website dots, dw dot com. ah, speculation, accusations, and a young woman in custody after the assassination of a prominent russian military blogger, blood lamb, to tar ski, died and a cafe in st. petersburg. after a plaster bust he was handed, blew up. it was a staunch backer of the war and ukraine, but also an outspoken critic of rushes, military strategy. russian authorities accuse the female suspect of cooperating with the ukrainian secret service and jailed kremlin critic alexander bonnie cave, calls the attack domestic terrorism and denies all involvement. as does no balmy, and even the head of russia's wagner mercenary group, says, ukraine had nothing to do with this article for him. berlin, and this is the day. ah,

he was one of the most famous, most aggressive, most influential and most vocal and military bloggers at work correspondence in russia. we will beat everyone, we will kill if we walk into the room. everyone who needs to be rough. there is information indicating that the ukrainian special services may be involved in the planning of this terrorist act. with some more in the most they have to think about this time thinking about our, our country numbers. and also on the day, nasa announces the crew for its 1st trip to the moon and 50 years. artemus 2 will carry the most diverse team to ever embark on a lunar mission,

including the 1st person of color and the 1st woman. she's an engineer who got her started god and is no stranger to breaking records logging the longest continuous space flight ever by a woman your mission specialist. christina hammer, coke. ah, this is our crew. this is humanities crew. ah, ah, and welcome to the de la glen. to tar ski was born maxine, foreman in latifah. in ukraine. decades later, he became a prominent pro war blogger calling for the total annihilation of the country. he was born foreman died and an explosion at a cafe in saint petersburg on sunday, and speculation as rife about who might be behind the attack that killed him and

injured dozens. russia was quick to point the finger at you crane and arrest the suspect. ukraine points the finger back and even some of potent closest allies publicly question the kremlin version. would you say in this footage, posted on line flatland, sitarski is seen being hunted, a statue doing it, sold as a st. petersburg cafe. he jokes with the gathered crowd as he inspects the gift. oh, so a short while later, the 40 real pri wolf 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. this figure in ahead of the minor in hamlet, 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. so the ran, those for the near had blood all over them of course. but you can use it. i don't to task ye whose real name is maxim firm in was a prominent back who have rushes invasion of ukraine filming himself last year at the grand kremlin palace, celebrating rushes annexation of ukraine's occupied regions. gospels of summer we will beat every one we will kill every one he says in his 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

comparing to show so one carrying a package into the cafe before the blast. and according to russia's in tibia ministry, and 26 year old local woman arrested over the incidents has now confessed claiming in a video to have planted the bomb. but 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 per goshen, who owns the cafe, where the blast took place over the stairway operator was here paying tribute to tusky in a video filmed in the proceed ukrainian city of back modes later suggesting that domestic radical groups are responsible for the bloggers death and not the key government. as investigators try to establish a motive for the attack,

that's the claim that is unlikely to go down well within the kremlin, which is doing all it can to paint a picture of domestic harmony over its special operation in ukraine. war and bring in russia. analysts, dr. jay's mclinn. she's just released her book called russia's war. she's also a research fellow with the department of war studies at kings college lennon doctrine. mcglynn as always good to see what more can you tell us about like lamb to darcy or maxine foaming. thank you michel. so he is a figure who has long been associated with the more extremist wing, the pre russian forces going all the way back 10 to 14, when he broke prison. after having rubbed the bank and killed 2 women in the process, he was part of the group that was growing in terms of its vociferous criticism. the ministry of defense is conduct the way that using to wage the war. and he

represented, he was part of a group that did rep, does and did represent a threat to some within the sort of russian establishment because of the criticism and a political threat from the right. of course, we don't know who is behind this, but couldn't what happened to him possibly haven't chilling effect on other military commentators who've been outspoken critics of the strategy that seems to not be going on that well for russia. yes, i mean that does seem like it might be rather fitting relative. of course it's impossible to say who actually to say for certain you actually ordered and this, this assassination there, it does seem, it did have, it was rather stylized as, as the nation. so it seems unlikely to have been just some random non professionals, but certainly he was one of actors, bloggers in the sense that he worked very closely with your guinea pedagogy in the

head of the wagner, the mercenary group. and he would have been seen as a symbol if this were an assassination, to send a message and certainly is the type of assassination that that would send a message. i would imagine it would have a chilling effect. although it's, it's very difficult to tell because it could also back fire grew the other way and, and simply ramp up further into really disagreements at the seems to be the 2nd fascination on russian soil of a figure associated with the war. any grain after daria davina in august of last year, how are these attacks received by the russian public? mm hm. with some consternation patricky because the criminal has tried, the criminal of course, blames them on ukraine. and that makes sense on one level, in terms of, i just mean in terms of their political strategy. but on the other level, that then frightens people because the criminal has tried very hard to make people,

