[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, playing the front blind residence, abandoned their homes in ukraine's east. 15 kilometers between here and the front line, which is just the range of this artillery that they are using. our corresponding visit to village coming under separatist shelly also this is the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine. u. s. present. joe biden announces the 1st wave of

sanctions against russia. more countries join in condemning moscow's recognition of separatist ukraine regions. ah hello em, terry martin. good to have you with us. fighting between ukraine government forces and separatists has intensified in the countries east following russia's recognition a break way regions shelling attacks have picked up in the provinces. uh, blue hans and do nets that swear separatists declared their own republics in 2014, they now control large chunks of each region. moscow says its recognition of the self declared states extends to territory now held by ukrainian forces, setting up the possibility of further sanctions. residents have been caught in the crossfire between ukraine and the separatists. our correspond mathias bellinger filed this report from the front line. it is quiet at the moment

a good time to leave for days now the people in the village of rubica have been under fire. the villages in ukrainian government controlled territory and is being shared by separatists from the other side. not severely dish or deliberately and then on the whole night is that some people are still in the cellar too scared to come out and take. the kids spent the whole day yesterday downstairs, but at night we went upstairs, is pregnant because it was just too cold. downstairs a seller is a seller, but lowest bottom half of the village has already left. the others are terrified shows have come down right in the center of the village. one shall hit the school yard world. children were in clos, others have damaged people's homes. luckily no one has been hurt so far, but the constant stress has taken its toll electricity and gas have been cut off.

now gas workers have come to patch up some of the damage or they, when we fix the pipe twice already we came last week yesterday and today we're here again. well, because quite far away from the artillery positions of the other side, there are 15 kilometers between here and the front line, which is just the range of this artillery that they are using. people who have not experienced this kind of fighting even during the worst times a few years ago within our mac, her ankle and her neighbors have tried to make the most out of the cold and damp cellar. but the effect of the electric heater is limited. she is in and out of the basement constantly those days. but i need to go up now to

take some stuff to my daughters place. she is finally leaving with her kids at least to a place nearby. she would like to move further away until it becomes clear with the latest news from moscow and leave me no, i don't know what to think now. yes, i do not yet understand anything. spokane, i don't even know what to do next to takes just a few minutes from the shelley begins again. crossover now to our correspond funny poetry in kia, funny tell us more about what's happening along that line of contact in east new cray,

where government forces and separate his forces are clashing and that line terry's full 100 kilometers long. and it's really difficult to actually get just the full picture, what's happening. but as my colleague mike is bullying or just pointed out in his report, it's actually civilian. so already bearing de bron to all of the are on the ukranian side, this one village. that experience is shelling and people's uncertainty and the feeling of what to do next. what. how should they prepare if, if the situation is likely to worse and now the ukrainian, a military sad giving some numbers there that according to the information they have been 96 incidence of showings that lead to one soldier being killed and several being injured that are from 84 incidents of shelling just a day before. unfortunately, we do not expect the situation to be in any way a decreasing intention, but rather increasing, especially as we hear from a russia that this is, this is,

this seems to be just the beginning. even though they have declared the independence of landscape and don't yet, there's more to calm that it's such as going to be stay, staying with that one 3rd of east and ukraine, but this very much interested in the rest of the don bus region as well. the ukranian president says he's not mobilizing the countries entire military at this point, but he is calling up reservists for the armed forces. how are people they're reacting to that in a way they say it's just about time that actually ukraine is trying to face the facts. it may be inevitable that they have to face another war here, while others are again hoping that because there's no general mobilization yet, there still may be out the door open to sun, diplomacy to sun negotiation, to find a peaceful resolution, a peaceful of solution to all of this peeping key fob into who had been talking to

just last week could not even imagine that there may be an assault on their capital . a few days later with potted, exchanging away the decision making from russia about the recognition of those to you as separate is regents as independent states. people are starting to change the mind a dig and they are growing concerned over the day they are really are hoping there is a peaceful way out of this. but actually preparing for the worse and not just the adults, but the also preparing the children for that, telling them where to go. in case there is an assault here. i'm telling them to you are right on a piece of paper, the blood side, the address in case when a shelling starts, even he and keith that the children know where to go and were to ask how funny you say that kia has not given up hope for diplomacy, i know that key of is not cut off diplomatic relations with moscow. for example. what options does the government there see for resolving this diplomatically given

