ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from good as war rages in ukraine. they are the 1st glimmers of hope. he cried and rush, agree. peace talks even as moscow's troops draw closer to keep fuel depos come under attack. but the mare says the sitting is still holding out. we'll get the latest from our correspondence in ukraine. meanwhile, germany says the war marks a turning point in history. chancellor, who left shelter announces a massive upgrade of buildings, military capability, and plans to cut germany's dependence on russian energy supply and rallies for

peace and cities around the world. hearing berlin more than a $100000.00 turn out to demand an end to the funding. ah, matheney howard, welcome to the program. we begin with the 1st hopes for dialogue over the war in new credit president, florida. miss lensky office says it will hold negotiations with russian officials at the border with beller, bruce, russia. his talks had not yet begun that the 2 sides are arriving at the location. in other developments president vladimir putin has put russia's nuclear forces on alert, in an escalation of tensions with the west, the u. s. as accused him of manufacturing threats. meanwhile, fighting continues on the ground in ukraine. russian forces have attacked fuel depots and there are reports of explosion is outside the capital key. the may says,

the on the russian troops in the city battles are still going on around other population centers. or for more, let's bring in date of the correspond nick connelly who's in vanessia in western g for and nick the ukranian side. as announced that the negotiations have already begun that the russian foreign ministry has denied that. do we know for sure what is happening and bushy as a ways, right? you know, over the last few days, we don't have any conclusive information either way. that's been the same way in terms of the actual fighting, whether 1000000000 insurance on the ground and up see during war there since ships . so no side really giving a full picture. it is important that this is even happening at all. and it's happening without pre conditions. that's being seen as a victory for ukraine because the russians basically were pushing for the ukraine to turn up and find what essentially amounts to capitulation by sea, demilitarized in allowing rochelle way from over there, in general politics. and basically, allowing rushed to kind of my brains to micro,

strictly like government but us for these talks, i'm not very confident there's actually going to be much to them. we've heard as much from volume. lensky says he's not impressed. or, you know, big he convinced because this could just be attracted by rushed to wind. some time we've seen russian troops, russian tanks getting stuck on roads in ukraine, stuck while invading ukraine because they basically haven't caught up with their fuel slides. so this could be just a little bit of tactic in glenn approach. and he did the same just before this invasion where you entered to a metal microphones that he was opened some big summit. there would be meeting between foreign ministers. and then before those meetings of the map and he sent his tanks rolling over the border, so not much trusting ukraine, the russians are playing fairly. and i think it's also just important to stop from it and just think how crazy the situation is. they're going to be meeting at the board next, which noble nuclear power station on the border region. ukraine beller is, is, it's like something out of our kind of fancy, noble russian troops control the channel nuclear power station,

which is like the world's biggest nuclear incident at 60 kilometers from ki, if there are any fighting the huge risks to some brilliant effect. but now these 2 countries are meeting at the border next to nuclear. disaster zone is just an indication of what extraordinary kind of search you're on right now. give us a sense of how the people feeling in ukraine. do they have hope for these piece talks or given the brutality of the last 4 days? they just focus more on fighting to defend their country at this point. i think definitely more of the last year. i think ukrainians have been very cheered by seeing how well, how well the you can, you know me is holding up against the russian army, especially on the western weapons down to tank missed all that have been brought to bring from the u. s. u. k. seems to be pretty effective and they definitely slow down the rest of the month. you read when you read russian miniature, they seem pretty shocked at how slow adults is going. they thought they could just have some going to blitz and get to kill within

a day or 2 and tend ukrainian government in tech. so cleaning out of that hasn't happened. and lots of russian troops being taken prisoner, lots of these tanks, images everywhere, and social media here of destroyed tanks. and so lots of ukrainians. i was just in a youth center today where you had dozens of young people. it's more hundreds, making camouflage, knitting, collecting food and equipment for the troops. it also refugees heading west from here. so if, if blood was trying to demoralize ukrainians, it seems like teaching just the nic dot s a fall. and again, nerves are, i guess, a constant for the people, but just quickly on nights the most nervous times during an invasion. definitely, and we've been spending a lot of our time in bomb raid shelters, in this case where we are in just this blocks, stella and just to give you a bit of insight. the reason why i'm sitting here in the living room in front of a bookshelf is because i can't stand outside with lights with a camera light or in the window without locals being worried that i'm trying to

