ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, outrage in ukraine and around the world over images of a gruesome war. cry footage on social media appears to show a russian soldier be heading a ukrainian prisoner of war. ukraine's president says, such a crime can't be forgotten or forgiven. also coming up reassessing,

german china relations. talk on the heels of the french president. germany is foreign minister alena bab zach is in china to reassert a common european union policy, plus the european space agency launching a probe into space. it's on a mission to jupiter, to investigate the solar giant and look for life in the oceans of one of its movements. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. ukraine says that it has opened a war crimes investigation, and after 2 videos emerged on line, appearing to show russian soldiers be heading ukrainian prisoners of war. the shocking footage has drawn international outrage. the kremlin described the video

as awful, but raised questions about its authenticity, ukraine's foreign minister demetrius co, labour condemned russia on twitter, describing it as worse than isis. a warning to our viewers. the following report contains material that some may find disturbing. brutal and gruesome footage has appeared on social media. the video allegedly shows what appears to be a russian soldier. cutting off the head of a captured ukrainian prisoner of war screams can be heard as a voice in the background says, do it. the video which appears to have been recorded last year is now the focus of international attention. have more information or information on the veracity of the video. having said that, if confirmed this is yet another brutal reminder about the inhumane nature of the russian aggression killing of prisoners of war is a very serious breach of the geneva convention and demonstrates once more russia's

complete disregard of international law and particular international humanitarian law. moscow has also responded to the video kremlin spokespersons me 3 pets. gov said the images needed verification showing the 1st of all, we need to check the authenticity of this awful footage. of course, i told her this footage is awful and 1st we should check its authenticity. i wrote as a champion, your slant mortified poor with them. and then we could have a pretext to check whether or not this is true, whether it happened immediately, and if it did, where and by whom it was done. ukraine's president followed him years lensky spoke of systematic terror or by russian forces and demanded consequences. building every one must react to it. every leader. don't expect it to be forgotten. we are not going to forget anything. neither are we going to forgive the murderous ukraine's s

p u security service said on wednesday, it had opened a probe into the video. and vic, now though to keep where did you correspond? mathias ballinger is standing by mathias. this is bone chilling stuff and there's are reportedly another video that appears to show further execution. also circulating on line walk us through. if you can, what these 2 video shall get, both of them have appeared in the past few days on telegram channels. i'm the 1st one we've just talked about of that to say the 2nd one is the letter one. this one appeared yesterday night and the other one has appeared a few days earlier. the other video us shows a bodies of ukrainian soldiers lying next to a turned over vehicle. the vehicle seems to have

a driven on mine and they also have been beheaded. the heads are missing out. it's possible that their heads were cut off after they were already dead after that vehicle had hit a mine while the, the video that we've just that we just talked about in the report. that video shows the execution by be handing off a prisoner he still alive at the beginning of the video. do we know where this might have taken place or who might have been behind it? so we need to be very careful with these videos for now. they have not been verified, or one of them takes place. the, the, the one with the dead bodies is situated on a field and or the one on the execution. one is in a yeah, their trees around in a wooded seems to have taken place sometime in summer or spring,

maybe early autumn because the leaves are still green. but we do not have many marks that allow us to identify where exactly this has taken place. one wagner defect, earn x combatant of wagner, says he has recognized typical cause signs, et cetera of wagner soldiers. but again, this is not verified. the soldier who is conducting the execution, the beheading his mask. under. what we can clearly see is that the person who has executed that this soldier is wearing a ukrainian uniform. so it looks like it's showing russian soldiers executing a ukrainian prisoner of war. that's what we know. so far. the government in chief says are for its part that it is investigating now these incidents as war crimes the latest in addition, taylor growing last including butcher. what does this sort of violence are mathias

due to the nation at a time when it is literally fighting for its survival? every atrocity, the russian side commits leads to more resolve on the ukrainian part because people get more and more convinced. there was already a strong conviction that ukraine needs to withstand this an invasion in order to save its future and the life of its citizens and to avoid a very cruel read by the russian forces and every atrocity committed adds to that. so the resolve in the ukrainian society is still there and it's reinforced by all these news. of course people have been looking at this with horror because this is the only way to look at this. these are horrifying pictures. mathias ballinger joining us from keith. thank you. the video's have renewed criticism of russia's brutal tactics on the battlefield. i asked mike martin, senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college,

