ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. russia steps up its attacks on ukraine's cities. buildings are ablaze in car keith after renewed bombardment and russia claims control of the city of car san. but ukraine says the fighting is still going on. dozens of residents have died in recent attacks. also coming on german chancellor will have charlotte's makes his 1st official visit to israel, a country trying to support ukrainian jews while keeping relations with the kremlin

intact class. he was safe in europe. now he is going home to fight. we made the ukrainian willing to risk everything to defend his country. and racing to escape international students, attempts to flee the fighting. but some indian students save a face still a teen from ukrainian border guards, given preference to nationals. we made some of them relieve, made at home. ah, i'm go have health as well come to the program. russian forces are intensifying their attacks on ukraine's main cities. as president vladimir putin war enters its 7 stay. russian forces claim to have taken control of the port city of cas on in ukraine, south close to crimea. you training an official dispute at that claim saying,

fighting for the city is still going on. further to the east, the port city of mario paul was under heavy attack, ukraine's 2nd city hall cases. again today being shelled and the mayor of chief, metallic clench girl wants that russia is gathering troops closer and closer to the capitol. ukraine says dozens of residents have been killed by rushes, airstrikes in recent days. numb from shock. this woman sits just 2 meters away from a dead body. one of a number killed in rushes, sustained attacks on hockey ukraine, 2nd largest city. north vehicles receive, we've been shelled by russians. we are all scared repair. why us? why us regular people

russia has continued to bomb both residential areas and administrative buildings in the city. a local hospital has also been damaged knowingly bloomer broder, we had injured people in the hospital. the basement served as a bomb shelter. people were hiding here from the shelling of the so called peacemakers. let's put it like that. ah, emergency services in the city of their hi, tim year, spent the early hours of wednesday morning trying to control raging fires local authority. a say a russian air strike hit the city, which is west of the capital cave. in care of itself, people are desperately trying to leave. they continue to flock to the central station as they try to escape the capital on tuesday evening

and miss, i'll hit the city's tv tower, killing at least 5 people are, is close to popping. yeah. a memorial site to one of the biggest single massacres of jews during the holocaust. this is a country under attack with no one really show when or how it blend both w martinez. burling joins us now from levine, in west, in ukraine for the latest as russian forces seemed to slowly advance on the capital . keith, what more can you tell us? yeah, that's what we're seeing. what we see for the past few days. of course, the key was the prime target for the russian invaders, and they were advancing towards a key from 2 directions from the north east and from the north west. but for days

now, they have been stalled in the, in the suburbs of keys and also along the, along the route. there. there are some things that do not go as planned as planned by the russians. of course, there are other cities west fighting is still going on on that way for from a north east to key if we don't have a clear picture now of uh, what exactly where is going on where, but we have reports of fighting from several suburbs into the north of the city where the current president brought them as a lensky sounded very defined in his latest address today. let's listening to what he had to say. do my dish with century school. just think about this figure. the almost 6000 russians died. he's russian service men within 6 days of war, a figure without the enemy's losses from the past night. $6000.00 to get what about their mother ukraine?

it isn't possible that will not happen with rockets there. it will not happen with bombs net tanks or any strikes. we are on our land, and they'll be an international tribunal to prosecute them for the war against us miserably. there will not occurrence president rogan has lensky speaking van, he mentioned the ukrainian estimate of russia's death toll so far. how reliable is that? and how are these numbers affecting the mood on both sides? these numbers are given by the ukranian military. the ukrainian military does not really give numbers for ukrainian losses, and d and russia does not confirm any of these numbers. they do not communicate any losses or, or, or gains are so far. um, but um or are they they do report gains but they do not report losses and they do not uh give numbers. um, so it's of course something that is to be taken with caution. what we see however, is that the picture that these numbers represent, even if they are exaggerated, is,

or what we've been getting from other sources as well. the ukranian invasion seems to be really badly prepared. people will you see reports of soldiers running out of food are running out of gasoline. her soldiers appear in ukraine and seem to have no idea where they are or why they are. there. are communication breaking down between the russian tanks and are very young soldiers, often conscripts the in there and there. and it is, it was, he seemed to be in their 1st or 2nd year. and it's, it's really unclear, clear what russia was hoping to do. the best explanation is that i put in thought like once they all step over the border, ukraine would surrender. it's possible he seems to be very ill informed of on what's going on around him. but this is, of course, absolutely not. the mood that is here. now, and that has been here for the past few months. so severe miscalculation by the

