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ah, it was more in modern lifestyles, and the mediterranean meeting people was hearing their dreams ready to re journey this week. do you w ah ah, this is d, w. news live from berkeley to refix scenes in ukraine's east. investigators came uncovering evidence of torture and murder at a mass grave. near the city of his you decide is in an area recently liberated from brushing occupation correspondent reports from the also coming up classes on the
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border between kingston and jackie. stuff, i accused each other of restarting, fighting in a disputed area despite a $65.00 deal. and people in lebanon take drastic steps to demand access to their own money, banks, closing their doors as the economic crisis. ah m. anthony, how it's good, happy with us. the check republic, which currently holds the rotating e u presidency, is calling for an international tribunal for war crimes to be established after new mass grades were found in east in ukraine. some of the bodies uncovered near the former, the russian occupied city of the assume showed evidence of torture. ukrainian authority say their investigation into potential war,
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committed by russian forces is just beginning using documentation. ukraine is hoping to make the case for legal recognition of the alleged russian atrocities. united nations is preparing to send in an inspection team and his most recent video addressed to the cranny and paypal president lensky also said torture chambers had been found in newly liberated areas. let's have a list. so it was uni exhumation work continued an idiom hockey virgin at the uncovered mass burial site with bodies of being examined you evidence of torture against those buried has been found to be more than 10 torture chambers have been found in cities and towns and the liberated areas as the occupies fled, they also left behind the devices for torture. keenly, apparently glaring machine. well d, w is a manual shares traveled to is human, saw the forensic operation 1st hand. she sent us this report, which includes some information viewers may find disturbing me and
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a team. her arts are in his home to day, and our 1st our pool is just at the outskirts of the recent deliberated city of islam tudor side of doze, mass burials. you could see that there's that the city cemetery and just behind it they are grazed, their dozens of freshie or dug graves and forensics are working there every day to uncover our bodies, to recover dam and to determine what happened to those people. i can tell you that there's definitely dozens of grades then are definitely there were big enough to host those 400 or more than 400 bodies that the ukraine authorities are talking about while we were on site or we assisted we witnessed or rather we witnessed or not of see made by forensic experts after a body had been
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a freshly uncovered in a freshly brought her outside of the grave. this was the body of an 18 year old man . very young man who had his hands tied behind his back. so of course, a preliminary conclusion was dark. this was a violent a death he had also as suffered from a blow add to the back of his head with something or probably a knife said to forensic expert. he also showed traces off torture or in his on his genitals. and that was only a de conclusions that could be made or by a preliminary examination, his body or we're a den or b abroad for further investigation, so as to determine exactly how he died. but obviously a violent death, dc's, or death that adds up or to the dozens of other or bodies already recovered. you
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mention it in the report had also been dead bodies of children's human remains. as children, human remains of women, some of them have starved to death over this phase. somebody's had been there since march since april, of course, because of the state. the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies is quite difficult to determine exactly the date of their death. so a lot of work ahead for other people on sites i was did of lose a man or shes reporting from is you will in central asia kingston antagonist and continued to trade accusations over the recent breach of a cease fire board of disputes have dogged the 2 former soviet republics in independence, 30 years ago, around half of their nearly 1000 kilometer long frontier is still contested. clashes that broke out in the border region in recent days left at least $24.00 people did, and dozens more injured. 2 sides have been meeting to discuss,
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stabilizing the situation, and withdrawing troops. tens of thousands have flayed the fighting. so why have these classes flared up again? i put that question to jeff sa, do of charter calvin university rather. in ottawa. well, the immediate and reasons are a bit of a mystery. obviously, at the timing of the fact that rushers attention is turned away, we noticed they have not chosen to implicate themselves in the army asked by john conflict. and these are all countries part of the collective security treaty organization, the c s t o. so i think these countries feel a bit more free to engage in those local disputes. so again, if there's been a long term dispute, as you've mentioned, border dispute between to jay hassan and kirk istan. and i think the touch at government has chosen this opportunity whenever one's attention was turned to try and gain a bit of a victory to conquer a small amount of curfews territory at least advanced for domestic political
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considerations to consolidate the regime. especially as m a. molly rock, mom, the president there prepares most likely to transfer power to his son. why is it professor, that there are still real fees of a wide conflict when at least outwardly, the heads of states seemed to be trying to avoid it? it's very strange. the situation and when you look at the forces touching forces who have invaded kirk of stan. it's not at all clear to us how directly of our affiliated with military cells. if the regular troops, if they're mercenaries, what they're motivated by. if it's nationalism, if they have a particular goal, so neither of these states have what you call the stronghold over their population . so she could have had a civil war that lasted about a decade. 1990, perfect, and has gone to a series of cruise. they're both very poor states. they're both states that have
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had a variety of leaders passed through. molly rockmart energy stan at the top seems people below him. the state is quite weak. and also you have a number of cookies in charge of labor. my friends who had been work in moscow, returning back home. now the situation russia is more difficult, which as a whole new element to the situation. so all of these border tension or should been going on, as you mentioned, at the topic report in the beginning of the independence period, are now flaring up with these very new elements to them and have the potential to be a wider conflict. still more clearly, as you mentioned, the leaders themselves have not said very much or seem to be trying to tap down the concepts. but on the border, there is a lot of tension to speak to her of russia. he, how convincing is russia in the role of media to hear? well, russia has been absent and they've actually withdrawn
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a number of their choose from tajikistan kurdistan. ah, to go and fight in ukraine. so this could be another element here. and i think when you go back to the last time of the larvae border, conflicts flared up and became extremely violent just before the collapse of the soviet union. it was when moscow had its attention turned elsewhere. and so you see history repeating itself in a sense that now that russia has no realistic goal of playing any kind of mediating all of these countries don't have any one to help them pull back from the brink. ah, so we'll see if though the western countries are china are able to step in and try media is conflict. just so dave, from the calton university. thanks so much baton. you're very welcome. lebanon is in the grip of a massive economic crisis that has prompted banks in to restrict withdrawals. the country's currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value on the black market.
