the universe and the rest that were series. 40 to the answer to almost everything this week on t w. b. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin extra do. additional killings allegedly carried out by bangladesh is elite police squad. a dw investigation reveals how the rapid action battalion set up to fight terrorism take the law into its own hands. also on the program. rational authorities blame ukraine for a bombing would kill the prominent pro war blogger,

a woman's arrested over the blast, and a cafe in st. petersburg and the heading for the moon, nasa analysis or for strong crew, including the 1st woman on the 1st african american astronaut. to take part in the mission. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. a d w investigation hasn't covered details of killings linked to bangladesh is a lead 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 battalion has long faced accusations of human rights abuses which the banker dash government has repeatedly denied. working with sweden's netra news. d use investigative unit,

spoke with former rob commanders revealed evidence of how the force commits extra judicial killings. you may find elements of this report disturbing. 2 or the phone call you about to hear captures in alleged murder in southern bangladesh. it was recorded in 2018 by shabby whom she connected to aspen phone only seconds before he was killed. oh, ah. 2 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, there whole other, i want justice. how was my husband killed and why the who gave the order or any? the recording continues for another 10 minutes. we're sirens and orders to plant

ammunition and drugs close to the dying man. mortals are fired. later the official police report stated that a criminal act 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 visser blow is one of 2 former rac command us, who are the 1st to speak up about the rabb systemic human rights abuses which bangladesh government has longed a night. in detail, they describe how the elite squad has abducted torture and kid 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 block gra hope imbedded and there is nothing written about it. when all the no order is given in writing for months,

the w and natural 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 to 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, 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 uncle. the bank of the scotland keeps denying to these abuses record it is these testimonies once again, show them that they need to stop, deny, and start holding together. if was at the counter megan southern bangladesh, i shabby, eagle shows us the glasses. her husband was when he was killed. lucky, she received them with his body. since then she says, rap officers have pressured her and her family to remain silent. near dare 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 gam once a proper investigation. she says she will continue to speak up until those who killed her husband are held to the count. and if i more details of this investigation on inside the death squad on youtube,

on the dw documentary channel, a rational authority say ukraine was behind an explosion at a cafe in saint petersburg that killed a well known pro war blogger kremlin. describe the blast as a terrorist attack carried out by ukrainian secret services. ukraine denies involvement and has blamed russian domestic terrorism. a woman said to have links with anti war rallies has been arrested. wolf was so in this footage, posted on line flatland, sitarski is seen being handed a statue doing it saw as a st. petersburg cafe. he jokes with the gathered crowd as he inspects the gift so long a short while later, the 40 real pro war blocker will be dead. killed by a bomb. russian media claims was hidden inside the bust. russian blog is a shaving. this unverified footage claim to show the moment of the deadly explosion, which is now being treated as an act of terrorism by the kremlin. with this figure

in ahead of the minor in hand 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. it 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 slowly ran those for the near, had blood all over them of close. but you can use with i don't really to task ve, whose real name is maxim. firmin was a prominent back of rushes, invasion of ukraine, filming himself last year at the grand kremlin palace, celebrating russia's annexation of ukraine's occupied regions. gospels, a summer, we will be to every one. we will kill every one. he says, in this defiant tirade that went viral, helping to build his popularity among pro war russian nationalists. he may be behind his death or ordered the attack is now the subject of much speculation in

russia. the c. c. t. v. pictures being widely shared on russian online channels, appearing to show some one carrying a package into the cafe before the blast. and according to russia's interior ministry, and 26 year old local woman arrested over the incidents has now confessed, claiming in a video to have planted the bomb the without providing a motive. the kremlin says it was orchestrated by ukraine with the help of a russian opposition group, but without providing any evidence, he lives at it. but that value is not shared by everyone, including the head of the russian wagner, mercenary group. you have jenny pr, goshen, who owns the cafe, where the blast took place over the stairway operator was here paying tribute to the task in a video filmed in the proceed ukrainian city of back modes later suggesting that

domestic radical groups are responsible for the blog as death and not the key government. why? and as investigators try to establish a motive for the attack, that's a claim that is unlikely to go down well within the kremlin, which is doing all it can to paint a picture of domestic harmony. i view its special operation in ukraine is look at the more stores making news around the world. germany, vice chancellor, robert ha, back has joined volunteers, dimansky on visits to a military hospital. i spoke with wounded soldiers as the ukranian president presented medals. earlier they visited a visit, a village where alleged rushing war crimes took place. it's mister hobbins, 1st trip to ukraine since the invasion last year boiler, there is a boiler. jim as chancellor olaf schoultz has met with the leaders of romania and moldova in bucharest. he assured them of his country's ongoing support describing moldova as a part of a european family to eastern european countries,