russian forces is very probable at the moment. so i'm coming to the situation for the civilians where you are, do they have access to basic supplies? well, life is pretty much normal, almost normal here in, in, in the city center off leave. shops are open, not all of the shops, but many shops are open. grocery stores are open, daily needs are catered to. but of course, the city has seen a huge influx of refugees, and there are, of course, many people in tents or, or are trying to, to, to, to figure out what to do next. they're long queues at the border. people standing there for days in the cold before being admitted to the border book before being able to cross. so there is a huge humanitarian crisis here. but the infrastructure and the and, and, and all the functions that the city needs are still working as tram ways boss is,

taxes are running. there is fuel in again, the gas station is not in all of them, but, but there is. so this part of ukraine has not been hit very hard yet. did up his correspond mathias bellinger. they're joining us from live in eastern you in western ukraine. thank you. very much that's bringing in a soft sun. she is a member of the ukrainian parliament and joins us from cave. welcome. originally from hockey, ukraine, 2nd largest city that has suffered heavily from a russian bombardment of the past as, as a what are you hearing from there? what, what's happening then? i am indeed from hurricane. i'm seen bombs blowing up in the city. they have somebody, the area where i grew up, the bomb was the one that who reported about in the city of santa it's blown up. i just turn to walton at 10 minutes walk from my school, which i graduated from

a 20 years ago. so i am getting many messages from people, even those who but i haven't been in touch with for years. but they all texted me and saying this. we want those precious out of our city. we want to give to stay ukrainian and that is lashley russian. do you consider that is important to, to explain to the international audience. this wouldn't, has been claiming that he's come in here to give freedom to the russian speak as well. now the russian speakers in harkins are asking for him to leave their c 2 so that they can leave in dependent cobra and ukraine and state the situation in hard copies and due to terrible bo minute from sky. but what gives me hope is that after 3 days of a habeas one, bob, many of the city we have destroyed, i don't know how much of the infrastructure destroyed hospitals and buildings, but they didn't manage to get into the city on tanks. so the city is very well

protected by the ukrainian army on the ground. the only thing that we have difficulty covering is the skies that they use and this advantage in order to show my native city. you are a member of parliament for a party that is normally in a position to president lensky. are you supporting him in the situation? is ukraine really pulling together? i am so representative of the opposition party. we do have many disagreements with landscape political body. but as of now we all stay united. we all just want russians out of our country. and then we can continue our, our democratic criticism of their, of the government. but as of now, there is nothing we can argue that because the only thing we all want as of this time is for russians just to get out of our territory to get out of our land. now a few days ago of sitting in a bomb shelter, you wrote an article about how the russian president has, quote, fatally underestimated ukrainians. what do you mean by that?

well put in when, when start into his troops invasion into ukraine, he will think that he will fight in ukraine an army which is the horse smaller than the russian army. but as a matter of fact, he is fighting the whole ukrainian people right now because everyone is getting involved. everyone is volunteering. everyone is ready to take the guns and seen more than 100000 people who signed up full internally for territory defense. you and it's including my dad and seen women for middle age. we don't know how they can be proud. they're making food for the soldiers. i've seen people on the streets in the eastern towns where the russian come and they claimed that they take over control of proceeded with those people are doing. and that is just amazing and most crime which mostly do they do in the most ukraine. and then you can imagine they go to the main street at the men square and protest against the russians in their city

. and they actually managed to kick out several, in several cases. the russians on thanks chrome bear seated with their bare hands just by, by yelling at them, but by setting the molotov cocktails which should do sat there tanks on fire. and i think that is something that we didn't did not take into account is that he is actually fight and not 2 115000 ukrainian soldiers. he's quite in 40000000 ukrainians now the united nation says it expect 4000000 ukrainians to flee the country. and that's 10 percent of the entire population as a member of parliament. do you encourage people to leave as long as it's possible or to stay? oh, well i as a member of parliament, but also as a mother, i do understand the desire to make sure that your child is safe and from what i am seeing from the the report. so we're getting those who did leave mainly women with their children. and again, as a mother, i would say that after i heard the 1st bombs after 1st explosions in the 1st thing

i did, i called my my son's father. and we had a arrangement that in case something starts happening, he will be taken our son to the west as ukraine, and that is what he did. and then i could proceed with him with my job here as a member of parliament. so i believe that the majority of those who left after that the women with children and i do understand this, i very much hope that they will be able to return safely to their home cities and towns. i cannot encourage or discourage that. i do understand the situation and i really, really want people to be safe, but particularly because we are seeing that put in is target and target. as of yesterday, we had 17 confirm the death of children after the shelling of the shootings on the street here and key for put in east kill in our children. so making sure our children are safe is, is a huge priority. and again, i understand that not as a just as a member of parliament as

