[000:00:00;00] hey, this is dw used live from berlin as war rages in ukraine. peace talks are due to start soon. ukraine and russia agree to negotiate as they battle for control of ukraine's biggest cities. will get the latest shortly from our correspondent on the ground. also coming up the e, you expand its response to the war, funding weapons for ukraine. clothing it is based to russia and banning some pro

kremlin media. and rally is full pace in cities around the world. here in berlin, more than 100000 people turned out to demand an end to the war. ah, i am jared rate. thank you very much for your company. ukraine and russia. do to start holding peace talks shortly. it's not clear exactly when the negotiations are due to begin, but it's understood the 2 sides have been arriving at a location somewhere on ukraine's border with bella. ruth, he cranes, president viola vladimir zalinski has said though he doesn't hold out much hope of a breakthrough on the ground. russian forces are trying to push deeper into ukraine, and there's been no late up in the fighting. the mayor of kid earlier said that the

capitol was surrounded by then he retracted his stipend later. battles are still going on around other population centers. weapons of war at a children's playground in khaki. as all of these images uploaded to social media, purportedly show russian soldiers of the person filming, since they are shooting at houses. but they run into fierce resistance. a trail of russian recognizance vehicles is left smouldering as ukrainian soldiers drive the russian army back out of ukraine. second largest city, the regional governor says khaki is back under ukrainian control the capital key if is also putting up a fight. while explosion after explosion goes off near the heart of the city. a war just outside the window. many fleet to subway stations when they hear air raid sirens was my family. i moved to our relatives place

because they are closer to the metro station. and there is a better opportunity to run down the metro station itself is heavy bomb being take place in the east apartment buildings in ruins, a gas pipeline, and an oil depot in flames. in an effort to stop the destruction, ukraine's president agrees to peace talks. the man is still green. scott, the ukrainian and russian delegations will meet without any preconditions. holden, frankly speaking, i do not really believe in the outcome of the meeting young those of you to visit betsy's will station. meanwhile, new satellite images show a convoy of hundreds of russian military vehicles approaching the capital. a sign that the fighting there may become even more intense. for more now, let's bring in d. w. correspond mateus building a. who's in the phoenix?

yeah. excuse me. in weston, ukraine. mathias hi there at what can you tell us about the situation on the ground of his our so here is this. her situation is rather calm because ah, it's quite far now right now it's quite far from the, from the front line and her. we don't have fights here or tanks approaching. but we have frequent air aids. so um we are in and out of the basement of the building and are we are we are hiding but we also see days and then there is a traces of the war in everyday life. for example, most shops are closed. only those that sell food and, and pharmacies are open,

everything else is closed and also people are engaging in activities to support the army. for example, there are places where people can donate her clothes, mattresses, food as well for the army as well as for refugees. and there are many refugees here . so there is quite a bit of tension year in the air as well. although we're not as hard hit as other places. okay. 90th, lots of tension. and as you have just said, they're now president. the lensky isn't expressing very high hopes for these talks that are due to take place. somewhere on the bellow reporter, that's with russia. of course. what can we reasonably expect from these negotiation? while the have been negotiations for months now, where, why russia was quietly building up? it's not quietly actually also very visibly

a building up its army around the borders of ukraine and attacked the, the country out of the blue. without any pretext. there was always the fear that they would create some kind of the pretext. they didn't even do that. so trust in russia is understandably very low. now we have the impression or we can say that the war has not gone so far as russia had expected id. the offensives are stark, they meet with fierce resistance from the ukrainians. and the best guess would be that these negotiations are about winning time for russia. from the russian side, it's not very logical to build up an army for a month with the purpose of attacking a country openly, basically displaying its power, then attacking. and after 3 days,

rethinking and offering some other kind of a kind of solution. so either russia things, they have already pressured ukraine enough into agreeing to their terms, which is not the case from the ukrainian perspective, or they're just winning time. but he has burning a correspondence in west in ukraine. thank you. mathias with european union is to finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to ukraine for the very 1st time. european commission president also to live on the line says the block is also closing it is based to russian aircraft and will ban some state own media. she announced new sanctions targeting the regime of bell russian president, alexander lucas shenker, for supporting russia's action about the lion says this is

