host: it is worth pointing out what that geneva convention's, the highlights of what the geneva conventions prohibits, including willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment, biological experiments, willfully causing great suffering or serious injuries to body or health, extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully, compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power, willfully depriving a pow of rights of a fair and regular trial, the unlawful deportation or transfer and the taking of hostages. who enforces this? this is the convention. how does this get enforced? guest: this was an important question and one of the main dilemmas when you talk about international law is who does the enforcing. the basic idea of the geneva conventions is it is supposed to be based on reciprocity. all countries are supposed to have an interest because they don't want their civilians to be targeted. they don't want their pows to be mistreated. the idea is all the parties are going to have an incentive to abide by them.

well, anyone who violates the geneva conventions. this is why we have the geneva conventions . and in this particular all the geneva conventions. 123 applies to this one click because all sorts of units would be protected. soldiers who fall captured or injured has to be protected. civilians want to flee in terms of being a i, d, b, or if it has to be protected. so in a frontal, who should be prosecuted, everyone who is involved in these incidents, shall they be proven to be soldiers from the army or civilians carrying arms. they have to be presented in front, of course. and if these people have a command share their command ship, if they don't take action to bring them to court, they need to be also the security at this stage, those involved in this incidents and or those who are giving them to order to do so . if this exist, has to be presented in front of goals. understood. yeah. how can then just finally bruship perhaps make sure that those violating the law or if it's fun to be verified, do face justice on face for a trial. if those people are often viewed as you well know

the place at a meeting of the un human rights council in geneva.— rights council in geneva. the blood is on putin's _ rights council in geneva. the blood is on putin's hands, _ rights council in geneva. the blood is on putin's hands, not _ rights council in geneva. the blood is on putin's hands, notjust - rights council in geneva. the blood is on putin's hands, notjust of - is on putin's hands, notjust of innocent ukrainians, but the men he has sent to die. he is violating international law, including the un charter and multiple commitments to peace and security. but charter and multiple commitments to peace and security.— peace and security. but words and actions by western _ peace and security. but words and actions by western leaders - peace and security. but words and actions by western leaders have l peace and security. but words and l actions by western leaders have not yet persuaded russia to pull back. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. let's take a look at the situation on economic sanctions against russia. there's a growing list of companies abandoning their russ

world not only to themselves, respect the geneva conventions, but to ensure respect of the geneva conventions and part of that entails a responsibility that are called grave breaches of the geneva conventions and these are the most serious violations of the laws of war and armed conflict and states do have responsibility to move forward with prosecutions where they can. now the where they can part is the hard part because they need to get their hands on the people responsible for the war crimes and as we discussed that's the tricky part, but if, say, someone was indicted for a war crime states that are party to geneva conventions have responsibility to participate in trying to seize them in bringing them before the court, and if a known criminal travels into a country that's party to a geneva convention, someone who has good reason to believe was responsible for breaches, states do have obligations to move forward with a trial. we've seen, for instance, in germany there have been trials of syrian government officials who fled along with refugees into germany and germany has exercised universa

so he is not in geneva today. his speech or the human rights council will be a pretty standard affair. but what was going to be interesting in geneva is he was going to get an give a news conference we understand and report is would have got a chance to, to grill him on the kind of situation that is not now happening. but human rights council, as regular session, as i say, is on the way. but it's worth telling you to look ahead to thursday because the human rights council and that regular session, one of the 1st things the date is vote on having a special session on ukraine. that special session starts on thursday. all right, james james, for now. thank you for that. let's go back to andrew simmons who is live from live near the border with poland as interesting that russia is going to be addressing the. 7 un human rights council because the international criminal court has now said it is going to open an investigation into possible war crimes in ukraine. what, what do we know that? well, the international crimina

