he questioned the nobility of the security council to punish russia due to moscow veto power, the ro, yoga. but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished, sylvia destroying everything they can. now when you best bet, the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately. stressing that what happened to him, boucher is only one example of frosh in atrocities. was get more on this from richard painter, professor of law at the university of minnesota. he was the chief ethics lawyer for us president george w bush, a very warm welcome to the show. and we've seen the devastating image as out of butcher ukrainian. president zalinski has pointed to them in his 1st address to the un security council since the invasion, and he is demanding action at what can the body do besides offering a platform for publicly shaming russia. unfortunately, because of the russian veto in the security council, i, it is not clear that the security council could take immediate action. but the un, the us should addr

whether there was an avenue by which russia could be stripped of its un security council. vito, i don't believe that that's going to happen in the united nations. and we have a permanent, that membership of the security council for russia, as well as the united states and, and it's china, france, and got great britain. and it's going to be impossible, i think, to remove russia from that role. and yet, there are many other avenues for addressing russian aggression. there's nato, there is the european union, there's economic pressure that needs to be brought on russia. and it, this may have to happen for an extended period of time. because russia needs to be told they're just non negotiable, that they leave every inch of ukrainian territory, and that they make recompense for these agree just war crimes. and i believe the vladimir putin and other russian leaders should face the international criminal court over what has happened here. this is going to be a long term struggle um for democracy and western europe needs to focus on making sure that it is energy independent and is not dependent

he addressed a meeting of the un security council after visiting butcher on monday to lensky sharply criticized the security council for its inability to stand up to rush as aggression. as a permanent member of the council, russia has the power to veto any binding resolution, making the body powerless to act against the war on ukraine. and i asked richard painter, professor of law at the university of minnesota. whether there was an avenue by which russia could be stripped of its un security council. vito, i don't believe that that's going to happen in the united nations. and we have a permanent that membership of the security council for russia, as well as the united states. and it's china, france, and great britain. and it's going to be impossible, i think, to remove russia from that role. and yet, there are many other avenues for addressing russian aggression. there's nato, there is the european union, there's economic pressure that needs to be brought on russia. and this may have to happen for an extended period of time. because russia needs to be told they're just non negotiable,

he's actually talking about un security council reform to the actual security council itself. and that has to be noted that's going to be a landmark criticism of the own security council and rochester, and just on the point of, well, what zalinski had to say. i mean, one more thing that he really did speak about is bringing justice immediately and he kept calling for accountability. that's absolutely right. and that's been echoed by the legal system here in ukraine. and now what he's calling for is international accountability. one special tribunals. he want something similar to what happened after the 2nd world war. and the nuremberg trials were people who were responsible for the crimes who gave the orders were actually punished. he's looking for something like that. now within the ukraine legal system itself. and people who are involved in the area, they say that if we call gay international justice, we will do it here at home. we will bring people to trial here in ukraine, even if we have to do it in absentia. even if we can't get russians to, if we can't get russians. exp

he questioned the inability of the security council to punish russia due to moscow's veto power, the ro yoga. but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished, so they are destroying everything they can. now when it was factual, the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately stressing that what happened to him, boucher is only one example of russian atrocities. and i asked richard painter, professor of law at the university of minnesota. whether there was an avenue by which russia could be stripped of its un security council. vito, i don't believe that that's going to happen in the united nations, and we have a permanent that membership of the security council for russia, as well as the united states and, and it's china, france in great britain, and it's going to be impossible, i think, to remove russia from that role, and yet there are many other avenues for addressing russian aggression. there's nato, there is the european union, there's economic pressure that needs to be brought o

he questioned the inability of the security council to punish russia due to moscow's veto power, the ro, yoga. but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished, so they are destroying everything they can. now when you best bet, sure. the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately stressing their what happened to him. boucher is only one example of frosh and atrocities. are correspondent alexandra phenomena wasn't boucher earlier today and she sent us this assessment of the situation there. russian tanks got it by fire at the roadside body itself, civilians lying in backyards, and in the middle of it, traumatize residents grappling with their own horrific stories. that is what we saw in butch out today. we're ukrainian forces us still busy searching for mines left there by the russian army. in goodshaw, russian soldiers stands hughes of terrible war crimes. witnesses speak of summary executions? civilians killed at will. the ukrainian government is urging international experts to come