london. what these videos say about the kremlin control over its troops are, they very clearly says that the claimant doesn't have full control over its shapes . and of course, not all of the russian troops in ukraine are actually russian military. there's also mercenaries and those chechen militias and, and none of these work very well together. so, overall, ukraine, sorry, russia does not have very good control over streets. what do you think would drive a soldier to commit such an act? all war crimes are different, but i think there's basically 3 categories if you like, do they fall into there's those that are directly commission by the state of the state orders it so just to go and commit war crimes. i don't think that's what's happening here. at the other end. there is a situation where the state has no control really over its troops. and i think

that's what's happening here. and then there's a 3rd category, and that is where the state russia, in this case, creates a narrative about its enemy. that is so de, humanize the way it talks about the training and government being nazis and gaze, and all this. and that combines with a lack of control over its troops, and then the troops end up feeling like because they're stuck and brutal combat. that's ok. what becomes normal for them becomes stretched and warped, and then they commission the source of war crimes. what are the chances of bringing these people to justice and can that only happen after the war is over? i think sadly, the chances of bringing the perpetrator walk on, such as this, the justice are very slim. and the reason for that is because international justice, particularly around war crimes, only works when the great powers, if you like, of the world agree the international justice must be done. the problem that we have

here is that the perpetrator is one of the great powers. russia is just still a great power. and that reason alone makes it very unlikely that war crimes such as this going to be punished. mike, the video is absolutely shocking. how do you think it is likely to impact morale on both sides of this war? i think actually on the ukrainian side, it's going to reinforce them throughout the war. we've seen russia bombing civilians. we saw the boots for the massacres in future, and we see things like this for heading. and each stage we've seen ukrainian because they have no choice. if they start fighting, there will be no ukraine left so they must fight that defending their homeland. i don't know the degree to which this will have an impact on the russian side. i think, i think many russians,

particularly the soldiers who are engaged in this brutal combat their lives are not worth very much. the russian command doesn't treat russian soldiers with a great deal of respect. i think many of those may shrug and say, well this is a war, and this is what happens in war. mike martin, senior fellow in the department of war studies at kings college in london. thank you. thank you. and here's a look at some other stories making headlines. north korea has fired its 1st intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the launch triggered a scare in northern japan where residents were told to take cover, though there turned out to be no danger. the missile flew 1000 kilometers before landing at sea. south korea's military has called the move a grave provocation. western australia is bracing for one of the most powerful storms there in a decade. cyclone elsa has gathered strength over the indian ocean. it is expected to bring damaging winds. heavy rain and abnormally high tides residence there have

been stalking up on a central supplies or leaving for evacuation centers. us president joe biden has received a warm welcome in the republic of ireland as a place that he described as part of his soul. he stopped off at shops and restaurants and don dog, a county where some of his ancestors lived. biden will later be the guest of honor . at a banquet, i've seen patrick hall in dublin castle. germany's foreign minister on a lena bear bach has arrived in china for a visit that she hopes will re balance germany's relationship. she is expected to discuss the war in ukraine, pushing beijing to help and the conflict. burbock is also due to discuss pension over taiwan with chinese officials. beijing staged military drills around the island earlier this week. china's warships and fighter jets simulated blockades and

attacks on taiwan as part of the drill is in claims the self governing territory as its own. and has not ruled out using force to bring the island under mainland control and t w's. political correspondent, tom sparrow, in berlin, and journalists having crutch mur in beijing both following this visit. i started by asking fabi and about the current situation between china and taiwan. i had of the german foreign ministers visit yes, the situation has come on quite a bit. initially. beijing actually plant or no flight term zone on the north of taiwan between the 16th and 18th of april. but they have made a rear back track. now the snow flies on but only less half an hour on sunday, and that gives you an idea that china, on the one hand, showed a lot of military strength to bring those drills, but also to some degree, some restraint. what i, however, found really very alarming worcester dehumanizing rhetoric that you could see, for example, a high ranking and general of the people's liberation army said in the evening in

