sions and a young woman in custody after the assassination of a prominent russian military blogger, blood lamb to taras ski died and a cafe in saint 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. keith calls the attack domestic terrorism and denies all involvement. as does no balmy, and even the head of russia, wagner mercenary group, says, ukraine had nothing to do with this article for lucian, berlin, and this as the day. ah, he was one of the most famous, most aggressive, most influential and most vocal and military bloggers at board correspondence in

russia. wood will beat everyone and we will kill if we want to rip everyone who needs to be rubbed. there is information indicating that the ukranian special services may be involved in the planning of this terrorist act. with more and more school, they have to think russia to see about this time thinking about our, our country doors. 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. oh, this is our crew. this is humanities cru. ah, welcome to the day flood lent a tar ski was born, maxine foreman in mckee fca in ukraine. decades later, he became a prominent pro war blogger calling for the total annihilation of the country. he was born in 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. an injured dozens. russia was quick to point the finger at ukraine and arrest the suspect. ukraine points the finger back and even some of proteins closest allies publicly question the kremlin version. would you say in this footage,

posted on line flatland, sitarski is seen being handed a statue doing it so as a st. petersburg cafe. he jokes with the gathered crowd as he inspects the gift. oh, so he a short while later, the 40 rail pri won't blocker, will be dead. killed by a bomb. russian media claims was hidden inside the bust. russian blog is a shaving. this unverified footage, claiming to show the moment of the deadly explosion, which is now being treated as an act of terrorism by the kremlin. after this figure in ahead of the mana in hon, that they put his 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 to the near had

blood all over them of close, but you can use it. oh, i don't to tusky whose real name is maxim firm in was a prominent back of russia's invasion of ukraine. swimming himself last year at the grand kremlin palace, celebrating russia's 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. these c ctv pictures being widely shared on russian online channels. comparing 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. 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 pr, goshen, who owns the cafe, where the blast took place over the stairway up. it was here paying tribute to tusky. in a video filmed in the proceed, ukrainian city of back modes lay to suggesting that domestic radical groups are responsible for the bloggers death and not the key government. and 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. dr. mcglynn as always good to see what more can you tell us about like lemme 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 that using to wage the war. and he represented, he was part of a group that did work thus, and did represent a threat to sung within the russian establishment because of the

criticism and a political threat from the right. of course, we don't know who's behind this, but coin what happened to him possibly have a 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, it does seem like it might be rather a fitting relative. of course it's impossible to say who actually to say for certain you actually ordered. and this, this is asinique and there it does seem, it did have, it was rather a stylized m as as donation. so it seems unlikely to have been just some random non professionals. but certainly he was one of wagner's 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. so 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 in ukraine 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, claims 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 floating around about who might be responsible. are there any leads as to who might actually be behind this? well, 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 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, 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 fighters had legally, quote, unquote, captured by more here's part of a video you posted online as listening. you do these 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 get past over the doctor, like when i want to get your take because drink ocean 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 immature claims

that he's already made. but also because of this time he uses, you say, like to jury league has sort of legally taken it. i mean, they haven't legally taken crimea, nobody, right? 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, it's a claim and of course the ukrainians are 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, 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 be 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 anarchy as well. doctor 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 shameful 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 la, via from kosovo, president, sachi 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 ha. seems 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. so was wrong. 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 a thought commander of the kosovo liberation army during the 1997. seen here taking notes diplomat called him the voice of reason cursed ha. busy the thought 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 in the line with me. i didn't even please be sure to the sab cost of an all jacob balls an inch. she lost 2 brothers and the conflict much more that was for a may be there some additional evidence as they call it. that will help the prosecutor and a judge to convict them or his chair or the pomona. so that kinds of this kind are not repeated. i her or so there the said,

the vicious watching. if they weren't than if on avenue, 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 the oh i see mission to kosovo, said joseph, thank you so much for being on the day and tell me how did cause it was former president, a man who was once very well respected internationally end up on trial for war crimes. well, it is. so he's mr. 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, 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 close 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 crank, 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 stop is that this is a d, 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 the loss of 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 counsel please. what if i could this have on relations between the 2 countries? well, hopefully it will not the rail. what is that very fragile agreement, a very ambiguous agreement that was done jointly by

you and us leadership, the coordination between the president of serbia, alexander, who church and the prime minister of kosovo, alban courtney, and courtney himself. we should point out here was held and brutally treated by to serve 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 agreement. 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 serv, 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 when the war crimes committed during the break. and if you, with logging, i've 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, any crane here. yes, definitely. unless 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 of 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 good, 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 croatia. buzzards are going to and cause about please our death. many thanks for your time. you are for

your space 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 the 3rd. that is one of the crew members is from canada. so this is an international crew, as well as a, a crew with people of 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 live today. i have never seen anybody walk in another world, so it's a 1st for everybody else doing the cd again for the 1st time. there are lots of 1st for the man you talked about there for the canadian for jeremy hanson. he has never even been to space. all of the other crew members are veteran astronauts. so how, how unusual a pick is he he's probably, i think he's just happy that he's going into space. but he's, you know, some of the 1st people who were around the moon during a paula were rookies as well. so that's not necessarily a 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 an international effort this time. not just an american only thing. this is being held as nasa most diverse lunar mission ever. and next year we'll see the 1st person of color and the 1st woman and the 1st, as you say, 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're 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 see themselves as either possibly going themselves 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, it is the 1st current lunar mission in 15 years, but it's only going to be a fly by why is this then such a big deal? well, you've said it's the 1st time we're going back to the moon with humans in half a century. but it's not unprecedented in how you do this. you plot, 1st supply spacecraft with nobody on board with it. we did that. then you fly it with people around the moon, doing everything except land, which is what we did back during the apology. and so 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 redid during the pump. but again, you build, 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, i have $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 1981 and we didn't. 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 actually see people walking in the surface, but it's getting closer not farther away. all right, or counting down the days in london, so thank you so much. k cowling, nasa watch. great speaking a richard and that's our time. thank you. so much from all of us here at the bay for spending parts starting with

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