well that's returned to our top story, the un security council in session right now on the ukraine crisis. the korean president's address, the council describing the atrocities he believes were committed by the russian army allegations dismissed. absolutely groundless, by the russian envoy. let's discuss all this. with reiner russ publicist and former german intelligence officer, he joined just live on the program. thanks for taking the time today. rushes representative. he directed his remarks at ukraine's president, emphasizing that accusations against the russian army are, quote baseless, and that russian troops are not targeting civilians. i was reiterated over and over . does it look like the un security council is at least listening, taking on board somewhat. russia's position. ready where i would serve as far as i could see it, and i couldn't see the security council meeting to the end because i'm just speaking now here. the western countries, of course, didn't take any account nor also the, the irish representative was just reading a pre prepared notes and put all the blame straig

thank you so much for the time being well cross back to the un security council on this. and then to what the indian ambassador to the u. n. has to say a deeply disturbing the unequal locally condemned these killings and support the call for an independent investigation. we hope the international community will continue to respond positively to the humanitarian needs. the support calls urging for guarantees of safe passage to deliver essential humanitarian and medical supplies. keeping in mew the dire humanity in situation in ukraine. india has been sending humanity in supplies to ukraine and its neighbors, which include medicines and other essential relief material. we stand ready to provide more medical supplies to ukraine in the coming days. india continues to remain deeply concerned at the worsening situation and reiterates its call for immediate succession of violence, an end to hostilities. we have emphasized right from the beginning of the conflict . the need to pursue the part of diplomacy and dialogue. when innocent human lives are at stake, diplomacy must prevai

so i was quite a meeting of the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side of the story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the tirade of western leaders. so i was quite a meeting, a few counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries. there clearly some very different understand other dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering italian. american journalist who has been covering the conflict from inside ukraine and has pointedly criticized the ukrainian government and is armed forces has gone missing in the city of hanukkah. no fellow reporters fear for his life, saying that gonzalo lira has been out of contact since last friday. extremely troubling that gonzalo lira a us citizen in ukraine has disappeared from social media. he was scheduled to inte

so i was quite a meeting at the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side of the story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the tirades of western leaders. so i was quite a meeting at the security council, not a lot of unity among the countries there. clearly some very different understanding of the dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering. ukrainian military is accused of using internationally band cluster munitions and it's showing of a populated village in an apparent effort to push back russian forces claim reported by the new york times. but the cluster munition that landed to next to mr doors. shank goes house was not fired by russian forces based on evidence reviewed by the new york times during the visit to the area. it is very likely to

that's the message to the ukranian president from russia's ambassador to the un of a security council meeting. this is they, the session was dominated by the disturbing footage, allegedly showing bodies of civilians in the streets of the ukrainian city of boucher at moscow views as a provocation. against the russian army also had on the program, we hear from a former officer in the ukrainian security services. he explains the potential motivation of those behind what he calls a staging in boucher. the task here had several goals meant to target the various audiences take. for example, the population of ukraine controlled by key of the goal here is to trigger hatred towards the russian army so that people do not even think about some kind of brotherly relationship. a spanish journalist claims most of the reports of crimes by ukrainian forces against on balance residents are true after heading to the region himself to investigate. he also voice is concerned over why such incidents are going on reported by many western media. the terrible news that i can now share is that most of the inf

k. block rushes call for an urgent un security council meeting on monday, rushes un envoy phase. the refusal to meet is unprecedented. on western countries are actively promoting, quote, anti russian artists. i'm for incidentals, believable, unsinkable, that we were denied the security council meeting. that we requested. the reason why the worst and delegation will do this is very simple. it would not be benefit. worse, of course, the security council meeting is colleen by russia since this will shake them to russian. lana, if the comfort of new promo to the ambassador certainly did not hold anything back during that press conference. and he specifically went on to note a number of the claims that are being made that are being spread all across social media right now. and how they simply don't line up with the facts. he referred to this as a false life operation. he specifically noted that the mayor of boucher was smiling and happy and talking about how the city was re i russian forces just a few days before mentioned mentioning nothing about any sort of civilian casualties. and h

security council itself, or it's inaction and basically calling for a reform of the united nations security council. it's important to stress that the united nations security council has one of that key un institutions, holes. a lot of power, for example, has the capacity to present binding resolutions. yet at the same time, the 5 permanent members of that security council have a veto power. and one of those 5 members is russia, which basically means that on this particular case, it is very difficult to have concrete action from the united nations security council. and that was something that mr. savanski with this particular sound might but more in general with his age clearly tried to criticize. that's why he was asking for more action coming from the united nations security council. and now the atrocities, sir, that have been perpetrated in boucher that the world has seen and leaders and people around the world are shocked by the images. a news coming out of their talk just a little bit about what effect that has had on germany and german leaders. well, germany as well as other european countries announced that it was expelling russian diplomats in particular, 40 russian diplomats of

