today at six, an arrest warrant is issued for the russian president vladimir putin by the international criminal court. it accuses vladimir putin of war crimes since his invasion of ukraine including the deportation of children to russia. the judges have reviewed the information and evidence submitted by the prosecutor, and determined that there are credible allegations against these persons for the alleged crimes. moscow says it doesn t recognise the court we ll ask what happens now. also tonight: racist, sexist and homophobic the metropolitan police is expected to be highly criticised in a damning new report.
putin. the court could have focused on lots of other military commanders on the russian side who have bombed civilians, schools, hospitals, residential areas, all of which are accused of being war crimes. instead, what the court has done, it has chosen to focus on two things. one, the deportation of children, which is, you know, considered a war crime. but also specifically on the responsibility of notjust the children s commissioner but president putin himself. the court says the reason they are doing it is to try and deter this happening at the moment. they say this crime is ongoing at the moment and by going public with these declarations of the warrants, they are trying to deter further crimes taking place. whether that succeeds or not remains to be seen. so i think the significance of this is, you are right, it is very unlikely that president putin is going to leave russia and place
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translation: russia is not a party to the rome statute| of the international criminal court and bears no obligations under it. russia does not cooperate with this body, and possible recipes for arrest coming from the international court will be legally null and void for us. these are only the first arrest warrants. more are expected for the killing of civilians here in bucha and elsewhere across the country, where russian forces have been accused of rape, torture and indiscriminate shelling. ministers said mr putin would be brought tojustice. i would expect rhetoric, brinkmanship, but at the end of the day, we ve seen it all before with other violent despots and dictators, and in the end, a large number of them cannot sit out the indictment from an international court for the worst crimes
operate independently. it s important the international community support them and give them the tools for thejob. community support them and give them the tools for the job. on monday i ll be meeting with my dutch opposite number and other countries around the world to give them the support to give them the support and care for the victims and we hope, have accountability for those appalling crimes. i have accountability for those appalling crimes. have accountability for those appalling crimes. i want to come back to the appalling crimes. i want to come back to the alleged appalling crimes. i want to come back to the alleged crimes - appalling crimes. i want to come back to the alleged crimes in - appalling crimes. i want to come back to the alleged crimes in a i back to the alleged crimes in a minute. what does that mean for president putin? are we going to seaman courts are behind bars one day? seaman courts are behind bars one da ? , ., ., , seaman courts are behind bars on