ah ah, this is the w news coming to you live from berlin. extra judicial killings allegedly carried out by bangladesh. his elite police bought a special dw investigation reveals how the rapid action battalion, which was set up to fight terrorism, takes the law into its own hands. also coming up authorities in russia, blame ukraine for the st. petersburg, cafe explosion that killed

a prominent military blogger. one woman has been arrested in connection with the blast. plus the cost of those former president, huffy and puffy, pleads not guilty at the started his war crimes trial in the hague. the charges date back to his countries piper independence in the late 1990. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. we're beginning 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 r a b was set up in 2004 as part of the us led war on terror. it was trained and equipped by the us and other western countries to fight extremist ballots. the rap has long faced accusations of grave. human rights abuses,

claims which the bangladesh government have repeatedly denied, but dw is investigative unit together with its sweden based partner spoke to former or a rab commanders. they revealed evidence of how the forest commits extrajudicial killings . some viewers may find this report disturbing. 2 am on the phone call you about to hear kept us in alleged murder in southern bangladesh. was recorded in 2018 bash, begum, she connected to aspens phone only seconds before he was killed. oh lou. 2 3 early in the day i coming back had been taken by the rapid action battalion in elite unit of the bag, reddish police, long accused of kidnappings, torture and hundreds of killings on the day. so to get there whole other,

i want justice. how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order? not any. the recording continues for another 10 minutes. we're sirens and orders to plant ammunition and trucks close to the dying man. more shots are fired. later the official police report stated than a common hack, died in his suit out between drug dealers. he 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 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 long the night in detail, they describe how the elite squad has abducted torchlight and kid revealing the wraps playbook for extra judicial killings. ah, it dark. in some cases,

the scenes are made up beforehand or sometimes afterwards and but all the evidence is planted to float. gerhardt even better and there's nothing written about it. well, no, no order is given in writing for months, d, w and nitro news investigated the rapid action battalion a force 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 once hostile is 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 whistle blowers, testimonies with victims, accounts, medical records,

police reports and data from human rights organizations. when confronted with our findings, bangladesh, the 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, show them that they need to stop deny, asked at holding security was as accountable megan southern bangladesh. i shabby eagle shows us the glasses her husband wore when he was killed luggage. she received them with his body. since then she says rap officers have pressure turned 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 be whom 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, big letter schumacher, who, while that report brigitte a, we just heard at the end of the report how i should beg him was 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 chroma huck died in a shoot out between drug dealers. what striking about it is that there phone recalling we just heard was not even mentioned and that phone recall, obviously air documents, the killing and also the cover up. and that seems to us if,

if there's not really early 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 magwoods thread. by then the question remains, why is the recording not part of this investigation? yes, you, 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 rap. recently, and both have been ordered or at least witnesses several extra digital killings and

actions. 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 great human rights violation and said he would be willing to be there are consequences for himself if that would help to stop this force from committing this cried so remorse than 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, and shortly after that and after the wrap or sounded in 24 and those allegations caleb 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 are violations, but that they is still a, consider the rap an i quote 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 decker and the c, 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 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 the rab still

commit crimes and many fear that over the next months because bangladesh is, and there's elected here in bangladesh and that the numbers of the last years really show that close to a to commentary on that dw investigation in bangladesh is now available on our youtube channel. you can watch it on the d. w documentary channel. now, germany's vice chancellor robert hallberg has arrived in ukraine's capital keep on an unannounced visit. herbert, who's also germany's economy minister as being accompanied by business representatives for talks expected to focus on rebuilding the war torn country. it's habits 1st trip to ukraine since russia launched its invasion last year, herbert says the visitors intended to give hope to craniums and underscore berlin's solidarity with keith. russian authorities say ukraine was behind

sunday's explosion. the st. petersburg cafe, the killed of well known military blogger. moscow says the blast was a terrorist attack that was carried out by caves, secret services. one woman reportedly linked to anti war rallies has been arrested in connection with the instant. oh, this is the blogger flatland to terra ski 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, so everything will be the way we love him. while these kinds of videos made him wildly popular among pro war russian nationalists since to put a 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. this afternoon, this is erin had a minor in a home that they put a summer back there without a 2nd thought and he carried on with his questions. then suddenly everything exploded and there was smoke was like a slow motion movie for the sit in the back half of the hall. everyone started to run and we needed to run solar ran, though, so the nea had blood all over them of close. but you can use it on, i don't vision. 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 sitarski cheered so

fervently. the killing of the prominent pro putin blogger has sparked fear speculation in russia about who did it. and why? i asked the w, russia, analyst, or roman, gone 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 take anti war meeting at the beginning,

meeting in st. 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 it 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 . 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 levels 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 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 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 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. it was d, w, russia, analysts, roman gunshot ringo. take

