[000:00:00;00] hey, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. russia stepped up. it's a tax on ukraine, cities building, sorry. blaze in khaki for after days of bombardment and russia claims to have taken control of the city of cas on in ukraine. so we'll have the latest from our correspondence. also coming up, german chancellor, pull up shorts, visits israel, a country trying to balance support for ukrainian jews and its reliance on russian security forces will cross lot to sholtes is address. plus he was safe in the

you now he's going home to fight. we meet a ukrainian, willing to risk everything, to defend his country and rest president joe, by vows to punish vladimir putin when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression. they caused more chaos. in his 1st state of the union address buys and says, western allies are united against russia, but says u s. troops won't join the war. ah, hello em, terry martin, good to have you with us. russian forces are intensifying their attacks on ukraine's main cities. russia claims it has taken control of cas song, a city in the south close to crimea. the governor there says it's completely surrounded. elsewhere, russian paratroopers have reportedly landed in ukraine's 2nd biggest city. hot

keith. russia has warned residents to flee as it plans further, airstrikes including like there's seen in recent days. a russian missile strikes, a tv tower and keys in her cave. a government building goes up in flames. both attacks killed people. russia is ramping up its assault on ukraine as a 60 kilometer long, russian convoy of armored vehicles closes in on the capital. thousands of ukrainians still desperately trying to flee though, staying behind a facing the horrors of war washing. maybe we had a fight at 5 am. is the color

b them all. we were retreating and near us a meter away from me. it was a mine blue of my friend's arms and legs, little green and white. i tried to save him. i pulled him away, but he didn't make it. yeah, your demo them? no, so so, so when you're warmer, you cranes, president volota me. zalinski has asked nato to set up a no fly zone and has also applied to join the european union. michelle, we are fighting processes of losing just for our land and for our freedom alicia, dis, local and might. the fact is that all the large cities of our country are now blocked. forward. we are facing look around and also to be or equal members of europe. ers,

i believe that good to day me. we book some weekly are showing everybody. that's exactly what we are used to do. prove that you are with us. she will do prove it. you will not let us go. it was an impassioned plea for help. as the political discussions continue, the ukranian fighting spirit remains strong or correspond mathias billing a join just now from western ukraine. mathias reports are coming in that the russia that russia has taken control over the city of cason. what more can you tell us? here what we've seen as pictures from russian or off russian tanks in this city center of course on earth. that means the railway station and other administrative and administrative buildings arm, so it's clear that the russian tongues are or were in the city center of pearson

and the city has been fought about for many times. in the past few days, a russian soldiers entering and being repelled several times. it's one of the bigger cities in ukraine, and it would be probably if the russia would, could take it and hold it. it would be probably the 1st big city in ukraine to completely fall under russian control. there are other cities that are and circles are and where russian troops have entered. but russia has still not a contract, not good control of any big city in your train. well, in the countries main city in the capital, kia far, we saw the television tower there. the broadcasting tower destroyed, essentially a massive column of russian troops and weaponry is on the outskirts of cube. is the capital capable of repelling an attack by a force like that mathias? until now the capital has done ah,

quite well in defending itself. because it has been the main target of russian troops for days now. and so fire or the attacks have been repelled, is hard to say, i don't have the information to say what the ukranian side still has there in air to defend the capital. and it's also hard to say how the russians would attack what they're going to do are these the, we've seen these pictures of this 60 kilometer long time column approaching the capital. but we don't know what that meant for. it's also quite possible that the, that russia wouldn't even try to invade the capital, but to cut it off of all supplies and wait to surrender, to put it on de cj r, which would be of course, you could terrible humanitarian a situation and a bit. but we still don't know what we know is of course, but it, when it goes to street fighting and fighting of a block for block in houses, the attacking army is always in

a worse position. so damn lots of scenarios. there's also the scenario of a of a mass bombardment as we are seem to be seeing it now from hark. if the 2nd biggest city, i'm all of them look pretty grim are whether key of can or whether the ukrainian forces can withstand that such an attack or not. is hard to say now, but what we're seeing is that they're doing much better than men. everybody thought in the beginning and that the russians are doing much worse than this invasion seems to have been planned quite poorly so far. for the asian has been under way for a week now on the russians are clearly escalating their assault. do you are, are ukrainians bracing for a full out attack now with a lot more violence than we've seen up to date? 30 hard to expect anything else at the moment we've seen the escalation. we've also

seen the readiness of the russian troops to shallow. for example, residential quarters, we see people fleeing from the cities, they don't flee for nothing. they have been staying there when the war began. it's not that they didn't know that a war was starting, but they have seen the escalation. they have seen the dia, humanitarian situation, and they're seeing the possibility of a much more ugly. and i am costly and, and a war and much more suffering. i don't think there are any illusions left at the moment, though it is a, i know you're in western ukraine. we can see people outside still walking around cars going down the streets. ah, what is life like? there are what is access to basic supplies. for example, yeah, leave is one of the places where a lot of refugees have arrived. um, you can see that you wouldn't, for example, the apartment, it's where i'm staying. it's an apartment that's usually rented out for tourists

and all the places in there are now people from, from key of are the parts of the country are now living in these places. they're long queues at the polish border that belong cues for days. um, so the situation is of course difficult. we've also we, we're seeing people sending their for days in the cold. um there is, there are still supplies their shops, this shop still so daily goods, of course, everything that's not a sorry for survival. everything that's not every shop that's not selling. a groceries is closed, but so, so far, grosses i debit some supermarket is all also empty, especially the bigger ones where people go to stockpile big amounts of food. people here are prepared for more. the city. how so far a beam sped off. any major hom made major a shelling or, or, or anything out there?