security council to punish russia due to must coast veto power. that roll yoga, but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished till the destroying everything they can. now, when you best bet, the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately stressing that what happened to him, boucher is only one example of frosh and atrocities. russia denies accusations that his troops committed. war crimes, in boucher their claims. the bodies found on boucher streets only appeared after its forces withdrew from the town. but visual evidence contradicts that narrative. the new york times has examined satellite images would show a street in boucher this 1st image is from february 28th before russian troops took control of the town. the 2nd image now is from mid march when the russian military occupied boucher. this outlines the bodies of civilians which have been there for weeks elsewhere in ukraine, the besieged city of maria pole has been under constant russian bombardment since the beginning of the

situation is unique because of the perpetrating of these crimes by a permanent member of the un security counciltandable to call attention to both the russian presence on the security council and the veto power that russia has but frankly in my view, focusing on the role of the security council and its constraints are not the thing that will help ukraine at this time. , , «a time. president zelensky thinks exactly the _ time. president zelensky thinks exactly the opposite, _ time. president zelensky thinks exactly the opposite, why - time. president zelensky thinks exactly the opposite, why don't| exactly the opposite, why don't theyjust kick russia out? i know they cannot but russia has broken plenty of international laws and rules in recent weeks, why cannot the un throughout it's own rules and kick russia out? , ., . ., , , out? they would certainly be well deserved _ out? they would certainly be well deserved to _ out? they would certainly be well deserved to do - out? they would certainly be well deserved to do so - out? they would certainly be well deserved to do so but . well deserved to

security council. the most powerful un international body. i, he already has the support of the united kingdom, who called this meeting. they hold the presidency this month in terms of support for a war crimes investigation the united states as well. the united states has gone so far as calling for russia to be kicked out of the un human rights council for it's alleged abuses in ukraine. i expect to hear from russia today as well. they as you have noted have consistently deny that they are targeting civilians. they've claimed that the bodies that we've seen on the ground in the town of boucher were staged by ukrainian officials. and they promised to submit more evidence to that fact at the meeting that is about to take place to day. but we'll also hear from you and officials, including the highest you unofficial secretary general, antonio gutierrez, who's been very strong and calling for, for russia to and it's invasion and to come back to the rules of international law. so a lot of important briefings that we're going to hear today as the un

so i was quite a meeting of the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side of the story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the high rate of western leaders. so i was quite a meeting and security council, not a lot of unity among the countries there. clearly some very different understand of the dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. a lot of people are clearly suffering. some news just in now president payton has congratulated the russian military on the successful tests. launch ever brands, new intake, continental ballistic missile. we can get the details now from our correspondent maria phenomena. maria, get to see you. so tell us more about this as saw. much missile? yeah. hi nikki, yes. rushes defense minister. he says that earlier on wednesday carried out a successful tasked laun

however, moscow is still saying that is calling for that un security council meeting. and i hope that it will be an option at some point in the future or to correspond rachel blevins. thanks a lot for those updates. now we're gonna cross live now to daniela's i or journalist and also thanks a lot for joining us. daniel. the 1st question i have is about the media, of course, and the media and key, as well as western countries. they've been quick to blame russian forces for these boots or killings. will we see moscow punished before any investigation has even taken place? do you think? wow, certainly, yeah, and then the media jumping on this like there is no tomorrow. and the reason very simply is the media, the western mainstream media has signed on quite enthusiastically to the disinformation war that their government are running. in fact, the london guardian recently ran an article worrying that russia was winning the disinformation war. and that the british should, should try harder for the airport. busy to, to, to take away the victory from russia so that the press

security interests. the latest country to announce the expulsion of diplomats is denmark. moscow's ambassador to the un says russia will present what he called "factual evidence" to the un security councilstern statements on events at bucha are lies, and that the shocking images of bodies in the streets of bucha were staged. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg reports. this is how russia wants its soldiers in ukraine to be seen — as heroes and humanitarian workers, a caring, sharing army, spreading goodness and light to those it claims to be liberating. but moscow knows the international community doesn't believe that. mr lavrov, the us president has called your president a war criminal and said he must be held accountable. what does that tell us about russia's international reputation right now? translation: what this says is many american politicians | who started the iraq war, destroyed syria, invaded libya. their conscience is in a bad way. our main interest is what the russian people think about this situation. as for evidence of apparent russian atrocities, the kremlin calls those provocations and fakes. whenever russia is accused of anything, be it the poisonings in salisbury or, i