a significant development. and she explained why as the war in ukraine rages on and ukrainian bravely for their country. european union steps up once more its support for ukraine and the sanctions against the aggression aggressor that is put in russia. for the 1st time ever. the european union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack. this is a watershed moment for more, let's bring in a d. w correspondent, band lee, good in brussels band, high or the e. u is sending weapons to ukraine. could you explain why this decision is so historic both to boost a falling and the u. s. shifting into war gear now is the 1st time that the use actually buying weapons and ammunition for a 3rd country, which is not member of the you, they are will, they will spend 450000000 euros in

a 1st torch. there are 6000000000 in this budget, it's called the peace budget actually. and it was meant for peacekeeping forces in africa elsewhere. now they will use the money to buy arms. so this is really a turnaround in history because the european union always had, we are peace project and now it's in involved into well some. what in the war? a big turnaround, as you say about the e. u is also imposing fresh sanctions. how much by today have they aim, especially at the financial sector of russia? the u targets the russian national bank and its assets and currency reserves. the u. one's more or less to freeze all business of this bank and also some other banks which are connected, wire swift, to the international community and now hindered from doing business. and this shall

lead to the inability of let me put in the russian president to finance his war. so the economy in russia is supposed to suffer a lot. and it's not quite clear which impact this will have on the economy in europe, in the was also closing the space for all russian flights. and also kicking out some media outlets and the icing on the cake as been you can say that is that the russian oligarchs cannot fly their private jets anymore from moscow to nice to enter the luxuries yachts. bentley get in brussels. thank you. band will ross as president vladimir putin has put his so called deterrence forces, including nuclear armed forces on high alert in a video distributed by the kremlin pollutants, said nato powers have made aggressive statements towards russia. he also pointed to

economic sanctions that will cut off banks from international transactions. as we just heard from dental, you get money. and pollution is blaming the west for that decision. was really, really, this is not only our western countries taking unfriendly economic steps against our country with the timing, the illegal sanctions that everyone knows about very well. what the top officials of leading nato countries are also making aggressive statements about our country this evening. therefore, i order the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff, but to put the deterrent forces of the russian military. because women to a special mode of combat duty bdc. oh, hundreds of thousands of people have protested the russian invasion in cities around the world. here in berlin, there was a huge rally at the landmark brandenburg gate. there were big demonstrations also

in paris, madrid, and the string of the capitals where police mostly left people alone to march up. that's not something we can say about the protest that happened in dozens of russian cities, a monitoring group. this is at least 2000 people were detained. they were chanting no to war. in russia from st. petersburg to siberia, protesting their country's invasion of ukraine. and in so many places, the script was the same inspired chance followed by action from security forces, often in riot gear. i mean what? it can't be any worse. we're the aggressor state and people are dying because of us . i'm ashamed. i haven't been able to live normally for several days. i'm burning

with shame. oh ukrainians. well away from russia were meanwhile burning with pride. their national anthem played outside the russian embassy in berlin. and over at the brandenburg gate, police left more than $100000.00 people to chide vladimir putin and support ukrainians. it is our backyard. they are neighbors or brothers or cousins, or co workers. put in this bond in my country, which is ukraine is killing people, killing children. i wish i could do my but coming in showing our solidarity, showing that we really want the people of ukraine to be say, the attack on ukraine is an attack on us on all our ideas, just like the ukrainians have been piling us for the past 8 years such support for ukraine was also found in cities as varied as paris. oh,

her beal in kurdish, iraq, santiago, chile. oh, and the lithuanian capital vilnius were ex pat bella. russians protested their country support for the invasion. also without police interference. but back inside russia, india, caterine berg, east of the euro, mountains, the voices of protest. quickly muffled and foot boards, we'll governing body has condemned russia. the 1st is russia will host no matches and will have to play as the russian football union. but it stopped short of expelling russia from the world. cup fif is decision follows the refusal of poland, sweden and the czech republic to play russia, even with russia playing quote, home matches on neutral territory. and without spectators, it's unclear whether other teams will be willing to play england for one says it

