatens the support as reassurance zones and one's on ah, a mass grave has been found outside ism and east in ukraine just days after the city was liberated, authorities say it's one of the largest burial sites found in any city recaptured from the russian army. ukrainian police say most of the victims are civilians. the united nations is planning to send monitors, to verify the findings a pine forest hiding a horrific mass. grave and ukrainian soldiers have found more than before. 100 bodies buried near the city of israel, after it was freed from russian control over. here lie the bodies of 17 of their

comrades, surrounded by hundreds of individual graves with only crushes to mark them. a typical william, we only found this place because russian soldiers posted a video on line all that there for sure is there with there was any those ever and with whom i am on the cross that says they're 17 bodies. but i'm that video. well, in that there were more good lucian, that we have not counted them yet, but i think there must be at least 25 or 30 body will say she may be. this is not the only mass grave here. and we now have to work and identify every one who died here calling ah, earlier this week, president zalinski raised the ukrainian flag in indian not, not the city had been under russian control for more than 5 months. is now show scenes of destruction on isabel and people are without running water, electricity,

or heat. sa lensky said an investigation would follow the findings in the forest. me which machine we want the world to know what is happening and what the russian occupation has led to watch in butcher mario paul. and now, unfortunately, is zoom or she, if russia is leaving death behind in everywhere and must be held responsible, the world must bring russia to real responsibility for this war that we will do everything for this little more said little ukraine age to re claim all its territory after retaking izzy, him. however, russia still homeless around the 5th of the country. and we can get more from a d, w correspondent, commonly who's in the eastern city of a hard kiss and nick about it as an arid alarm right now,

if we can. so let's start with the discovery of these miles graves. what more do we know about the victims and how they die? well is so far, it's pretty difficult to tell exactly how these people lost their lives. as we understand from the ukrainian authorities, many are believed to have died in the 1st months of the war after the russians came in to resume in the spring. and then as we were heard in the course of the day, there have been bodies found with signs of what seems to be torture. i think it's very early days if you think back to butcher to pin those places. nick here where we saw those atrocities committed against civilians. it really took weeks and months for the dna analysis and all kinds of forensics to really come into play. and for the authorities to find these people's relatives, to be able to really track their names, trying to work out what happened to them and where, but definitely there is the expectation here in this part of you and that this will not be the last gray found that there are more of these graves to be found. and

certainly we were in villages out near the russian border. recently, people there said that as soon as the mines were cleared in the forests, they were expecting to find a lot more people who had either tried to get safety on their own passing to the front lines and may be gone missing or lost their loved. then, or people who'd been basically spirited away detained by the russian authorities not seen or heard from since nanak. as you just mentioned, you verb have just traveled to the ukranian border with russia just north of how give to an area that will was also just abandoned by russian troops. troops are only a few days ago, so stay with us while we watch your report and we'll come back to you after that. less than a week ago. this was a journey best made in a tank. now, just an hour's drive, separate heard of where this restaurants and metro from villages just emerging from 6 months of occupation. here within sight of the border, the out numbered russian army held on the longest, throwing everything at hand and advancing ukrainian forces. most the locals didn't

stick around the pets, love stop behind to atlanta is one, just a handful of residents left on her street. she's been without power and without phone signal for the past 6 months. and as of last week, without a roof. yet bill of bull had a bill, but i came out of the seller and after the bang, it seemed like everything was all right. i had to go down again and when i left, everything was gone, the door, the window and the roof, all just gone. the blast wave took it straight off. all that's left of my skis removal. linda blizzard. and it wasn't the 1st time after 2 previous hit sit lana was able to patch things up, but not this time. many of her neighbors had it worse. massive woods land simply a boy next door was killed and 2 houses down the road. there was a neighbor, a veteran of the soviet army. he was sitting in his yard and out of nowhere,

