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00:00 The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military
00:05 officers for attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
00:10 White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby says the U.S. has carried out another
00:15 humanitarian airdrop over the northern Gaza Strip.
00:24 The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military
00:29 officers.
00:30 They are wanted for the war crime of directing attacks at civilian objects and causing excessive
00:36 incidental harm to civilians.
00:39 It's the second time the International Court has issued warrants linked to Russia's war
00:44 in Ukraine.
00:45 In March 2023, the Court asked for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing
00:51 him of being responsible for the abductions of children from Ukraine.
00:58 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the decision and thanked the International
01:02 Criminal Court on Tuesday.
01:08 French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his support toward Ukraine at a press conference
01:13 in Prague.
01:15 Macron also said it is important to secure ammunition for Ukraine from countries outside
01:20 the EU.
01:22 A family of five who died in a Russian drone attack on the southern port city of Odessa
01:27 were laid to rest on Tuesday.
01:29 Twelve people, including five children, were killed in the weekend drone strike that hit
01:35 a multi-story building.
01:37 Dozens showed up to pay their respects to the family.
01:42 The Ukrainian Prosecutor General and his team are working to record and prosecute over 123,000
01:49 war crimes as part of Russia's full-scale invasion of their country.
01:52 So far, 81 Russians have been convicted.
01:55 The plan is one day justice will be served to all those responsible, in particular Vladimir
01:59 Putin.
02:00 It was after the liberation of Bucha in late March 22 that Ukraine first discovered the
02:04 brutal character of Russia's war, summary executions, torture, rape, kidnapping of children.
02:11 What we understood after Kharkiv region was liberated in September 2022, we see and all
02:19 the world saw the mass graves in Izum and the same types of crimes committed in each
02:25 and every village and town of liberated Kharkiv region.
02:30 And when we provide forensic researches, we understood that these war crimes were committed
02:36 not only in March of 2022, the same time they have been committed in Bucha, but in April,
02:44 May, June, July.
02:45 So Russians who also saw what they did in Bucha, they proceed to commit the same crimes
02:53 in the other parts of occupied Ukraine.
02:58 And we also understood and we have evidence that it's another units.
03:04 So it's, Bucha is not about some war, some military unit gone crazy.
03:11 It's about policy.
03:12 It's about pattern.
03:14 The same we saw when we liberated Kherson in November, the same types of crimes.
03:18 So the number of torture chambers we have identified in Kherson and Kharkiv, the number
03:25 of victims and survivors of sexual violence in July 2022, when I was appointed prosecutor
03:34 general, we have 44 cases, reported cases of sexual violence during the war.
03:41 Now we are investigating 274.
03:44 The other issue I wanted to ask you was the children, 19 to 20,000 children have been
03:48 abducted.
03:49 This is one of the most important tasks of us as a country.
03:53 Some of them were kidnapped from the children's facilities.
03:58 Some of them were separated from their parents on infiltration camps.
04:03 Some of them were taken for this like fake vacations and never returned back to their
04:10 families.
04:11 They are putting them at adoption.
04:13 And this is by, you know, that this is like a raising of all their history.
04:19 And this is the most brutal.
04:21 Do you think you'll see Putin in The Hague?
04:23 I believe that our case will be prepared.
04:28 And when time comes, when and if Putin will be available, he will be prosecuted and tried
04:36 by the International Criminal Court or by special tribunal.
04:39 OK, Prosecutor General, thank you very much for joining us on Euronews.
04:43 Thank you.
04:47 Voters in 16 U.S. states and one U.S. territory have chosen the presidential candidates in
04:52 primaries on the country's traditional Super Tuesday.
04:56 The vote saw big wins for President Joe Biden from the Democratic Party and Republican former
05:01 President Donald Trump.
05:04 Tuesday's vote was an indication that a potential rematch between the two candidates in the
05:09 November elections is looming.
05:11 They both won the primaries in Massachusetts, Maine, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas.
05:18 Biden won Democratic nominating contest in 15 states and Trump in 12 Republican contests.
05:25 Republican candidate Nikki Haley won the Republican primary in Vermont.
05:32 For Nikki Haley, the former governor here in South Carolina, there was just the one
05:35 surprise win this Super Tuesday in the state of Vermont, but no victory speech, though
05:40 her campaign said staff were jubilant.
05:43 There were no public remarks from her here in Charleston, while Donald Trump rightly
05:47 declared victory.