a mother myself. but i do hope that they were able to return back to ukraine after the victory. i'm afraid we have to live here in a sauce and they're a member of the ukrainian parliament talking to us from keith. thank you very much for joining us here. thank you. and w news. germany's johnson olaf shots is in israel for his 1st visit to the country . the trip is being overshadowed by the conflict in ukraine speaking alongside prime. it is enough that he bennett shaw said both germany and israel would attempt to bring russia and ukraine together for negotiations. on ending moscow invasion, israel has been supporting ukrainian jose what also trying to keep good relations with the kremlin. he has some of what a chancellor shaws had to say. let me call on everybody once again to stop fighting immediately, attacks against civil infrastructure and the civilian population need to be start

was did. and obviously it is important to give diplomacy a great opportunity. i again am very grateful that both of us are going to do what we can and what is possible to make sure that talks between ukraine and russia. well, from soon the on credit in germany strauser all off shows speaking there and only me now from jerusalem. as the w 2 political editor michelle acuteness traveling with the chancellor, mozilla, what more did shows so well, he said that this was a very dangerous situation. indeed, he is very concerned. he stress that russia is a nuclear super power and, and this is somebody who doesn't like to exaggerate the germans answer. he is deeply worried about this. in the dumb government. there seems to be an expectation that this could get a lot worse, and that's what everybody wants to prevent, wants to find a window for talks once again. and this became the overarching issue with all sorts

of course, stressing. yes, there is a crisis going on in europe, but he absolutely wanted to make this trip here to highlight the close ties and to renew germany's promise that it will stand in for is already security and for jewish live everywhere in the world. but of course, when it came down to it, they were mostly talking about russia, but also about the potential for new iran nuclear deal. a during close doors to talk to us more about the timing of this visit. you have touched on this, but why is all of shows fly to israel time and europe's own house is on fire. while the is now study, bennett is someone who knows a lot about all partners involved and who is also seen as someone who could potentially mediate behind closed doors. but overall, it clearly shows he's still within the 1st 100 days of being german chance. and he

wanted to make this very symbolic visit. he cocked his visit down, it was supposed to be 3 days now. it was just under one the half days, but he didn't caught the of time you spent at the yet, sam holocaust memorial. at the same time, both leaders announced that they would have a new strategic dialogue. we're still to learn more details about what that means. but this comes under the impression of that conflict in ukraine and germany's turnaround over the past weekend when it comes to defense and security policy with a 100 extra 100000000000 euros extra put on the table by all are sold. so a lot of strategic talking going on with natalie bennett. these are the prim prime minister, still sitting firmly on the fence when it comes to potentially condemning russia. he simply won't do that while saying, guess this support on the way to support ukraine with medical and equipment. at the

same time, he won't join sanctions, he won't condemn russia out of the security interest, namely in syria, but potentially also a bit of vouching power. so all it is working the phones at the moment. well john, germany, q, look into israel for how broke brokerage an end to that conflict. but do you think israel does really have a better chance of mediating effective feedback about keeping the doors open as you just explain? actually, nobody can answer that right now. there seems to be an impression that it is very hard to 2nd guess what vladimir putin is thinking right now, whether him being militarily under pressure could potentially escalate the crisis further or help create a window for dialogue. and so it's a very unclear situation, but all leaders who can get through a to the phone on the phone to moscow are doing exactly that is well enough. tally

bennett is an unusual physician there and he may well have possibilities. other leaders don't, but we what we know so far is that diplomacy clearly is not likely from being given a big chance anytime soon. he's been pretty close to the german chancellor in recent weeks, weeks traveling with him to here to moscow. now to jerusalem, what's your feeling? how is he affected by this? what's his take? he is deeply concerned and when he says that in his very subdued matter of fact kind of voice, that is all off souls. and it's basically raising the alarms at that this is a major crisis with an unpredictable outcome in face of a nuclear power. these are the individual elements. he mentions when you put them all together, it really is very disconcerting. indeed, it is

a major challenge and he is willing to do his part. he's also still adamant that he feels despite having learned that vladimir putin. kitty was planning this for a very long time. that diplomacy still was the right avenue to try and exploit until the very last moment. and that's what he's adamant on. continuing to do, but tentatively a closing of ranks between germany and the united states. the entire west. with of course, we could spend a lot of time defining what that exact verb ho has a bullet proof vest and 2 helmets organized by his friends. i ask him if he thinks they are going to keep him safe, let you in doing a thorough model cigar. i am going to put it on and i'm going to shoot russians until i find out my job watching you. tough talk to cope with the situation. sir gays scared, he tells us who would be on the platform. the train to warsaw is expected. any minutes? here we meet katerina. she just arrived from ukraine in my city. i have mother and

