ah, ah, this is deed of new news live from berlin, a return to find justice in the ukrainian city of butcher. our special correspondent is there to see how one man is coping with the devastation left by russian occupation last year. his families attempt to escape left him alone, his wife and children that can justice be served. also coming off an exchange of attacks follows an israeli rate in the occupied west bank. israel says it's targeting palestinian militant, at least 11 people died. rocket fired from the gaza strip has also hit inside

israel plus the berlin international film festival. near its peak competition is strong as the banding enters, it's closing weekend. we'll look at some of the final entries find the golden and silver barriers. ah, i. pablo foliage, welcome to the program. we begin in the ukranian city of buttah. that is the suburb of key that known for the trail of death and destruction left behind after russian military occupation. human rights experts say it's a possible war crime scene with evidence of summary executions, enforced disappearances and torture. dw special correspondent abraham mad, one butcher resident on a quest to find justice for his family. all that alexander cheque mary of ever

wanted was to keep his family safe. he brought them to boucher after russian backed forces attack their home town in eastern ukraine in 2014. the check mary of spot a house and made it out. was them we lydia? so it was said that we could escape the war here, but we did not put in found us even in butcher the stolen asi, you couldn't see full scale war in ukraine. february 2022 brought russian troops to alexander's doorstep. his children could no longer take the sound of shelling. their father brought them here, a shelter under their home and planned their 2nd escape. while the chick mary of left one early morning in their car, would their neighbor holly out behind them. they barely made it out of their street when they saw a russian armored vehicle where he will not go quick though. i'm you know, at the end of the rita, my wife shout my,

let's turn around. we didn't and managed to get away. you cigna that other parts of the shooting begun and my car caught fire with o'denza. alexander was wounded, but when he looked back, his wife and children were dead. looking shows stood only. this is the end of his story. the story of my wife and my children. the sidewalk is still charged from when alexander's car caught fire, marking the exact spot where he last saw his family alive. alexander story, sadly that of so many here in boucher, their reports of torture, rape, an extra judicial killings where i'm standing right now. this actually used to be the sight of a mass grave of civilians. they all had to be exempt, identified and re buried when ukrainian forces retook the town. almost a year on the question, every one's mind is where is justice and can it ever be delivered?

ukraine's prosecutor general has set up a web page where anyone can report a legit war crimes committed by russian forces. authorities have received almost 70000 cases, a number that goes up every day in the key of region alone, which includes boucher, that numbers 10000. a prosecutor for the jurisdiction tells me the whole list of who we are identifying the names of persons soldiers investigating preparing charges and bring them to court was upon the problem. well, no one hug through the full of williams. studies limitations does not apply to will crimes or for working non stop principle. so far nationwide, 25 russian troops have been convicted for war crimes. the international criminal court and the un have also opened up their own investigations. but justice can be slow, often taking years to examine crimes committed in minutes,

minutes. that will stay with alexander forever. he spoken to both ukrainian and international investigators, hoping it might help with the pain. with them the would. i want to look this people in the i us that's when a will know cause they have been punished thus, i'm sure on the i will feel much better about when there are results and not just legal procedures, but the thought heads people who have been given a shock he to knew that book lot of for now, he's kept his family home exactly as it was. the children's toys are still in their drawers. the bed sheets are fresh and their pictures are everywhere. it's not always easy being surrounded by reminders of the life he's lost. but until alexandre finds justice for his family. that is all he's got.

well, earlier i asked d. w. special correspondent, abraham, who fall that report. the chances of alexander ever finding justice for his family . well, we did try to speak to the chief prosecutor to get some details about alexander's case. he couldn't really give us any details, but we know i know by speaking to him that he has quite a bit of evidence that the images that we showed in the report, their eye witness accounts because he was joined by his neighbor holly, who was in the car right behind them and his children, their initial resting place was actually that mass great site where i was and their bodies have been zoomed. and so there is the potential for forensic evidence to be collected there as well. with that being said, we are talking about just such a massive volume of cases that it's unclear what the timeline for his particular case is. but the general prosecutor of ukraine has vowed that every single case will be prosecuted no matter how long it takes. there are no statute of limitations on war crimes and that's why public, for example, there are still nazis being prosecuted for war crimes that be committed during the