of course, as a breach of the geneva convention, we're talks about cheating. so treating prisoners of war with dignity and not putting them at risk of being able to identify them or they families. you have videos in the past, not just like this, but you have, we, individuals are being named with their families will be named where the identities are being given. where you, you see the soldiers being humiliated. you see the soldiers being punished back on march the 10th human rights watch fainter quest to the ukrainian government because of it was so concerned about these videos. and on march the 16th, if it's still not received a response, but we can take a look at that. such treatment of prisoners of war violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. they make clear that prisoners of war must be treated humanely in all circumstances and protected against any act of violence as well as against intimidation, insults, and public curiosity. all international committee for the where cros

host: it is worth pointing out what that geneva convention's, the highlights of what the geneva conventions prohibits, including willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment, biological experiments, willfully causing great suffering or serious injuries to body or health, extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully, compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power, willfully depriving a pow of rights of a fair and regular trial, the unlawful deportation or transfer and the taking of hostages. who enforces this? this is the convention. how does this get enforced? guest: this was an important question and one of the main dilemmas when you talk about international law is who does the enforcing. the basic idea of the geneva conventions is it is supposed to be based on reciprocity. all countries are supposed to have an interest because they don't want their civilians to be targeted. they don't want their pows to be mistreated. the idea is all the parties are going to have an incentive to abide by them.

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention. no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. yeah, that's ok of how to say on the issue will join him know in the studio as our corresponding policy or paula, good to see you. as i mentioned were not showing the footage, but maybe you couldn't describe what is only described this brutal and coverage of that. what's being said in response to it. while i took a look at the footage, it's very, very gruesome. we're talking have about almost 6 minutes of footage that a number of board casters have chosen to show just because of how gruesome it is. in the video itself, you can hear ukrainian soldiers talking about capturing a russian reconnaissance group not far from the russian border in the region of hoc . if they say it's about 20 miles from the border. now there are multiple what we understand to be russians. servicemen that are lying on the ground, they hands are tired and all of them appear to have been heavily biesen. and many of them have quite bad leg wounds. now they bei

so the nuclear power plant is around 5 kilometers across the geneva river. or we know is it that it came under heavy shelling last night. we also know that russian forces are in control of the plot now and that ukrainian workers i've been allowed to continue operating it, but on the russian supervision. the military here are saying that in the last 24 hours or so, there have been a couple of shells fired from the southern side of the geneva river in this direction. we also know that there is ongoing fighting along that southern side of the river up to the town. at least of basil leave. these are becoming new front lines. the situation here on this side of the river suddenly amongst the communities here is being is very calm. people are going about the day to day business as normal, but it was a military operations around what is europe's largest nuclear power plant, have potentially terrifying implications. russia has been heavily criticized by the international community for its military operations around their russia itself says that these explosions aroun

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be, or your r t corresponding policy or told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as the reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage, it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian because since group, if seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc, if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tired, they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies. at the same time they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are receiv

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. or your art correspondent, paul asleep, told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as the reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage. it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian because distance group, if seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc. if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tied. they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies. at the same time they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are

with the use of our arms is strictly prohibited by the geneva convention, nato and e. u. countries have already agreed to supply weapons to ukraine and to put in place some of the toughest sanctions in history. but the ukrainian foreign minister, who dressed them by video wants much more direct support, including the imposition of a no fly zone. we are ready to fight, we will continue fighting but help us if you dont, i'm afraid you will have to share responsibility for their lives and sufferings of civilian ukrainians. this was the response from nato secretary general. our assessment is that her we understand her desperation. but also believe that if we did that will end up with something that could end in a full fledge war in europe involving many more countries on the earth, causing much more human suffering at a news conference with the president of the european commission, the u. s. secretary of state warned that the conflict in ukraine may well be a protracted one, unfortunately, tragically, horrifically, ah, this may not be over soon. and so these efforts that w

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. or to correspond policy or told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as the reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage, it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian because since group it seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc, if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tied, they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies. at the same time they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are receiving reports

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. earlier art correspondent paul asleep told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as the reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage. it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian recognizance group. it seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc. if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tired. they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies at the same time. they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are recei