a piece of shrapnel hit him in the forehead and killed him. bullock and lovable, but you more, wouldn't you? the russians kept asking me why i didn't leave. i turned it around and asked them why they came in the 1st place. i've been here for 39 years. with a light sleeper to atlanta tells us she hopes to wake up in time. the ceiling does end up falling down like millions of other ukrainian refugees said on his daughter, grandson, and now in poland. i'd be more with a family scattered. she relies on her neighbour mahalo for help, but 6 months of occupation have taken their toll on him. as a man of fighting age, mcculla was constantly in the sites of the russian army. when i went to throw her, so as my own, he left the house during the day, you just keep your head down. as of the 1st time the russians picked me up was an april a few times a month. they would get me in again for mrs. thing and i still have the marks from

the bullets they shot my legs. yes. they were obsessed with finding out where my brother was in the military and where his documents were hidden. my fellow says his father was taken away by the russians in march. since then, we'll trace of him has been lost on both sides of the border. this is just some of the shrapnel svetlana has collected in her living room just in space the last few days with no end in sight till shelling along the border. why not take this chance to get out? i knew she tells us ukrainian troops offered to take her to her gift in their tank . her response was simple. not until i've repaired my roof. a lot of on the con, lay is still with us in the kidney, ernie. what would you say after having been there, the ukrainian russian border are the ukrainian force and force is able to maintain that momentum forward while definitely we are seeing the green army continuing to push the russians back,

maybe not at the same pace as we saw over the past week, that's because they've really exploited this part of the front line. that was the worst offended of see me, lots people remember that. for most of the some of the talk was all about the south . i had a song which seems now to be new, can distraction, reject it, kind of force the russians to send all their better resources that direction and leave this part of their country exposed. and now we are seeing the friends coming up again, slightly more solid russian defenses, but definitely the loss of this region is crucial. this was basically the main supply route for russia's forces in don bass from russia. and without that, or that gets a lot more complicated, a lot more vulnerable. we're hearing reports of ukraine pushing forward close city of several lynette sk, which many people remember, was city that russia spent weeks taking of the summer at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. and yet, the sense now here is that ukraine's on the role that ukraine can put the russians under pressure, even with the amount of western weapons they have so far. so there's still

a lot more to come, and ukraine wants a lot more. but even with what they have, they are really able to make russia struggle and to really put them under that kind of pressure that no one we thought possible. there's definitely an expectation here that this is not the last bit of good news that ukraine's will be hearing the next couple months. a correspondent, commonly there in hercules. thank you, nick. ah, ludovic boot is russia poses the greatest current threats in nato. those are the words of german chancellor, all of shots in the keynote speech delivered on friday to germany's armed forces. the bundeswehr shows told german military leaders that they should except that russia will define itself as an adversary to the european union. the u. s. and nato for the for cedar. and he said, germany is armed forces must become the best to quit military force in europe. dodged and is polite and true and germany is ready to take on leadership

responsibility for the security of our continent. continents. as before, comes last the most populous nation in europe with the largest economy. it's con and as a country in the middle of a continent in our army must become a cornerstone of conventional defense in europe and best authentic come. the best equipped military force. as is to see that is the goal. when does, and we should be motivated by the knowledge that our european partners and friends do not perceive this goal as a threat to support as reassurance zones and wondering, did obvious chief political correspondent in the crane gave us her assessment of chance, a short speech to the military well, militarily, yeah, there's still a long way to go and the chancellor admitted as much saying there are major gaps and the buddhist fair is working on multiple fronts to close them. but he also said we can do this. and essentially his speech today at this very important conference

of the german military was aimed at saying, germany is now ready to step up and punch at its weight. essentially when it comes to defense and security issues. and that's something a lot of those friends and allies that the chancellor mentioned have been waiting to hear because in fact, germany has it's europe's industrial power house, but it has long not played the kind of role insecurity and defense that would be commensurate with its economic importance and certainly the chancellor here he was talking the talk, but i think the friends and allies will still be seeing a waiting to see the extent to which germany walks that talk. ah, now just as many other countries are at the moment, germany is taking an economic hits to, to vastly increased energy bills caused by russia invasion of ukraine. germany in