use. he compared the independence activists into taiwan or to a cancer the troops surgically removed. so that is really very concerning thomas, what is the likely message that anna burbock is now bringing to china when it comes to the situation between china and taiwan? essentially, sar, other than military escalation is in no one's interest, it's not in china's interested, not into one's interest is not in europe's interest either. and that has to do with the fact that the region plays a vital role when it comes to global trade. that something that and in a bad book, the german foreign minister, stressed before she departed to china. now more broadly, germany sees china both as a partner in particular when it comes to economic relations. and in fact, those economic relations have strengthened reportedly in the last year or so. yet at the same time, it used china as a systemic rival, as a competitor and atlanta, babcock stressed that it was important also for germany to look at where there are

possible risks when it comes to, to unilateral dependencies. and this is again, related to possible escalations in the, in the region. germany wants to avoid that at all cost because essentially that would also affect effect germany stance internationally. thomas, just briefly, our quick follow up there are, she's also likely to discuss the war in ukraine. what is germany want to see? well, this is also very important because i know no book stress that china plays an important role when it comes to maintaining global peace. china is a member of the un security council. china is also a country by the way, that has a relationship with russia and as such, the role that china could play when it comes to trying to find peace, trying to find a solution to the war. and ukraine is particularly relevant and that is something that on an ann babcock and by the way, not only burbock other european leaders have tried to achieve the same,

is to try and understand what kind of role china could play when it comes trying to find a solution to the war and ukraine. fabi and how is the german foreign ministers and all these issues that are we've heard are on the table. how are they being perceived in china? well, i mean, their book is not very popular. he and paging that might not surprise because she is rather outspoken with her criticism, or some even view her as quote, unquote, antique china. but actually there's a lot of restraint when it comes to uncovering the visit actually before it starts . because am i will the am better, wants to see how it goes. i mean, nothing is written in stone yet, and are for example, other or visit by macro recently of really went very well for, for china. so i think this is still a charm offensive towards the european union going on and, and we are basically, china wants to divide brussels and out of washington. they don't want a trans atlantic solidarity. so i think am the how the state media here will cover and also view the visit will really depend on what outcome it will produce and

family and are, you know, we've been seeing beijing and mass girl put their relations on display since the invasion of ukraine how likely is it that the chinese leadership listens to the europeans and further presses russia to and the war? what to super unlikely. i mean, we just saw trait numbers coming out today. um, the, the bilateral trade between china and russia has skyrocketed the rocket to it and basically a plus 70 percent since the last year import and export. and also the political commitment, or from paging towards moscow seems rather robust. just yesterday i spoke to a high ranking foreign policy scholar and former ambassador, and i asked them at the official position and he basically doubled down on that. and this war and chinese viewers are provoked by nato expansion, that it has to do with a, a security architecture of europe, et cetera. but he did not criticize or russia with one syllable,

and that is also the official stance of seating ping. i mean, there's no criticism whatsoever and, and macro failed to get any diplomatic or concession from china towards ukraine. so i don't think, or at least i'm not very hopeful that they are box m a visit will produce any an outcome on this front. thank you. so much for the encouragement in beijing did have, he has tom estero in berlin, anchor to both of you. the european space agency is jupiter probe is set to launch in just a couple of hours. the i siemens explore dubbed juice is the e essays biggest planetary mission to date. it is designed to answer some tantalizing questions like could the ice in crusted oceans on one of jupiter's moons be concealing extra terrestrial life? ah, the jupiter icy moons, explorer, or juice will be on its mission for around 7 and a half years. its destination is jupiter, a solar systems largest planet,

to get bad use will need a lot of momentum. and that will mean several close fly buys of both venus and earth. research is from the german aerospace center in berlin. will focus on jupiter as 3 mysterious i see moons which were discovered back in 1610 by italian astronomer galileo, galle order crew. he this flew, the biggest question of all is evil. they can support life because they all have on the ice ocean in their interior. it's actually warm enough for one of those. the reasons that they can have water, which is the most important prerequisite for the emergence of life europa, the smallest of the 3 moons is believed to be the most likely candidate for extraterrestrial life. beneath its icy crust lies an ocean which could contain

