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an honorary doctorate from new york university, learn to live alongside cringe. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a russian soldier has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian, in the first war crimes trial in ukraine, since the russian invasion began. appearing in court in kyiv, the 21 year old admitted shooting dead a ukrainian man, as he pushed a bicycle on the road. our correspondent sarah rainsford sent this report. this was a major moment for ukraine, the first russian soldier accused of a war crime already up in court. vadim shishimarin is a russian tank commander. he s on trial for shooting and killing a civilian. all the time, the widow of the man killed was just the other side of the glass. the soldier seemed nervous and said little, until the words that mattered. asked whether he admitted his guilt, vadim shishimarin told the judge, yes, completely. it was the very start of this war, as russian tanks rolled south through ....
In the middle of a war, but everyone here knows that they re under scrutiny, they know they have to be transparent. and what ukraine says is that it s not looking for scapegoats. this is not a show trial. they want justice. sarah rainsford, bbc news, kyiv. well earlier i spoke to oona hathaway who s a professor of international law at yale law school. i asked her how different and difficult it was for war crime investigations to take place whilst a country is in the midst of an invasion. this is pretty extraordinary. we have not really seen a case like this where we have war crime trials happening even in the midst of the war, in the country where the war is continuing to take place. it is really an extraordinary event and i think it is really to the credit of ukrainians that they are able to keep the courts running, engage in these prosecutions, and engage in evidence collection. it is really a pretty extraordinary event. i do not think that it suggests that the icc, ....
so you re agreeing with the chief in chicago. what are you seeing specifically to that issue in miami? well, look, i m fortunate that when i got here i kind of rang the alarm here in miami, and our judges here actually met with me right away. our d.a. met with me right away. i ve only been here a few months. i came from harris county, which is the largest county in texas in houston where there are 100,000 cases waiting to go to court, waiting to go to trial. people going in, murder suspects on 100 bond, four, five, six bonds, criminals going out and killing people, hurting people. it s time to get the courts running. it s time to bring transparency to what the judges are doing and what the prosecutors are doing in terms of the violent offenders. the people of this country deserve safety, they deserve security and they deserve respect. you ve also spoken out ....
Traffic tickets and parking tickets. budget cuts from sacramento mean fewer judges and court employees to keep the courts running. we keep cutting courtrooms because we don t have the resources, it will get worse, and we ll do our best, but there s only so much we can do with less money to keep our courts running. reporter: and they ve already laid off 330 employees here, they re talking about closing 17 courtrooms, and another 20% cut is coming. that means people are only going to be more frustrated and those lines could get even longer, jon. jon: some people would say it would be a good thing if some of those insignificant cases weren t heard in court, but what about the serious matters? jr. yeah. and there are a lot of really serious matters, cases that are hanging in the balance. right now it s taking two months to get into family court, and those are where those really delicate child custody cases are handled. also it s taking five years, five years to get on the docket in civ ....
Waiting to pay parking tickets and traffic tickets. budget cuts from sacramento, means fewer judges and court employees to keep those courts running. i sent in the my check, it has not cleared and it says here if i don t show up they ll have a warrant for my arrest and here a am. i didn t expect to see hundreds and hundreds, almost a thousand and they say there are only two windows open. reporter: now they ve laid off 330 employees, here in l.a., and they are talking about closing down 17 courthouses, and, there is another 20% cut on the horizon here, and, people are just going to get more and more frustrated. bill: what about the serious matters, more than we have mentioned here? how left unsettled? yes. there are much more serious matters than that, lots of cases hanging in the balance, now because of the cuts. it is taking two months to get into family court, where those child custody cases are fought out and also, can take up to five years to get on the docket ....