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. in the original footage, you can hear you canaan soldiers asking whether there are officers present and then shooting them in the thigh. the question is repeated, as russian prisoners lie bleeding on the ground, the matter has sparks condemnation from human rights officials. such treatment of prisoners of war violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure a dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. they make clear that prisoners of war must be treated humanely in all circumstances and protected against any active violence, as well as against intimidation, insults, and public curiosity. the condemnation does not end with human rights groups. as the footage has provoked a wave of entity among social network users, torture of prisoners of war in summary executions are a violation of the geneva convention. not surprising from a country of nazis. took them a while to settle in a new narrative that the russian prisoners of war video as a false fl

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. for the earlier paula slayer told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage, it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian recognizance group. it seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc. if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tied. they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies at the same time. they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are receiving reports t

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. in the original footage, you can hear ukrainian soldiers asking if there are officers present and then shooting them in the sy. now this is allegedly of course the question is repeated as russian prisoners lie bleeding on the ground. the matter has part condemnation from human rights officials. such treatment of prisoners of war violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure a dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. they make clear that prisoners of war must be treated humanely in all circumstances and protected against any active violence as well as against intimidation. insults and public curiosity. the condemnation doesn't end with human rights groups. as the footage has provoked a wave of entity among social network users as well. torture of prisoners of war in summary executions are a violation of the geneva convention. not surprising from a country of nazis. took them a while to settle in a new narrative that the russian prisoners o

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. in the original footage, you can reportedly hear ukrainian soldiers asking whether there are officers among the troops and then shooting them in the fight. now the question is repeated as reportedly rushing prisoners lie bleeding on the floor. the matter has sparked condemnation from human rights officials. such treatment of prisoners of war violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure a dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. they make clear that prisoners of war must be treated humanely in all circumstances and protected against any active violence, as well as against intimidation, insults, and public curiosity. the condemnation does not end with human rights groups. as the footage has provoked a wave of entity among the social network users torture of prisoners of war in summary executions are a violation of the geneva convention. not surprising from a country of nazis. took them a while to settle in a new narrative that the russian

there are four geneva conventions. the international committee on the red cross says all -- our parties. they have universal acceptance. there is a geneva convention on the laws of land warfare. there is a geneva convention on the sick and shipwrecked at sea. there is a geneva convention on prisoners of war and on civilians. so land, sea, prisoners of war and civilians. and these articulate the modern rules of warfare, sometimes called the laws of war. sometimes referred to as the law of armed conflict or, frequently as international, humanitarian law. it takes these concepts which developed historically, spell them out in greater detail. the third geneva convention, which deals with prisoners of war, gives very specific definitions of who would be a prisoner of war, how you have to treat a prisoner of war and how you can't abuse prisoners of war. how, if they have committed a violation, you have to try them and so on and so forth. very detailed rules. the other conventions give similar rules in their respective areas.

there are four geneva conventions. the international committee on the red cross says all -- our parties. they have universal acceptance. there is a geneva convention on the laws of land warfare. there is a geneva convention on the sick and shipwrecked at sea. there is a geneva convention on prisoners of war and on civilians. so land, sea, prisoners of war and civilians. and these articulate the modern rules of warfare, sometimes called the laws of war. sometimes referred to as the law of armed conflict or, frequently as international, humanitarian law. it takes these concepts which developed historically, spell them out in greater detail. the third geneva convention, which deals with prisoners of war, gives very specific definitions of who would be a prisoner of war, how you have to treat a prisoner of war and how you can't abuse prisoners of war. how, if they have committed a violation, you have to try them and so on and so forth. very detailed rules. the other conventions give similar rules in their respective areas.