particularly in the cities, particularly in a very metropolitan, large metropolitan, such as st. petersburg and moscow to make them feel as if the war is very, very far away. you know, a faraway war that really wouldn't affect them. but then if you see prominent people being blown up it's, of course you might start to wonder quite how far away that will really is. there are many theories and floating around about who might be responsible. are there any leads as to who might actually be behind this? but it's very difficult. they've arrested, of course, a who is, who appears to be a radical feminist linked to the pneumonia group. and that is interesting because actually the radical feminist anti war resistance movement, they have been hesitate, say the only but one at the very, very few. if not the only until groups that have been truly radical and violent in

that means of protest. they're not normally against people normally against infrastructure. however, they normally much more practical in terms of trying to slow the, for example, the transport weapons or ammunition. and therefore, it seems, it seems very odd that they would now target a blogger who is as heinous as his comp, again, to was, was hockey and operational of any operational difference, which also undermines the idea that ukraine would go to this sort of hassle. to even yeah, yet we talk about your gaining for goes in a lot. and today again, he made headlines when he claimed that his fires had legally, quote, unquote captured back more. here's part of a video you posted online as listening. you did, you were legally speaking. we have taken over back more drama, the unit commanders who captured the administration building and the whole central district will put up these flags. when you look at the doctor,

my going, i want to get your take because bring goes and has made premature claims several times in this war already. what do you make of his announcement today? i find it very hard to take it credibly because of the number of, from mature claims that he's already made. but also because of this time he used to teach you select a jury league has sort of legally taken it. i mean, they haven't legally taken crimea nobody. i mean very few people, very few countries are less crimea as did your part of russian territory. so it seems that really does make it very incredible. yeah. is a claim and of course the ukrainians denied. yeah. and moscow report that there are no advances in buffalo. how damaging is this contradictory messaging to russia's military and propagandistic games? i think it points to the amount of infighting that's going on right now in moscow.

and that is an incredible amount of inviting, because one of putin sort of strengths is actually, historically, has been, he's very good at resolving in tribute disputes. but he's become, by all understandings. he's become so obsessed with the war and not interested or incapable of resolving disputes. and that's really going to stop having an issue, especially because new. these aren't just sort of, policy makers disagreeing with the private armed armies, disagreeing with, you know, an incredibly large on the, the, the russian army. so this has a very worrying effective aspiring out of control and leading to real chaos and on the key as well. dr. james mclean of kings college london. thank you for your time . thank you. lou. joe biden once called him the george washington of kosovo. now how shame thought she is at the heart of

a major war crimes trial in the hague. it relates to kosovo, struggle for independence from serbia. after the breakup of you with lobby, a former kosovo president, thought she and 3 others are accused of murder and torture when they were leaders of the gorilla, kosovo liberation army in the late 1990 s. they've all pleaded not guilty. the trial with over 300 witnesses is unlikely to deliver a quick for addict. ah, she thought she is the rebel who became president only for his path to catch up with him at the height of his powers indicted for war crimes. by the course of all special court was 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 c 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 my b. b. reason. so to, to set cost of all jacob balls in ich, she lost $2.00 brothers in the conflict. much more that was foy, may be there some additional evidence, as they call it, that will help the prosecutor and

a judge to convict them quite share the palm of and so that kinds of this kind are not repeated i her or so there. thus it for vicious watching. if they were standing for natalie, you the wait for justice will be long the trial expected to last months, if not years. and we can now speak to edward joseph. he's a foreign policy specialist and former deputy had of the oh i see mission to kosovo . mr. joseph, thank you so much for being on the day and tell me how did cause of us former president, a man who was once very well respected internationally end up on trial for war crimes? well, it is. so he's mister thought she's on trial because of the allegations that he and others participated in war crimes against coastal serves and also against coastal albanians. that's the allegation and that's what he's being tried for. and the

reason he's there, and this is quite significant time, is that the us and the european union insisted on this insisted on accountability among colombians as well as prior to that in the heck other predecessor tribunal, of course processors and coastal law paintings also tried before that predecessor tribunal, what the u. s. and you pushed for this national court to be created following up separate investigation. and, and that's the reason why he finds himself in this courtroom accused of these crimes, please. at the crime he's accused of touch place over 20 years ago. and is it that whole procedure that you just described that delaying the process? why think only i'm going on trial now? well, the court, the court has taken an extraordinary amount of time. of course. yes, it took a number of years to even establish the court, but it's moved very slowly. this indictment, in fact,

was revealed already back in 2020. so it's going very slowly and their predictions, even that with the number of witnesses this case could take as long as 6 years. so that's really an imagine in the end that they're found not guilty all of this time in prison. the other factor here, of course, for co op and is, is that the appearance, contrary to what the prosecutors are saying and emphasizing. but the appearance for some is, this is a di, legitimizing the effort by closer albanians to fight legitimately for their freedom . for the k l, a, the kosovo liberation army against a brutal repression by the serbian government. then let us know that on or should it so that's, that's a concern. that's a real concern and coastal and also the time it is a concern just comes at a very sensitive time in relations between serbia and counselor please. what if i

