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how they can go with how they can also go terribly. watch, you know, new to oh, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says it has more evidence of torture in areas abandoned by retreating. russian troops. investigators are, is zooming bodies from a mass burial side near the city if assume. we'll have the details from our correspondent who watched the investigation team in action. also on the show, the european commission recommends to spending billions of euro's of funding to
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hungary following allegations of corruption. it's the 1st case in the block under a new sanction aimed at protecting the rule of law. and u. s. president joe biden arrives in london ahead of queen elizabeth funeral, while thousands queue up for one last chance to pay their respects at her coffin. ah. a married evans dean. it's good to have you with us. months ago, images of civilians killed and tortured in the ukrainian town of boucher shocked the world. after the town was liberated from russian occupation, researchers found extensive evidence of apparent war crimes committed my russian forces. while now evidence of what could be more war crime says, emerged in the newly liberated harkey region. our correspondent manual shows went
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to e zoom where mass graves containing more than 450 bodies were uncovered. a warning to our viewers, her report contained some disturbing images therein. covering sheer horror as nearby artillery fire rages in this forest, on the outskirts of recently liberated is you forensic experts are working around the clock to assume bodies buried in mass graves dating from the russian occupation book. doing for much here, just only with the information we have which has already been established is the burial of local residence. exclamation as you can see, the examination of the bodies and referrals for forensic examinations are currently being carried out. some courses show signs of violent deaths and i don't know yet rather just order
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the year for you. this coach is of a man in his 80 for you. 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 rippled, 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 each other, so nauseous, get busy immune no names on the grade. everything is numbered. the biggest number is 418418. and that's on the civilians. with locals with their hands tied were found face down little huddled in that is thrown face down into the graves over by girls. bullshit. it's only so my face was the unthinkable. investigators say they will not lead those crimes go unpunished. shock was going 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
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denisia and since its liberation the un said it would send a team to investigate. i spoke a short time ago to manuel shares, the correspondent who filed that report. and i asked her about ukraine's allegations of more russian war crimes. and what else the investigators were saying about them for the region of how to keep where we are right now, where easy in the city of israel is located as well. we're talking about 4000 cases at the very least. and the investigator prosecutor story does. we've heard into report mentioning the figure did a want to get a precise number simply because this increases by the hours. so in order to open the investigations, the ukraine and government has a trusted in more workforce, a peasant police officers forensic experts coming from all over the country have come here since the counter offensive on the you of the ukraine in forces was
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successful in, in most of the region here, so those people come to help and ukraine and government has a so said it was very grateful for the international work for us to send their forensic expert to send more material to proceed to the investigations now to some of the other stories making news around the world. a powerful earthquake has hit se taiwan. the epicenter of the 6.8 magnitude quake was in the coastal city of title. it was also felt in the capital taipei, it follows at $6.00, magnitude, earthquake in the south east on saturday evening in japan super typhoon and none model has made land fall on the southern island of k u shoe. the storm is bringing powerful winds of up to 180 kilometers an hour authorities or warning of unprecedented weather conditions. 4000000 people have been urged to evacuate.
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hundreds of people have marched in armine as capital yet, yvonne demanding that the country leave the russian lead collective security treaty organization, a u. s. broker ceasefire between armenia and as or by john is now in effect after fighting erupt over the separate is region of now go to know caught by the us delegation headed by nancy pelosi arrived in the country on saturday. the european union's political executive has recommended suspending 7500000000 euros and funds to hungary over corruption allegations on gary and prime minister victor or bon is accused of mismanaging e u funds and dismantling democratic institutions. the money is intended to bring hungary economy and infrastructure up to the block standards. the suspension must be approved by a majority of e. u. member states. within 3 months. they are p commissions. accusations against hungry as prime minister aren't new. earlier i spoke to milan niche of the german
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council on foreign relations, and i asked him why the use political executive made this announcement now. because sir, it runs its processor. this isn't an important step in the you mechanism called la conditionality, which was approved to read that the 7 year budget almost 2 years ago. but then poland, hungary turn to the european court of justice to object to, to, to it's a commitment that it's not complied with or without you treaties. and also after the court decided that otherwise you bring commission notified, hungering government with its objections. all right, but at this stage it is still just a proposal. is victor or bon going to accepted to what do you think his response will be? the response from budapest already to day is very unusual. it's.