the tactic also could be interpreted as a violation of the geneva conventions, which say, governments must, at all times, protect prisoners of war from insults and public curiosity. it could ship away it. ukraine's ability to hold russia accountable for violating international law. former us marine corps intelligence officer, scott ritter says such actions are a violation of the geneva convention and questions with outside influence could be playdoh. we don't have to support the russian action to understand that any abuse or maltreatment of russian prisoners war by a ukrainian forces is a violation of international law. i mean, we, we spend a lot of time accusing russia, violating international on yet your are our sensible allies, friends, people, we train by the way, who are violating international humanitarian law by abusing these prisoners. and people say, well, they're not really abusing, they're just, they're filming them. know that the geneva convention is quite clear that you do not expose president award to ridicule or embarrassment by filming them, and then putting that film

under article $56.00 of the additional protocol of the geneva conventions. it must not happen again, even in the midst of an illegal invasion of ukraine. russia must keep fighting away from and protect the safety and security of nuclear sites. colleagues, president putin said yesterday that the special military operation, or as everyone else calls it, the war was going to plan. every one around this table knows that is not true. president putin misjudged the strength resilience and will all the ukrainian people to his invasion. he underestimated the world's condemnation of his actions. $141.00 votes in the general assembly and the unprecedented sanctions on russia demonstrate the strength of the global response. every day, this war continues, the destruction it brings to ukraine, the suffering it inflicts on ukrainian or russian people. and the risks it poses to international peace and security increase. this must stop. we call on russia to end this violence, withdraw its troops and enter into serious peace negotiations. i thank you madam president. i thank

to into the russian. foreign minister said a lot of us, he addresses the us human rights council in geneva. you're going to send you a list of so that when you're dealing with me, see the genetic media emissions with the participation of non nuclear nato countries. and in these missions, they don't know what i did with americans actually side on the use of nuclear weapons against russia, the american nuclear weapon that should be brought back to home. and all the nuclear infrastructure in europe should be dismantled. we come from the assumption that there could be no winners and the nuclear war, so we shouldn't, was able to break out. and this principle is to believe it in the joint statement. yes. even in consistency in 2021 and the statement made by the head of the state of prussia and china was in june of 2021. it is important that, that with the participation and active participation of russia, their joint statement by the leaders of 5 nuclear power risk was made on prevention of the nuclear war and prevention, all the nuclear arrays from this to. but i can see it, it will slow your to

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the tactic also could be interpreted as a violation of the geneva conventions, which say, governments must, at all times, protect prisoners of war from insults and public curiosity. it could ship await ukraine's ability to hold russia accountable for violating international law. former us marine court intelligence officer scott ritter, say such actions are a violation of the geneva convention and questions whether outside infants could be in play. we don't have to support the rush in action to understand that any abuse or maltreatment of russian prisoners war by ukrainian forces is a violation of international law. i mean, we, we spend a lot of time accusing russia, violating international on yet. your are our sensible allies, friends, people, we train by the way, who are violating international humanitarian law by abusing these prisoners. and people say, well, they're not really abusing, they're just, they're filmy them. mo, the, the geneva convention is quite clear that you do not expose president award to ridicule or embarrassment by filming them, and then putting that film out the

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so the nuclear power plant is around 5 kilometers across the geneva river. what we know is it that it came under heavy shelling last night. we also know that russian forces are in control of the plant now, and that ukrainian workers have been allowed to continue operating it under russian supervision. the military here are saying that in the last 24 hours or so, the have been a couple of shells fired from the southern side of the geneva river in this direction. we also know that there is ongoing fighting along that southern side of the river, up to the town, at least of basilica. these are becoming new front lines. the situation here on this side of the river, suddenly amongst the communities here is being, is very calm. people are going about the day to day business as normal, but obviously, military operations around what is europe's largest nuclear power plant, have potentially terrifying implications. russia has been heavily criticized by the international community for its military operations around there. russia itself says that these explosions around

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additional protocol 1 to the geneva conventions, and the iaea statute, and director-general grossi has made that point abundantly clear. in attacking those sites, the russian federation risks an environmental disaster, compounding the extraordinary human tragedy we are witnessing today in ukraine. a radioactive release from any of these sites would also have serious repercussions for human life and health and for agriculture, and for the environment in ukraine, in the russian federation itself, and the wider european region. president, we call on the russian federation to fully respect its obligations under the u.n. charter, international law, and the iaea statute. all international nuclear safety and security standards must be maintained. we call on the russian federation to allow ukrainian personnel at the plant to do their work safely and without undue pressure. it is crucial that safety systems at the plant are not compromised power supplied to , the plant must be maintained . this is essential not just for the six reactors at the site, but also for the spent fuel storage there. th