russian diplomats twice tried to convene a meeting of the un security council on a resonant fake with the city of bucha, but the uk chairing the security council refused to hold a meeting. referring to the fact that a similar meeting is already scheduled for tuesday, meanwhile the pentagon said that it had no evidence of what happened, that however, it did not prevent the us president from blaming putin for everything. you probably remember how i was criticized for calling putin a war criminal, but we saw what happened in the bucha. this proves that he is a war criminal, we must continue to supply ukraine with weapons. which she needs in order to continue the fight, she needs to collect all the details for a real war crimes trial to take place this guy is cruel what happened in the bucha is blatant and everyone saw it. you call it genocide. no i i think it's a war crime. at the same time, there is more and more evidence that the massacre in bucha is a fake. so, a deputy of the local city council, a day after the withdrawal of the russian military huts, said that not a word about the k

so i was quite a meeting of the un security council, a lot of allegations against russia. russia didn't have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side with story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the high rates of western leaders. so i was quite a meeting of your counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries there clearly some very different understand and other dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering. washington is now lying and arms raising us all bits with us. 5 presidents come la harris and i think a ban on anti satellite weapons tests. i think it will encourage more responsible behavior in space. yesterday, vice president announced the united states commitment to not conduct the destructive director sent anti satellite missile testing, and to work to establish this as a new international norm for responsible be

a meeting of the un security council over the events and ukraine is under way right now. discussing her renders footage of alleged dead civilians in the c butcher shocking pictures show images of them lying in the streets and others piled in mass graves, ukraine's defense ministry sees not. the alleged killings had been perpetrated at by russian troops. russia's you and envoy, vassily. the venture earlier slammed the furniture staged provocation and the start of today's session. but we start rage over the security council vetoing moscow's to request for a meeting to discuss what happened in butcher gilbert. right? yes, i would like to express a protest in response to how the u. k. the president has handled our request to call the security council meeting to discuss the terrible provocation by the ukrainian radicals in the city of boucher. you have allowed a blatant violation of the rules of procedure, having ignore the request. in response to that, the president of the consulate said that they will no longer reject request by countries to convene security council sessions. will let cind

member of the security service of ukraine security council thank you yesterday, president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky delivered a video message e to a meeting of the unl and he was so exalted so inflated like a soap bubble that this soap bubble allows himself to put it actually ultimatums that zelensky said either you exclude russia or he must dissolve himself, listen. where is the security that the council must guarantee there is no security, although there is the security council as if nothing had happened, where is the peace for which the united nations was created. it is obvious that the key institution of peace, which should ensure that any aggressors are forced to peace. it simply cannot work effectively, ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to close the un, do you think that the time of international law has passed, if your answer is no, then you need to act now, you need to immediately force the aggressor to peace. need determination chain of massacres from syria, up to a som of years, afghanistan has reached the end of libya should be stopped and for a long time, but now it's time to transform the system with the core, which is the un to do t

ukraine's president accuses russia of committing genocide and is preparing to address the un security council as pictures of dead civilians lead to worldwide condemnation. we are still discovering dead bodies here in bucha, the horror of what unfolded coming to light now but there are still areas of this country under russian control and no one quite knows what is going one quite knows what is going on there. president putin's team says the images of atrocities in ukraine are staged — and denies that any war crimes have been committed. also this hour... elon musk floats the idea of changes at twitter — nearly a million people back the idea of an edit button for tweets. and how students in england are looking for new ways to stop devastating flooding, through the power of video games. good morning. moscow's denials to accusations that its forces tortured and killed civilians in the ukrainian town of bucha have been undermined by newly released satellite images which appear to show bodies lying in the streets before russian troops withdrew. moscow says ukraine has fabricated evidence with the h

