ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin. extra dish till killings allegedly carried out by blank la dashes, elite police squat deep specialty w. investigation reveals how the rapid action battalion, which was set up by terrorism, takes the law into its own hands. also coming up authorities in russia,

arrest or woman in connection with the st. petersburg, cafe explosion, the killed a prominent military blogger, and several crashes. more of the australian formula, one grand prix in melbourne. but defending champion match for stopping emerges as the winner. yet again, all that and more coming up in our sports news. ah . hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. we began in bangladesh, we're a d, w and natural news investigation has uncovered details of killings linked to the countries elite police force. the rapid action battalion or rob was set up in 2004 as part of the us led war on terror. it was trained and equipped by the u. s. and other western countries to fight extremist violence. the rabb has long faced accusations of grave. human rights abuses,

claims which the bangladesh government has repeatedly denied, but the w's investigative unit. together with its swedish based partner, spoke to former rob commanders, they revealed evidence of how the force commits extra judicial killings. some viewers might find this report disturbing. 2 or the phone call you about to hear captures in alleged murder in southern bangladesh. was recorded in 2018 bash. begum, she connected 2 aspects phone only seconds before he was killed. oh, ah. 2 3 lily, the day ackerman huck had been taken by the rapid action battalion in elite unit of the bangladesh police long accused of kidnappings, torture and hundreds of killings on the day for peter holiday. i want justice

little how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order that any the recording continues for another 10 minutes. we're sirens and orders to plant ammunition and drugs close to the dying man. more shots are fired. later the official police report stated that a common hack died in a shoot out between drug dealers. the audio dumb little tip of his audio is classic evidence of how an operation is staged. i did take part in extra judicial killings and torture, torture this vis a blow is one of 2 former rac command us, who are the 1st to speak up about the rab systemic human rights abuses which bangladesh government has longed a night. in detail, they describe how the elite squad has abducted torch ident kid revealing the wraps playbook for extra judicial killing me. it dark. in some cases, the scenes are made up beforehand or sometimes afterwards in court,

but all the evidence as planted to block granite even better. and there is nothing written about it, nor the no order is given in writing. for months, the w and netra news investigated the rapid action battalion a thaws of $13000.00, which was originally founded to fight terrorism and crime in bangladesh. but according to the whistleblowers, it is also used as a political tool to silence opponents of the government. political, the engagement decision on any political target would come at the very least from the ministry of home affairs, whom he needed was a must to get clearance from home affairs. little it won't hurt us to. and if the home affairs minister gave such an order, it's very unlikely the prime minister of bangladesh, it didn't know about it, because as there's no paper trail, it's hard to verify that claim. but he corroborated the whistle blowers, testimonies with victims, accounts, medical records,

police reports and data from human rights organizations. when confronted was our findings, bangladesh, prime minister did not respond. the rap referred us to the ministry of home affairs, which cited their own investigation and denied all allegations as baseless and until they bound with the scotland keeps denying that these abuses the record. it is, these testimonies once again, show them that they need to stopped and i asked at holding security was at the counter begging southern bangladesh. i shabby gam shows us the glasses her husband wore when he was killed. she received them with his body. since then she says, rap officers have pressure turned her family to remain silent on air desk. he said, just one thing. he said, your husband has died and you could die at any moment to the body. but i shall begum once a proper investigation. she says she will continue to speak up and to those who killed her husband are held to the count. joining us

now, the studio is dw investigations journalist, big letter shortcut, who filed that report, brigitte her. we just heard at the end of the report, how i should begum, once a proper investigation into her husband's death, is she likely to get that in the end? it depends on the willingness of the bangladesh government to finally hold their security forces to account. let's take the, the case of our criminal hock. there was an official investigation, a took 5 years and the final report we could acquire still states that a cromwell huck died in a shoot out between drug dealers. what striking about it is that their phone recording we just heard was not even mentioned. and this phone recall obviously air documents are the killing and also the cover up. and that seems to us if, if there's not really earn like proper investigation done by the,

by the authorities. but that was exactly what the whole ministry told us when we confronted him with 31 questions. and i, a quote in the ministry said explicitly that the ministry julie investigates, each incident by an independent magistrate. but then the question remains, why is the recording not part of this investigation? so the report does seem to produce new evidence. so why have the whistle blowers come forth? now, for obvious reasons, we can't reveal to match, not how we got in contact with them and, and well met. we met them. and so what i can reveal is that both were commanders in several units of the rap recently. and both have been ordered or at least witnesses several extra digital killings and, and abductions. and why did they talk to us?