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i don't such as anchors comment, sparked accusations of violating the geneva convention which caused for the humane treatment of prisoners following the backlash as unco went on the record to apologize for his words, which he says were no more than an emotional outburst. he's the director of an n g o called mo ball hospital, which has reportedly been linked to the us government is going to stay on the human rights watch slammed. ukrainian authorities for publishing images with russian soldiers being humiliated income city. well thought the and russia analyst marcy mccauley for his take on the latest scandal he created, authorities should stop posting on social media and messaging apps, videos of captured russian soldiers that exposed them to public curiosity in particular those that show them being humiliated. such treatment of prisoners of war or pose, violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. it some like a doctor should not say, and he's bacon who geneva convention or the treatment of prisoners of

, he was planning to go to geneva. but he couldn't get there because the space is close to his cross. when he spoke, the delegates that are actually in the room, the ambassadors, the engine, even around the human council table. most of them got up and left in protest at his speech. the events of the human rights counsel continual this week. it's a high level meeting of the human rights council which happen relatively frequently during the year. but the 1st thing they did 24 hours ago when they met was announced that we have a special session on ukraine. so that starts on thursday. so comments in the human rights council be continuing on the ongoing situation in the ongoing invasion in ukraine all week long. all right, james, face there for us and brussel. thank you for that. let's go to andrew simmons who live from levine near the border with poland. andrew bring us up to speed. the latest on the ground. we're hearing report said bell ocean troops may now be in ukraine also. yes, this is where we're at the i'm just she

we treat prisoners according to the geneva convention, no matter what your personal emotional motives may be. earlier paula slayer told me more about the contents of the disturbing footage as well as the reaction to the video. it's very gruesome footage, it's almost 6 minutes. i had a look at it earlier and it really is very upsetting. now you can hear in the background ukrainian soldiers saying that they have captured a russian recognizance group. it seems to have happened around 20 miles from the russian border in the region of hoc. if you see in the video, russian prisoners of war who are lying on the ground, their hands are tired. they have multiple looks like stab wounds on their bodies at the same time. they've been heavily beaten and they are being interrogated by men with blue on bands, which obviously shows you that they belong to the ukrainian military, but possibly also to some of the nazi groups that we've been highlighting. you also then see 3 prisoners of war being ordered out of a van, and then at close range, they are shot in the legs. now we are receiving reports that

was going to say not the us extra fate and the blinking the addresses, the un human rights council in geneva, violating international law, floating the core principles international peace and security, and creating a human rights and humanitarian crisis. reports of russia's human rights abuses and violations of internationally mandatory law are mounting by the hour. brushing strikes are hitting schools, hospitals, residential buildings. there is growing critical infrastructure, which provides millions of people across ukraine with drinking water, gas to keep them from freezing to death. and electricity trillion buses, cars, even ambulances have been shelled. russia is doing this every day across ukraine. thy commissioner said yesterday that russia's attacks had killed at least $100.00 civilians, including children, and wounded hundreds more. and said she expects the real figures are much higher. and the casually keep mounting, including the many civilians killed and wounded in rushes, monstrous rockets, race that had an apartment complex and marquee yesterday. rushes violence has driven over

talk to design cause comments calculations and violating the geneva convention which caused the humane treatment of prisoners following the backlash to think, went on the right code to apologize for his words, which he said when no more than an emotional outburst. he's the director of an n g o called lowball hospital, which is reportedly being linked to the us government is comes to days off to human rights watch slammed. ukrainian authorities will publishing images of russian soldiers being humiliated in captivity. he, queen and authorities should start posting on social media and messaging apps, videos of captured russian soldiers that exposed them to public curiosity in particular, those that show them being humiliated. such treatment of prisoners of war or pose, violates protections under the geneva conventions intended to ensure dignified treatment of captured competence on all sides. did something a doctor should not say, and he's breaking the geneva convention for the treatment of prisoners of war. and why, why does he come out and say, such a thing, greatest thing for a doctor