moscow's latest moods? given that the sanctions have been announced and even imposed already by the west. also, japan was true, australia wants to impose a sanctions in russia. he kind of gives us this feeling of perspective for ukraine, that the sanctions may actually bring about some change and stop russia from further a going into into ukraine. nobody knows actually whether that's the case because rush already signal that as they find a sanction such as black mailing and the west is going to keep sanctioning russia until they're exhausted with it. but ukraine wants to maintain, at least for the small men still, that there is a peaceful way out of all of this, even though really nobody knows what the next alice, i going to bring here for ukraine and the ukrainians valley. thank you very much. our correspond funny furniture in key of well, russia appears to be continuing as military build up along ukraine's borders. u. s

. satellite images claim to show in a large base in southern beller roost just a few 100 kilometers from the ukrainian capital. kia president joe biden says, russia's invasion of ukraine has already begun. russian troops on the move, the heading towards ukraine's eastern border as fighting intensifies between ukrainian and separatist forces. far away from the front line, the upper house of the russian parliament voted to authorize the use of force outside russia's borders. they also approved blood amid putin's recognition of the don yeske and lou hunter people's republics as independent states. but the russian president didn't stop there. he later announced the borders of the 2 republics. include the ukrainian held territories, not just the rebel held areas,

nor was it, but his knell we recognized that donates. and hans, people's republics, which means we have recognized all the founding documents, including the constitution. and the constitution defines the boarders off the done yes. and hands regions at the time when they were part of ukraine. nobody mc on gun . you believe the civil crane? in response, u. s. president joe biden accused the russian leda of setting up a russia now to take mo territory by force. this is the beginning of a russian invasion of ukraine, as he indicated and asked permission to be able to do from his duma. so let began to so i'm going to began to impose sanctions in response. far beyond the steps we and our allies and partners implemented in 2014 the us satellite company has released new images that claim to show military vehicles messing in southern belarus. even as western nations coordinate a unified response,

many fear a full scale attack on ukraine is still part of russia's plans. are russian affairs analyst, constantine exit is following. events from the lithuanian capital, vilnius, and joins is now from their constantine. a 2 thirds of the territory claimed by the separatists is still held by ukrainian government forces. but vladimir putin says that territory doesn't belong to ukraine any more. is russia going to help the separatists take that territory by force? my suspicions that 1st go probably issue another ultimatums to log in as an ascii, the presence of the brian demanding that he settles the outstanding issues with the government's quote unquote of the republics. i think that he hinted at that yesterday when he said, well ukraine has an option of settling this with the authorities of the newly

recognized entities. ok. maybe he'll do that. then if the if uses, which is 100 percent said that you will then i think, and military operation to help the new government regain control of that territory will begin. and that will be probably the 1st case since you know, 2014, all really messy. i to i compensation between the training courses and the russian courses because the green courses do control. as you rightly said, harry, the majority of the territory which is claimed by the separatist and then yes, can contain, as you know, the e u, the u. s. a number of other countries. the u. k. have announced limited sanctions against russia in response to its latest moves. do you think those sanctions are going to get most goes attention? well frankly, i think terry,

the sanctions that got more attention. actually one point, ah, is the decision by chance a shot to freeze a cation sorry. i'm not going to get back like this is very serious. and not only because it's probably 11000000000 a loss of by moscow and building it. but because in the credit is on an important thing is for you to be ready to suffer for your principles to be taken serious. the rest of the sanctions that you mentioned still do not go up to that level. oh no, i would say that the u. s thank which deal with russia sovereign debt and with the children of some of the closest pollutants allies. some of the people that he's on the rush, they, she'd closer to home from the point you the credit of the summer and that look,