particular, has relied on russian gas, but relations with another autocratic regime have also come on the scrutiny. china has become germany is biggest trading pop and recent years, but bay james increasingly assertive behavior is being watched with concern in berlin. is germany's economic affairs minister and deputy chancellor ball. but havoc speaking after meeting fellow g 7 officials on thursday. do you particularly rushing us deniability toward china is over. and i can also say that for the german government, the times are over when it was said trade no matter what the humanitarian standards may be. as we should no longer allow that. this means that we will show a more robust trade stance through europe, towards china. i will find a worcester hon. it's pretty cheap off straight or with harmony speaking there. now let's bringing in a bribe berg, he's a senior vice president and the europe practice of the albright stonebridge group

and a non residents senior fellow at the atlantic council. welcome to the day mr. brought back. it seems that this recognition has been a long time coming, wasn't this policy of hoping to change china through trade? always a bit of a fallacy. perhaps although i do think historically, it made sense to engage china, trying to get china to become a responsible stakeholder, trying to play by the rules in the international system. but i think it should have been clear way earlier that that wasn't that decision. that paging may, the china instead has become more authoritarian and has, frankly engaged in practices that are not fair of such as you know, a stealing intellectual property or engaging and buying up strategic assets to siphon off technologies. but also bullying countries like they've done recently with lithuania, for instance, i think it should have been awake, a fall are much earlier that i do think that wake up call is now coming very, very loud and very clear. so it is coming now. but what's different now,

is this just the fall out from russia's warn you? crane is it increased chinese assertiveness? let's call it that. if we're looking at taiwan all the disruption caused by the coven 19 pandemic? yeah, i think it is a sense, i think that we are less naive any more as europeans and i think certainly russia's warren ukraine, contributes to that. and i think if anything had us on the score in our dependence on data for a terry and country in terms of energy. and i think that also served us a reminder of our dependence on in a range of areas including technology and raw materials on another offer tarion company like china. but be, i think we also learned that during cobit, when so much we learned about our medical supply chains were dependent on china and china's willingness to engage in this got a mask and vaccine diplomacy that we saw oftentimes spreading this information in europe about the virus or about vaccines. so what i think we are seeing now is a willingness to begin to put values in,

in front of business. and i think both governments and companies are beginning to learn this. and it will be very interesting to see, especially in germany as germany conducts this, it's new national security strategy, and it's new china strategy. what will come out of that? and if that will be a change in attitude towards china, devil also lead to businesses beginning to take different decisions about investing and trading the china when we're coming to a particular business in a moment. but 1st, i would like to ask you that germany is facing a double hit him losing cheap energy from russia at the same time as it's saying it's going to wean itself off a major trading pon. will washington accept that? that will take a lot of time what the united states, so certainly are encouraged and pushed germany for a number of years to reduce its dependence on russian energy. and we certainly seen in recent years, certainly during the trump administration, strong criticism of nordstrom to pipeline. although the biden administration,

of course, try to compromise on that issue in order to rebuild relations to germany. i think washington is competent, that germany is taking this energy prices very seriously and is taking very real steps to reduce that dependence on the, on russian oil and russian gas. and i think in many ways the us is also been supportive of those measures. you know, promoting l g exports to europe, helping to broker trade agreements or help europe import to energy from, from the global markets. because i think there's a concern in washington that this energy crisis shouldn't get really severe. this winter could also political ramifications could lead to maybe europeans being less willing to continue to support the efforts to, to assist ukrainians. but at the same time, i also think there's a little bit of a concern in the us that by cutting off dependent from russia to quickly dr. actually drive up the energy prices in ways that could lead to higher gas prices in the u. s. which could make the democrats walner bowl i in the upcoming mid terms.