am i seeing a one of the reasons is guilt and the others? that's what they both made very clear was. they wanted to stop. one of the whistleblowers told us, i mean he's a bangladesh shouldn't have a force like this or which is committing such grave human rights violation and said he would be willing to bear consequences for himself if that would help to stop this force from committing this crime. so remorse then would seem to be a factor the rapid action battalion, rob it was a long funded and trained by the u. s. government and other governments as well. are those governments aware of the allegations that we just heard in that report? very much so, and shortly after the, after the rav 4 found it in 24. and those allegations came up and was brought up by human rights organizations. and we know from cable thickly, cables from 29 that the u. s. was well aware about the human rights of

violations, but that they is still considered the rep and i called here an important partner in the war on terror. and we also got confirmation about that from the, from the support from his folks person in the, in the dagger embassy, u. s. embassy and decker. and they said they stopped the support for the rab in 2018. and finally, we all know in december 2021, they imposed sanctions. and this was a move with which was very much welcomed by many people we spoke to in bangladesh. and 11 woman who is whose brother was taken a 10 years ago. she said it was like a light at the end of the tunnel because after the sanctions were imposed there, according to the numbers of human rights organizations, the number of killings went down. but it's important to say that are the rabb still

commit crimes. and many fear that over the next months, because bangladesh is, there's elected here in bangladesh. and that the numbers of the last years really show that close to a, to a vote. these numbers of human rights violations committed by rab r spiking because a thank you very much sure for your investigation, that was big data shortcut from dw investigations and the for documentary on the d. w. investigation in bangladesh is now available on youtube. you can watch it on the dw documentary channel fell. germany's vice chancellor robert harper curse arrived in ukraine's capital keep on an unannounced visit. hubbard who's also germany's economy minister is being accompanied by business leaders for talks expected to focus on rebuilding the war torn country. it's hubbard's 1st trip to ukraine since russia launched its invasion last year,

herbert says the visit is intended to give hope to ukrainians, and underscore berlin's solidarity with keith or russian authorities have confirmed the arrest of a woman suspect in connection with sunday's explosion and other st. petersburg cafe, the killed a well known military blogger, the suspect, had previously been detained for taking part in anti war rallies. the explosive device was reportedly hidden inside the a present given 2 of lapland, tusky, russian state media say 32 people were wounded in the blast. this is the blogger flatland petoskey real name. maxime full mean. filming himself last year at the grand kremlin palace, he had been invited there to celebrate russia's annexation of ukraine's occupied regions. this defiant tirade went viral soon. we will beat

every one. he said, we will kill every one. we will rob every one who needs to be robbed. everything will be the way we love him. while these kinds of videos made him wildly popular among pro war russian nationalists would walk with them. and now, as these scenes suggest, a target to task, he was killed after a blast at this restaurant. he had been hosting an event, their meeting supporters and subscribers to his telegram channel. local media reports the task he had been presented with a figurine just minutes before the blast. and that the figurine was the source of the explosion. of doing this figure in ahead of the minor and how much they put it somewhere back though without a 2nd thought. and he carried on with his questions. then suddenly everything exploded and there was smoke. it was like a slow motion movie was sit in the back half of the hall. everyone started to run and we needed to run cell the ran. those for the near had blood all over them of

close by you can use it. oh, i don't visit adding further to the fog of uncertainty. the venue itself has close links to wagner mercenary group bossy of guinea pig gozine. russia's state investigative committee has opened a murder investigation. it's a reminder of the unpredictable consequences of the war which to terra ski cheered so fervently more we can talk now to dw russia analyst, roman gunshot rancor roland, who do russian authorities believe was behind this attack? well we know there, there is one young woman in her mid twenties, the russian authorities are reportedly detained. and we saw a video posted by russian authorities where she said that she, she brought that agreeing to that cafe and later exploded. but she