share borders with ukraine, and have seen huge numbers of refugees since the invasion cost of those of former president hash. in fact, she has gone on trial in the hague, accused of war crimes. he and 3 others are faced charges, linked to cost was war of independence from serbia. in the 1990 is pleaded not guilty. turning redactions and closed. former us president donald trump is heading to new york to face criminal charges after leaving his home in florida is due to appear in court on tuesday of the alleged payment of cash money to an adult film actor in 2016. mr. trump support amongst republican voters, a search since becoming the 1st former president to face criminal charges. nasa has named a 4 strong crew for it's awesome is to move flight clue. the 1st woman on the 1st african americans take part in the mission cruise due to fly around the moon as

early as next year. awesome. as to the 1st crude luna voyage since the end of your power in a moment. 50 years ago. keith cowering is an astro biologist and the former nasa employee. he's now a journalist and editor covering nasa and space policy. i asked him to tell me a bit more about this diverse crew. well, you mentioned to the 1st with the other 1st is jeremy hanson. the canadian, so you've got, you know, there's a lot of maybe political twisting on this, but you've got your own unusual crew given that the last time we said people to the moon was 3 white american pilots. ok. and what are they going to be and what are they going to be doing up there? well, this is sort of a, a precursor flight to the landing. this is the artemus 2 mission, yarmouth. 3 mission will actually land this mission is the 1st time that we'll send a crew back around the moon, not only in 50 years,

but also in this spacecraft. so the idea is to test anyway, pretty much everything except the actual weight. and there's a precedent for this, we did this back during the apollo program, but now we built spacecraft a little more efficiently. so we don't to have to do as many flights before we actually went our right. and so there was, so when they actually do land, do we know? do we know what's gonna happen then? so we have all of his to that goes random, then presuming everything to be, all right, the next mission they actually get out and go back to the moon. is that right? yeah, and they'll be using a large vehicle that space x is building a starship and they will, they'll meet in lunar orbit, they'll get out of one capsule into that than the weight of the moon. and we don't know what when exactly that'll happen. it'll probably be 2025, could slip a little bit. and we don't know who the cool is going to be for that yet, except if you listen to the, the, the bumper sticker here, it's the 1st woman and the next man. you're a person of color to wait on the moon,

so please stay tuned. ok. a technology obviously has made huge leaps in some way baths. humans last set foot on the move back in 68. how is that likely to change what these astronauts can do up there? well, sometimes you know, the stuff that he did before still works. a lot of the tools of the use back to it'll still work. it's your geology tools. but a lot of the scientific instrumentation that we take now, we have computers that are vastly more capable than what we use during the apollo era. but pretty much we're going to be picking up where we left off half a century ago. cuz a lot of people believe that we have on finished business on the move, and that's what these people be putting their minds toward. yeah, why is that an unfinished business or why we going back or if it's more symbolic than, than, than really necessary? because i wonder why wouldn't you just drop a, i don't know a box of computerized tricks to do this. robin's actually put people and that's an excellent question. i'm 67. ok. i grew up during the apollo era and people would

ask that question back then. it was a political aspect to it, but there's also technological aspect. but this time we're not going just back to the room for flags and footprints as they say, we're going to go back and just to stay, we're not going just as white american pilot male pilots, we're going back internationally. you will see japanese european astronauts and these are artemus missions, and we're going to go back to build a base there so that we can just not visit for a couple of days. but the stand, you know, up and really just understand what is liked living in the world. because at some point we want to go to mars. it is a lot of things we can learn about living for long periods of time in the lunar search. ok, i doubt us, we will speak again rather for talking to keith cowan at is of space ref. and nasa was thank you so much. my pleasure. just to remind you about top stores at base i. d. w. investigation with metro news has uncovered details of killings. thank to bangladesh as a lead to police. folks are investigating that unique together with sweden based

part of the spoke to inside this room for the 1st time. reveal the evidence of how the rapid action battalion is alleged with committed extra judicial kit. and rational authorities have confirmed that a woman has been arrested in connection with an explosion that killed a prominent military blogger in st. petersburg, a suspect and actually took part, an antique will be called for alicia. as more world news at the top of the hour next on the w, more on that investigation into bangladesh is a good a .