k has blocked russia's call for an urgent un security council meeting on monday rushes you and envoy says it's an unprecedented step in you in history. i'm for incidentals, believable, unsinkable, that we were denied the security council meeting. that requested sam magnor certainly did not hold anything back during that press conference. and he specifically went on to note a number of the claims that are being made that are being spread all across social media right now. and how they simply don't line up with the facts. he referred to this as a false live operation. he specifically noted that the mayor of boucher was smiling and happy and talking about how the city was free. a russian forces just a few days before mentioned mentioning nothing about any sort of civilian casualties. and he then went on to take a look at the videos that are being posted across social media to know how they simply do not line up with the world in which we saw that the russian troops were there in boucher for weeks that they were there with the civilians of the civilians were allowed to walk freely. now he

the disturbing footage from there a fake that says the un security council is scheduled to meet later at this hour to discuss the events in boucher on the conflict overall. also here on the program from a former officer in the ukrainian security services explains a potential motivation of those behind what he calls a stage publication in butcher. the task here had several goals meant to target various audiences take, for example, the population of ukraine controlled by key of the goal here is to trigger hatred towards the russian army so that people do not even think about some kind of brotherly relationship with a spanish journalist claims most of the reports of crimes by ukrainian forces against don bos residents are true after heading to the region himself to investigate. the also voice is concerned over why such incidents are going on, reported by many western media. terrible news that i can now share is that most of the information coming out is true and in the west. there is no desire to investigate and report on what is really happening in maryville and don bass with life mosco

russia from the un security council well, first of all, they are not legitimate members of the un andcouncil because no one there elected them, they by right of succession took the place of e.e. the non-existent union of the ukrainian ssr, therefore in this case it was possible to impose a suspension and, accordingly , offer to formalize this procedure or simply exclude them if they are a member of the un security council because or suspend because it is a world crime. of course, the law, the existing laws, rules, regulations, they did not foresee that putin would to ignore any norms of the world order, therefore in this case i believe that the un general assembly has the right to either suspend or exclude russia altogether from the security council, they are now mykola a stupid moment talking about violations of, for example, the geneva convention, we understand that part of the russian military personnel committed crimes against the civilian population of ukraine and more part of that part was captured, we don't know what the current situation is with the exchange lists, but the que

his attempted are expected to address the un security council later.ssador to the un said the trustees do not occur and accused western media fake news. you can tweet media fake news. you can tweet me if you like. you can keep up—to—date on the bbc news website as well. we have got live updates there from our correspondence and teams across the country and keeping an eye on the situation there and of course, later we are expected to hear from course, later we are expected to hearfrom president zelensky as he addresses the un security council no doubt with my reaction to the atrocities emerging across the country. but, for now, thanks for watching. hello there. it was a mild start to the week, but it will get colder again later on. i6 celsius, though, on monday in hampshire — and for much of the country, temperatures are still in double figures early on tuesday morning. but it is colder in northern scotland — that's where the colder air is. much of the uk in this block of milder air. and between those two different masses, we have this weather front, an

so i was quite a meeting at the un security council. a lot of allegations against russia. russia did have an opportunity as a permanent member of the un security council, a body that was formed among the countries that defeated fascism in the 2nd world war. they had an opportunity to give their side with story and they presented facts that are being ignored in western media and ignored in the tirade the western leaders. so i was quite a meeting obscurity counsel, not a lot of unity among the countries. there. clearly some very different understanding of the dance on the ground in ukraine as a lot of people are becoming refugees. and a lot of people are clearly suffering. but thanks for joining us here in asi, international web, back in 30 minutes with the latest for a city with a number with a lot of them bought a.

everything will be discussed at the security council. unthe framework of the meeting on the humanitarian situation and only as one of the topics how to intercept the agenda. the west has already come up with the day before. as zelensky was unexpectedly announced as a guest star with a video message valentin bogdanov ivan utkina gle. a couple of news from new york moscow is sometime retaliatory measures after a new wave of mass expulsions of russian diplomats from european countries persona non grata today announced immediately 30 employees of the embassy in italy 25 more in spain 15 in denmark and three in sweden estonia expels 14 diplomats and closes consulate in narva and the office of the embassy in tartuet, and in france, our ambassador was given a list of several dozens of russians who, under an incomprehensible pretext , should leave the diplomatic missions, as deputy foreign minister alexander grushko said, such steps were pre-planned by a massive company, and as it became known less than an hour ago , latvia joined the middle of the

