[000:00:00;00] ah ah this is dw news live from berlin, a returned to find justice in the ukrainian city of furniture. 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 dead can just be served or so coming up to a catastrophic landslide and an open pit coal mine in china,

at least 4 are dead with some 50 people. missed an exchange of attacks follows in israeli rate in the occupied west bank. israel says it's targeting palestinian militants, 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 as strong as the bearing allor enters its closing weekend . we look at some of the final entries, fine for the golden and silver barriers. ah, i'm pablo foley, as welcome to the program. we begin in the ukrainian city of boucher, the suburb of keith, known for the trial for the trail of death and destruction left behind after russia military occupation. human rights experts say it's

a possible war crime scene with evidence of summary executions, torture and enforced disappearance. dw special correspondent abraham met one gucci resident on a quest to find justice for his family. all that alexander chic 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 offs bought a house and made it how much 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 saw an aussie, you couldn't full scale war and 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 marianne

left one early morning in their car with their neighbor holly up behind them, they barely made it out of their street. when they saw a russian armored vehicle were you on last good while i'm you though i've heard of them. but rita, my wife shout, 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 so stood only this is the end of his story . the story of my life 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 on everyone'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 very well. some older kid who is the we are identifying the names of persons soldiers investigating preparing charges and bring them to coach was upon the problem. oh no one hug through the full of williams such as limitations does not apply to will crumbs or 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 to watch it. i want to look this people in the i, i that's when i will know, god, they how 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 reads, people who have been given a shock, he to knew the book, what i'm 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 alexander finds justice for his family. that is all he's got. earlier i i asked the t w. special correspondent, abraham, who fall that report whether alexander can ever find justice for his family. well, we did try to speak to the chief prosecutor to get some details about alexander's case. he could really give us any details, but we know i know by speaking to him that he has quite a bit of evidence. there are 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 grave 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 pablo, for example, there are still nazis being prosecuted for war crimes that the committed a 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 a suggestion, for example, by the european permit for an international war tribunal were russian war leaders could eventually a, you know, faced justice, but that the timelines on that are very, very long. and i'm 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 butcher someone who knows

a lot about this miss. melina 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 your brain was inside the church, together with the families suffert's philosophy. i relatives and we believe in justice and every citizen here in the abu chow wants to punish those people who need those crimes. and also those who gave the all this the officers and also what the mom put in an shayhu and the chief in kremlin. and that's, that's why we are now helping families and investigators teams here as of which city council and also i am head be today because we have sunny day . we have a lot of people around because, you know, in april last year round,

which i was liberated, it was empty, cd result, families resolved. keats. now we see life on the street, and that's the most important scene for us, for our may or for our which 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, the boucher became a symbol of flight 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 what killed bots all. so we like new c t new life and young families and kids that are playing their own. so we like 3 more than 3 saw them. her private houses was just right. we managed to

rebuild like near 800. so we still need for yes sir, we still need the roof. so dora loss has 4 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 thank you very much for your time today. and we will be catching up with you again. thank you. pablo, back to you. thanks. i, before you go, i just wanna ask you from fighting that report, its very, incredibly difficult as subject to be covering and honestly 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, 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. the warn ukraine has been documented by journalists on 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 flood 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 look now at some other stories making

headlines around the world. un secretary general antonio latasha said, russia's recent talk of using nuclear weapons is unacceptable. quoterush was referring to moscow's implicit threats to you, so called tactical warheads in ukraine. un general assembly has met to mark friday's anniversary of the invasion of nations. john susie 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 agent. farmers fear for their crops. and in venice, folks are struggling to stay afloat. police in northern ireland suspects republicans were responsible for shooting a senior detective in the time of oma, the officer being treated in hospital the he's been treated hospital, northern orleans political leaders issue a rare joint statement condemning the violence in china sections of a huge open paid coal mine collapsed,

claiming 5 lives with 48 people. still missing. the mine is in china's inner mongolia region, which is a major producer of co c. c. t. v. footage captured the moment the catastrophic landslide took place. hundreds of emergency helpers took part in the search effort, but authorities decided to suspend rescue operations off for further landslide inside the mind. china relies heavily on coal for energy generation and mines have been urged to increase production. correspondent fabi encroachment told us earlier had the rescue efforts are going in northern china yet roughly $900.00 rescue workers have been deployed to the coal mine or their operation had to be suspended for several hours after yesterday evening. there was a really a mess of lent slide am today and the rescue operation continued again. and we know that they used heavy bulldozers to dick in their way to this m a call. mike, we are still