3rd right till this day. but then of course, there is that question of what about the leaders? russian leaders, laker vladimir putin in, for example, that is a little bit more complicated. the international criminal court has opened a case. russia does not recognize the i c c. so that might be challenged to ever bring him to justice there. there's also suggestion, for example, by the european permit for an international war tribunal were russian war leaders could eventually a, you know, face justice, but that the timelines on that are very, very long. and it's something that people here in boucher know, well they can't wait for justice, but they're aware of the situation. my impression here walking around the town is that it's a town on the men. there's a lot of reconstruction. people are picking up their lives again and i'm joined here by the deputy mayor of boucher, someone who knows a lot about this miss molina scorecard. and i just want to ask you in this you know, almost one year mark of the strategy here in boucher of russian troops walking the

streets. how are you feeling today? how are you in all that 2 days ago, a general prosecutor, prosecutor of ukraine was inside the church, together with the families who suffers for lost their relatives. and we believe in justice and every citizen he are in the butch. how wants to punish those people who did those crimes and also those who gave the all this the officers and also what the mom put in an child who and the chief in kremlin. and that's, that's why we are now helping families. and the investigator themes here as of which a city council and also i am happy today because we have sunny day. we have a lot of people around because, you know, in april last year one which i was liberated, it was empty. cd result, families result keith's. now we see live on the street and that's the most important scene for us for our mail for our which is city council and i was,

i was out today we were driving around. there's a lot of construction. there's a feeling that the town is really coming back. what does the town need now for full recovery in your opinion? a look on the boucher became a symbol of flag which a tragedy bought. nobody wants to leave on the place of tragedy sold. the most important scene for us is to show ukrainian success to become the successful city after the tragedy was memory of those for what killed bought. all. so we saw like new seating, you live and young families and the kids are playing their own. so we like 3 more than 3. saw them for private houses was destroyed. we managed to rebuild like near 800. so we still need for yes. so we still need the roof, so doris of losses for windows and the materials for construction. and we also need

money for the future projects which will attract people back to come back from berlin to boucher, for example, from munich, or from humble because we know that our people are still outside of your thank you very much for your time today. and we will be catching up with you again. thank you . pablo, back to you. thanks. so before you go, i just wanna ask you from finding that report its very, incredibly difficult as subject to be covering and obviously being on the ground there. it makes it old more real and tell us about your, experiencing your experience doing our report. i mean, i'm not a parent. i don't think i'll ever be. i don't think i can ever really understand what alexander has really been through. i mean, your family is really your life's work and to have them be taken away from you in such a in a split 2nd for no reason. i mean, we're talking about civilians here, unarmed civilians that we're just trying to leave the town and we're shut down. we're talking about children in white cars. there's really no explanation for

a crime like that. but i was also really impressed by the resilience of alexander and the people that are here, that they still are able to tell their story. there's a real need that they, you know, they, they want the world to know what happened here. and they're doing their very, very best to cope and bounce back. and i think that's that's something that the world should be thinking about today. thanks. i dw special correspondent abraham in butcher while the war in ukraine has been documented by journalists and photographers who have captured searing images of the conflict, they've provided a constant reminder of the human cost of the war on and off the battlefield. russia invades ukraine, attacking from air, land, and sea. within days, millions of people fled the fighting, leaving everything a maternity hospital hit by

a missile. for those who stayed behind towns led to waste, people brutalized and killed. a steel plant becomes a symbol of resistance, but falls to an overwhelming russian onslaught. moments of pride as ukraine struck back as winter came, a deadly war of attrition set in a year on nowhere in ukraine is truly safe. in a war that still has no end in sight. let's take a look now at some of their stories making headlines around the world. un secretary general antonio greta. shes told an emergency session of the un general assembly

that russia's recent threats to use nuclear weapons are unacceptable. quoterush was referencing moscow's implicit threats to you so called tactical nukes in ukraine. the u. n. was meeting to mark the upcoming one year anniversary of russia's invasion. it is also important. france in italy are badly affected by the driest winter in years following an already dry summer. the winter months have failed to replenish water reserves. lakes and rivers are drawing out with farmers, fearing for their crops. falling water levels are also affecting business in venice or boats are struggling to stay afloat. northern ireland police suspect what they called what they called violent dissident republicans, were responsible for the shooting of a senior detective in the town of oma. late on wednesday. the off duty policeman is being treated in hospital leaders of northern arden's biggest parties issued a rare jewel statement condemning the violence now in china sections of