give some kind of signal that i'm a kind of sleeper agent, and it will sound like something from a novel, but this is real. these kind of cases have been found just today. there been reports of russian agents trying to destroy a re dos sites, about 10 clients more. and now lots of shooting that i can't verify that, but it does seem to fit the big patent to go very know this very distrusting of strangers. but overall not panicking and fairly cheered right now by where this is going. and you know, the ability to green army, to actually sit this out and to make russia think twice about whether this is actually going to work out a to believe, correspondent connelly and western new trend. thanks so much. russian forces i'm making stiff resistance as they attempt to push further into crime. and they're of keith says the capital is holding it's defensive lines and they are now russian troops in the city itself. and after reports of heavy fighting in eastern cut, if the regional governor says ukrainian forces have re taken full control of the

city, latest attacks have targeted civilian infrastructure as well as the military chaos at an oil depot. and both c give just outside of key of emergency services battled to the early morning after russian rocket fire destroyed the facility just one of the many targets of russian fire overnight. ah janice, you will let us go that night was hard hold. what did they do? this is revenge. yes. but people rose to defend their state. and thee, the russian army showed their real face. this is terror, little when they are going to bomb our ukrainian cities even more and they're going to kill our children, even more insidiously. michelle, this is evil, naturally did. they said little. russia has confirmed it destroyed what it called, 975 military targets in the campaign so far. but many of its rockets have landed in

civilian areas, killing and maiming bystanders. here and key of civilians continue to seek shelter in the city subway stations. there's little hope it seems for a quick end to the fighting. the european union is to finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment t crime for the 1st time. european commission president was left on the line, says the block is also closing its a space to russian aircraft and will ban state and media from the line announced that new sanctions targeting the regime of bela brushing leda alexander lucas shanker was well for supporting the russians action is a little of what she had to say. we will introduce restrictive measures against them most important sectors. this will stop their experts of products from men or fuels to tobacco, wood, and timber, seminar, iron, and steel. we will also extend to better use the export restrictions we

introduced on dual use goods for russia. this will also avoid any risk of circumvention of our mess measures against russia. and in addition, we will sanctions those below russians, helping the russian war effort from will. that's bringing doubly correspondent kristin. we're in brussels. christina big di, what stood out for you. and then for the 1st time in the european union's history, the block is going to collectively purchase and supply lethal military aid for a 3rd member can or 3rd country. in this case, that is ukraine. we understand that this is to the amount of some 450000000 euros. now this is under what is called the european piece facility. it's a mechanism that was launched last year and it has rolled out 1000000 some assistance to the african union. for example, but this assistance was non lethal assistance and now for the 1st time,

the bulk of the money that has been dedicated to a single country, a 3rd country or ukraine, is going to be lethal assistance. and that is the 1st time again i in the blocks history, the, it was also announced that individual member states that have already at donated military assistance to the ukrainian on forces are going to be compensated. that is, the block is going to refund them for that. and we're talking about retrospective compensation going as far back to military ad deville aid that was given a, in, in january for example. and they say that the idea here is to encourage individual member states to continue to support ad ukrainian armed forces and also to maybe encourage others to start doing so as well. so a strong show of solidarity in terms of coming together as the block in reaching the decision to support the ukrainian on forces separately to that. in addition to the,

the flight ban of all russian aircraft are in on ear space. more individuals are in russia about 20 are going to be further sanctioned. and as well as that, of course, at bill ruse at to receive further sanctions as well. christina woodard in brussels. thanks so much. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin has put his deterrence forces, including nuclear armed forces on high alert. in a video distributed by the kremlin, put, and said, nato powers had made aggressive statements towards russia. you also blamed economic sanctions that will cut off russian banks from international transactions. so he's blaming the west for his decision to put russia's nuclear forces on alert. let's have a listen to what mister putin had to say. exactly. was really believe you really did. not only our western countries taking unfriendly economic steps against our country and that i mean the illegal sanctions that everyone knows about very well.

what the top officials of leading nato countries, those are also making aggressive statements about our country received. therefore, i order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff, but to put the deterrent forces of the russian military breakers room to a special mode of combat duty. they doubly correspondent, emily, sherwin is here in berlin from moscow after russia withdrew her journalistic accreditation. good to have you here under any circumstances, emily and what we have just heard the words, the mood is this a sign that put in his rattled? well, we don't know, it does seem judging from what military experts in russia are saying that this military operation is taking quite a bit longer than russia expected. but i think these words from putin, you know, are clear sign that he wants the west to keep out. am he ordered fusions, or rather rushes to turns, forces to be placed on standby. and,

and he said that that was because nato leaders were expressions expressing aggression towards russia. so this is kind of him throwing russia's weight around, showing that it's an important power on the world stage. and actually we've heard that nuclear threat veiled nuclear threat or not. so veiled before already a few days earlier, he also talked about consequences that you've never faced in your history if you metal and i'm kind of progressing, i'm addressing the west. so i think he's kind of trying to say ukraine is our sphere of influence. keep out of this conflict. for the 1st time, rational authorities have admitted that russian soldiers have indeed been killed in this invasion. what does that to us? i think that's quite a change in the narrative, or it could signal a change in the narrative state tv. so far has kind of been talking about a very much emphasizing the fact that russian forces we're not hitting civilian infrastructure at all. and i heard one show they were talking about scalpel like