a lot of people are trapped inside and the m security situation is really tight. they 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 never creation of the local people there. by the end, is there any information? yes, air on of 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 might 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 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. israeli aircraft of attack targets in the gaza strip after rockets launched by palestinian militants from gaza stroke targets in israel. the exchange of attacks follows in israeli rate in the occupied west bank which left 11 dead and dozens more wounded. missiles streaked across the morning sky near garza. israel's military seas thick sprockets were fired by 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 military. it 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 treasure and, and i was surprised at 9 30 in the morning when i heard explosion as walk, people said there are special forces. so the kind of so a large number of israeli soldiers, storm the whole area, little mccook, we stayed in the house and i didn't know what was going on. i'm not

a footer. it just last month. another right in the city of janine also ended with teen. people killed these who rides of the deepest westbank operations in years. the you in has warned that if, if it's a not made to deescalate the violence could spiral out of control. the earthquakes and turkey and syria left a staggering trail of destruction with houses and buildings reduced to rubble for some the earthquakes or yet another cruel twist. of fate were about to meet mazar from syria. he fled to turkey to escape the civil war. as are settled in the city of an takia near at the border to his home country, he felt safe from the violence that is played to 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 frowned. he rushes over to the ruined it until recently was her apartment sirian friends of miss ours in turkey,

discovered sampson 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, you 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 borrowed 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 bedroom. i'm a mom old in the 1st we were able to see part of my brother in law. and then my sister,

shawna wilson. 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, feel full of love talking. it's so sad that he had to die, but it's all as well isn't do sonoma, alanis. 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 yod is not an old, the fella as if the war weren't bad enough to 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. and it took them about 7 hours to recover the bodies of samson and her husband. with when she 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 life. with that said, take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. the james web space telescope has discovered wash appears to be 6 massive galaxies, dating back to the dawn of the universe astronomer, say the discovery code up and fairies of cosmetology. because the galaxies are far larger than previously thought possible. nigeria, as presidential candidates have signed a peace pledge,

promising to settle any grievances through the courts, they aim to come fears that a close pole may lead to violence. saturday's vote is tip to be the most credible since military rule ended in 1999 mexican president under. as he unwell lopez, albert daughter has offered asylum to opponents of the nicaraguan liter. o'neil ortega, he says, mexico's doors are open to all. ortega has cracked down on descent in recent years . well, this year's berlin international film festival to belin allah is nearing its end, but there are still a handful of competition films to be screened. the latest offerings making a bid for the golden and silver bears are from germany, mexico and spain. in a fire from german filmmaker christian pixels uptight also lay on, finds himself sharing

a holiday house with more people than he bargained for them. as local forest fires draw closer and lay on struggles to finish his book. they give him a try, some 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 berlin. allah. also starring paola bear. it's a director 6th time in competition. but how much does the story of the struggling writer echo 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 took it i think another film in which nature plays a supporting role is $20000.00 species of these. the deb you feature from bask director se by less or i. so last all i good an centers on an 8 year old going through a gender identity crisis during a summer holiday with her be keeping grandmother undersold. are good and solid direction. you come, i sophia, with that all turns in an impressive, subtle performance. as the youngster with the boys 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. sol is impressively played by now. ye may st. is the ensemble piece with a documentary feel is an impressive 2nd feature from lela aviles ah, all to sports now and in women's for all the u. s. team one, the she believes cope and invitational tournament health held in the u. s. for the 4th straight year by defeating brazil, 21, alex morgan netted a beautiful curve from just outside the box to put the united states to mil, moments before halftime. it was morgan's 14th gold since given birth in 2020. she now holds the national team record for most goals. as mom, the united states have won 6 of the 8 she believes scopes in the champions league,

there were 2 tightly contested matches. in the last 16 leipzig held manchester city to a one old rule defender. yes, go guard yo equalized in the 70 minute to seal the result. meanwhile, in milan, inter beat porto who were down to 10 men through a late winter at scored by romero lou cocker. all 4 teams returned fixtures, will be played in 3 weeks to japan. now, where a stunning scene of cherry blossom greets visitors to the town of co as to 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. tours of officials estimate it around a $130000.00 people. pass through the cherry tree tunneled on a single day this week. and you could call that a success. all right, you're watching the w news coming up next and d, w. news,

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