calling and dining office. enjoy your services to be our guest at friends. food airport city managed by fraud. ah ah. ah. ah . this is gina. we news line from berlin. new leads about who was responsible for blowing off the north stream pipelines. us and german media reports suggest a 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 and

investigation after graphic footage emerges of an unarmed ukrainian prisoner allegedly being shot dead by russian troops. mass disruption in france as tens of thousands join a fresh wave of protest against president by falls planned to raise the retirement age. ah, really, it's good to have you with us, an aide to ukraine's president voluntary zalinski has denied kiva was involved in the sabotaging of the north stream gas pipelines, the undersea pipelines which brought russian natural gas to germany, were blown up in september of 2022 new york times reported earlier citing unnamed us officials that us intelligence 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 u. n. lead international inquiry is needed. w political correspondence i'm and young outlined. the new evidence brought to light by joint investigation by 3 german media outlets here says take 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 node stream 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 their nationality is 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 non 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 policy 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 serve the saw as late as this afternoon rather than 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 zalinski and kia 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 stream pipelines played in germany's relationship with russia in the lead up and the early stages of the war. briefly, if you can when those team won was operating from 2011, bringing russian 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 part bypassed poland and you crate, undermining their interests. 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, re, a 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 the facts on the ground as it were, were created. some young, thank you so much. ukraine has launched an investigation to find russ and russian soldiers who apparently killed an unarmed ukrainian prisoner of war after graphic footage emerged 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, ukrainian army without providing further evidence as it believes the man is a 41 year old who has been listed as missing near the battle city of buffalo since february and his nightly video address, president zalinski urged all ukrainians to echo the soldiers words,

she wouldn't as you louis have you do. a video appeared today showing how the occupiers, brutally killed a soldier who bravely said to their face, glory to ukraine level grey. 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. earlier i spoke till wayne jordan and international rights and to criminal law expert about whether there was evidence that killings like this one were part of a broader pattern of human rights abuses committed by russian forces. 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 co us 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 bound to quote, find the murderers, but the alleged killers are not seen clip. how can a crime like this be investigated? and of course, prosecuted then. well, this kind of crime is very difficult to the 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, that needs to be done like the investigation of any crime is to get as close to the circumstances as possible. so to find out who the unit was to find out what the circumstances were. which a 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. what are the chances that any member of the russian military will ever be convicted of the war crimes we're seeing that 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 managed people in and around ukraine working on that already today. international human rights and criminal law expert wayne toward ash. thank you for your time. thank you. let's take a look now and some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. china's foreign minister has warned that there will be, quote, confrontation and conflict between china and the u. s. of washington does not change its approach to his country. foreign minister chin gong also hailed the relationship between beijing and moscow. he said, it's an example for how foreign relations should be conducted. thousands of protesters have rallied in the georgian capital tbilisi. as a controversial new bill passed its 1st vote and parliament. the draft law is intended to crack down on foreign agents. critics say the government backed real bill represents an authoritarian shift in georgia to

a for americans kidnapped by gunman and northeastern mexico have been found dead thirties have returned the 2 survivors to the united states. a group had traveled to mexico for surgery before they were apparently caught in a confrontation between criminal games. ellis indian authority say that 6 palestinians, half and family shots in israel, the military rate. and janine in the occupied west bank, israel's prime minister said the target of the operation was a palestinian. he said killed 2 israeli settlers last week. yeah. who went on to say the man was killed in the reed. now france, tens of thousands have joined a fresh wave of protest against president money on my calls. proposed pension reforms unions have bound to bring the nation to a standstill over the plants, which would see the minimum retirement age raised from $62.00 to $64.00. the governments as the measures are needed,

but polls show most french citizens oppose. the proposed changes the early hours final preparations are made for a day of disruption. the makeshift barricade set in place at a bus depot, just north of paris unions called on people to come out and force to protest against president manuel mc calls. planned 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. 2 0 boy, i use this was on dental. 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. oh, so it's better to fight now than to lose our gains. that's. it is only love it up. people likes allstate, 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, he gets was, will get unions 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 have also been cancelled and many schools closed. but despite all the disruption public opinion appears to be with those demonstrating why 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 demonstrated with them. so i could, this is a potter if it 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 everyone don't dosage and opal to moment they've also to it's true that working up the age of 64 is pretty difficult. the french prime ministers

warned that a nation wide 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 with us now christine plants in well, be with you after a short break with news about the i m. s critical bailout forest for lanka. i'm nicole really for me and the entire team here and our newsroom and berlin. thank you so much for your company today. with tom, i was just rescuing data from a farm. this one the study globally. i found it like this and i couldn't just leave it there. i should meet. 2