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a cafe in st. petersburg and casa oaks, former president hash. in fact, she pleads not guilty at the start of his trial in the hague of war crimes. ah, i feel gail, welcome to the program that he w investigation has uncovered details of killings linked to bangladesh is 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 violence. the r i b is long faced accusations of human rights abuses which the bangladesh government has repeatedly denied. working with sweden's netra news, dw is investigative unit, spoke with former r a b can. candace revealed evidence of how the force commits extra judicial

killings. you may find some elements of this report disturb. 2 on the phone call you about to hear captures and alleged murder in southern bangladesh. was recorded in 2018 bash. begum she connected to aspens phone only seconds before he was killed. oh ah. 3 early in the day i common hack had been taken by the rapid action battalion in elite unit of the bangladesh, police long accused of kidnappings, torture and hundreds of killings. i mean, they typically, they're whole other i one justice little how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order? not only 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 than a common hack, died in a shootout between drug dealers. jojo, tom little. the of his audio is classic evidence of how an operation is staged. i did take part in extra judicial killings and torture, torture. this visser glow is one of 2 former wrap command us who are the 1st to speak up about the rab systemic human rights abuses which bangladesh government has lung the night in detail. they describe how the elite squad has abducted torture and kit revealing the raps 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 is planted to block granite imbedded and there is nothing written about it. when all the no order is given in writing for months, d,

w and nitro 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 bumps hostile end 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 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 the bound with his government keeps denying that these abuses the record. it is, these testimonies once again, show them though they need to stop and i asked at holding dakota was at the counter begging southern bangladesh. i shabby gam shows us the glasses her husband wore when he was killed. lady, she received them with his body since then she says, rap officers have pressured herd 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 her, those who killed her husband are held to the count as look at us with that, murmured conrad from d. w. 's investigations department. welcome them with her. their beander. i shall begum saying that she wants a proper investigation. is that likely to happen?

well, i mean, i'd hate to make any predictions, but tragically, i think it's very unlikely to happen. bangladesh, legal system is very corrupt, highly politicized. she herself told us that whenever she tried to file a case, rab offices showed up put the lawyers offices and stop them from finding a case. so i think under the current government, it is highly unlikely. elections are scheduled for early next year, but we have to remember that rab was created under what is now the main opposition party. so even if there is a change in government, i still think it is quite unlikely that there will be a full found independent medication into this case. right. so this rapid action battalion was funded. i'm try and bobby us and others were they aware of these are allegations of human rights violations. right. it seems that they were aware of

these allegations right from the start. i mean, we've seen diplomatic cables published by wiki leeks, which made it quite clear that they were very well aware of these allegations. but robin, we have to remember this was also an integral part of the u. s. is one tara in southeast asia, and rab with bruce effective at what it. ringback did i mean they did manage to combat quite effectively terrorism in bangladesh, which also isn't quite an open balance. they knew that these allegations were probably true, but they relied on route to fight terrorism and crime in the region. so that maybe explains why it took so long for them to stop funding. that was in 2018 and then even longer, late 2021. so 2 years ago for them to actually ad robin 7 high ranking members and former members to the sections list. right. so that a group of a, they helped to fund ended up on their functions that did that. did those sanctions

have any impact? sometimes i mean, killings are down, but rob seems to have changed. her modus operandi said they're still picking up people, but they're presenting them to judges on the fate, but act of a sale on trumped up charges. so they are still targeting opposition members, and we also have to say that these methods that rob has been applying have spread into other units. rob is made up of members of the military and the police, as a condo to rob for wild, and they go back to as they call it in bangladesh, their mother units. and they take these unsavory, brutal methods with them. so it's crept into the whole enforcement system in bangladesh. basically, i give up an army, man, re conrad from dw investigations to and you find out more details of this investigation on inside the death squad on that youtube. on the dw documentary channel, a german vice chancellor, robert ha back is in key for

a surprise visit. he's been to an electricity substation in the crane capital to see 1st hand how the countries coping with rushes, relentless attacks on its critical infrastructure. it's his 1st trip to ukraine, since the russia launched its full scale invasion last year. the business expected to focus on how germany can help rebuild the water country. correspondent mac xanda is in keith. welcome, max wise, mr. harbor. that red hill. so then the main name of this visit would be corporation and helping with energy resilience year and building future economic projects. so between germany and ukraine, one of the 1st things are german vice chancellor said when he 1st came here. he said, this is a strong to send a strong signal from germany to ukraine, that the country would be rebuilt and would be victorious. and yet now asked about

