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a prominent military blogger. one woman has been arrested in connection with the blast. clos cost of ours, former president. hush im thought she pleads not guilty at the start of his war crimes trial in the hague. the charges they fact to his countries bite for independence in the late 19 nineties and several crashes. more of the australian formula. one grand prix in melbourne, but defending champion max for stopping emerges as the winner. yep. again, all that and more coming up that are sports news. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. we begin in bangladesh where a d, w, and network news investigation is uncovered. details of killings linked to the country's elite police force. the rapid action battalion or

r a b 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 pilots. the r e b has long faced accusations of grave. human rights abuses, claims which the bangladesh government has repeatedly denied. but d, w is investigative unit together with its sweden based partner, spoke to former r a b commanders. and they revealed evidence of how the force commits extrajudicial killings. some viewers might find this report disturbing. 2 am on the phone call you about to hear kept us in alleged murder in southern bangladesh. it was recorded in 2018 bash. i begum. she connected 2 aspects phone only seconds before he was killed. oh. 1 i. 3

early in the day how chrome attack 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. so to get their whole other 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 issued out between drug dealers. the audio dumb little g 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 of law is one of 2, former rab 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 torture and kit revealing the raps playbook for extra judicial killings. ah, it dark. in some cases, the scenes are made up beforehand or sometimes afterwards in court. but all the evidence is planted to float gerhardt imbedded and there is nothing written about it. when all the no order is given in writing for months he w and netra news investigated the rapid action battalion. a thought of 13000, 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 was hostile and of the home affairs minister gave such an order. it's very unlikely the prime minister of

bangladesh, it didn't know about it. recall as there's no paper trail, it's hard to verify that claim, but we corroborated the whistleblowers. testimonies was victims, accounts, medical records, police reports, and data from human rights organizations. when confronted with 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 the bound with his government keeps denying to these abuses record it is. these testimonies once again showed them that they need to stop deny, as that holding ticket, if was at the counter begging soften bangladesh. i shall begum shows us the glasses her husband wore when he was killed. she received them with his body. since then she says rap officers have pressured, heard her family to remain silent on her 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, they are, the studio is the w investigations, journalist brigitte, her shoulder, who filed that report, brigitte, that we just heard at the end of the report. how i should begum, was a proper investigation into her husband's death. is she likely together in the end? it depends on the willingness of their bangladesh government to finally hold their security forces to account. let's take their the case of our criminal hoc. there was an official investigation. i took 5 years and the final report we could acquire still states that are cromwell huck died in issued out between drug dealers. with striking about it is that their phone recalling we just heard was not even

mentioned and their phone re, all obviously air documents, 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 duly investigates, each incident by an independent magistrate. by then the question remains, why is the recording not part of this investigation? yes, you 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 where we met them. and so what i can reveal is that both were commanders in

several units of the rob recently and both have an ordered or at least witness the several extra digital killings and, and up actions. and why did they talk to us? and i think 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 great 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 are aware of the allegations that we've just heard in that report? very much so, and shortly after,

the after the raf was founded in at 24. and those allegations came up and was brought up by human rights organizations. and we know from cable physically, cables from 29 that the u. s. was well aware about the human rights are violations, but that they is still considered the rep, an ad. i quote here, an important partner in their war on terror. and we also got confirmation about that from the, from the sport from his forks, 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 welcome. by many people we spoke to in bangladesh. and 11 woman who was 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, the according to the numbers of human rights organizations, the number of killings went down. but it's important to say that the rab still commit crimes and many fear that over the next months, because bangladesh is there's elected year in bangladesh. and 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 sir, for your investigation. that was big data short group from dw investigations. and the full documentary on the d. w. investigation and bangladesh is now available on youtube. you can watch it on the w documentary channel. germany's vice chancellor walbert hop back has arrived in ukraine's capital key if on an

unannounced visit callback who's also germany's economy minister is being accompanied by business representatives for talks expected to focus on rebuilding the war torn country. it's hobbins, 1st trip to ukraine, since russia launched its investigation last year, alex's, the visit is intended to give hope to ukrainians, and underscore berlin's solidarity with keith. russian authorities se ukraine was behind sunday's explosion out of st. petersburg cafe, the killed a well known military blogger. moscow says the blast was a terrorist attack that was carried out by keeps secret services. one woman reportedly linked to anti war rallies has been arrested in connection with the instant. 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 and needs to be robbed. everything will be the way we love. love these kinds of videos made him wildly popular among pro war russian nationalists. 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 who was sit on the back half of the hall. everyone started to

run and we needed to ron solar, ran those for the near had blood all over them. of course, you can use it all for you guys. don't re adding further to the fog of uncertainty . the venue itself has close links to wagner mercenary group bossy of guinea pig gorgine. 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 the killing of the prominent pro putin blogger has sparked fierce speculation in russia about who did it. and why? i asked the w russia analyst robin going to ranko, who the kremlin believes was behind the attack? well we now there is, we're 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 we do not know the details of that. and there are also reports that she was detained once, at least once i tell you 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 separatist for at least 4 or 5 years . 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 levels you'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 that there were several killings of ukrainians and russians in the past 9 years, somewhere attributed to ukrainian forces, some to russian special services. we do not know exactly. are these last last case