will not play russia. you're watching d. w. stay tuned for our special coverage of german chancellor. olaf sholtes is historic speech on defense spending to parliament on sunday, which of course, is another step in the unfolding transformation of germany's foreign policy in response to the war. there's more on our website, t, w dot com. you can follow us on twitter and instagram to at dw, i'm tired raid. stay with people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families with extreme

around 200 people around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. w. made for mines. ah, ah, ah. i'm michael ok. welcome to the special edition of d. w. news focusing on a landmark appearance by the german chancellor, all love charles, in which he talked of her turning point in history. schoultz her has been speaking in an exceptional sunday, sitting of the german parliament, the buddhist dog,

called in response to russia's invasion of nuclear. he announced a raft of policy changes that would have been unthinkable just days ago. germany will drastically strengthen its military holly, at a cost of a 100000000000 euros, a longstanding policy of not sending weapons to war. a zones is also being reversed and berlin will move quickly to reduce its dependence on russian energy exports, shawls had harsh words for vladimir putin. he says the russian leader has ended decades of peaceful co existence, cold bloodedly, for one reason. join now by our chief political correspondent, belinda crane. melinda today was clearly historic as a sea change, some would say, in germany's defense in foreign policies. absolutely. as the chancellor put it, we are in a new world. we woke up on february 24th in

a new world. and he said basically that this attack on ukraine is an attack on the entire security order that essentially helped european countries maintain a relatively peaceful and stable co existence in the entire post world war 2 era. he says that that attack, which obviously goes far beyond this present moment, requires a commensurate response. and those changes that you mentioned weapons exports or to ukraine to a conflict zone, which has long been seen as a prohibition including under german law harsh sanctions on russia. and a quantum leap in defense spending. this represents a dizzying departure from what was essentially long a post war consensus that germany would essentially tie its own hands

militarily and absolutely prioritize diplomacy and dialogue. and the reason for that, you could say, is that germany learned the lessons of the 2nd world war and war of aggression that it initiated to. well, it essentially felt that military might was off limits as a tool of foreign policy. we are seeing that change, and i have to say it truly is a watershed for me over 30 years of reporting on germany. i've heard many politicians profess that this country is going to take greater responsibility that it's going to commit more to defense. that it's going to play a more active leadership role in common european security policy. but never so concrete, never so impassioned, and never so defiant in never. so emotional watershed moment is what you said. and i think we've been hearing that word throughout the day. this is a radical departure just that just the weapons export that you mention

a how much support does the government have in doing this and what kind of response did the german chancellor get when he laid out his should be centrally new, military defense policy. we'll hear that in a moment when we hear the speech really quite massive applause when he was talking also about this decision to ship weapons to ukraine. good listeners will also hear some booze. and some pushback on some of the sections that dealt with defense policy. but those are essentially coming from the party groups on the very left and right of the political spectrum. otherwise, a very broad consensus that this is the right thing to do at this moment. as our viewers will here, chancellor schultz was very keen to make sure that he specified this is vladimir putin's war and not the war of the russian people. why do you think that he was, it was so critical for him to make that point. indeed, for me, this is one of the most moving parts of the speech. and in fact, again, our viewers will be able to see

a standing ovation from many parts of the bonus tag when he directly addressed the russian people saying, we command your bravery going out on the streets, demonstrating against this war. this is the war of putin, but we do not want to tear open old wounds and divisions with the russian people. and i say to you, liberty and human rights will prevail very moving. and in fact, the bonus tag, as i say, applauded loudly for that and so here we go. i gotta opposite, denton lending and i believe and colleagues, smith, burger, mclaren, compatriots, if you don't want us to the 24th of february 2022 marked a change in the history of a continent in attack in ukraine. the russian president putin

launched an or of aggression cold bloodedly, for one reason to stop the freedom of ukraine and put it under its yoke. this goes against humanity. this goes against international law and there's nothing whatever that could justify this attack. quickly, buddha was really terrible. images we've been seeing from give a desa matter. you pull, show the unscrupulous, most of put in the shocking injustice, the pain of ukrainians. all touch us. very much good. hopefully. i know your father. exactly. you're going to be what our fellow countrymen and women are asking themselves in the evenings. what concerns they have looking at what