no. is no fighting going on, mia here at the moment, but it's probably the center of the humanitarian crisis that ukraine are facing. and that, that the most important escape route for mccrae mathias. thank you so much. d. w. mathias, billing, other in western you for you as president joe biden has bowed to make russian president vladimir putin pay a high price for what he called an unprovoked attack on ukraine. in his 1st state of the union address by the said, western countries were standing united in the face of russian aggression and pledged that the united states would defend its nato allies. but he again said that us forces would not get involved in the fighting in ukraine, which is not a native member holiday. instead, biden promised more sanctions against russia targeting its oligarchs. and he closed u. s. air speaks to russian aircraft matter. here's an excerpt from biden's address poses,

let his attack on ukraine was premeditated and totally unprovoked. he rejected, repeated repeated efforts at diplomacy. he thought the western nato wouldn't respond. he thought i could divide us at home in this chamber in this nation. he thought he could do, why this is europe as well, but put was wrong. we are ready, we are united and that's what we did. we stayed united. we prepare extensively and carefully. we spent modest building coalitions, mother fredy, love nations in europe. and the americans treat for america to the asian and african continents to confront putin. like many of you, i spent countless hours unifying near our european allies. we shared with the world in advance. what we knew put was planning, and precisely how we would try to falsify and justify his aggression. we'll bring in tyson barker, here he is with the german council on foreign relations here in berlin. tyson,

president biden devoted the 1st part of his address to russia's invasion of ukraine . what's your take on the speech? well, i think a, 1st of all, it's quite unique that a president starts with the foreign policy issue in traditionally that comes in the 2nd half of the speech. it tends to be much more domestic. so clearly this is on a both members of congress, their minds, and the american people's minds. what he tried to do was frame a, basically the themes of his presidency with him. this conflict to say that this is about democracy's versus autocracies. and democracies are superior. and that there is broad bipartisan consensus within the united states to support ukraine. you saw that in the audience with many ukrainian flags, many standing ovations, including for the ambassador who was present. and that, that bipartisan consensus actually extends much more broadly to other themes than, than sometimes the american people realize including things like china infrastructure and the unity agenda,

which he wrapped up on help. biden vowed to counter putins aggression in ukraine. how is he doing it? well, you know, he started by reminding the american people about what has been done so far and much of it has been quite unique. he talked about, 1st of all, spending countless hours, fortune unity within the alliance, which is true. you know, they have released call logs that show that there have been hundreds of calls at the top levels with european allies to build a trans atlantic unity around sanctions around cost around in, within nato. and he talked about this new a couple of new features of a u. s. policy. one being of the disclosure. deterrence through disclosure, you know, basically fighting russian disinformation and false like operations by releasing up what would have previously been classified intelligence. and the 2nd that he mentioned was a, you know, a broad array of sanctions,

specifically on russia. central bank, which has, as in his words, rendered this a 650000000000 dollar war fund that russia has built over the past decade worthless . so he talked about a lot of these things that have happened in the past. now what can't didn't come and of course, those have all been quite remarkable. what didn't come with some major announcement about what comes next. he talked about closing russian aerospace that's already happened in europe. clearly, europe is a much more important space for air traffic from russia than, than the united states. he talked about going after oligarchy. again, most of their assets are in europe, and then he did talk about this effort to release a 60000000 barrels barrels of oil, 30000000 barrels of which will come from the united states. but it wasn't a, the kind of speech that you had from all of sholtes over the weekend that represented a c change in u. s. policy. now, many have been comparing the ukraine, russia conflict to the cold war. that this is returning us to the

cold war era. is that what you're seeing, tyson? is that how you read it? or do you see the beginning of a different world order altogether? taking shape? i don't think it's, it's returned to the cold war for a couple of reasons. one, russia is not a superpower. russia's extremely diminished power. it doesn't have the kind of ideological throw weight. it doesn't have the economic throw away that the soviet union have and it doesn't have the, the geopolitical reach that the soviet union have had. but i would also hook dispute that it's a cold war. we're talking about a hot, we're in european territory. so this is a, something that's happening right now. all paradigms don't really fit. as you mentioned, we're looking at a new order within europe. and what we're seeing slowly, and this is, is, is quite sad for the russian people who don't necessarily know or support what is