the president of ukraine has demented russia be expelled from the un security council for war crim.odymyr zelenskyy tells the council about the murder, rape of civilians and says more atrocities may be discovered. >> >> the world has yet to see what they have done and other occupied cities and regions of our country. lewis: as further evidence of destruction in the south as civilians try to escape the fighting. >> it doesn't exist anymore. it has been destroyed by shelling or an airstrike. i don't have anywhere to go and i still don't know if my wife is alive or not. lewis: there are warnings the number of people in extreme poverty in the u.k. could increase by two thirds. we will see how people in northern ireland are making ends meet. the ukrainian president, the litter mere zielinski, has delivered a devastating address to the world's top diplomatic body, the un security council. he's demanding full accountability for the alleged atrocities carried out by russian forces. central to this is the town of bucha to the northwesof the capital, keep -- capital, kyiv. as russian forces w

when it's trying to bomb _ un security council when it's trying to bomb at — un security councilry general. i think all of those things are going to become a really big questions in the coming — to become a really big questions in the coming months. i suspect they're starting _ the coming months. i suspect they're starting to— the coming months. i suspect they're starting to be a huge western mark over theirs — starting to be a huge western mark over theirs. . , starting to be a huge western mark over theirs. ., , ., starting to be a huge western mark over theirs-— over theirs. that is an awkward auestion over theirs. that is an awkward question between _ over theirs. that is an awkward question between work- over theirs. that is an awkward question between work cannot | over theirs. that is an awkward i question between work cannot do. particularly the security council. it can't do anything because the great powers, the major powers that were invited into the security council at the end of the second world war completely at odds at what to do. china is effectively backing russia

that's what they did and why both of us knew you're trying to calling to expel russia from the un security council. do you see that happening? if they, well, i've security council would basically be a un breaker. if, if a founding member, again, there's you with lobby, a president because you savvy was under the founding members of wedge. and it was simply declared non existent and expelled out of the un during the ninety's. when russia was under the yeltsin government that was doing whatever the west told it to but tried to expel a security council member that's basically unheard of. and if that happens, that would be, that would be the end of the un as we know it, perhaps in perpetuity. let me land skills, i should be un meeting that shocking, but i'm verified, such as reporting called crimes by russian troops. do you think a full, improper invest independent investigation is needed before blame is so quickly assigned, especially when it's based on verify videos? well, normally yes, obviously, and i think so too. but the way propaganda works is that you never go through the investigation. you ba

security council. the russian ambassador started off accusing the president at the security council, the uk ambassador to the ung because he had requested one specifically to talk about russia's accounts and claims about bucha and the uk president combined the meetings today when we were going to be hearing from president zelensky, the secretary general and other un officials who could give their accounts of what they are hearing, the official accounts in the un. which they confirmed they have been hearing about the use of cluster munitions and indiscriminate targeting of civilian populations and they have verified accounts of what could be war crimes in russia and so, as i say, it is a very acrimonious environment in the council but there really is no holding back when it comes to un officials and western nations and others as well who believe that russia isjust others as well who believe that russia is just using the council to spread lies and propaganda. russia isjust using the council to spread lies and propaganda. thanks for much for — spread lies and propaganda. thanks for much for that. _ let's look at w

in the meantime, what is needed is something to stop it happening, and if the un security council. _ ussia has a veto, cannot even condemn it, never mind do anything — even condemn it, never mind do anything more substantial than that, he is right— anything more substantial than that, he is right to raise the question about what is the point of it all? of about what is the point of it all? of course, — about what is the point of it all? of course, they bring up those of course, they bring up those issues of war crimes. it is something that also continues in the daily telegraph but which i want to turn to — the next output and or dissolve yourself. —— stop putin 0r dissolve yourself. they... really, and let me turn to you, penny, russia is a permanent member of the un security council, they have the potential to veto any resolution, which they will do in their own self interest, so something like looking to the un, i'm naturally if it is the right way for mr zelensky to turn. what do you think? == i the right way for mr zelensky to turn. what do you think? -- i am not sure. it turn. wh

everything will be discussed at the security council. unework of the meeting on the humanitarian situation and only as one of the topics how to intercept the agenda. the west has already come up with the day before. zelensky was unexpectedly announced as a guest star with a video message valentin bogdanov ivan utkina gleb for a couple of new york news. moscow will take retaliatory measures after the new wave of mass the expulsions of russian diplomats from european countries were announced persona non grata today by 30 employees of our embassy in italy, another 15 in denmark and three in sweden. - representative offices in the republic, as alexander grushko, deputy head of the russian medical center, said, such steps are a pre-planned campaign, the purpose of which is to deliberately strike at bilateral relations between states. now about the exploits of our military, which were told today in the ministry of defense. colonel alexander shipov imposed a battle on the enemy and delivered a preemptive strike, a toxic group under his command des

