march 9th on d, w. ah, this is the only news line from berlin russian troops closing on here on the 2nd day of vladimir putin war against you. crane. people take shelter in metro stations, this air raid sirens sound. ukraine says it's battling russian forces near the capital. this warning of saboteurs near the city center. government says more than 130 ukrainians have been killed. as his military advances, wagner uprooted signals, he is willing to negotiate the kremlin, says it could send representatives to meet you, crane and officials after you cranes. a lot of them is the landscape that he was

prepared to discuss. neutral status for his country. leaders agree unprecedented sanctions moving to please the assets of russian. president, putin and foreign minister law. but they hold back on cutting russia off from global bank transactions. ah, i feel gail, welcome to the program. russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital on day 2 of a full scale invasion here of mass as the city of enter. the defensive phase and ukrainian military vehicles are entering the capital to protect it from approaching russian troops for cities, promising people to take shelter in metro stations have been reports of clashes in and around the city after russia bombarded with missiles overnight. government says

at least $137.00 of its soldiers and civilians have been killed across the country . roughly, husband putin has claimed he's willing to negotiate. the ukraine's law means the landscape raised the possibility of discussing a neutral status for ukraine. conditions for such talks have not been made clear where you shouldn't dw correspondent nick connelly on the line he was in care of and like so many others has been forced to flee. welcome, nick. can you tell us where you are and what's going on? we've just been heading south west since i'm trying to keep away, since i like to do that kind of unclear fighting the geography kind of customary to try to predict where things that happened and basically just chose the direction that seemed to be the least likely. so fighting, so we're heading to do which is gonna pull towards the end. but even though we've seen lots of tanks and heading towards kids to join that

fight, we've seen worsen claims and lots people on the roads, lines outside dental stations, people trying to reach that college and checkpoints during the weekend. kind of see that kind of sometimes being piled up each other and when the influx, the kind of local student services we are just in the 1st hours. and there's trying to kind of get a grip on where they're going to be, where i'm told what to expect. i'm people who stayed in the capital i, they just hoping for the best or preparing for an actual invasion, i think is no longer an impossibility. i mean, most people have to divide maybe stages. you have to move it to the suburbs to maybe we can have it somewhere anywhere away from obvious targets like buildings or transformations picks to try and tell the place you can

send treatment. can you point to the great ministration places well being time from your office building sort of like because people trying to move 1st and then again they face another night in shelters or in metro station like they have already was kind of well to terrify here. sorry. just on will be able to tell where you're going from, where you coming from seeing the center so much to really pulling yesterday as a result of michelle, it's stephanie a very soft movies, jason, one which i guess for the weeks this is good. but anything, or we expect the funding presence, and i'm still in the country. how dangerous is the situation for him?

so he said that he believes that he is target number one. the goal discretion is to take cases, likes to, to configure, and then kind of play that would be because he and for us you can install it kind of be to ship its own money, its own favorites, to bleed ukraine and to then agree some kind of deal that's to have the claim coming down to mercer and not just may not neutral but also fall close in terms of tracy to are so to say, but right now done to the former civic countries. so that's a real word question, rhetoric and most as they can get this deduction to me about demilitarize in notifying you claims by the best i see to kind of damage to my craving, some kind of not to state without even bothering to actually explain what,

how they see that why they would explain that just to kind of claim that turn out to try and clean something justification for this presumably last time. and we're not super, i'm not getting up on the streets and why they're doing this. it seems to be frame is a neighbor country was rushing for me. it's supposed to say that without making the case, it seems why this is obsolete and a lot of people are leaving not just the cities, but the country as well. one of the main routes out walking. now the main route is going straight west out of towards leave, which is the still in the public folder. but basically today the, some of the main roads leading west was fighting, fighting forces potential even worse and tanks. and you know, me just within about 15 kilometers about made all 3 leading out and give me some people out about very, very no traffic jams. people stop crowding con,

you can imagine being being stuck in traffic and basically parked on the motorway, knowing the shooting, even take foreign company we didn't know much come to but you know, be able to move it right to construction. people trying to travel further away from that pricing for the south interest. pretty difficult with roads going in the villages, but we've just been, it's been a few hours, but the just about to come out between villages is endless. endless line vehicles old trying to find a way out. now people are meeting that. com. i've been pretty struck given have difficulties and even find fuel level or know where to go and how to get people panic or wait the voices or pushing ahead and queue that the patients federal, the kind of severity. and they're gonna say some people in some way keeping calm,

i'm dealing with the situation is if they can thank you so much for letting us know what's going on. do try and stay safe. thank you for an economy and can and just outside. yeah, i should say, one of vladimir putin stated reasons for this invasion is the supposed danger of the nato military alliance coming too close to russian territory. now the invasion has spurred nature to reinforce its operations in the east alliance is dominated militarily by the united states, and it includes $21.00 european countries. if we take a look at it, european borders, we see that the northern countries, estonia and latvia, border of russia, lithuania borders, russia's ally bella roost nato's troop deployment. estonia and latvia are small just over a 1000 each, while reinforcements from germany recently landed in lithuania, poland has just over 6000 troops at the moment, and member states on the southeast and flank of smaller garrisons. the u. s. is