didn't say who gave it to her, so at the moment it looks like she's saying that she, she has been used by someone. what she's not telling by whom are we do not know the details of that. and there are also reports that she was detained once, at least once i take anti war meeting at the beginning, meeting in saint petersburg at the beginning of the russian invasion in ukraine. and that her husband is somewhere abroad not in russia. he reportedly said that they were both anti war, but he said that they wouldn't do such a thing. do we know why roman that horse key might have been targeted? well 1st we have to look at sir him, who he was. he was a convicted, ukrainian, criminal, convicted for bank robbery, more than 10 years ago. and he was in prison in 2014, when the russian separatists started to fight against ukrainian forces. he later

ex, escape the prison, joined the separatist, and was, was a soldier in that army of the russian russian separatists for at least 4 or 5 years . and then he started writing books and became a blogger, and was a very, very passionate supporter of this war. and as we've seen, he was during that speech bubbles we're putting in the kremlin when he announced annexation of for region. so he was very influential, very passionate about this war. he called ukrainians, pigs and other names that i would not mention here. and we can only speculate, there were several killings of ukrainians and russians in the past 9 years, somewhere attributed to ukrainian forces, some 2 russian special services. we do not know exactly on earth. this last last case of his reminds of the killing of daria davina, daughter of russian propagandist, an ideologists. duncan and duncan,

himself speaking in russian television, said that his daughter was a friend of these are a ascii what sort of reactions otherwise, are we seeing to this killing roman? well, the russian authorities are saying that it was a terrorist attack that the ukrainians, korean government is to blame. and they also blaming the russian position leader in the valley or he supported in russia. he himself, he's in prison, of course. and most of his supporters are abroad, but they are claiming that those people had something to do with this killing. and the, the russian bloggers themselves, the war supporters, they are of course, very harsh. they are demanding, or there will be death penalty again in russia. they are demanding a crackdown on russian liberals still in the country. some of them are saying that russia should now do the same and start killings in ukraine. people who are

possibly behind this, this killing in st. petersburg. so they're very hushed tones and, and andy made major tone is no read lines anymore. roman, thank you very much. it was d w, russia analysts roland gon, sharika sketch up on some of the stories making news around the world today. the head of russia's private mercenary crew. wagner claims his troops have captured the main administrative building in the besieged, ukrainian city abutment. if guinea goshen says his soldiers raised the russian flag over buckling city hall, y k. a projected the claim that the city has fallen and says it's forces are still holding. all right. amused naval units from the u. s. south korea and japan had begun to days of anti submarine drills. all the korean coast sol says the exercises are intended to counter north korea's developing missile capabilities. the drills come amid fears that north korea may be considering its 1st nuclear tests since

2017 finland center. right. national coalition party has won the nordic countries parliamentary elections, which leader baterri or po, now needs the support of at least 2 other parties to form a government. he has not ruled out a coalition with the 2nd place for right thins, 40 outgoing prime minister, santa marines. so for democrats finished 3rd different views from many in the french capital parisians have voted to ban rental electric scooters and a referendum. while a while the vast majority of balance supported the ban. all the app debated vehicles turned out was less than 8 percent. officials had promised to comply with result making paris the 1st major european capital to ban the self service suitors . for more on the ban of east grew to rentals in the french

capital. i'm joined now by sonya pounder. county w. corresponded in perez. good to see sonia 90 percent of those who boated said no to e scooter rentals there in paris. sounds like for reasons are really eager to get rid of them. well, terry, actually the answer to that is, we frankly don't know. and that's because the turnout yesterday was extremely low at below 8 percent. and that seems to, you know, obviously indicate that the majority of provisions didn't seem to care either way about the issue with, you know, i went to vote myself in the referendum yesterday in my local town hall. i have to say that mostly all the citizens really up in arms against the rental scooters were turned out to vote. not many young people who actually use these vehicles. we're also now hearing reactions to disband. we've heard from the socialist mayor of paris. anita goal was campaigning for a little vote. she says, you know,

