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i was born modern lifestyles and the mediterranean meeting, people actually hearing their dreams of mediterranean journey this week on d. w. ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. ukraine says it has more evidence of torture in areas abandoned by retreating russian troops. investigators are examining bodies from the mass burial site near the city of is you our correspond and has watched the investigation team in action and will tell us more from hawk heath. the
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european union recommend suspending billions of euro's of funding to hungry following allegations of corruption is the 1st case in the blog under a new sanctioned aimed at protecting the rule of law. and us president joe biden arrives in london ahead of queen elizabeth funeral, while thousands q up for one last chance to pay their respects at her coffin. ah. and warm greetings, trail viewers around the world. i'm michael o co months ago. the world was shocked after discovering the atrocities committed in the ukrainian town of butcher, after it was freed from russian occupation. now more possible war crimes have emerged in the newly liberated hawk heave region. our corresponding emanuel shush
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went to is you where mass graves containing more than 450 bodies were uncovered. we should warn you, her report contains disturbing image. dare uncovering sheer horror as near by artillery fire rages in these forests on the outskirts of recently liberated is you forensic experts are working around the clock. 2, axiom bodies buried in mass graves, dating from the russian occupation book. dying from what surgical, unless you equals, if the level of the information we have, which has already been established. what is the burial of local residence, labriola exhumation. as you can see, examination of the bodies and referrals for forensic examinations that are currently being carried out a yukon. yeah. some corpses show signs of violent death and that's because metal general yeah,
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girl up. yeah. you're gonna just order the you who discourse is of a man in his eighty's lawyer. he was found with his hands tied behind his back. his skull was deformed by violent blows to the head. his janitors bear traces of torture. nearby 17 ukraine and sold ears have been found in a shallow grave. this was an o t. right here we found 17 corpses of servicemen, the armed forces of ukraine. the bodies have for now been sent to the morgue for further forensic examination supplies into collect dna samples in order to identify them, tripled i shouldn't discuss it was not normal. the scene is so green that even the investigators are overwhelmed at our gallery. this is the 1st such experience in all my 5 years of service and psychologically i think we will need some help in the
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future early report. but also we also check which other sir nauseous, get busy immune no names on the grave and everything is numbered. the biggest number is 418418 and that's on the civilians. locals with their hands tied were found face down. the huddled in that is thrown face down into the graves over by those bullshit. it's only so my, your face to was the unthinkable. investigators say they will not lead those crimes go unpunished. shock was willing arissa marie since the war began. we've already opened more than 4000 criminal proceedings regarding war crimes committed by soldiers of the russian federation in the harkey region. i will not tell you the exact number because it is constantly changing shallow. it keeps on increasing in light of the atrocities uncovered denisia and since its liberation the un said it
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would send a team to investigate. hi, michael. yes indeed, a yesterday with my team, we were oh, we were on our side of those are mass graves. i don't even know where to begin my cold. there were a dozens of graves, some her which could accommodate several bodies, other individual graves. there was no name on those or graves only number and a 5 fighter who a came from hard give to support to assist or forensic experts were overwhelmed by the task in front of them. so many bodies being buried. a firefighter told me that he so are those grades going up to number 418? that's without counting their mass graves that a common doubt accommodated a many, many bodies such as those of the 17 ukraine and service. men who had already been an earth uncovered or in the past few days so is seen of horror.
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our bodies, which i so being dug out or were having their hands tied in de bark as some of them bore traces of violence or on dam. i'm thinking about an old man who had been b to no skull deformed, so of scenes, of, you know, utter horror in is you him, we've been getting reports of more allege war crimes in the region. what are investigators telling you just how bad could this go? well, i talked to are the war crimes prosecutors who were on site yesterday. and they told me that for the region of had a keith alone ad. dave already started proceedings. air in looked into 4000 cases and i didn't want to give me an exact figure simply because this is changing by the hour. so this is the extent of,
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or during the war crimes of possible war crimes. we're looking into got about half a minute or so emma, but i want to ask you to our knowledge. there are thousands of investigations ongoing right now related to allege war crimes in ukraine. all of this, while a war continues to rage, how are authorities able to handle this? ah, well, are they actually, you know, are here in hockey region and an additional a 1000 abilene officers, a forensic expert is coming from other parts of the country. are hard to come in to, to try and you know, open the cases, thoughts at the investigation, but you cannot. ortiz welcome for in help as well. and they're present, valerie me, zaleski actually does, said so himself while talking about those war crimes. d w 's emmanuel shares many, many thanks. some other stories now making headlines around the world at this hour in japan super typhoon none mondor made landfall on the southern island of could