they're finding out from this wars many, remember our grandparents are great grandparents talking about the war and for young people. it's impossible to imagine how can there be a war in europe now? smells. many of you have been expressing this outrage in berlin. we have experienced a daunted a break in everything we have known until now. and that means that the world before this attack is not the same as the world before it. essentially, it's about the question of whether might will, can, won't work to please laws whether we can allow to tend to turn back the clock to the time of imperial powers of the 19th century, or whether we can draw a line in the sand and contain this

does that even is darker for all this requires strength beyond our part? yes we are. we want to show him clear boundaries on and yes we want to diff, defend our democracy, our freedom and our prosperity. and i'm grateful to you will receive your doctor, president of the bundle target for convening. this is a special session and i'm glad that i am able to speak to all of you. and i want to thank all of the leaders of elementary groups of all the different parties for supporting with convening of this special session of the bonus that ladies gentlemen in attacking ukraine put in, doesn't just want to eradicate a country from the wild mattel. he is destroying the european security structure that we have had since the final act of helsinki for nearly half a century. and in doing so,

he is putting himself outside of the international community world wide trouble. we have worked with france to try to get the u. m, scared to counsel to name russian its attack as what it is, namely and infamous, your break of international law and order. and i believe we have summer success. what we have seen is that we are not alone in defending a large piece, and we will continue to work with funding brought up towards achieving this. and i'm very grateful to my foreign minister about what she has achieved thus far as well. in this regard, morbid and organs resigned as beetles, paul demoss. it was only by using the emergency brake of vito a permanent member of security council that they could prevent this. that in itself

is an outrage. visiting with president putin global, keeps talking about inviolable security auditing. but at what he's actually doing is using weapons to try to bring part of the continent under his power. and this will have an impact on the rest of europe as well. permanent security in europe is not possible with russia they are put in, is endangering this and to we need to not minutes are words in the are as follows on we are tackling the challenge that these times have made of us with a cool head resolutely like for there are 5 approaches that we want to take your most of your firstly of,

that's what we need to support ukraine and it's an hour of desperate need. and also frankly, recent weeks and months. we have done this as much as we can read with the attack on ukraine, we find ourselves in a new age in care of in hot give a d. s a multiple. people are not just defending their homeland, they are fighting for liberty and democracy for values that we share with them. let's do applauding building as democratic as european you've as i do, we stand with you. we stand on the right side of history with i'm dollars of a president on thursday. president put in attacking ukraine, created a new reality. and this new reality requires a clear response. we have given this clear response, as you know,

yesterday we decided that germany will deliver weapons to ukraine or so it can defend itself with me on this plane. and there was no other response possible to proteins aggression. the ladies and gentlemen like this are 2nd ones i'm mandate schools is to get is put in away from this path of our warring on ukraine. it is a disaster for ukraine, but it will prove to be a disaster for russia to remind them a do want to put together with the heads of state and government of the e. u. we have proved a raft of sanctions that are unprecedented. we are cutting export russian banks,

and we are off and we are taking the oligarchy money away from them, or we're focusing on where we can do that. and there will be sanctions placed on putin and all of those close to him. when it comes to visas for members of the government obviously, and the waters above we. oh god swanson that swift alt, excluding important russian banks from swift. from the swift symptom, we decided on this yesterday and we are going to take this step moms missions, ball. let's not kid ourselves. my minute though. put it in will not change his course overnight. they are part, but hopefully very soon, the russian leadership will feel what high price they will have to pay for less. in recent weeks, there's been

a 30 percent plummeting on the russian stock market and that shows that our sanctions are working and we are perfectly happy to consider any other kind of sanction that we may put in place. and everything is on the table. one, louis norberg, to fargo. the question remains unfold as to what will be hurt those responsible most the ones who are to blame and not the russian people including michigan water support cuts. it wouldn't be because it was putin who chose this war, not the people of russia. and this is why we must say very clearly that this war is fourteen's war. the difference yours, liberty. and it's important for me to differentiate urinals,

which indirectly cause the reconciliation between germany and russia,