twice as much water as all of us oceans put together. how thick is europe has ice crossed? how deep is its ocean? and what is it made of? that's what juice is setting out to discover. and it will explore jupiter's other moons to which may also boast several lays of water. to do this, the probe will repeatedly fly past them, making observations with the help of its 10 state of the art scientific instruments . after 3 years juice will enter the orbits of jupiter's largest moon ganymede. it will be the 1st time a space probe has ever orbited the moon of another planet. an instrument co developed in berlin will use laser pulses to measurements of ganymede says. this will reveal whether ganymede has an ocean of liquid water and locate any areas of interest. mitchell's 100 minutes bidding with juice,

we will explore conditions to see if life could have evolved. and also to find out another way to look at both wouldn't wear on jupiter's moons will be most likely find evidence of life. that will also be a task for subsequent missions of rules for your mouth. programmers who are not rich juice will spend 4 years exploring jupiter and it's means uncovering as many of their secrets as possible. and earlier i spoke with mark mccoy grant from the european space agency. i asked him why the jupiter icy moon's explorer known as juice is such an important mission? well, firstly, the thing that within your, your peace there of course, is that we believe that several of the big movements have water oceans beneath the surface. and that potentially present the possibility that life might to develop their places which are very different from the surface of the earth,

or maybe the surface of mars. deep under maybe 1100 kilometers of ice. these oceans one hundreds of kilometers thick. so much different to the water you have here on earth. but the other thing which is important is we have to remember that we have this giant planet there as well. jupiter and, and the moons of jupiter will connected. it's this the tie of jupiter, which are actually keeping those liquid oceans in that liquid state. and we know that there are many thousands of planets or between around other stars in our milky way galaxy and beyond. and some in a way, by studying this gas giant planet and it's moving in detail. we also will be able to bring information to help our understanding of climate elsewhere in the universe . and how about your understanding of sustaining human life hope for that? well, the one of the big problems we have to face as a spacecraft, actually going to draw picture is that jupiter has this enormous magnetic field, much more powerful than the earth. and that channels particles from the sun which create a very dangerous radiation environment. so that's actually the reason that our

spacecraft is going to go into over to around ganymede, which is a bit further out than you, roper. you roper's further in closer to jupiter, much more dangerous environment. so humans going to this to fit your environment and finding a place to live is probably fairly unlikely. but of course, deep under the ice, they're very protected down there. so if there was potentially in the past or even today, some kind of micro that lives under there, they at least would be protected from that radiation. how can our viewers keep track of your mission? how can they follow you? well, the 1st thing is that the launches this afternoon at quarter past 2, german time. so we'll be going up into space then from french kiana. and we have an 8 year journey ahead of us, which is interesting. we have the fly past the earth again, 3 more times in order to use the gravity of the earth. once pos, venus. and so we only arrive at jupiter in 2031. but we will have an enormous amount of material which we can read today online and follow the launch itself. and

over the coming days will be opening up the solar panels and then opening up the various antennas on board. so it's a pretty exciting phase now. but in a way, it's just the middle of the mission to be building it for more than 10 years. today's the launch and then the science all comes all the way out there in 2031 to 2034. when we go into orbit around ganymede, your 1st results you're expecting as of 2031. well, from the jupiter environment, of course the, one of the things which is interesting is that we could get there quicker, but we wouldn't be able to stop and go into it. so we have to take this very secuity route, kind of just getting up enough speed to get there, but not so much that we can't stop when we get there. we will be taking pictures of earth and venus on the way, but not really for science. so 1st science 2031. yes. ok. my current really fascinating stuff. i we look forward to falling you. we wish you all the best. joining us from the european space agency. we appreciate it. thank you. and here are some more world headlines. a 2nd lawmaker from the us state of tennessee has

been reinstated nearly a week after he was expelled for taking part in a gun control protest inside the house chamber. justin pearson and another black legislator were forced out by the republican controlled body. their supporters marched in memphis after a local commission reinstated, peers. in the u. s. state of indiana. thousands of people have been evacuated after a fire broke out at a plastic recycling facility. official say, negligence caused the blaze. a health warning is in force over smoke which could be toxic. and in sports news that the monte carlo, tennis master is russian to nearly mad, yet have made light work of his italian opponent lorenzo. so nago to advance to the round of 16. the new, admittedly, dave's 1st match this year on clay was a walk in the park in monte carlo medley day of his story. 2023, all strong winning for harcourt title so far this year. and with this

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