of ukraine, to hold off on power plants and civilian infrastructure, and respect article 56 of the geneva convention. attacking civilians represents a crime, and perpetrators will be held accountable. -- war crimes committed in the aggression of ukraine. evidence must be gathered, documented, and presented to the courts. we support the icc prosecutor. my colleagues, the u.n. was not created to make humankind the savior for heaven, but to save humanity from hell. we must call in this council to do what is needed and whether it can to save ukraine from russia's relentless aggression. thank you. amb. nusseibeh: i think the representative of albania for their statement and i give the floor to the representative from the united states. >> thank you, madam president. by the grace of god, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night. we all waited to exhale as we watched the horrific situation unfold in real time. i applaud the ability of the ukrainian operators to keep all six reactors in safe conditions while under that, to report as they were able to to their new career regulat

uk's metro newspaper shows a mere empty chamber at the un human rights council in geneva as diplomats walked out to a man and woman to a speech by the russian foreign ministry said they large valve who was left to speak to himself. international into the financial times claims china is ready to play a part in trying to broker a ceasefire in ukraine as missiles continue to hit major cities. let's begin, if we can, with penny. the straits times in singapore is actually an image that has been seen on lots of papers around the world and lots of broadcasters, this enormous convoy. in a sense, ukraine has suffered a lot in the last week but that would suggest that kyiv hasn't seen anything yet. it is hasn't seen anything yet. it is terri in: hasn't seen anything yet. it is terrifying and _ hasn't seen anything yet. it is terrifying and i _ hasn't seen anything yet. it is terrifying and i think - hasn't seen anything yet. it 3 terrifying and i think that's what we have all been looking at and of course in the straits times you have got mr zelensky the president saying prove that life will wi

a rather different reception when he addressed the united nations in geneva. almost everyone walked out as he spoke. with the very latest on the global response, here's our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley. applause an extraordinary show of solidarity in the european parliament today. they got to their feet for president zelensky, the former comedian turned ukrainian commander in chief. as he made an impassioned appeal for support, the translator couldn't conceal his feelings. we are fighting. justforourland... choking up. ..and for ourfreedom. and when he finished, another standing ovation. and then the president was off to lead the defence of his country, the resistance to russia. boris johnson flew today to poland, which has taken in so many ukrainian refugees, with a message for president putin — that he'd made a colossal mistake. for president putin — i'm more convinced than ever, as this hideous conflict progresses, that putin will fail. and i believe that putin must fail. he then had to explain to a ukrainian activist why britain wouldn't ge

. >> in geneva, antony blinken, secretary of state should be in geneva right now hammering out some kind of peaceful resolution. all the tough guy talk sending and more arms, 20 years ago about the same kind of pressure to get us into war with iraq. the pretext they were preempting an attack by saddam and osama again. we cannot let this war take us over. we should be on a plane to geneva or reside. kennedy: visit the kind of thing that could go on for another 20 or 30 years and frankly, i will not put up with his government creating more wounded veterans in the neighbor of what? no one can outline back properly. thank you for your time, appreciate it. >> thank you. kennedy: i don't agree with you on everything but you are really smart. lawmakers demanding the present do more to help ukraine and help and proof gas prices and reduce crime. why won't he act? california republican congressman darrell issa joins me to discuss and moment. ♪♪ lawmakers pushing president biden to get tougher on russia in the ukraine crisis, so far looks like a lot of talk from the white house. ukrainians con

for the first time in two years the watches and wonders fair is back in geneva. relieved fans who can finally attend will be saying it's about time. let's get down to business and the game of who blinks first is on after g7 nations refused vladimir putin's demand to pay for russian gas in roubles. this means russia may turn off the taps to europe unless an agreement is reached within days. on tuesday, moscow said it wouldn't supply gas to europe for free. vladimir putin has ordered the russian central bank, the government, and gazprom to present proposals by 31 march for gas payments in roubles from "unfriendly countries," including all european union states. however the g7 and european leaders have rejected the demand, raising new doubts about the fuel supply to europe. germany would be worst hit, it imported 55% of its gas from russia last year. laurent ruseckas is a executive director of gas in europe at s&p global. laurent, good to have you on the programme. what do you think will happen? figs the programme. what do you think will happen?— the programme. w

