the dying act of his career. anyone quitting now, after defending all that, hasn t got a shred of integrity. mr speaker, isn t this the first recorded case of the sinking ships fleeing the rat? and in other news, a ukrainian mother picks through the remnants of her son s life. we have a special report on russian atrocities and a war crimes investigation. and japan plans to pump waterfrom the fukushima nuclear plant into the pacific. we hear from the fishermen protesting the move. welcome to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world. the british prime minister borisjohnson is clinging on to power in downing street, despite the resignations of more than a0 of his own mps from their government roles. he s continuing to defy calls for him to step down from some of his most senior colleagues. they believe he has clearly lost the confidence of most of his party. with the latest, here s our political editor, chris mason. the front pages, the photographers, the rep
yet. in downing street, with a pretty big crowd of protesters who have gathered outside the gates, chris is still with me. this note of defiance, that has come through loud and clear tonight from downing street, at one stage today people were talking fairly confidently about the prime minister actually going? about the prime minister actually auoin ? ~ about the prime minister actually oiiin ? . ., , about the prime minister actually oiiin?. ., ~ ., going? when i was talking to george on the six o clock going? when i was talking to george on the six o clock news, going? when i was talking to george on the six o clock news, i going? when i was talking to george on the six o clock news, i was - on the six o clock news, i was anticipating there was a possibility, nothing more than that, that within a couple of hours there might have been a lectern just behind us with the prime minister preparing to come out and offer his resignation. that was a view articulated by plenty o
stay in that building. we will leave it there, thank - stay in that building. we will leave it there, thank you - stay in that building. we will| leave it there, thank you very much. moving away from the uk, let s turn to ukraine now, where one of the biggest war crimes investigations of modern times is under way. the international criminal court and ukraine s own national prosecutors are gathering evidence of russian atrocities. some of the worst took place in bucha, a suburb of the capital kyiv. as our special correspondent fergal keane reports, there s psychological devastation for the families of the dead. and a warning, you may find this report distressing. she s come to gather in what s left of the life of a lost son, a man who loved laughter. laughter. denis rudenko, killed in a massacre. his mother, katarina, has come to clean out denis locker at the garage where he worked.
here is the place of the executions. all the bodies were lying here in different positions. and the man leading ukraine s investigation told us he is going after president putin and his elite. that is where the bullet hit. it was definitely planned in advance. it was instructed from the top. the suspects would be the top of the top. so, the guys who actually launched the war, let s say. putin and his defence minister? yeah, yeah. so, it is like a chain of people, which decisions led to the invasion. russia says the massacre was a fake its standard response to even the most glaring truths. and the kremlin isn t cowed by war crimes investigations. it ll be hard to get justice for denis rudenko while vladimir putin remains in power. translation: whatever will happen later, after the war. ends, i don t care at all. honestly.
denis was 37, a father of two. he was shot dead by the russians, with seven other men, on march four last, at 144 yablunska street in bucha. it began with ambushes. ukrainian artillery stalled the russian advance. the russians encountered resistance here as they tried to break through to kyiv that they simply hadn t expected. so what they did was to launch a sweep right through the area, going house to house, to find anyone they suspected of helping the ukrainians. they arrested denis rudenko with eight other men.