accuracy. they're just hitting military infrastructure, no civilians, it's almost the perfect operation. now we've heard the ministry of defense come out and say that there are casualties, they haven't said that they're the exact numbers of casualties, which i think is interesting. but they did say that they're far lower than on the other side on the ukrainian side. so you kind of a vague statement to day was the 1st time also we heard that they also admitted that one general had been killed. but this could become a real problem. i think a p r problem with this operation for russia going forward. because there's quite a bit of opposition against this war. any way you know, we've seen today again, anti war protests. i'm almost 2000 people were arrested and very cities across the country. other people who believe the state t v narrative have believe this is going to be a short and victorious war. but if the body bag start arriving back in russia,

that could be, you know, real issue, i think for the kremlin licks were brought a question about the information. russia correct down hard or maybe your outlets in social media as you've witnessed your so what does the media landscape in russia look life? well it's, it's been strange watching the coverage of this actually because, you know, for example, today i got a, a push notification from state media saying in hot kiff, which we talked about before in the, in the eastern part of ukraine. russian forces have entered that was a critical media outlet, and then the state state media outlet that said, soldiers have voluntarily laid down their arms in her. so you're getting kind of these parallel narratives about this war. and in, at the same time, in, within russia there's been quite a crackdown on critical media and also on internet freedom on social media as well . the media last week was told that they're only allowed to use russian official sources when reporting about this conflict. can media outlets received a warning and were told to delete of information articles that called this

operation and a war and an invasion? and to day the general's prosecutor's office said that any one who am offers financial or other help for foreign government organizations. foreign organizations could be considered a, you know, to be committing treason, which could mean that they can face up to 20 years in prison. and there's been a precedent of a journalist, a well known journalist being hit with that accusation. so i think that could really affect journalists as well. and meanwhile, facebook has been slowed down and other social media outlets. i think we're going to see quite a crackdown on the the media sphere information sphere, the internet and social media in the coming days and weeks. great to get to your insights and knowledge after 4 and a half years in moscow. emily, sherwin, could you get a chance to talk the european union is organizing a huge logistical operations deal with the hundreds and thousands of ukrainians, flaying their hun,

let european commission president ursula found alliance as the block welcomed them with open arms. most of the refugees are heading for poland. huge cues of formed as people try to leaf exhausted, but happy to have made it to poland for natalia cooks and her son even an opportunity to finally rest. their group left ukraine with the 1st alarm and only got her now. i'm not scared about sammy and my son might skate ice care about my argument. my parents, natalia tells her husband how to stay behind. he may have to fight into, of course my son re cry ran as a yeah, no, because his zipper and the air separate and i he wanted to, he's a husband always call him and i say i wanted to be with you. a former warehouse now serves as a provisionary shelter, a safe haven for those who don't have anywhere to go. there is no shortage of

donations including food diapers, and blankets. most of it is handled by volunteers. people from all over poland and even a broader pitching into help with rides, out of town, and even places to sleep. putney, hey, hey, is this, you know, we are very concerned with all what is happening. this is great and justice and i think everyone should help us home has accosted moving into my gut. joseph eric and frances are also need of help in a during students barely mated across the board. they tell us, this is not the only report of africans having been sent to the back of the queue by ukrainian border guards. there was an august commission going on there where iraqi had to like beg, people to like take him to the border so we could find a way to escape. well of course, racism discrimination. no one listen to was gone. austin, collar and everything back inside. as gainey keep each ankle is waiting for his wife to reunite with him and his son ilia,

to us mary cartridge fermi. for his mother, the trip isn't over yet. she is still stuck at the border after a night out in the court. mamma, those are groom. his mother is also under huge stress, but she is holding up. she is very strong. she's now helping other people with her at the border here. we'll aim call and trying to calm them down and offering her course so they can keep warm. when you said a wireless massena. together they planned to carry on to latvia and then perhaps to england, just far enough away from the war. will they w, corresponded mac sanda is standing by at the polish ukrainian border. max, tell us how things are looking where you are right. the situation here, the polish ukrainian border, it seems a somewhat under control for now, but you can really tell being here on the ground that the, the situation is slowly changing and more people are coming. or the polish prime minister today said that 200000 people from ukraine have made their way to poland.

