oh, jeez, technologies work, how they can go with how they can also go terribly with what you know. oh i see the were you know, long from berlin that knew leads about bull was responsible for blowing up the north stream pipelines. us and german media reports suggests of pro ukrainian group carried out the attack on the natural gas pipelines under the baltic sea. also coming up calls for justice after a ukrainian soldier is apparently executed on video. ukraine launches an

investigation offer graphic footage, a virgin of an unarmed ukrainian prisoner allegedly being shot dead by russian troops at mass disruption and france as tens of thousands joined a fresh wave of protest against president my phone plan to raise the retirement age . ah, i'm to cough really tell our viewers on p b s in the united states and all of you around the world. of course, welcome to the show. an aides to ukraine's president volatile re zalinski has denied keith was involved in sabotaging the north stream gas pipelines the undersea pipelines which brought russia natural gas to germany or blown up in september 2022 . the new york times reported earlier signing unnamed us officials that us intel is,

indicates a pro ukrainian group carried out the attack. german media is also reporting that there is evidence pointing to possible ukrainian involvement. the german government is still investigating the incident, but russia says that the reports show a un lead international inquiry is needed. our political, corresponding simon young outline. the new evidence brought to light by a joint investigation by 3 german media outlets for us. right, i should say, 1st of all, these are unconfirmed reports, but there by some of germany's most respected media organizations like the public broadcast, the a r d and the newspaper d site. and what they've got is many concrete details about what they say happened with the nordstrom explosions. they say that prosecutors investigators have identified the boat that was used in the operation to blow up the pipelines.

a yard that it is reported was rented from a firm in poland that apparently belonged to 2 ukrainian nationals. so that's one concrete link with ukraine. they say investigators have found that 6 people were on board and involved in the operation, including divers and medical personnel. and then nationalities, around known because fight passports, we used to rent this yacht and then they go on with more details. but the location of this boat was attract, leaving raw stock in northern germany, and was subsequently located near a danish island in the baltic sea. and according to these german media reports, as i say, it is what they are at the moment. a western intelligence agency had already warned or suggested some months ago that

a pro ukrainian group is it's described could be behind, could have been behind the explosions of the baltic can stream pipelines. so quite a lot of detail which tends to sort of corroborate some of these claims, i suppose, have written any reactions to this and germany at this point. right, well, in germany, the federal public possibly prosecutor has been investigating there since october last year. and it looks like the authorities here pretty much been caught on the hot by these media revelations this evening. because as early as service as late as this afternoon, rather, the german government was still saying that to, you know, the investigation had not reached any conclusions. had no results to show, and that's pretty much in line with what the swedish and danish governments have told the u. n. just a few days ago as well as the germans. they've all been carrying out their own investigations. and they say, there's nothing to report yet,

will it appears very much. that's not true. i should just also say that there isn't any clear evidence of ukrainian government involvement. the president lensky keith says they've got absolutely nothing to do with it. but of course, if it does prove to be the case, it could really sent shock waves through, for instance, western german support for the war for the war effort in ukraine as well. and no indication of that at this point. now let's rewind quickly and, and take a look at the role that north stream and the north spring pipelines played in germany's relationship with russia in the lead up and the early stages of the war. briefly, if you can when the stream one was operating from 2011, bring in rushing gas to germany. node stream to during the planning phase was much more controversial and it never went into operation. and that was because it to essentially pop bypassed, poland and ukraine,

undermining their interest. it was seen as doing and making germany in western europe much more dependent on russian gas. it took the russian invasion of ukraine, i think, to force a retreat. rethink here in berlin, and the german government ultimately agreed not to put it into operation just shortly before it was finally blown up and effects on the ground as it were, were created. young. thank you so much. and justin crump, as a military veteran and ceo of the international intelligence and risk analysis consultancy sibling. we asked him how these new claims fit into the picture of what we already know about the north stream explosion. and are so a lot of theories during the rounds. it wasn't long ago that the ones respected journalist seymour hersh reduced what a visa detailed expose of exactly how the u. s. government did it. but the involvement of norwegians, for example, the russians play the u. k,