what a victory would look like. he didn't further elaborate on that part for saying that this would you for the ukrainians to decide. but he is also here in his capacity is vice chancellor. so naturally talks with present lensky also focused on support for the war effort, namely, weapons deliveries, the ukrainians. have been asking the europeans and the germans and americans for more artillery units are showing shows. the european countries have started projects to wrap up their production and, and my target, they said that they are in talks of how to achieve this. they have been asked by their training counterparts to do so and they will try to lever, though, didn't further elaborate on how right and how has bizarre back been received there? right. so he has been travelling a bit. so leading key of going to the chinese region, a visit to sub station era, as you saw the pictures before, to talk about energy resilience. but one of the appointments that would have been

the head would have left at the longest lasting impression as, as she put it would have been a visit to the town of yohina which was occupied by the russian some for about a month last year where more than $360.00 people were forced to live underground in an abandoned school on to an a square meters without electricity, without sanitation, 11 people did not survive that. and the presence zalinski and what havoc actually visited that basement. spent half an hour there talk to a survivor, and this is one of the, one of that one of the stops where i'm there without except this is something where you can clearly see the, the hardship that you planes have to are going through and white white white germany is also supporting so much right says to tell us more about these, that these plans to help you cry and rebuild what, what's the german a government planning read. so he's been accompanied by

a delegation of representatives from the german industry. i'm from the german economy and they are working on projects, trying to figure out what german company is working in ukraine need right now. what ukrainian companies need in support from the german government want concrete example. what would be a securities for investment? meaning that companies from germany, for example, wouldn't be investing in this case in ukraine, and their investments would be secured by the german government if they built a factory, if they expanded production, for example, something happened due to the war, a factory got destroyed, or something could not be procured dirty fighting, then the german government would jump in. they already have some companies that are on board and they're continuing talks with to for this. thank you for that. max max xander in keith a rational thought is say ukraine was behind an explosion at saint petersburg cafe that killed a well known pro war blogger. the crime, lynn says the blast was

a terrorist attack carried out by ukrainians. secret services, a woman linked to anti war rallies has been arrested. the ukraine denies involvement and is planning out internal russian terrorism. this is the blogger flatland to terror ski real name maxime full mean. filming himself last year at the grand kremlin palace, he had been invited there to celebrate rushes, annexation of ukraine's occupied regions. this defiant tirade went viral. we will beat every one. he said, we will kill every one. we will rob every one who 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. 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, a grin had a minor in a hermit. they put a summer back though 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 whole. everyone started to run and we needed to run. so we ran those for the near, had blood all over them of close. but you can use with like over here, adding further to the fog of uncertainty. the venue itself has close links to wagner, mercenary group, bossy of guinea pic. gozine brushes, 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. let's get more from our russia unless roman gone to rank

a welcome roman. i'm why the russian authorities believe this was ukrainian attack rather than domestic terrorism. well, we haven't seen much of evidence or to support that claim. ah, the russian authorities normally accuse ukraine in such cases to have been several killings in the past 9 years of permanent figures in ukraine. indian russia who were fighting on their russian separatist side in easton, ukraine, and on bass. now he himself was a ukrainian citizen who joined a poor settlers forces and was a supporter of war. so m a in the past last year there was a similar case with the a daria dog and our daughter of a famous russian ideologists. nadine was killed in a car bloss tanya, moscow. and these of course reminds of that. and in that case,

you claim was also blamed, but key of never took responsibility. so we still do not know if there is any hard evidence that ukraine is behind it. and we presume that vista flatland that the task was, was targeted because he was such a vocal proponent of this war. do? well, yes, this is something we could assume. he was a, one of those propaganda bloggers. he was not just a blogger, he was a fighter. he joined the separatist forces and fighting for several years. we did not know much about that time, then he chose a media korea hero to few books, and then he became a popular blogger with hundreds of subscribe. hundreds of thousands of subscribers . and she was very passionate. that is what is special about him. and we have to understand that if your crime is behind it, i do not think it is case person that is very important. much more important is the

place where this, this all happened and the place is st. petersburg russians, 2nd largest city, and the home city of rushes present. vladimir putin. it is also the circumstances that are very important. it was a cafe, where war supporters have gathered to talk about the war, how to continue the war. so the message, if your crime should be behind, it was still do not know it's a speculation. the message could be, you are not safe, even deep and russia in even in such a city like sunk petersburg. and this is very important. and the woman who was arrested, what role do authorities think that she play it in this one in a small it's a sound bite that we heard or that the russian authorities have published so far. she says that she brought to that cafe, that the to miniature, that stature are which it presumably exploded. but we do not know details. it is not confirmed what kind of explosions were used. and she didn't say,

or at least not on camera that we've seen that who gave it to her. so who is behind it could be behind it. some russian propagandists already talk about maybe the russians who a blow abroad and fled the country might be involved in any way, but no details are given. so there are lots of speculations about what is this woman and what is behind it? what motivated her or she was just framed like some say or what she herself is hinting at. thank you for that roman d. w. rush. and this roman culture anchor is look at some more stories making news around the world. the head of rushes or mercenary, wagner group claims his troops if kept the main administrative building in the besieged, ukrainian city of bath, mort. if any pressure pre gorgine assess his troops, raise the russian flag over city hall. he rejects the claim. barton says its forces