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it's very positive long mix. our bond needs an agreement, needs a deal, and it's the so you funds. so his minister for a regional development that he's in charge of for negotiating with the commission to more leverage or the said he will come to the decision by the commission because it will clarify situation and the longer in parliament will order the next week. i won't own a set of measures that are supposed to improve the situation around these murs disbursement of you funds and the alleged corruption. and what about the hungarian public? i mean, how are ordinary citizens reacting to this latest move by the you and will it have an impact on their view of victor or bon marion societies as a polarized around the ruling party? she does, that has been in power. she's to 1010 and dominate,
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so de state and the public life. so i would say that this is an encouragement for the other part of the society and also for our independent buddies. because so far in public procurement contracts over 50 percent and only won't be there. and there was a systemic corruption surrounding the you funds. and these measures are supposed to improve these and put hungary on their monitoring in terms of you funds. but it will not touch the overall rule of law situation and democracy of exciting on the free trial that was milan needs from the german council on foreign relations. thank you so much. fair in science world leaders including hugh as present. joe biden have begun to arrive in london ahead of queen elizabeth funeral on monday. thousands of mourners have been queuing and central london for a 4th stray day, hoping to see the coffin of the late monarch. tens of thousands of mourners,
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a still queuing to see queen elizabeth's coffin on sunday morning. the wait time had become so long that authorities advised people not to come. but despite the weight and the cold q as will a beat you can tell is in reference to gavin said, i feel this is this is magical mom forever. brother. ivan is a big achievement for all those features. stay in this with the weather that we've had and how cold it's been. it's is when in a nice time, so he's and experience is history. sam, really, frankly, we plan to wayne's world. leaders have also come to pay their respects to the late queen. among those heading to london's westminster hall was us president joe biden. just one of the hundreds of leaders who have arrived in the british capital ahead of monday's state. funeral. london's police force is already gearing up what promises to be the largest security operation in its history.
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some royal enthusiasm making their own preparations for the funeral procession. camping out on the street in a bid to secure a good spot to catch a glimpse of the queen's final farewell. our correspondent jack parrot described the emotional state in london on the final day of the queen's lying in state. the people in the queue behind me, they've been waiting summer in the region of 8 hours. they've got a few more hours left to go, maybe 3 or 4. they are the part of the huge number of people that have attended the coffin of queen elizabeth the 2nd to pay their respects over the last 4 days or so . we've had no, not only people that have taken at that time out of their day personally to do this, but we've seen a number of state dignitaries arrived in london to attend the funeral, including the u. s. president joe biden, if like, just a short time ago, a manual matter on the french president and his wife regime were just on walking
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down the path behind me there in time as well, significantly as well. we've heard from anthony albany, is your strategy and prime minister his countries are considering ending the head of state being the monica, the british monex. that's one of the considerations. but he really put that aside. and i think seeing that the political considerations have all been put aside, a lot of people just want to pay their respects, perhaps not only to the monarch but to the queen herself, the person that she was. and that will take place at the funeral in westminster abbey. on monday morning, her body will then be moved to windsor castle, where she will be interred next to her husband, the late prince philip, and a number of other former senior royals, including her, her mother and father. some sports news now and in boxing mexican canal lo alvarez has defeated cars like sony rival, denied legal off can by unanimous decision to retain the undisputed super middle wait world title canal. those victory brought their bitter rivalry to an end. the
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pear previously fought in 20172018 with a controversial draw in the 1st finds. alvarez won the 2nd on a split decision. however, in their 3rd meeting on saturday canal law had a clear cut victory. his opponents simply said to day, camilla was better in a bit of different sports related news. the special olympics got some help in an unusual way to raise funds. the annual a plain pool took place in the u. s. a dull international airport and it's exactly what it sounds like. teams competed to pull an airliner along the tarmac. the plain pool 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. you're watching dw news. a quick reminder of our top story. the un human rights office has confirmed its
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planning to send to monitoring team to ease you as more evidence of war crimes is uncovered from mass graves near the liberated ukrainian city. some of the bodies eggs, zoom from the forest grave shows signs of torture and violent death. you're up to date on dw news. stay tuned for shift living in the digital age. i'm marion evans team from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for watching so you want to know what makes this is justin the john love and binding thing away. but i'm not going to have to was my own car and everyone with later holes and every day getting you ready to meet the german.

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