Testimony on the Russia Ukraine war and a potential war crimes from global criminal justice ambassador at large before the Senate Foreign relations committee. The ambassador discussed ways that russia could be brought to justice and accusations that the pentagon withheld evidence of war crimes. This is an hour and 15 minutes. The senate of Foreign Relations hearing will come to order. For well over a year now weve seen h the holder of putins illegal unprovoked invasion and the brutality he has inflicted on the people of ukraine. Russian airstrikes have destroyed schools, flattened apartment buildings, killed and babies. Werd have witnessed strikes on bomb shelters where children and their caregivers have gone for protection. Attacks on civilian facilities into systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure. It is a nightmare that does not let up. According to International Human rights organizations, Russian Forces, villageup schools, airpt hangers, whatever they could find and conver
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ambassador discussed ways russia could be brought to justice and accusations the pentagon withheld evidence of war crimes. This is an hour andn 15 minutes. The. [background noises] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Il for well over a year noticing the horror of putins illegal unprovoked invasion and the brutality he has inflicted on the people of ukraine. Russian airstrikes have destroyed schools, flattened apartment buildings, killed mothers and babies in maternity wards. We have witnessed bombs on children and caregivers of Government Protection attacks on civilian Nuclear Facilities and a systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure but it is a night here it does not let the current human rights organizations Russian Forces occupied village schools, airport hangers whatever they them find and converted into makeshift torture chambers with a beat, electrocute and threaten to mutilate ukrainian detainees. T
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trying to portray himself and china as peacemakers the white house today calling on congress to claw back ceo bonuses from the failed banks and make it easier for regulators to bar them from future employment. as the treasury secretary prompts j.p. morgan s president to bail out another failing california bank. the former fdic chair raised the alarm about the 2008 financial crisis, she s joining me today good day i m andrea mitchell in washington the international criminal court of justice issuing arrest warrants for vladimir putin and his commissioner of children s rights accusing them of war crimes, deporting thousands of children from ukraine to russia. moscow has denied all allegations of war crimes in ukraine. let s bring in dan deluce. it s very significant first of all, it s laying at putin s feet, this well documented chain of events by human rights organizations and western governments and our fellow journalists that children in ukraine have been forcibly deporte
this way of life. as guests in this remarkable city, so must we. if an air raid siren goes off during the show, when it went off last night and hours ago, we will need to leave this location and go somewhere more secure. now, if that does happen, my friend and colleague, alex witt, is standing by in new york to pick up coverage until i m all set and safe to rejoin you. while a raid sirens don t always mean that there is an imminent threat in the area, these are precautionary measures that we are going to abide by, particularly during the week when everyone here has been on high alert. there s been a concern that russia would mark the first anniversary of the war with an attack that would likely have targeted kyiv. but the skies around the city have actually been eerily quiet. the anniversary came and went without any major new offensives or acts of aggression by russia. fighting, however, continues in the eastern and southern parts of this country, like in and around the city