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in geneva, russia's foreign minister was about to give an address to the u.n. human rights council with 100 diplomats from 40 countries turning their backs on him and walked out. outside the room, they unfurled a ukrainian flag. a starker side of russia's growing isolation as they alone listen to what sergey lavrov had to say. >> the arrogant philosophy of the west based on a sense of superiority, exclusivity, and permissiveness, must come to an end. caroline: there is to look into the crumley can count on. the president of belarus was showing off an apparent battle plan. the british government has wielded the stick against his regime. they have been hit with new sanctions for facilitating the invasion of ukraine. laura: as russia's invasion of ukraine intensifies, president biden will deliver his first state of the union address tonight. the speech has been rewritten rapidly to focus on the war in ukraine and the u.s. response. survived must also address soaring inflation, the pandemic, and his stalled domestic agenda. he has an approval rating hovering around

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ambassador said what she called vacuum bombs are banned under the geneva conventions. i assume she meant fuel air explosives and other forms of weapons. i was hoping you can tell me about the pentagon's status of the review and whether the pentagon believe they are banned under the geneva conventions. thanks. >> doints i don't have updates respect to cluster munitions. aisle have to take your question on the geneva convention. i'm not an expert on that. rather than spit ball it, i'll take the question and we'll get back to you. abr abraham. >> is the u.s. continuing to fly over the black sea and if not, why not? >> i'm not going to talk about flight profiles. we don't have any aircraft man or unmanned flying in ukrainian air space. the question about specific coordination or communication with the youukrainiukrainian, i put to nato. you are our support is in the form of security system and gets into their hands. sdp you've been listening to john kirby at the pentagon. let's bring in our guests because we have a lot of questions for them. we have barbara starr, retired

that includes cluster munitions and vacuum bombs, which are banned under the geneva convention. we all have seen the 40-mile-long lethal convoy charging toward kyiv. president putin continues to escalate -- putting russia's nuclear forces on high alert, threatening to invade finland and sweden. at every step of the war, russia has betrayed the united nations. russia's actions go against everything this body stands for. people across the world have already united together in exactly the way this general assembly must do today. protests and vigils against russia's war, and in solidarity with ukraine, marked with blue and yellow, have sprung up across the globe. these are protests for peace. from bangkok, to budapest. from berlin, to buenos aires. from sydney, to seoul. from calgary, to cape town. and even in moscow and minsk. people everywhere are standing up to call for president putin to stop this attack. the russian people are themselves asking, how many -- themselves asking how many lives putin will sacrifice for his cynical ambitions. and they are appalled at the answer. to t

>> these are weapon systems that are banned by the geneva convention. cluster bombs are munitions that are designed to explode and carry out projectiles over a large distance. in essence, what they do is they are designed to be anti-personnel devices, which means they're designed to kill tro troops, but when they're used on the civilians, it can kill a wide area of people if you are going after people in a public square, for example. it could potentially devastate everybody within a large city square. when you look at the thermobaric b bombs, that is a weapon that is designed to go after people in enclosed spaces. what happens is, in essence, it's a kind of glorified, if you will, flame thrower, and what it does, it attacks an area that -- i believe we used it in an enclosed space and it sucks the air out of people's lungs who are targeted. it's a very grotesque weapon, and what it does is it asphyxiates people and it does it in a way that is heinous, that is absolutely cruel. so these weapons don't work as well in an open area, but they work extremely