a look at a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. the head of russia's mercenary, wagner grew claims. his troops have captured the main administrative building in the besieged, ukrainian city of if guinea goshen says his soldiers raised the russian flag over city hall key of rejects the claim and says its forces are holding on nato secretary general yen stoughton back says finland will formerly join the alliance on tuesday, inland succession brings the number of member states to 31 neighbouring sweden's membership bid is stalled by objections from hungary and turkey. the u. s. south korea and japan and began to days of anti submarine drills. sol says the aim is to counter north korea's developing missile capabilities. it's feared the north could carry out its 1st nuclear test in 6 years when a major war crimes trial related to cost of

a struggle for independence from serbia in the late $19.00 ninety's hes started in the hague. former cosmo president hutchings thought she has pleaded not guilty at the start of the trial. the charges date back to his countries piper, independence in the late 19 nineties, archie and 3 others are accused of murder and torture. in connection with the cost of a liberation armies crackdown on opponents such although victims, families have been waiting for justice for more than 2 decades. the trial with over $300.00 witnesses is unlikely to the liver. a quick verdict. hashem, that she is the rabble who became president only for his past to catch up with him at the height of his powers, indicted for war crimes by the call, civil, special court for service. and i put them in order to protect the integrity of the presidency of the republic. of course, i resigned today from the position of president of the republic,

of course of her that she was a top commander of the constable liberation army during the 990 scene here. taking notes diplomat called him the voice of reason ha. busy 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 to live with life. i believe in pretty good reason. so to de sab cost of all jacob balls, in ich, she lost $2.00 brothers in the conflict. much more that was for

a nick may be there some additional evidence as they call it, that will help the prosecutor and a judge to convict them. boys share a palm of and so that kinds of this kind are not repeated i her for so there thus saith the vicious watchin, if they were sent upon, i believe the weight for justice will be long the trial expected to last months, if not years, the french capital, paris is set to become the 1st major european city to ban electric rental scooters for asian boaters. approved the move in a referendum up activated rental scooters which were once touted as an environmentally friendly form of transportation. have been involved in numerous accidents, despite the ban, privately own scooters in paris will still be allowed some 15000 east scooters

are spread along the streets of paris, but not for long. paris is said to become the 1st major european capital to ban east good or rentals, and in many record random carried out by the city hall. only 7 percent of those illegible turned up to vote. of those 90 per cent set, no to the self service scooters. the people's paris voted overwhelmingly against keeping rental scooters in paris on april 7th. they have given us a clear road map favor would claire, and we will follow their decision easier. as i promised to reggie, the scooters 1st introduced to the city in 2018 are set to vanish before the end of the summer. but many are reliant on the scooters as a fast whitely accessible and relatively cheap mode of transport. in the densely populated city, i go on to buy it, don't i work in central paris?

and the quickest way to get there right now is on an electric scooter. it takes about 10 minutes from my place to work. if i took a car, i think it would take 45 minutes, dashboard after spike in road accidents involving scooters to devices. we came increasingly controversial of those who voted road safety fears were among the top concerns that should of oil. but i'm here to vote against electric scooters and paris both of us because i think they're accident prone for both the users and the pedestrians. in my work, we see a lot of road accidents caused by scooters. so we really see the negative effects. this is what's the last year, paris, or quart at around $20000000.00 trips, san rental scooters by the end of the summer. they'll have to hit the road for good . earlier i asked d. w,

pears corresponded sonya follicle. if the boat really means that parisians 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 positions didn't seem to care either way about the issue with the, you know, i went to war to myself in the referendum yesterday and my local town hall. i have to say that mostly all the citizens already up in arms against the rental suitors 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 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 at all on day usage. we've also hearing some criticism the referendum

yesterday was only targeted at 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, 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. willis to paris was one of the 1st cities to really embrace the electric e school to the rental electric scooter. back in 2018 and back then there was quite a lot of chaos because there were no rules. we've been so 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 the photos of steadily on the rise. last

year, the city recorded 408 accidents. nearly 500 people injured, 3 people who died. 2 years ago we saw a really high profile accident here in paris, where 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. so only thank you very much. that was d, w, correspond sonya father. now some men's bonus like a soccer here in germany where hoffen heim have boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation. they won $21.00 at val brayland to make it 2 wins on the spin po, from han coach pelligrini matter rat. so still has it all to do to secure his side's top flight future. 3 points against raymond would go a long way to settling home from 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, from a ridge with a goal that boded well. whenever they probation tallies,

man has found the next in the league, the season hoffen home have been undefeated. just 2 minutes later, they schooled again with another close range head, a slither of space inside raymond's books. this time exploited by austrian historic baumgartener. the visitors were made to whether a late storm that even so brave and pull one back. almost people had asked, glancing off the back of an unfortunate john anthony brooks. as it sailed in, paused goalkeeper over bowman. 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. just reminder, the top story we're following for you this our a special d, w and net renews investigation has uncovered details of killings linked to bangladesh. his elite police force, he w's investigative unit together with his sweden based partner,

spoke to insiders, who for the 1st time revealed evidence of how the force allegedly commit extra judicial killings. you are watching dw news of next. it's d w. news asia with my colleague berrish, banner g. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

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