i nations and un security councils have _ nations and un securityprime minister, have always saved india. for prime minister. they _ have always saved india. for prime minister, they make _ have always saved india. for prime minister, they make this _ minister, they make this announcement in an interview and says i want an immediate cease—fire which is a slight toughening of the position given they've had this position given they've had this position of neutrality and invasion, that kind of took a little bit of pressure of borisjohnson and there's same commission should have been out there, wagging fingers publicly, but pressing its income on, we really need you to use your influence on russia to split one of the things borisjohnson has been saying, i imagine is in the street deal is that we should be buying arms from britain instead of india. britain has very large arms industry thatis britain has very large arms industry that is part of it. i wonder how much modi has been getting a boost from boris arrival as others pick posters up on the street s

_ now, whether un security council is now, whether un security counci , ., , ., council is gettingil. we are also expecting the secretary—general, antonio guterres, to address the un, so as soon as that happens, we will be bringing it to your life. antonio guterres will be speaking ahead of zelinsky�*s speech, and many are saying that zelensky is expected to give an emotionally charged, powerful speech, after going to the town of bucha yesterday just outside of kyiv, where he witnessed some of the atrocities and some of the bodies, the images we have seen coming out of the town. as soon as that begins, we will be going to that life, we are expecting president zelensky to address the un security council and antonio guterres to speak ahead of him. let's listen in. translation:— translation: the security council is — translation: the security council is called _ translation: the security council is called to - translation: the security council is called to order. i l council is called to order. i give the floor to the russian federation. translation: protest in connection _ translatio

coverage we just heard from ukraine's present farmers. lansky made a virtual address to the un security council in new york. he detailed acts of torture, gruesome acts of violence. he alleges russian troops inflicted on civilians in boucher and he asked sir, where is the security that the security council should guarantee? well, or where ahead of mister zalinski speech show you as secretary general antonio terrace in his opening remarks called for investigations into the atrocities and expressed concern over reports of rape and sexual violence with me here in the studio is the thomas sparrow. thomas, what jumped out at you. i mean, he, he called out the un, he called out the world saying, listen, this is what's happening in my country. you need to step up. if i had to summarize the lensky speech with one sentence that he gave, i would certainly say, where is the security? the security council needs to guarantee. and he answers that himself by saying not there. there was a very strong criticism, not only to the members of the united nations security council, the permanent members, but also the r

he questioned the inability of the security council to punish russia due to must coast veto power, the ro yoga. but we are dealing with a state that is turning the un security council veto into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished, so they are destroying everything they can. now when you best bet, show the ukranian president called on the united nations to act immediately. stressing that what happened to him boucher is only one example of russian atrocities. earlier we spoke to mud undine, us say professor of lot also university. we asked him for his assessment on the role of the security council in the ukraine complex. we don't have will government . the security council is the best we have that cannot act without all the permanent 5 members of the security council agreeing. or at least not the i think that we have to take any opportunity to reforming the meeting is strengthened the united nations and indeed the security council. however, it's not very likely that countries which to day won't action against russia, that they would accept that they themselves should be subjecte

okay, johnston with the headlines here on al jazeera ukraine. presidents is totally un security council, should expel russia or disband, met lensky, said the world is yet to learn the full truth of russia's alleged war crimes in his country. comments come just days after the discovery of dead bodies in the town of many of the people had gunshot wounds and some of them had found the glass little grey. me. we need decisions from the security council piece in ukraine . if you don't know how to implement this, you can do 2 things.

president zelensky will be addressing the un security council later today. addressing the un securitynow is professor 0lympia bekou, head of the international criminaljustice unit at the university of nottingham's human rights law centre. very good to have you with us today. could you explain for our viewers what is the correct procedure for gathering and documenting evidence for a war crimes investigation? let me start by the fact that atrocities and war do happen, so it is very important at this stage even though the conflict is still going on, to collect the evidence which will then be used in any eventual prosecutions. that will take time and it will take a lot of work, so the office of the prosecutor of the international criminal court is already on the scene. last week the prosecutor himself was in ukraine. it is important at this stage of the conflict to map, document, preserve but also authenticates the evidence thatis but also authenticates the evidence that is coming out of ukraine. he would have heard the russians are disputing the accuracy of the evidence, so this is a cru