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in recent years, while unemployment and poverty reach severe levels. people attacking drastic action to access their savings. oh, off the days of pleading for access to his savings, hubbard, sucrose took matters into his own hands. armed with a pistol, he entered a bank in the lebanese capital of bay route and spoke to standoff. that would last 4 hours. they said they don't want to pay. they don't want to pay and i'm not leaving until they do. they need to figure it out, tell the guys they don't want to pay, and i am not leaving from here. why no one is on the, on the break in was one of 5, so cold deposited houses across lebanon on friday alone. the country is in the grips of an economic meltdown and strict limits on bank withdrawals have left millions unable to pay for basic needs. the crisis has thrown almost 3 quarters of the population into poverty and driven some to take drastic measures.
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outside the bank in beirut, public support for super was clear have a said should go to jail because people need money from him while his is locked in a bank like he wants. what's rightfully his son in philadelphia with him after hours of negotiations super eventually walked free, but without any of his savings. in response to friday, spray of break ins, old bank branches across the lebanon will close for 3 days, starting monday. but with public resentment arising, it is unclear whether they will be able to tackle the root causes of the problem. was early we spoke to our correspondent in beirut, rather than solomon. she told us why people assuming banks in the country the economy is struggling so badly. there's a limit on how much you've been can withdraw from the banks. for example,
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people suffering from underlying health conditions and others quite in count limited access to their bank because it does have no access to medical assistance and the accounts have been proven backs for almost 3 years. now this is, i'm and i phenomenon i phenomenon of hyper inflation 96 percent evaluation of that currency against the u. s. daughter. and thus the purchasing power, the purchasing power has shrunk dramatically. and it could make bell down has led to 80 percent of the new combination plunging under the poverty line. the world bank has, has more that economy, calamity lead economy, calamity. lebanon is one of the bit me worries in the world. and as since the mid 19th century and from bras on solomon in beverage to some of the other stories making headlines around the world in hundreds of march dinner,
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many as capital get over demanding the country leave the russian labor collective security treaty organization. u. s. broke had ceased far between armenia and as a by john is now in effect, after fighting a ruptured over the separatist region of nego to cut a buck a u. s. delegation headed by nancy pelosi arrived in the country on saturday. when the lids elizabeth's grandchildren have publicly paid their respects to like monna by standing vigil around her coffin. meanwhile, mourners continued to fall past in westminster hall. i spent 15 minutes in quiet contemplation like queens funeral takes place later on. monday. 21000000 pilgrims have gathered in the rocky city of kabbalah for the shia muslim festival of aberdeen is his festival comes as a rock remains paralyzed by political crisis. and with the shiite majority fiercely divided either iranian influence in the country,
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lou shia muslims in religious ecstasy in front of him on hussein's shrine. every year, millions of people come to this mosque in cabala, where the profit of mohammed's grandson is buried. for she adds the pilgrimage marks the end of 40 days of morning for the ems 7th century death. many pilgrims walked hundreds of kilometers to be here. among them, mohammed suffer from her on your work. i can't put my love my emotions for a mom. his saying into words, i'm totally overwhelmed. our faith defines our lives. but this year there was tension and the air over the she a holy city. some 20000000 pogroms came more than ever before. among them around 3000000 from iran. their arrival came amid rising tensions between teran and iraq's powerful. she ought leda looked into al sutter. his supporters recently
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fought street battles with iranian backed groups, leaving almost 30 people dead. i'm scared because they're so many pilgrims that could quickly lead to problems or case. and i'm against the iranians getting in bold around here. no one should consider as an appendage or part of another country. we totally reject that. while the pilgrimage may have wrapped up without violence, the deep divides which lead to conflict in iraq. remain your watching d w. news a can that if i were not tied into a meeting you, i'm not, i want to see you and we will send you back for.

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