of his reminds of the killing of daria? do you know, daughter of russian, propagandist and 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 nevaeh leo. he supported in russia. he himself, he's in prison, of course. and most of his supporters are abroad, but they are, they are claiming that those people had something to do with this killing. and there are 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 harsh tones and, and, and they made major tone is no red lines anymore. roman, thank you very much. was d w, russia? analysts, roland, gunshot, ringo, saint luke. now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. nato secretary general un stoughton back has confirmed that finland will formerly join the nato alliance on tuesdays. it succession will bring the total number of nato member states to $31.00. finland had initially hope to join together with neighboring sweden, but objections from hungary and turkey stalled sweden's bed and the head of rushes private mercenary group. wagner claims his troops have captured the main administrative building in the besieged,

ukrainian city abutment. kenny cree goshen says his soldiers raised the russian plague over backwards city hall kit rejected the claim that the city has fallen and says its forces are still holding on major war crimes trial related to cause of a struggle for independence from serbia in the late 19 ninety's has started in the hague, former cosmo president hush him thought she has pleaded not guilty at the started the trial. the charge is date, back to his country's fight for independence in the late 90 ninety's thought she and 3 others are accused of murder and torture. in connection with the kosovo liberation army cracked down on opponent search. although victims families have been waiting justice for more than 2 decades, the trial with over 300 witnesses is unlikely to deliver a quick verdict. hashem, that she is the rebel who became president only for his past to catch up with him

at the height of his powers indicted for war crimes by the cost of all special court also was fund. i put them in order to protect the integrity of the presidency of the republic of kosovo. i resigned to day from the position of president of the republic of crossover that she was a tall commander of the kosovo liberation army during the 1997 seen here taking notes. diplomat called him the voice of reason. ha that i'm telling you. that's what prosecutors accused him of responsibility for nearly $100.00 murders carried out by his forces during the uprising against sabby and rule hello. throughout the legal process, thought she has vowed to clear his name. ah, nobody got a lot of difficulty with

i believe in pretty good reason just so to to sap cause of an all g cabassos which she lost 2 brothers in the conflict that you know, that possibly may be there some additional evidence as they call it that will help the prosecutor and a judge to convict them, going to check the palm of so that kinds of this kind are not repeated. i her or so there the said for this is watching. if they were cinnapool, natalie, you the wait for justice will be long. the trial expected to last months, if not years. in the french capital parisians have voted to ban rental electric scooters in a referendum. while the vast majority of ballots supported the ban on the app

activated vehicles turn out was less than 8 percent. officials have promised to comply with result, none the less. making paris the 1st major european capital to banned the self service scooters. earlier i asked w paris correspondent sonya polacca. if the boat really means the pair regions are eager to get rid of rental scooters. 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 we're mostly older citizens are really up in arms against the rental who does what 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 on you don't go was campaigning for a little vote. she says, you know, she's delighted by this result. she calls it 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 on de usage with will to hear some criticism that referendum yesterday was the only targeted act rental the school does and not privately owned ones, you know, whose numbers actually far exceed those rental scooters. and they're not subject to any kind of regulations. pers introduce a scooters rescued or 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 1st 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 fines for misuse. despite all the seattle accident involving photos of steadily on the rise last year with recorded 400 in 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 police stood in central paris was hit by a scooter of 2 people on it, and she was killed in that case, generated a lot of outreach in the city. certainly thank you very much. that was d. w. correspond sonya father ah. in formula one, racing defending champion, max for stopping of red bull, one a chaotic cos, trillion ground pre crashes galore calls, the 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 he did red bulls max fish up and got overtaken by mercedes, george russell, and then russell's teammate. louis hamilton got past fear, stopping in the 1st lap of the race right before the 1st crash, ferrari, shawl, or clerk. the winner in melbourne last year was turned into a pedestrian after making contact with aston slant stroll before the 10th lat, another crash. this time its alexander albin for williams who flew off in ended his chances following that may am fished up and made a move to overtake mercedes louis hamilton. the race was red flagged again on wax 56. kevin magnusson ran wide and grazed the wall, which ripped his wheel apart, teen up to lap showdown between macs for stopping in louis hamilton. but not

without another collision. alpine teammates smacked into each other, leaving debris everywhere, finished 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 face in the car 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, the team that's finished on top of all 3 grand prix this season. in men's buddhist lee of football here in germany, hoffen time of boosted their hopes, of avoiding relegation. they $1.00 to $1.00 at better blame and 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. in the 2nd talk, they took believe through andre tremor ridge with a gold that boded well. whenever they probation tanny's man has found the net in the league they season hoffen home have been undefeated. just 2 minutes later, they schooled again with another close range head, a slither of spice inside raymond's boat, this time exploited by austrian kiss. don't baumgartener. the visitors were made to whether a late storm, but even so brave and poo one back. i most people had asked, glancing off the back of an unfortunate john anthony brooks. as it sailed in, paused goalkeeper of 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 toward safety. just reminder the top story we're following for you

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