and i think that's why you saw, especially the added states and the g 7 come out with the oil price cap idea instead as a way to limit the rush or revenues while still making sure that the prices don't go up, want to come back to single companies that you mentioned earlier, german comic opal today announced it is putting in plans to expand its business into china on hold. is this change already a sign of business feeling when the change? i do think we hear from distant south senate by the way, it's not completely new. we heard all the way back in 21900 from the the i the german industry association, calling china systemic competitors. it's something that businesses have been aware of, but i think now i've received companies actually take steps to reduce and diversify their dependence on on china, looking at other potential players, both in the region and elsewhere around the world to, to have manufacturing into how to supply chains,

but you are seeing some come companies, some china, still a very big market. you know, you're seeing companies continue to invest in china, but i think they're mainly doing so because they want a localized production for the chinese market in china. kind of ring fence china and their business there and the supply to other markets. i think the big change is really also coming from government where i think in a past you saw certainly during chancellor, i got merkel the german government, very much encouraging companies to go to china to trade more of a china. now you're seeing and we heard up from the remarks from, from administer hubig. you're seeing the government saying, you know, encouraging companies to diversify and saying that they may not get the type of financial support from the government for their businesses in china that they have been used to getting. so i just shift, not only from companies, but also from the government. now, germany, of course being one, if not the leading economy in europe i, you see evidence of germany taking on a more sort of leadership role. as the johnson of

a leading politicians say is needed it's certainly by virtue of being europe's economic powerhouse and a leading trade country. germany has a special responsibility on these issues and i think we have seen a lot of progress have been made, especially after european level when it comes to addressing trade challenges, especially stemming from china. there's been a lot of progress in recent years on stepping up for an investment screening export control restrictions are making out the european procurement market more, more safe from unfair competition and addressing things like like illegal subsidies that are, has been progress. and that sort of trade defense areas. germany has certainly be very supportive of that, where i think there will need to be more work going forward. and for germany, we'll play a key role. is to think about building a new trade relationships, making sure that we don't become protectionist or isolationist, but that we are investing in diversifying trade relations. and i think that means

doing more with countries like japan, australia, canada, where we still need to ratify a trade agreement. so here i think is for german really play a key role. and i think actually one of the question marks is where do you assess and abide and administration in its trade agenda? we saw recently to you us imposing these new restrictions on tax credits for electric vehicles that can have a bad impact for german car companies. i think in many ways it's not germany, but it's actually to you asked the question mark when it comes to golden trade. i will wrap up. thank you. thank you very much. ah. the european commission has announced dropped rules aimed at guaranteeing media independence. the main thrust of the new act is to protect media outlets from government tense to determine what they can publish or broadcast. the proposals come as a reaction to worries over freedom of the press. in several e. u. member states such as hungary or poland duffy kajuana

galicia, the uncouth sic pita, add the fleece. they were european journalists from malta, slovakia, and the netherlands murdered for doing their jobs. europe is becoming more dangerous for a journalist to speak truth to power assess belgian and p and media studies professor catches ecos. press freedom is up most important for our democracy. as we see in russia award doesn't start with weapons. a war starts with propaganda with these information, with our state as controlled to press. and what we see is that it all over europe actually press freedom is at stake. the e u. media freedom act aims to protect journalists and help them against counter attacks from politicians and corporations. the mission. daniel,

we need to step those who threatened me. jeffrey jim, media companies cannot be treated as just another business. their independence is essential. europe needs a law like safeguards this independence dusty that one up english kite zisha at ation. advocates. european countries still rank high in the international comparison of media. freedom by reporters without borders, but some eastern european countries like hungary and poland, had experienced a crackdown or independently model in poland. the government is extending control over the independent media regulator and public broadcasters. smaller media outlets find themselves competing against leaving media, bought up by state own oil company, orlan. the freedom of the media directly affects democracy, says sig us, and ownership structures play an important role to. but also so important to have a clear overview of the state of media concentration in all the countries and make

sure that media regulators are working in an independent way, which is not the case. also also, and it's very important parts of is to strengthen the public service broadcasters. because we know that from all research that countries with a strong public service broadcaster, they have better democracy. the uses information is a pillar of democracy and creating a stronger law to keep those who informed the public safe is long overdue. the day is almost done with the conversation continues on line. you will find us on twitter. asked d. w. news from me in the day team here in berlin is good night. enjoy your evening and we'll leave you with images from london where thousands are currently bidding farewell to britain's late queen elizabeth the 2nd. she lives in state of

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