a huge open pit coal mine collapse on wednesday, claiming 5 lives with 48 people. still missing the mine in china's inner mongolia region, which is a major producer of coal at cctv footage captured the moment the catastrophic landslide took place. hundreds of emergency helpers were sent to the region, but rescue operations were suspended on thursday. after a further landslide inside the mind, china relies heavily on coal for energy generation and mines have been urged to increase production are able to get the latest on the situation in northern china were joined by correspondence, javion crash mer in beijing. fabia good to see you. so tell us how are the rescue efforts going yet roughly $900.00 rescue workers have been deployed to the coal mine and their operation had to be suspended for several

hours after yesterday evening. there was a really a mess of lent slide. today, the rescue operation continued again and we know that they use heavy bulldozers to dick in their way to this a call. mike, we are still a lot of people are trapped inside and the security situation is really tight. there are police checkpoints, making sure that only am cas with a government permit, can enter the area and all the nearby residents. they have been sent to a town more far away, so there was also an evacuation of the local people there. darby on. is there any information? yes, i am as to why the mind collapsed. only a little bit of information. we know that and government investigation is ongoing and that already some people have been detained for what exactly this we don't know yet, but the fact is said, the company who's running this call mine have been fined several times for

violating safety standards. for example, for m unsafely storing volatile materials, et cetera. and also in general, it's really a big problem in china. there are many of those deadly industrial m accidents. it has become better in recent years, but are still a safety standards and not very strictly enforced as they should be. and recently, there's really a new additional problem after 2 and a half years of 0, covert and a drained economy. this right now, a lot of are pressure to increase profit to increase production targets after the economy has opened up. again, that could have played a role in this accident, but this is my speculation. we don't know yet. i think we have to wait for the future to get some investigation results. thanks. fabiani correspondence harvey and crash moore in beijing is ready aircraft of attack to targets in the gaza strip after rockets launched by palestinian militants from gaza stroke targets in israel. the exchange of attacks follows in israeli raid in the

occupied west bank, which left 11 dead and dozens more reportedly wounded. missiles streaked across the morning sky near garza, israel's military seas sic sprockets were fired my palestinian militants. 2 hours later, it responded with air strikes on an alleged hammer site. the blast come a day after a deed, the military operation by israeli forces in the occupied waste bank. the morning right reduced this building to rabble israel's millet tracy. the operation was aimed at arresting militants accused of planning and carrying out attacks. it claims israeli soldiers shot back after coming under fire, but did not suffer any casualties. while the right unfolded, palestinians came out onto the street and confronted the troops. dozens of people

are reported to have been injured, as well as those killed prussia. and i was surprised at 9 30 in the morning when i heard explosion, as walker people said, there are special forces for the 100. so a large number of israeli soldiers storm the whole area a little more. we stayed in the house and i didn't know what was going on on that budget. just last month. another right in the city of janine also ended with teen. people killed these who rides of the deepest waste bank operations in years. the u . n. has warned that if, if it's not made to deescalate the violence could spiral out of control. the earthquakes in turkey and syria have left a staggering trail of destruction with houses and buildings reduced to rubble for some the earthquakes are yet another cruel twist of fate. now were by to meet missouri from syria. he fled to turkey to escape the civil war. miss are settled in the city of antique yet near the border to his home country. he felt safe from the

violence that has played syria for more than a decade. but now miss ars place of refuge has also become a place of personal tragic missouri sister simpson has been found. he rushes over to the ruined dead until recently was her apartment, syrian friends of miss ours in turkey, discovered simpson and her husband crushed under the rubble of the 2nd floor. both are dead. missouri had already feared the worst. he'd been searching for a sign of life in this building in and talk him se turkey for days without success . and now he has only the certainty. mamma, please don't tell anyone else. we haven't told anyone so far, we'll recover them 1st. but the recovery operation proves difficult. missouri and his friends make slow progress with a borrow jack hammer. they don't even expect any help from the authorities. a friend brings a wool blanket over to wrap the body, him. simpson will later have