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you shoot? the storm is bringing powerful winds of up to a 180 kilometers an hour authorities or warning of unprecedented weather conditions . 4000000 people have been urged to evacuate. a powerful earthquake has said south east taiwan, the at the center of the 6.8 magnitude. quake was in the coastal city of tighten. it was also felt in the capital t i pay. it follows a $6.00 magnitude earthquake in the south east. on saturday evening. the european union's political executive has recommended suspending 7500000000 euros in funds to hungry over corruption allegations. hungarian prime minister victor or bon is accused of mismanaging e u funds. and dismantling democratic institutions. the money is intended to bring hungary economy an infrastructure up to the block standards. the suspension must be
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approved by a majority of e. u. member states within 3 months. for more, let's cross over to d. w. corresponded terry sholtes in brussels. terry, some of this, as you know, is just not new. the european commission has been accusing hungarian prime minister victor or bon of dismantling democratic institutions for nearly a decade. so why this decision only now that's true, michael or bon is regularly accused of anti democratic behavior. and in this case, in particular of corruption in the way that his government uses you funds. and he, personally, he's accused of channeling the money to friends and family. in fact, the use anti fraud office investigated the use of hungary is you funds from 2015 to 2019 and found that 4 percent of that money did have irregularities attached. so the commission has been trying to get a handle on this when it comes to hungary for some years. and it did create a mechanism to do so. but hungary and poland predicting that it would be used
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against them, challenged this mechanism in court. and it was only earlier this year that the legality of the mechanism was confirmed. so that's what they european commission is now proposing to use to withhold the 7500000000 from hungary. how has budapest been reacting to this? or as i mentioned, a hungary was, was pretty certain that this was going to happen and be approved by the commission . so just in recent days, it's proposed new raft of laws and anti corruptive mechanisms that it would put in place. it says by november and the hungarian government says it's confident that this would address the commission's concerns. now budget commissioner johan is hon . who made the announcement to day on the commission decision says that he'll need to see these laws actually implemented and put in place. and making a difference before he believes that's true. you member countries of course have yet to cast their vote. so what happens at this point? that's right before a majority of e. u countries approved this it,
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it will not go through. so hungary would like to think that when it approves these new laws in the next 2 months, that that will take care of things. you governments have 3 months to make this decision. so i think they'll be waiting to see what actually happens in budapest. and in the meantime, they've also withhold 6. it withheld 6000000000 euros from hungry. and this is, it's coven recovery plan that, that hungary has requested. so people are watching very carefully. it is also see what happens with this 6000000000 euros that's been withheld. and to see whether the new ways that hungary hopes to address the kind of corruption concerns will also release this other trench of you funds to reach sholtes in brussels. as always, many facts world leaders, including us president joe biden, have begun to arrive in london ahead of queen elizabeth's funeral. on monday. thousands of mourners have been queuing in central london for a 4th straight day,
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hoping to see the coffin of the late monarch. thousands continued patiently wait in a kilometers long queue for a chance to glimpse the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd. as she lies in state at parliament's westminster hall in central london. some mourners were treated to an unscheduled walk about by king charles and his son, william, who came out to thank those who had been queuing over night for several hours. commentaries. why, from birmingham? just to give a parish with the meeting, the king himself, and prince, as just as my co worker, i gave him on saturday, william joined his brother, harry, and their cousins, to stand vigil by their grandmother's coffin, prince harry, who was no longer working royal, was allowed to wear a military uniform at the king's request, like their parents the day before,
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the 8 cousins stood vigil for 15 minutes as mourners continued to quietly file by i can't describe it with nothing oversee ever experienced before and yet if so, said pulling inside my snow and we were very lucky enough to see the grandchildren there as well as the aerial moment in time. king charles, the 3rd is meeting with commonwealth leaders at buckingham palace, including new zealand prime minister, jacinta r, darren and canada. as justin trudeau, they travel to london to pay their respects to his late mother who played a crucial role in growing and maintaining the voluntary body of more than 50 nations. most of them former british colonies. the commonwealth was a priority to the queen during her reign as its new head. charles has pledged to sustain his mother's dedication and devotion as he put it. other world leaders,
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including japan's emperor francis emmanuel mccall, and u. s. president joe biden are arriving in time for queen elizabeth's state funeral on monday. more than 10000 police officers are being deployed, making it the largest security operation in london's history. some boxing news now . mexican canal for as defeated, cause it's donnie rival. good knotty gulf can buy unanimous decision to retain the undisputed super middle weight world title. can. eloise victory brought their bitter rivalry to an end. the pear previously fought in 20172018 with a controversial draw on the 1st 5. over is one. the 2nd on a split decision, however, in their 3rd meeting on saturday, can l. o had a clear cut victory? his opponents simply said to day can hello was better in a bit of different sports related news. this special olympics got some help in an
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unusual way to raise funds. the annual plane poll took place in the u. s. at dulles international airport. and it's exactly what it sounds like. teams competed to pull in airline or long the tarmac. the playful has been going on since 1992 and it's raised more than $3000000.00 for the special olympics. the world's largest sports organization for athletes with disabilities. coming up next to look at in depth at a virtual reality. i'm michael oke, who in berlin, thanks for watching. more news at the top, the next out with ah, how did she become at all.
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