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This is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday, april 4th. im brianna keilar live in lviv with john berman in new york. the evidence is mounting of apparent war crimes committed by russia against civilians in ukraine. we do want to warn you that the images you are about to see are graphic and disturbing, but they are incredibly important. in bucha, a suburb northwest of kyiv, bodies are seen littering the streets. the unburied dead. so...

Scattered across one street there. they were apparently shot execution style. some had hands bound behind their backs. their bodies discarded in a final cruel indignity. russia is dismissing this evidence of a massacre as staged. ukraines president calls it genocide. >> translator: some things they have done when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated such things i dont understand and comprehend. the kids who were killed and tortured so it wasnt enough just to kill for ...

In bucha. president zelenskyy visited the town outside of kyiv today where weve discussed scores of civilians have been killed. many of them buried in a mass grave. the bodies of civilians killed, execution style. some with their hands bound, s scattered on the streets once occupied by russian forces. joining me now on what this means, ambassador steven rav at large for war crimes issues, now a distinguished fellow for the prevention of genocide at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. thank you f...

Be very difficult to watch. they should be difficult to watch. zelenskyy is accusing russian troops of genocide before retrieving from bucha. local officials and witnesses say civilians were murdered in execution style i will cannings, some with their hands tied behind their backs left in the street. and than that an additional 270 civilians were found buried in mass graves. russia is denying any responsibility for the atrocities they left behind in bucha with sergey lavrov calling the incident,...

Really a countryalienated. so when you put the two things together, it looks like targeting killings of civilians on a mass scale and that has changed the tone here. here there was some hope that there might be a settlement, that the russians might be pulling out. the tone of elected people and people in the streets of ukraine is -- we are collecting this evidence. there will be war crimes. there will be prosecutions and russia will be held responsible. its not just about winning this war, its a...

It shows the devastation caused by russian forces in the town of stray yanka. this is just outside of the capital city of kyiv. and you could just see, well, in the -- in the shot before, you just saw all of these buildings destroyed. here you see it looks like where missiles have landed. you also see huge piles of rubble. >> yeah. >> the u.s. ambassador to the united nations said she will ask that russia be removed from the u.n. human rights council after the horrifying images that show a mass ...

Bucha we saw the horrible, horrible images, but institute for the study of war gives all of this control to ukraine now, but when we see whats left behind in bucha, put up some of the images on the screen of people with their hands tied behind their backs and shot execution style, the pictures are horrible, whats it going to do in terms of the global response to what we are seeing here in ukraine and this idea that putin could ever show his face on the world stage at a g20 meeting again? >> puti...

People being shot in the back of the head execution style. some of them with their hands tied behind their backs. its just a dreadful scene for everybody here. of course the fear and reality is that this is not going to be just isolated to bucha and other suburbs, but its other places in ukraine. as they open up and more access is given if the russians back off, more of these terrible atrocities are going to be unearthed. >> its unimaginable, ali. lets talk about president zelenskyy for a moment...

0 is great about people. it is whats embodied. and i carry that with me. >> this sunday, is russia withdrawing or reloading? >> there is what russia says and what russia does. we focus on the latter. >> ukrainian in the north. and retreating forces in ukraine east. >> it is clear the russians want to reprioritize their operations in the donbas area. >> real questions about what vladimir putin is being told. >> we believe putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the russian mi...

More people turning against the police because the media has turned against the police. >> you think it is the media? >> social media is a big part of it. >> yeah. >> media plays off whats on social media. >> talking about antipolice sentiments thats geng on. now you have cops actually being shot at. targeted -- you experience this when youre on the force as well. smg yeah unfortunately i did. tragically during a three-year period from 1949 to 1997 just working this area. i had three police offi...