could this have on relations between the 2 countries? well, hopefully it will not the rail. what is a very fragile agreement, a very ambiguous agreement that was done jointly by you and us leadership, the coordination between the president of serbia, alexander voters, and the prime minister of kosovo, albert courtney, and courtney himself. we should point out here was held and brutally treated up by the serbs in prison in the 990 s. at that time president of which it was actually in the militia, which government was the head of information, basically the propaganda minister at that time. so these are 2 figures themselves who have vivid memories of that period and the 2 of them have agreed that they didn't sign it, but they have agreed that the u. s. s. they have an agreement to move forward on

a path to finally normalize relations. but there's a lot of gaps in that close of all has the 1st obligation of major concession to create an association, a form of self management for served municipalities. this is a big concession on the part of coastal and it does not have guarantees at this point that serbia will follow through or even at the end that survey will recognize kosovo. so it's a quite precarious time. yeah. the war crimes committed during the break, as if you as long you have been trying by several different courts and tribunals do you think there are lessons that can be learned for future war crimes trials? and where of course is thinking about the war in training. yes. i think definitely less we have a saying here in the united states, just as the latest justice denied. so we already see in ukraine, this indictment basically you have a request for a rest,

for library and the head of the entity in russia that has allegedly taken ukrainian children. they have to be prepared, they have to gather the evidence now and be prepared in the chance that perhaps not . but who knows, eventually on that other individual, the woman who has this alleged criminal activity of taking the ukrainian children that they're ready and prepared to move forward. so that's, that's one less of these cases take entirely too long. we know, in the major case of the predecessor had tried to, you know, a for president of serbia of slow motion died the case and so long that he died in prison without that. unfortunately, without that very important conviction for the crimes against racial buzzards or government and cost of police and were just as many thanks for your time to walk.

for the years phase agency nasa has revealed the crew in hopes will fly around the moon next year. and the 4 astronauts are scheduled to lift off in november 2024. they include the 1st woman and 1st african american ever assigned to a loaner mission. artemus 2 will be the 1st clued lunar voyage since the end of the apollo era. more than 50 years ago. so this is a big day for nasa and we can speak about it on the day with aster biologists and former nasa employee keith cowan. he now covers space exploration as the editor of nasa watts and joins us from washington d. c. mr cowling nasa says this is humanities crew, so who'll be representing us all of their well, it's interesting you mentioned to 1st is

a 3rd. that is one of the crew members is from canada. so this is an international crew, as well as a our crew with people with different racial backgrounds of different gender. so, you know, it's a lot of 1st there and of course grew a lot of people think about this like 3 quarters of the people who live today. i have never seen anybody walk in another world. so it's a 1st for everybody else. we're doing the same thing again for the 1st time. there are lots of 1st or the man you talked about there for the canadian for jeremy, hans and he has never even been to space. all of the other crew members are veteran astronaut. so how, how unusual of a pick is he he's probably, i think he's just happy that he's good. he's going into space. but you know, some of the 1st people who were around the moon during a paula were rookies as well. so that's not necessarily your 1st, but as in terms of having a non american on an american spacecraft,

that that to me is probably one of the most important things about this mission. because the further we go in with one of these missions, you're going to see european japanese and other countries as well. so it's going to be international at this time. not just an american only thing. this is of being held as math as most diverse lunar mission ever. and next year we'll see the 1st person of color and the 1st woman. and the 1st is a non us american flight of the moon at we've come far from the all male, all white apollo mission. but how much harder is it still today for women and minorities to become astronauts and actually go to space? it's easier, it is, it is perfect as it should be. and i'll be the 1st to say that, but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you should keep trying. and i think this is going to provide perhaps a wider inspiration. that's what we talk about. you know, the, you're, the, are the, this artemus generation notion of the next generation is going to inherit this capability. when they start looking like you,

that means that more people are going to go see themselves as either possibly going themself one day or just that the, somebody like them is seeing these things. so, you know, it's a journey in more ways than one, and we're, we're further down the road then we were back in the sixty's. and in fact, this is the 1st crude lunar mission in 50 years. but it's only going to be a fly by why is this then such a big deal? well i, you said it's the 1st time we're going back to the moon with you once in half a century. but it's that unprecedented in how you do this. you plot for supply spacecraft with nobody on board, we did that. then you fly it with people around the moon doing everything except land, which is what we did back during the holidays. and so, you know, would they like to weigh and i'm sure they would be, they'll get a chance of the future mission, which is also something we did during the policy. but again, you built, you do the steps and you reduce the risk every time you check these things off. so

we're just able to do it faster. now we don't need a whole bunch of missions. we need 2 or 3, then we will, we're going to be on the moon is clearly very exciting, but we don't want to say that well known. and we want to see people on the moon. how much longer are we going to have to wait? well, for me, $67.00, i grew up and they said, well, we'll be on the moon by $969.00. we did, then they said, will be a mars $1081.00 and we did. but with this group here, you know, we're going to be launching and then going to be followed by yet another mission for actually a year and a half. so it's, we're getting there. it may be a bit before we we actually see people walking in the surface, but it's getting closer. not farther away. all right, or counting down the days in line. so thank you so much. kane calling, nasa, watch, great speaking with and that's our time. thank you. so much from all of us here at the bay for spending parts every day with

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