she's delighted by this result. she causes a good day for democracy, but she's really been slammed by her political opponents who say that instead of this blanket ban on these rental e school does, her government should have enforced, you know, strict at all on day usage. we've also hearing some criticism the referendum yesterday was the only targeted act rental the school does, and not privately owned ones whose numbers actually far exceed those rental scooters. and they're not subject to any kind of regulations. pers introduce a scooters, a scooter rentals already back in 2018. 5 years later. what do we know about accidents injuries? death problems with these scooters on the street? well, it's to paris was one of the post cities to really embrace the electric e school to the rental electric e school to back in 2018 and back then there was quite a lot of chaos because there were no rules. we even saw angry residents tossed some of these cultures into the same river. today, of course,

things are different. patterson regulated the scooters that are fine for misuse. but despite all those little accident involving photos of steadily on the rise last year, the recorded 400 and each accidents nearly 500 people injured 3 people who died. 2 years ago we saw a really high profile accident here in paris, where the pedestrian in central paris was hit by easter over 2 people on it. and she was killed in that case, generated a lot of outreach in the city san you. thank you very much, that was dw correspondence on your father car. ah. in formula one, racing defending champion marks for stopping of red ball one a chaotic australian grand prix. crashes galore caused havoc, but the dutch standings leader was able to keep his cool to win his 2nd race the season. ah,

a bit of australian culture before the race got started in once. it did red bulls. max fished up and got overtaken by mercedes, george russell, and then russell's teammate. louis hamilton got past their stopping in the 1st lap of the race right before the 1st crash for r e shawl. a clerk. the winner in melbourne last year was turned into a pedestrian after making contact with asked ins, land stroll before the 10th lap. another crash. this time, it's alexander albin for williams who flew off in ended his chances following that, ma'am. fetched up and made a move to overtake mercedes louis hamilton. the race was red flagged again on lac 56. kevin magnusson ran wide and grazed the wall, which ripped his wheel apart. teen up to lap showdown between max fished happened in louis hamilton. but not without another collision. alpine teammates smacked into each other, leaving debris everywhere,

dashed up and held on to win. his maiden grand prix in australia, with the pole to pole finish, was a bit of a mess, and that here we, we survived everything we had good faith in the god today again. and we won, which of course is the most of them finished up and extends his lead in the standings to 15 points with his 2nd wind for red bull. a team that's finished on top of all 3 grand prix this season. 1000 honestly a men's soccer here in germany, a hoffen hyman boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation. they $1.00 to $1.00 it vowed a breyman to make it to wins on the spin. puffin, han coach pelligrini matter, rat. so still has it all to do to secure his side's top flight future. 3 points against payment would go a long way to settling hope and one's nerves as they looked to avoid a 1st ever relegation from the buddha's leader. early in the 2nd half they took the

lead through andre tremor ridge with a gold that boded well. whenever the croatian tallies man has found the net in the league. the season huffman home have been undefeated. just 2 minutes later they schooled again with another close range head, a sliver of space inside layman's box, this time exploited by austrian pistol baumgartener the visitors were made to whether a late storm that even so brave and pu one back i most people had asked, glancing off the back of an unfortunate john anthony brooks. as it sailed in, paused goalkeeper or if a bellman but 2 goals were enough in the end for hoffen home and pellegrino to secure a 2nd successive victory in the league and take a big step towards safety. so here's wrap up the weekends bonus leak results. cologne and glad, but also played on sunday. but it was a drab neil:

neil draw and the ryan derby, its the weekends. big game was by and minex for to win over bruce adornment in thomas taco's. first game in charge. also on saturday, there were handsome winds for mines, leave a cushion, and when you own berlin and just a quick glimpse at the monthly a table at the conclusion of that day, 26 by an arb back on top by 2 points after the wind overdue it been on saturday noon and fryeburg complete the champions league places with 8 games to go at the bottom. how to berlin shaka, and stood gaunt, remain in trouble with hoffen haim edging further from danger. and just a quick look at smother some stories off from the world sports now in the women's wound as legal sports, germany, captain alexander of pulp scored her 11101st league gold in an 8 nil thrashing of bed. breyman champions, full sport recently lost top spot,

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