but she's try out the event for conducting and this is the latest number of, of theories. as we say, it is still in intelligence information at the moment nova says was for us 2 things consider, but it does seem, as your correspondence said, you're fairly detailed amount of information that's come out about how this may have been mounted. but it was always in some ways, the least likely explanation that a non state group of actors, reva smuggle, a very sizable con, to explosives, undetected and get that to the scene to target this incredibly important pipeline. so although it's been postulated for some time, it's one of the theories, it was always the hardest to understand how that could have come together. and it suddenly suggests a sizable amount of money and a very interesting network behind an operation like this. you can imagine just driving a large amount explosive through germany in itself is something i think a germ population would be. i'm shocked to understand that if that was easy, so there's still

a lot of questions raised for sure. this was one of the theories. it was always the hardest to see it necessarily being done, but it was never impossible. and which way to see oversee more details, much ukrainian, president roland, whereas zaleski says, keep with absolutely not involved. and there is actually no indication to prove the contrary. but the evidence can apparently be traced back to ukraine, who's there, do you think could have had an interest in blowing up the pipeline? you know, i think if you look at the, say, some of the covers, maybe it's just as ukrainian or russian nationals opposed to vladimir putin is what is being said. and again, we're stress. this is just reporting at the moment. none of us know the full facts that we're going to work or what, what we're seeing. but there are obviously quite a lot of powerful interests. i think, within russia, within ukraine, and obviously many ukrainians exact in favor of love. and right now is war and happy to see things that ensure the national survival, i'm sure and oversee some with him, russia as well. i mean,

let's not forget that the oligarchs with a powerful figures in russia right up until just about a year ago. when many of them fled or forced effectively into exile with russian actions in ukraine, effectively paralyzing their business interests overseas. and lots of very wealthy, influential and networks. people would have political, financial reasons, essentially to help undermine peyton's war effort. recover maybe some of what they had lost serving as both russians in the ukraine. you could, you could look out. i do believe it's unlike at this point and you creating government was involved before the incident in the, with an odd stream they had already. so i've been told, i think about some of the operations going on inside russia. you may remember the associations are do gonna, and other incident happened inside russia. i think the u. s. and tick, you are getting a bit concerned about because the spillover risk and the way you claim is potentially being portrayed as a result. and so understanding was ukrainian government was being careful at that

time, not to do anything controversial. this would vary katie, you know, for, within that scope. and so i find out that it was driven by them just in chrome. many thanks, always, great speaking to you. ukrainian presidents, alaska has ordered military commanders to send reinforcements to help troops defending the besieged eastern city of buck. moot, ukrainian authority say that only a few 1000 of the original 70000 people living in baltimore remain the battle for the eastern city is now the longest and bloodiest of the year long war. russia says seizing buck mode would be an important step towards capturing the industrial don bass region. western defense officials say the city has a little strategic value militarily. without victory, there would be symbolic to russia. in an interview with my colleague clarity, ukraine's former president, petro porsche jenko said the battle for bach. mood had taken on a big crew, meaning the fine for the city itself. the quote is

a symbol where we have applied to me, but more for 9 months already. and i was in box more julian this last year, more than dozens, time to speak to support to supply the ever painful i'm forces. and i can tell you that the symbolic steps definitely has a great importance and not everybody should understand that this is the way how we can kick captured the russian of friends who were racial, which were planned and publicly declared him february and march. for the russians, capturing back moon, who had marked the 1st significant victory since the summer meeting with military officials. defense minister survey showing who said controlling the city which russian officials call by its soviet name. our 10 mosque would allow russian troops

to push and deeper into ukraine's defense lines. this, unless of course, nothing is good. the liberation of autumn office continues. this city is an important defense help for ukrainian troops. the don barza was a little taken mute under control allowed further offensive actions was really deep into the ukrainian armed forces defense goober battle, and there were so meanwhile, ukraine has launched an investigation to find russian soldiers who apparently killed an unarmed ukrainian prisoner of war after a graphic footage emerged a short video circulating on social media appears to show a man and a ukrainian uniform finishing a cigarette and shouting glory to ukraine before being killed with several shots. the ukrainian army without providing further evidence says and believes the man is a 41 year old who has been listed as missing near the embattled city of mood since february and his nightly video address, president zalinski urged all ukrainians to echo the soldiers words. she wouldn't

