ukrainian man. targeting unarmed civilians is a war crime. here s james waterhouse. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick. more than two weeks ago, the russian soldier was questioned over an alleged war crime. translation: we started moving. on the way, we saw a civilian talking on the phone. i was ordered to shoot and fired one round at him. he fell down. we moved on. today, the court heard how shishimarin shot a 62 year old man, oleksandr shelipov, three to four times in the head. he was one of five russian soldiers who had stolen a car and drove into a village in the northeastern sumy region. he claimed he was ordered to kill mr shelipov over worries he d give away their position. this clearly isn t an ordinary trial. vadim shishimarin s country, russia, denies deliberately targeting civilians in this war,
in davos, switzerland. more on ukraine now, and we can turn into a court with us and took the russian tank commander took the russian tank commander to life in prison. vadim shishimarin was the first person to stand trial for war crimes since russia s invasion three months ago. he had admitted shooting the 62 year old civilian, but said he d been acting on orders and he will appeal against his sentence. our correspondentjames waterhouse was in court. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick. more than two weeks ago, the russian soldier was questioned over an alleged war crime. translation: we started moving. on the way, we saw a civilian talking on the phone. i was ordered to shoot and fired one round at him. he fell down. we moved on. today, the court heard how shishimarin shot a 62 year old
this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and one o clock in the morning in ukraine, where a court has sentenced a russian tank commander to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian. vadim shishimarin was the first person to stand trial for war crimes since russia s invasion three months ago. he had admitted shooting the 62 year old civilian, but said he d been acting on orders and he will appeal against his sentence. our correspondentjames waterhouse was in court. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick.
who want a united ireland on 21. dup, anti northern ireland protocol, they are run 19. the alliance party on 12, that is one of the other big talking point is that this election, how well that central party is doing. the ulster unionists are on six, the sdlp on four. those two parties, their votes getting squeezed in this election. traditional unionist voice on one and there is an independent candidate as well, one independent candidate. so those are the figures so far. just to give you a couple of bits of information from around the various count centres, we hear the ulster unionist party leader doug bt looks 0k. ulster unionist party leader doug bt looks ok. i think there was a little anxiety around his position knowing into the end of the account yesterday and this morning but he looks as though he will be ok. then in the north antrim constituency,
jon huntsman another sign with his campaign website, jon2012.com. i follow mr. huntsman s campaign, when i saw a jon 21 sign i didn t know it was for him, i thought it was a ad for a sale at clothing retailer, this is not good. the signs are kind of a sign. up until very recently jon huntsman has not been a bad candidate in theory, but he has been a candidate with a bad campaign. and that may turn out to be a blessing for him. jon huntsman bad campaign has meant he has been so off the radar nobody has bothered to attack him. and now at the exact right moment, if not a little too late, new hampshire voters are taking notice of him and they are taking notice of him at a time that nobody has bothered to trash him. should also be noted that in the last few days, jon huntsman has started running a much better campaign, certainly a much more aggressive campaign.