so for that's roughly a $100000.00 more than yesterday. so in the beginning of the last couple of days we, most people who would arrive here would be people who have some sort of connections to, to pull into whatever family members are relatives or friends living here and would have a place to turn to now the people we've talked to throughout the course of the day here who are arriving now appear to be people who are going to poland as the closest safe space. so to say with no real place to turn to or no real plan. but there is a lot of help here, as you can see, and we're at a parking lot close to polish border and were volunteers are handing out donations here, here behind me where they can get a hot meal, where there's some, some medical attention on the polish authorities have made sure to prepare for the situation and i will have to wait and see time will tell them if the coordination is going to be is going to be good enough for when once the numbers really pick up, what people here on the ground are expecting max,

the share value of paypal is clearly an issue that can you spend expand on reports of problems on the ukrainian side, the people trying to leave the country. right, so the situation am or the other side of the border seems to be very dire for the people who are stuck there. we're talking of a long lines of cars naturally because everybody is trying to leave ukraine at once . and in addition to that, people are stuck, their traffic is moving very slowly. and that is also because ukrainian or a border of forces authorities are conducting intense checks on people leaving that has to do with them. not wanting males in, in the fighting age between 18 and 60 to leave the country because there is conscription and they're expected to support the military service. but in addition to that, we've also heard some reports. we've talked to some people here who arrived here today. there are some, some reports of foreigners am being discriminated against a particular african students. there have been multiple ports of them being taken

off the train to make place for you. training nationals have been being sent back to the end of the line to make to letter ukrainian nationals and at 1st so there seems to be also some sort of discrimination. and that, since that's happening at the border, while people are trying to flee, they doubly correspond max and the at the polish ukrainian border. thanks so much a turning point in the history of our continent. that's how chance the olaf schultz described russia's war against ukraine speaking to a special station of parliament, the gym, and later announced a raft of policy changes that would have been unthinkable. just days ago. germany will drastically strengthen its military and moved quickly to eliminate its reliance on russian energy exports. he put the blame squarely on russian. president vladimir put, he said, had brought decades of peaceful coexistence to an end. is the german chancellor earlier today, hooting but analysis, imperial of a futon, wants to create

a russian empire, and all he wants to reconfigure europe, according to his own ideas. and he does not hesitate to use military violence. we see this to day in ukraine. so we must ask ourselves what capabilities putin's russia has. and what capabilities do we need to meet this threat to day and in the future? later on that so called the emerson douglas, mia and we must invest more in the security of our country to defend our freedom and democracy sets if that if and from now on year for year, more than 2 percent of our gdp will be invested in defense always by to our chief political correspondent, macau, the covenant. earlier and put it to her that this is a historic change in german, foreign and defense policy. absolutely. this is a paradigm shift in german defense policy. frankly,

we've seen more change in that in the past 24 hours than in the previous 24 years. that is now safe to say it started when saturday evening. we got news that will assaults is now planning for germany to directly deliver weapons to ukraine. although we're not sure yet in which shape or form the hand of will actually take place. and then to day we heard from a social democrat, john say, whose chief whip in parliament is really leaning in the direction of having to having tried to understand rosa, in the past, more of a pacifist kind of angle. while he out of all people now announced these 100000000000 on top of the ordinary defense budget, that's twice more than twice the current defense budget here in germany. and he's also agreed to above 2 percent of g d. p. going into defense, the latest as of 2024. this is something donald trump tried to get the germans to move towards it throughout his tenure and failed. and this is all just happened of

the past 24 hours kayla kristen of it may more. here in berlin, more than a 100000 people joined a rally for peace and ukraine. a turner far exceeded the numbers organizes were hoping for. the gathering was one of many held in cities around the world, calling for an end to hostilities, pressure groups including workers unions, and religious and environmental organizations. tupa, they doubly correspond to thomas barrow was there. he sentenced this assessment. tens of thousands of people gathered to day right here in the center of berlin for a peace demonstration in support of ukraine and against vladimir putins actions. there were older people, grandmothers, concerned about the current situation. also, families with younger children asking for politicians to do more to help children. it was also a very international approach, as with people from around the world showing their support. many people here were

also asking the german government to do more, and many told us that they were happy that the german government had decided to reverse it. longstanding decision and is now willing to send defensive weapons to ukraine. it wasn't a w news. let's recap, the latest developments in the invasion on ukraine and russia and ukraine of the great to hold peace talks, allegations are due to make on ukraine's border with feller bruce vladimir putin. meanwhile, as put rushes nuclear forces on alert. he's blaming the west for the decision of the u. s. says the russian leader is manufacturing threats. fighting continues as russian forces try to press deeper into ukraine. fuel did pose of come under attack, but the mayor of keith says the capital is still holding out. the european union is organizing and massive logistical operations deal with hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, flee their homeland, watching data with the news and you're up to date. don't forget this complaint

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