a proper burial. delta old norma, we had worked through to the better i'm among old in the, in the 1st we were able to see part of my brother in law and then my sister, fulton, they lane, each other's arms and death. missouri had fled the civil war in syria to turkey with his parents and siblings. now he lives in istanbul, not his sister. simpson taught syrian refugee children in and talk you love, jani. my sister was such a good person, felt full of love it so sad that she had to die. but it's all as well as soon as you do sonoma, a lunch slip. but bizarre and his friends tell us the situation looks much worse on

the other side of the border in syria. many of his relatives are thought to have lost everything. if yard is not an old, the fella as if the war weren't bad enough. that the people there get virtually no help at all in here at least someone comes by now and then and bring something to eat or offers the help of them love them. and it took them about 7 hours to recover the bodies of simpson and her husband. oh, no, my hold of hit with lynch again. we came here to live in safety, be happy, a series of things turned out differently. and now we have to live with that. simpson and mach moods bodies are transported away from the house and, and talk you where they had dreamed of a peaceful light loaded. to take, look, i now at some other stories making headlines around the world. the james web space

telescope has discovered watch appears to be 6 massive galaxies, dating back to the early days of the universe astronomer, say, the discovery could open theories of cosmologies because the galaxies are far larger than what had been presumed possible. so soon after the big bang, i jerry, as presidential candidates have signed a piece, pledge promising to seek redress through the courts for any grievances. the move aims to quell fears that a close pole may lead to violence. saturday's vote is tip to be the country's most credible election since military rule ended in 1900. i'm mexican president under s. manuel lopez over the order has offered asylum to opponents of his nicaraguan counterpart. ortega, he said, mexico's doors were open to all those who wanted to be there or take. i has cracked down on dissent in recent years. this year's berlin international

film festival, the value of it, is nearing its end. but there are still a handful of competition films to be screened. the latest offerings making a big for the golden and silver bears are from germany, mexico and spain. in a fire from german filmmaker, christian pixels up tight author lay and finds himself sharing a holiday house with more people than he bargained for. benjamin. as local forest fires draw closer and lay on struggles to finish his book. in the tensions between the unlikely foursome stop together in the woods reach, boiling point. the psychological tragic comedy is the 2nd in a trilogy. focusing on the elements, water and earth. it comes 3 years after pet sold, brought undine to the banana, also starring paola bear. it's a direct his 6th time in competition,

but how much does the story of the struggling writer eco, his own life has come? it wasn't a totally conscious choice. but the main character leon builds a stage on which he plays the role of a writer who has to work all the time. who can never join in. he doesn't go in the water. he doesn't cook because he has to work so much. but actually he's always falling asleep. that's something that i've experienced myself and was able to pass on to the actors. so i think i think another film in which nature plays a supporting role is $20000.00 species of these. the w feature from bask director, se balance order solar solar good centers. on an 8 year old going through a gender identity crisis during a summer holiday with her be keeping grandmother under solar. good and solid direction, newcomer sophia, or ted, or turns in an impressive, subtle performance. as the youngster, with a boy's name,

who wants to be called lucille mexican competition entry totem also puts the child center stage. the family drama is set over the course of a single day and almost entirely inside the chaotic home of an extended family artist toenail seriously ill. and his family is preparing a surprise birthday party that might be his last. as siblings bicker and board kids misbehave, torn as young daughter sole, tries to make sense of it. all. saul is impressively played by night. he may st. if the ensemble piece with a documentary feel is an impressive 2nd feature from lela aviles, ah, from berlin to japan, that where a stunning scene of cherry blossom greets visitors to the town of colossal, the area is famous for its early blossoms. although last month's cold weather meant,

the boats burst into action a little later than usual tourism officials estimate it around a 130000 people pass through the cherry tree and tunnels on a single day this week. so you get cold out. a booming success with study. well, don't forget, you can always get dw news on the go, just download our app from the google play or from the apple app store. that'll give you access to all that i just used from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking use when you're up to date of next is conflicts on with that tim sebastian speaking with a ukrainian lawmaker who is also a veteran of the war and there's plenty more as i mentioned on tito v dot com and also on our dw social media channels and instagram,

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documentary on you to see the world with slide. now, t d w documentary, the war in ukraine got a powerful international spotlight this past week, almost exactly, year after it began high level politicians method, the munich security conference to discuss more and foster aid to ukraine. and to try to cement their unity and commitment to the countries victory. my guest this week is a ukrainian m. p. alexei, gone to ranko whose fort tirelessly to secure promises of international support for his country and more powerful weapons that.