use use have you do? a video appeared to day showing how the occupiers, brutally killed a soldier who bravely said to their face, glory to ukraine level. what i want us altogether in unity to respond to his words and glory, to the hero, glory, to heroes, glory to ukraine, and we will find the killers. you may as made them of we've a short while ago i spoke to wayne jordan international human rights and criminal law expert about his assessment of the alleged killing. good evening and thank you. well, yes, i think that's clear the criminal plan or the russian military. i refer to it as a criminal plan because that's what the pattern of violations suggest. they suggest that russia is not just trying to occupy ukraine, but he's trying to actually coerce the civilian population into accepting that occupation into allowing russia to extinguish their identity. and so what we see

here is across ukraine, across where it's been occupied is a tax on civilian infrastructure. attacks on civilians themselves, which range from everything, from arbitrary detention to torture within detention to forcible displacement to the abduction of civilians. and in this case, where you just refer to the indiscriminate attacks on prisoners of war, the, this is a pattern, and this is a clown. now, president, the landscape crane has vowed to quote, find the murderers, but the alleged killers are not seen the clip. how can a crime like this be investigated? and of course, prosecuted then. well, this kind of crime is very difficult. it has to be said, i mean, it looks in many ways like an ordinary crime like an ordinary killing.

but of course, in this instance, the ukrainian prosecution does not have access to the site and does not have access to the associates of the killers. so it is difficult, but it's not impossible. the 1st thing of course, needs to be done like the investigation of any crime is to get as close to the circumstances as is possible. so to find out who the unit was to find out what the circumstances were. which was place that unfortunate victim in that location and, and in that place. so these are the 1st steps, but the reality is until there's access to this unit, the men who did the killing associates of the men who did the killing. it's going to be very difficult to actually find out exactly who did the killing and also of course, bring them to justice at what are the chances that any member of the russian military

will ever be convicted of? these were crimes were seen, you say are systematic well, i think the chances are pretty good and i think ukraine has already demonstrated that with already putting certain risk russian prisons on, on, on trial and convicting them. so i think the chances are good, but it's a long term project. most many of those who committed the crime have fled to fight to russia or are dead. what needs to be done at this point is to investigate those circumstances of all the crimes or the crimes which are really are compelling which need to be prioritized. and to essentially build cases over time billed cases against the direct perpetrators. those who do the killing themselves, but more importantly, or as importantly build cases against the commanders and the political organizes. and by that i mean the kremlin. and there are many people in and around ukraine

working on that already today. international human rights and criminal law expert wayne joy dash, thank you for your time. thank you. german defense minister boris astoria says it will be up to nato to decide whether to deploy a brigade of german troops in lithuania for the long term. the story is, is on a visit to lithuania, aimed at boosting military cooperation between berlin and vilnius, baltic states like lithuania have been calling for bigger and permanent nato deployments. since russia launched its invasion of ukraine. a visit to show support for lithuania, german defense minister barnes pastorius, talked to the soldiers at a site near better us. but as for trips or trimming here alongside lithuanian forces, germany currently leads nature's enhance forward presence units in lithuania, but in is providing tanks and air defense systems to protect the alliances, east and flank we do and we will do anything and everything which is necessary.

impossible to protect the eastern flying because of our obligation or duty inside the nader with our, with our allies. this is what we are, what we have been doing during the past and what were even improved during the last 12 months. and we will continue. germany has deployed a combat brigade in lithuania since the autumn of last year in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. it means the troops on standby and can be sent into action immediately in case of an attack. lithuania is now pushing germany to keep its horses station in the baltic country long term, but there's no agreement so far. on his trip, pissaro's also met his lithuanian counterpart to discuss germany's presence. here. you go with the geographic position of the baltic countries calls for a stronger presence of partners in the region to ensure effective deterrence and defense on the front lines historian says, a longer term role is not about whether germany wants to keep its troops in the

country important thing is to have a unified nature strategy. the german defense minister uses every opportunity to underline that during the cold war, west germany was now toes easton flank, which is why he attributes such importance to germany's engagement in lithuania, in the baltic states. no, he says japanese engagement here is not just about helping create more security. for lithuania, the baltic states is ultimately also about creating security for germany on let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world to day. thousands of protesters have rallied in the georgia capital tbilisi as a controversial new bill passed its 1st vote and parliament. the draft law is intended to crack down on what it calls foreign agents. critic say the government backed bill represents an authoritarian shift in georgia. 2 of 4 americans kidnapped by gunman and northeastern mexico have been found dead.