are still holding on nato secretary general against dalton works as finland will formerly join the alliance on tuesday, finland's accession brings a number of member states for 31 neighbouring sweden. so bid is, has been stored by objections from hungary and turkey. the u. s. south korea and japan had begun to days of anti submarine drills. souls as the aim is to counter at north korea, developing the missile capabilities is for the north could carry out its 1st nuclear test in 6 years through with a war crimes trial related to cause of a struggle for independence from serbia in the late 1990 it has begun in the hate former cause of an precedent hash. in fact, she has pleaded not guilty. i'm charges that date batteries, countries fight for independence, that he and 3 others are accused of murder and torture, in connection with the kosovo liberation army campaign. against that opponents of their victims,

families have been waiting for justice more than 2 decades. the trial with more than 300 witnesses is unlikely to deliver a great 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 cause of all special court for solace fund. i put them in order to protect the integrity of the presidency of republic of kosovo. i resigned to day from the position of president of the republic of crossover that she was taught commander of the kosovo liberation army during the 1997 seen here taking notes diplomat called him the voice of reason. cursed ha, that i told you that prosecutors accused him of responsibility for nearly 100 murders carried out by his forces during the uprising against serbian

rule throughout the legal process that she has vowed to clear his name. ah, nobody got a lot of difficulty with her. i believe in pretty good reason. just so to to sab cost of an all g cabassos, which she lost $2.00 brothers and the conflict. much more that possibly it may be there some additional evidence as they call it that will help the prosecutor and a judge to convict them going to chair or the palm of that. so that kinds of this kind of are not repeated, i her or so there. the said for vicious watching. if they were stand upon avenue, the wait for justice will be long. the trial expected to last months,

if not years. let's get more from a correspondent at the see a shortened who's in the hank are welcome to see a start with per day talk a. so what happened today was the beginning of the preceding. so it all started with the opening statement by the prosecution. but before that happened, or the for accused among them hurting touchy rig ve declared that they are not guilty of the charges than the prosecution. started with his indictment and gave a glimpse of what is to come in the next couple of months or better to say years i origin and account of a lot of crimes among them. war crimes and crimes against humanity that they are seeking to prove it to the for that there were arcus trading this and we have some new numbers. so there it was there speaking of 102 murders,

as well as 440 unlawful detainment. that is what the prosecution charge to the for accused today as already said, they have reiterated that they are not in charge of this. and we have also heard from the victims council that is speaking on behalf of the 140 victims that are part of this proceeding here today in dehate. we have last let a point. we have also seen hundreds of people coming here to the egg, to, to show support, to hash and touchy, and that they believe for them is still a hero. and if you read this, this, this is go to go on for some, some months, if not years up. is that because of this, this long list of, of charges against it is not only because of the long list of charges against the for accused. it is also because the prosecution has found, or will call upon $300.00 total witnesses,

that they will want to bring here and want to to give their case in order to prove the charges. and they already have said that this will take at least 2 years . and then there might also be witnesses called upon by the defendants. so this, this will take a while. right? and it's, it's, it's interesting that there was so many people there are protesting. he's innocent, and as you say, he said he st very much as a hero. yes. and indeed. so in class of, or maybe let me remind you as well, of the fact that in 2020, when the indictment was brought against him, he was still the president of cross. oh, he did lay down office then, and i was detained here in the hague. and, but nowadays, there are a lot of people in kosovo as a yesterday. you had to hundreds of people are taking it to the streets and, and showing his support for him. and for them, he is still as being run of the main leaders of the crossville liberation army.

he's still a hero. thank you for that. lucy ellis here shorten in the hague. in football and germany is a bundled lager i often time have boosted their hopes, of avoiding relegation. they want to one i to vent a bremond to make it 2 wins in a row. puffin hon. coach pellegrino matter. rats are still has it all to do to secure his sides top flight future. 3 points against payment would go a long way to settling whole 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 tremor ridge with a gold that boded well whenever they probation tallies. man has found the next in the league this season. hoffen home have been undefeated. just 2 minutes later they schooled again with another close range head, a sliver of space inside raymond's box. this time exploited by austrian pissed off

baumgartener. the visitors were made to whether a late storm that even so brave and pull one back. i most people had asked, glancing off the back of an unfortunate john anthony brooks as it sailed in past goalkeeper olive, 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. his reminder of our top stories at this hour. the w investigation with metro news has uncovered details of killings linked to bangladesh as a lead to police force the w investigative unit and a swedish based partner. i spoke to insiders, who for the 1st time revealed evidence of how the rapid action batavia is allowed to have committed extra judicial killings. russian authorities have confirmed that a woman's bade, arrested in connection with an explosion that killed

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