it will be much more difficult for the russian government to burrell and internationally. at the time when inflation is quite high in russia, it's not deadly, but it's, it's a complication. and as for the children of some of the collaborators, that is a signal, as far as i understand it, that other people could be on the line quite soon. if the criminal continues with the current policies, and i frankly can't see terry, how couldn't stops. now, we're looking at diplomatic possibilities, diplomatic options for solving this crisis. konstantin, what do you see as the possibilities? what leverage does the west? what, what leverage does ukraine have to get russia to back off? i don't think that ukraine has a lot of leverage unless there isn't as i sat up real confrontation, real, real fight, real wolf well between

a russian and ukrainian or says i in se new crime and they're russian suddenly feel that they're defeated. that is a possibility theoretical. ah, but i would say that, oh, maybe the only chance is for the sanctions pressure to become so hot will the sanction to become so hard and so. oh glen leash, in many ways. ah, that ah, put will concede us. okay. i, i will roll back that is a very faint possibility, but i can't imagine in such circumstances some one sounds stepping in as a symbolic mediate. i dunno on the far, much off america for example, but frankly speaking as it looks now, it's not even the chance that not given the heart constrain. thank very much shar russian affairs analyst. konstantin egg got them well, more western countries have announced sanctions against russia. as mentioned, the european union, britain, canada, australia,

and japan have joined the united states in targeting moscow's access to finance. so far, the strongest european reaction is germany's decision to hold the key nor stream to gas pipeline. on tuesday transfer, all of sholtes announced that the russian backed project had been suspended indefinitely. jasmine thompson assaults on his way to announcing a key foreign policy decision to hold the highly controversial note string to pipeline in response to russia's recognition of 2 separatist regions in ukraine. he laga sort of the situation today is fundamentally different up. and therefore, in view of the latest developments, we have to reassess the situation. also with regard to north trim to buy, not stream to aimed to transport russian gas directly to germany under the baltic sea. its construction was finished last year and was pending regulatory approval for a long time. both russian and german leaders, including shows in the past,

had defended a project. but it had plenty of very vocal enemies, ukraine as a start, because it undercuts its own pipelines. but also the u. s. and various e u countries were concerned, it would give russia who much power he has and leave europe vulnerable. those countries welcomed tuesday decision with ukraine's foreign minister according it, morally politically and practically correct. big words of support towards the german chancellor who had previously been criticized for being too vague on the north stream to pipeline. so we'll look at their pipeline all closer in just a moment. but 1st, let's look at the some of the other sanctions that have been imposed so far. the european union has agreed to blacklist banks involved in financing separatists in eastern ukraine and will also cut the russian government out of its debt markets. the u. s. has imposed would it calls a 1st tranche of sanctions,

they target the so called russian elite to state own banks and also seek to deny the russian government access to western financing. and the u. k is announced sanctions on 5 banks as well as 3 billionaires with close links to russian president vladimir putin. canada australia and japan have also announced measures was bring in marcus siena here. he is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and previously worked as a foreign correspondent in russia. marcus, what do you make of the sanctions announced against russia? are they likely to change russia's course? well, as constantine said, it's very unlikely that russia really is going to change scores. i think they've already priced it in. on the other hand, we've seen that the sanctions that were post after 2014 annexation of the crimea, or in the invasion eastern ukraine. i think they kind of were pretty much surprised

to mafia because they didn't expect the west to stand as unified as they did. now what's really important this time is if you look how those sanctions were approved yesterday, there wasn't even though when it comes to the from hungary, which always had and it had to different take when it comes to, to russia. so at this point, we're seeing a very unified front and a package of pretty our sanctions. now, germany has finally halted the north stream to gas pipeline. as we mentioned, this comes after years of resisting pressure to do so. how do you think this step will impact german russian relations? there was already a reaction for moscow and they were criticizing the step. so it's definitely going to have an impact, a negative impact on our relationship, i mean, which is, which is something we've given the money that has been invested already. we're

talking about 10000000000 or even more than that, that has been invested in the, in this project. on the other hand, i think the german government, and i mean also the previous government was ill advised to portray this pipeline as a private kind of project. i mean, it always had a very big political components to it. and i think you know, the ukraine and also polls are very vocal about it. so i think it's just a natural that is happening. i personally wouldn't wish that when it made them up the nonsense a little earlier. what room marcus, do you see being left for a diplomatic solution to this conflict? well, we see regarding of channels between talking channel to clean and the western capitals. i. this is not really encouraging. at this point,