authorities have returned the 2 survivors to the u. s. group had traveled to mexico for surgery before they were apparently caught in a confrontation between criminal gas. palestinian authorities say that 6 palestinians have been fatally shot and an israeli military raid. and janine in the occupied westbank, israel's prime minister said the target of the operation was a palestinian. he said, killed 2 is really settlers last week. at on yahoo said the man was killed in the rain. in france, tens of thousands have joined a fresh wave of protests against president ammonia. my calls proposed pension reforms. unions have bound to bring the nation to a standstill over the plans, which would see the minimum retirement age raised from $62.00 to $64.00. the government says the measures are needed, but polls shall most french citizens oppose. the proposed changes in the

early hours. final preparations are made for a day of disruption. to make shift barricade set in place at a bus depot, just north of paris unions called on people to commotion force to protest against president manuel mac calls plan to overhaul pensions. a controversial proposal that would see the age of retirement raised to $64.00. and they've done just that. by lunchtime, thousands of people had taken to the streets in cities right across the country with one message to you before we close. this was on gentle. i don't want to work until i'm 6400 well enough already for the plumbers of it. for the moment there are only promises made and we don't know when it's going to end. so it's better to fight now than to lose our gains. that's. it is only love it up. people likes holsted, people see around them that there are plenty of colleagues who don't even make it to the current legal retirement age. so how can we expect them to make it to 64,

i guess was we'll just union hope by shutting down the country. the president might now start listening to them. demonstrators of targeted roads, public services, and key transport hubs for maximum impact. most train on metro services, i've also been cancelled and many schools closed. but despite all the disruption public opinion appears to be with those demonstrating what should i support them because it's the right thing to do that. doing this for us, i have to work, but if i could, i would have demonstrate, listen to savages like dishes or property. so if a can bring a solution to this never ending pension problem than i'm rather in favor of movement. but there you go. over time, it's embarrassing for every one dosage and helpful to me. they've also to, it's true that working up the age of 64 is pretty difficult. the french prime ministers warned that a nationwide standstill would primarily impact the most fragile in the country. but

as the standoff grows, the stakes for president mccall and his flagship pension reforms continue to rise. teachers in iran have led demonstrations falling a series of alleged school poisonings targeting young girls. there have been several 100 suspected cases involving more than a 100 schools since november. some of those affected needing hospital care not this video. a posted online recently appears to show parents, voicing their anger outside an education ministry building and parents, bringing officials say the girls are being deliberately target, possibly by hartline groups opposed to girls education. and earlier i spoke to sarah wazoo bundy. she's a marie curry fellow at the giga institute of middle east studies and berlin and i asked her to tell us about what is known so far about the poisonings. well, for our own country been federal cases

the show and very heavy handed by reaction. the parents being outside the schools, the official dish denied medical reason i like to come out to you this external access rival government for creating such a situation where the action is very strong sense of panic and especially those

with young students. but this means that is the new b, b in your work. so a lot of panic and a lot of finger pointing who do you think could be behind before the next? was very hard to say. the history shows when the government denies something i meant usually at the wrong address was a direct initiative from inside instead of just we don't know, but there are several thoughts and some argue that i'm trying to trying to

distract attention issues inside you love you to try to distract attention from the position outside of the country trying to. ringback allies themselves and argue that this is 60 days, the price is wanting to take revenge from the baby and young women authorizing their own. but, but there are several possible that we know this moment. and i think i strongly agree is that this could not be carried on unless they're saying elements within the years yet, right. this had approved of it. sarah fundy, many thanks for your evaluation of this very complicated situation and around the world today. people are celebrating wholly the hindu festival of

color is marking the arrival of spring live you now with some images of the celebrations across india, pakistan in nepal. in a moment, i'll be back to take you through the day, but 1st, let's enjoy these pictures. oh hm. with ah,

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