grandmother and they're, they're probably coming to hear my father trained to defend us. well, listen, proud of him and of course and worries like most ukrainian men, her father had to stay and fight. the 21 year old is moved by the volunteers returning to ukraine to join her father's wrecks. i admire their attitude and courage because said they're going from other countries to our country to defend it and that's admirable. their time has come together with his comrades. sergei makes his way to the bus. he doesn't know if he will ever come back. but for now, there is only one thing on his mind defending the homeland from the russian invasion. ah, that's a cross over to d, w 1st, when a max santo file that we bought,

he's standing by for us at the polish ukrainian border. max men returning to you trying to fight is that a bigger movement that you're seeing there will more. can you tell us oh yes, got it seems that there are quite a few people not just coming from the frame, but actually moving the opposite way, going back into the and we've heard some really moving in, partially very desperate before. so when we working on that story that we just saw, everybody who boarded that bus that was going across from the border, going to move that they were putting themselves into a very dangerous situation. it was not just men were going to fight, but also number of women. i spoke to a lady, mom who was working in cyprus and now decided to come back to ukraine to be with her 2 children. and she said they need their mama and she is very afraid herself, but she said, what else can i do?

i just the only choice, and this is also the, the feeling that a lot of men have right now that are working abroad. lexia again on the report. he's a forklift driver who is working and pausing on who has his family and you and he never carried a gun. he's not a military man. he knows that he's putting himself in a very difficult situation and a very horrible experience, perhaps in which you might end up giving his life. but he's determined to, to fight this fight and his key and the other people who are going to fight know that if they don't do this, if they don't help their military, nobody else probably will actually have been for a couple of days now where you are there near the upholders ukrainian board on the polish side. what else have you been seeing that? so we're at the train station. hey, mr. yeah, mr. watertown, this is on the place,

were trains coming from ukraine. would they pick the 1st entry into poland and that's it. the scene a bit, let's give you a little view of what the situation is here on the ground. it's become a little bit calmer over the last hours or so people come and then they go. so the polish authorities are trying to make sure that people are really transported away from this place. however, when they come here and there is no proper registration, but they are trying to help out with transportation with coordination, people also can receive some food. there's a place to rest so they can catch her breath and get some much needed rest after days on the run. but at the end of the day, as some people who come here are quite frankly, the people who are would stay. you're the train station or people that are in a situation where they don't know where exactly they can turn to. they don't have family or friends in crane or perhaps not other places in europe. so some of them the site to stand, stay here despite free transportation going inland on because this place for them

is as good as any other opponent bearing the brunt they're off, that huge influx of refugees from ukraine. and paula being a country that has been a reluctant in the past to take in refugees from the middle east. for example. how come there such a shift in the mindset now? that's very hard question to answer on your right in the past of poland was among the countries in the u that would always blocker common migration and asylum policy, for example, would refuse to take in people from the middle east. now the situation is very different. feminist him of his small i guess he said a mistake when a couple days ago that he was very happy and he was overwhelmed by how polish people were actually helping pitching in trying to receive equal here i'm so what, what caused this, this change was sent to me, not really clear on perhaps the can,

it could be that the polish government feels a more closely our feels more for people coming from from ukraine because of their geographic and perhaps cultural closeness. but also because since there is a war going on at their doorstep so well in the past of them not taking people in from, from the new lease, was most likely a result of phobia. there is a lot more attention. there's a lot more pressure on the situation now, and they would look very bad for the polish government to not do anything that being said, most people here on the ground, most of those people i spoke to a very, very key on helping they're doing their utmost to help people on the ground, but they're also have been some reports of people who are opposing what's going on here right now here in this town. essentially, yesterday there has been attack on, on a german activist from and it's your workers. there we have ports of protection d, me nationals, and on a journalist as well. so there's also

a lot of misinformation that rumor spread about people who are now ukrainian nationals coming here which tend to be non say so. but nevertheless of people. some people believing did of course, when the max son to that the polish ukrainian a border. thank you very much for us and ok correction. now of course united nation says more than 830000 people have now fled ukraine, not 830. as i said previously, but ukraine is home to thousands of international students as well. many of them have attempted to evacuate and return to their homes. countries that some are struggling to leave saying they faced hostility from ukrainian border guards who blocked their exit. d. w met some students from india who managed to make it help these bad.