welcome to bbc news. i m mark lobel. our top stories: in the battle for mariupol, russia says more than 1,000 ukrainian marines have surrendered but kyiv insists it still holds the city. more allegations that russia carried out warcrimes in ukraine. we report from bucha, where investigators are collecting evidence. the challenge for prosecutors will be to establish a line of command, from the grave to the top of the russian state, to show that crimes were not just committed but ordered. a desperate search for survivors in south africa the president calls the flooding there a catastrophe of enormous proportions. police in new york arrest the suspected gunman behind tuesday s
welcome to bbc news. i m mark lobel. our top stories: in the battle for mariupol, russia says more than 1,000 ukrainian marines have surrendered but kyiv insists it still holds the city. more allegations that russia carried out warcrimes in ukraine. we report from bucha, where investigators are collecting evidence. the challenge for prosecutors will be to establish a line of command, from the grave to the top of the russian state, to show that crimes were not just committed but ordered. a desperate search for survivors in south africa the president calls the flooding there a catastrophe of enormous proportions. police in new york arrest the suspected gunman behind tuesday s
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the issue of alleged warcrimes in ukraine. it comes as horrors are being uncovered in areas regained by ukrainian forces in the north. in particular, we ve heard stories of violence against women and of soldiers using rape, as a weapon of war. our correspondent, yogita limaye, has been speaking to some of those affected, and the vivid descriptions of abuse, you may find distressing. a quiet rural neighbourhood, shattered by barbaric violence. in a village west of kyiv, a first hand account of rape by invading soldiers. when we started talking to this woman, we didn t know what we were about to hear. we are hiding her identity to protect her. translation: a soldier entered our house. - my husband and i were there. at gunpoint, he took me to a neighbouring house.
about racial discrimination and racism. and in the clip that you showed, there was one white jeans tonight was saying, look, i hate to say this, but this is racism. we ve all sort of been trained that people of color do not say what it is, to not speak about the racism that is so widespread. but we have to say this. this is racism and this must stop. we can t have these warcrimes being committed by russia against the ukrainian people, and at the same time, within the context of ukraine, there is different classes of citizenship, we are the white ukrainian is treated one way, and those who are dark and by the way, we re also acting like there are no multiracial ukrainians. we re all acting like it s all mixed on the ground they re not all white. they re not all blond and blue eyed. they re all part of the human family, and we have to cast a spotlight on this, so that there s not these warcrimes happening within war crimes like that students said.