sending thousands more troops as the alliance builds its troop strength along its eastern flank. let's hear from nato secretary general, again, stolen bern, who's been speaking to the press this afternoon. present in decision to pursue his aggression against ukraine. is a terrible strategic mistake. for which russia would pay a severe price for years to comb. nato allies and the european union have all of the introduced significant sanctions. a manual partners around the globe have joined us. we must stand ready to do more. even if it means we have to pay a price because we are in this for the long haul. let's go straight to at nato headquarters and join d w correspondent, terry schultz,

who was the at that press conference. so welcome, terry. one of the points that mr. dalton burger made in his opening remarks, he was talking about a new normal for european security. what else stood out for you that what we heard from secretary general stilton burg today is that nato has decided to activate. it's nato response force. this is, it's very high readiness, rapid response force for the 1st time for purposes of collective defense, it's been used for a natural disasters and to protect public events. but this is the 1st time these forces are going to be used, sent to the eastern flank for deterrence and reassurance purposes. now secretary general suttonberg did not tell us exactly how many troops were going to be used, or exactly where they be going. and from, from which garrison's they'd be coming, but we would expect to see this in, in the next very few days because that's the purpose of the rapid response force. so i think we'll be seeing some movement very soon. and we've heard of the reason,

days that this, this invasion, housing factor united nato allies are more than ever yes, that's what nato will tell you in. and that in fact is also what i hear behind the scenes. and you'll often hear a lot of grumbling about the united states, for example, coming in and, and telling nato what it's doing and acting like that's consultations. you don't hear that this time, in part because they've been so open about the intelligence that they've shared. and remember, there was some skepticism leveled at at the united states with these reports that the invasion was going to happen on february 16th or then on february 21st these different dates. but in fact, it did happen and, and the allies have said many of them that they're very grateful to have been brought along with all of this information as horrible as it was, and as horrible as it is unfolding. now. everyone knew what was in store, and there is a lot of unity in this decision to, to, to deploy the rapid response force will be yet another indication of how all the

allies are, are pulling together because there will be multiple countries that will be sending forces into this, this new spearhead team that will be going out a criticism of nato is that it is effectively standing by wild ukraine is being attacked. ukraine, of course, not being a native country. the secretary general in his speech talked about data continuing to support a you crime. so to perhaps you could just let us know what nato is doing in terms of support for you crime. yeah, unfortunately for ukraine, this turns out to be a lot of moral support at the moment. there have been years of training, ukrainian, ukrainian armed forces and also funding reforms and, and upgrading their defenses. but it is still come to these, these terrible days that we're seeing now in nato has helped ukraine with its cyber resilience. and that will go on. but once again, i think that what's dominating the situation for all of us are these horrible pictures that we're seeing unfolding now from all across the country. so even at

this moment though, you do see allies saying that they will be sending more contributions, including of defensive weapons to ukraine. i can't explain how they're going to get this equipment into the country safely and into the hands of of ukrainians. but you do still see contributions being announced, but at the moment from from nato side, when it talks about reinforcements, reassurance and deterrence, it is talking about putting those resources on its own territory in the baltic states in poland, in other countries along the eastern flank, watching the press conference as i did as it happened live, it struck me better in the questions. one of the only questions that the secretary general addressed directly was about cyber attacks. and he was asked whether there was a red line that would prompt the article 5 defense. and he actually addressed that quite directly. well, what he said is that we've never, we nato,

in his words, that nato has never actually given opponents an exact idea about what would be the red line. because then they would, you know, perhaps stay just short of if this is something, of course that's, that's tactical. so cyber has been declared a war fighting domain by nita, which means that article fight could be declared if a cyber attack were deemed to be so debilitating on a nato ally, that all countries would need to come to that allies defense. but it hasn't happened yet, and we don't know exactly what that red line would be. many countries have asked many journalists have asked, but we don't know because it hasn't happened yet. thank you, terry. it's very short that nato headquarters in brussels. so as a recap of the latest developments, russian forces are pressing in closer to ukraine's capital on day to have a full scale. invasion of the city says the cities entered a defensive phase and ukrainian military vehicles are entering the capital,

protect it from approaching the troops. o signs have been sounding in care of and other cities are prompting people to take a shelter in metro stations. they've also been forts of clashes and around here, after russia bombarded the city with the missiles, an overnight current government says at least $137.00 of its soldiers and civilians have been killed across the country to present a claim. but he's willing to negotiate after you. crane's mom is events you raise the possibility of ukraine adopting a mutual thanks. it was not clear whether president putin is funny as to seriously engage in such talks where you go to them and a busy a day all around the world. let's focusing on what's been happening in some of the european capital d w said political chief, political correspondent, the crate is with us. welcome melinda meetings being held today.