05:48 There was no mention whatsoever of Nikki Haley and Donald Trump's speech in Florida.
05:53 He's moved on from these primaries and so has President Joe Biden.
05:56 Both men now firmly pivoting to the general election, the repeat of the duel in 2020.
06:02 Trump has firmly cemented his role as the leader of the Republican Party on this Super
06:06 Tuesday.
06:07 He's not yet the presumptive nominee, but that could happen within a week.
06:10 And the same goes for Joe Biden.
06:12 Eight months of campaigning now await us here in the United States.
06:16 And Joe Biden will have his work cut out because recent polling shows that Donald Trump can
06:21 win in November.
06:23 Philip Crowther, Euronews in Charleston, South Carolina.
06:29 White House national security spokesperson John Kirby says the U.S. and Jordan have carried
06:35 out another humanitarian airdrop over the northern Gaza Strip.
06:39 They dropped 36,800 meals.
06:44 Turkish President Erdogan warned against possible moves to restrict Muslim worshippers from
06:49 entering holy sites in Jerusalem.
06:51 "The radical Israeli politicians' demands to restrict Muslims from entering the holy
06:59 sites are a complete nonsense.
07:04 The consequences of such a move will undoubtedly be very heavy."
07:10 French forces have also dropped aid over the Gaza Strip in coordination with Jordanian,
07:15 Egyptian and Emirati armed forces.
07:18 Jordanian agencies say they can no longer distribute food aid in northern Gaza due to
07:23 the collapse of law and order in the region.
07:29 Shops in Bilbao have installed artwork representing the faces of Gazan children.
07:35 The artwork is primarily made up of hammered glass.
07:39 Its aim is to grab the attention of passers-by, reminding them of victims of the Israel-Hamas
07:45 war.
07:50 "More than 30,000 dead in Palestine.
07:54 Against this genocide we had to put our grain of sand in a different, artistic, visual way."
08:01 Three hundred pairs of shoes scattered along the street are also there to remind us of
08:06 children who walk in the rubble of war and those in Gaza who will never walk again.
08:11 "Produce more, better, together and in Europe.
08:22 That's the aim of the first industrial defence strategy proposed by the European Commission
08:26 on Tuesday.
08:27 The aim is to provide a long-term vision to develop military capabilities as quickly as
08:32 possible and to move away from emergency responses in the face of conflict."
08:40 Some of the main points of the strategy include joint equipment purchases between member states
08:44 to reduce costs and to harmonise defence equipment and systems.
08:49 "We propose to achieve the goal by 2030 to procure 40% of equipment in a collaborative
08:58 manner and to procure 50% of equipment within the European Union."
09:08 The Commission is also proposing a 1.5 billion euro fund for the defence industry to be disbursed
09:13 over two years.
09:18 It will ease the access to finance for small and medium-sized companies involved in the
09:23 development of military equipment.
09:27 It also provides a framework for launching joint defence projects or responding to future
09:31 supply crises.
09:33 The Commission wants the EU to be able to react to conflict but some say the Commission
09:37 needs to slow down.
09:38 "Clearly, if the question is, are we in a war economy with this programme, with this
09:49 strategy, clearly no, we are not yet.
09:52 But it is a first step that is necessary to, I would say, bring states to realise that
10:00 a European approach is necessary and even essential."
10:07 The first step appears to be less ambitious financially than discussions have suggested
10:12 in recent months.
10:13 To free up additional resources, the Commission is not ruling out the possibility of using
10:18 windfall profits from frozen Russian assets to finance the Union's defence industrial
10:23 capabilities.
10:24 But this would require the unanimous agreement of all 27 member states.
10:28 The fight against gender inequality is crucial
10:39 to combating food insecurity and the climate crisis, says the latest report from the Food
10:45 and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
10:51 It said that the problem with climate change is it's not stopping, but accelerating, and
10:56 that women are the most affected.
11:00 "If we had another one degree Celsius change in the climate, it means that over time women
11:05 would lose 34% more of income than men in situations in middle and low income countries
11:11 where there's already a lot of stress on these households to produce enough income to feed
11:16 their families and to pursue their livelihoods."
11:21 According to the study, women play a vital role in the agri-food systems as farmers,
11:26 retailers, wage labourers, entrepreneurs and more.
11:31 But that discriminatory gender norms and policies limit their access to land, finance and technology,
11:37 or in other words, their resilience to climate change.
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