we're seeing the scheduled meetings between the united states and russia have been called off at this point. it's so actually comes to came to a home or for medication between, between last time and the west. there is still a back channels here, but what was i thinking very disturbing was the fact that the weight of learning a futon was i was giving a speech. it looked like on the monday evening. it looked like he's in a bubble. he's kind of in a, in a, in the mindset that it's not really allowing much more room to maneuver. so i'm not really sure where the moscow is willing to keep on negotiating. marcus, senior senior fellow at the german marshall fun and berlin, thank you very much. thank you. now let's look at a few other stories making news around the world today. one person has died after heavy rain caused flash flooding in eastern australia. the storms in queensland and

new south wales are expected to continue through the week. residents have been told to be on alert with more flooding expected. more than 60 people are dead after an explosion at a market in the west african nation of burkina faso. the blast was so powerful. it brought down nearby homes. investigators suspect of happened at a store selling explosives and chemicals for minors, and they've detained the owner. chill and firefighters are battling dozens of blazes in the country is central south region. the fires have been burning for weeks, but 1st responders say they are now facing the worst conditions all summer. several homes have been destroyed and many more are threatened as the fires spread. dutch police have ended an hour's long st. hostage stand off at amsterdam, flag ship, apple computer store, a man with a gun held dozens of people there for several hours as he attempted to make a get away from the shop. police hit him with

a car. the suspect is now being treated in hospital. and hong kong authorities have announced compulsory cove at 19 testing for all of the territories. $7400000.00 inhabitants next month. chief executive carry law also extended strict social distancing measures. she said, help from mainland china was required to tackle a record surgeon corona virus. cases driven by the only chron variant the covet 19 pandemic has especially affected young people with schools and universities closed for months, and limited access to social activities. here in germany, the number of young people suffering from depression has reportedly increased. the w met a young man who says therapy is helping him cope. it's especially around people that heading or verse now feels his anxieties, a pressure to please everyone to fit in to belong. since the age of 15,

he occasionally had problems in groups. but last summer, he suffered his 1st severe panic attack. when not dusk, a food when, when was stretching my gave i had the feeling i was about to throw up. i felt sick, i was shivering and i was cold. in my case, i was lying in bed and i could not move condos if i couldn't get any rest. so it feels like you're not yourself anymore because you were simply overwhelmed. i'd fall of one from the rough one on the 21 year old had spent a lot of time at home in the months before the pandemic didn't seem so bad. at 1st, no meetings, no university. the social pressure decreased, but then he suddenly felt much worse than before. description, stiever. i think it was because they were so few social events that when things started opening up again last summer, it was much harder for me to integrate again. i think that's why my anxieties were suddenly much worse than before. i'm the office,

the never and switched and actually mob on for her. just like heading many young people, spent a lot of time at home during the pandemic. while scrolling through a seemingly perfect social media world, this isolation has consequences. the number of young people with symptoms of depression has increased significantly in germany. having finally decided to get help, is it switched and that is, he floated cardboard this over, this feeling of helplessness, no harm. i didn't want any more into the talk to him. i wanted to be able to sleep again off. and i just wanted to feel better mentally. so i went to see our family doctor and finish some 2 hours on the heading has since started therapy in line and talked openly with others about his mental health issues. meeting l stuff . i think astonished as one some tire of i'm amazing when you start talking to people about it and then you come across

a similar problem when they suddenly start talking about their issues too. it's either one of them that made me feel better because he realized that you're not alone. lying falling into a depression that can happen to the happiest person in the world. and heading has learned from the pandemic. when it's over, he wants to be able to enjoy his life with lots of people around him for that he continues his therapy every week. sh, you're watching dw nurse, just to remind her of the top story we are following for you to die. u. s. president joe biden said, russia's invasion of ukraine had begun as he announced the 1st wave of sanctions, a target moscow's access to finance and individuals. the european union, britain, australia, canada, and japan have joined in condemning moscow's recognition of separatist ukraine

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