welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe they are images that have shocked the world the pictures of dead civilians lying in the streets of the ukrainian town of bucha have led to worldwide condemnation of russia. ukraine s president zelensky has accused the russian forces of committing genocide and is expected to address the un security council on tuesday. president biden called vladimir putin a war criminal saying the russian leader should be put on trial. as russian troops withdraw from bucha which is just to the north west of the capital kyiv the extent of the brutality is becoming ever more clear. russia is still denying any involvement in the mutilation and murder of hundreds of civilians. it says the images shown by the world s media are staged and fake.
this is bbc world news, the latest headlines. ukraine s president zelensky visits the battered town of bucha and accuses russian forces of committing genocide. as for president putin his team says the images of atrocities in ukraine are staged and that no war crimes have been committed. president biden says russia s president putin is a war criminal and has called for a war crimes trial following the discovery of killings and more mass graves outside kyiv. but how challenging is it to gather proof of war crimes and what are the chances of prosecutions? here s our special correspondent allan little. as russian forces retreat, the evidence accumulates of atrocities against civilians. near kyiv, a man attempting to flee sees a tank and gets out of his car. seconds later, he is shot dead.
our correspondent yogita limaye was one of the journalists who travelled to bucha with president zelensky and i want to warn you, her report contains some distressing images. the place where ukraine s pushback against russia is most clearly visible. this street in the town of bucha, just outside of kyiv, lined with blown up tanks and armoured vehicles. today, ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, visited the town, drawing attention to the brutality that unfolded here. i believe these are definitely war crimes, i believe it s genocide in its purest sense, because children have been killed, women have been raped and civilians executed, he said. through the day, we saw
around the world to do more. also, in terms of those weapons, again, she says that ukraine needs the weapons that it is calling for, because while we see those scenes in places like bucha, those images of bodies lying on the streets, and the places that russian troops have pulled away from, it is perhaps easy to forget that heavy fighting is still taking place in many other parts of this country, particularly around the east of ukraine and the south of ukraine, places like mariupol, where we know that thousands of civilians are still trapped, while the fighting continues, ukraine needs those weapons and liz truss says she will try and make that happen. puma try and make that happen. anna foster in lviv, try and make that happen. anna foster in lviv, thank try and make that happen. anna foster in lviv, thank you - try and make that happen. anna foster in lviv, thank you very i try and make that happen. anna foster in lviv, thank you very much. the us presidentjoe biden says presiden
while ukraine has taken back many towns around kyiv, other cities are still in the grip of fierce fighting. tens of thousands are still trapped in the southern port city of mariupol. so the pictures you saw, and we see that russian, russian army, they are not human beings. i don t know who they are. are they animals, are they orcs, or who they are? i don t know how it is possible to do this, i cannot even imagine. the battle for the south and east of ukraine goes on. and while the conflict rages, it is hard to know the full extent of the horror that will be left behind. anna foster, bbc news, lviv. ina in a moment we ll hear more from anna foster western ukraine. jenny hill is in moscow. the us, the eu and the uk are gearing up for further sanctions