from the heart of brazil starts march nights on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. putin's war condemned by the world. a 141 countries have voted yes, on a resolution demanding that russia withdraw all of its troops from ukraine. the un resolution is non binding, but it since a clear message to the kremlin that it has few friends left also coming up civilian casualties. mount is russia. steps of its attacks on ukrainian cities, buildings in car heath are ablaze, and russia is now claiming control of the black sea port city of cares. or although

ukraine denies that saying that fighting their content and as hundreds of thousands fleet, some return to fight will meet a ukrainian willing to risk everything to defend his home country. ah. i break off is good to have you with us on this wednesday. we begin with much of the world against the war of russian president vladimir putin today, the united nations general assembly adopted a non binding resolution, demanding russia immediately stop using force against ukraine, and that it withdraw all of its military from the country. the historic resolution won the support of a $141.00 countries out of a $193.00. only 5 countries voted against it, including russia and bellow roofs for the boat,

ukraine's ambassador to the un accused russia of seeking to commit genocide in his country. we are told on the world to stand together against moscow's actions. here's un secretary general antonio gutierrez speaking after the resolution vote the general assembly as spoken a secretary general. it is my duty to stand by these resolution and be guided by its call. the message of the general assembly is loud and clear it. and though steal it is ukraine now. silence the guns now opened the door to dialogue and diplomacy. no. the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine must be respected in line with you and chart that we don't have a moment to lose. the brutal effects of the conflict are plain to see. but as bad as the situation is with the people ukraine, right now?

it's threats to get much, much worse. the ticking clock is a time, but i'm also deeply concerned with its potential consequences for regional and global peace and security. and the wolf, struggling to recover from coffee to those resolution reflects a central truce. the world once an end to the 3 men does human suffering in ukraine . the same truce was clearing the rapid mobilization of funds for our life saving humanitarian operations in ukraine and neighboring countries. our global fresh appeal was met with record generosity. i'm deeply grateful to donors for their supports. with that funding in hand will be able to scale up to deliver a vital medical and they'll supplies foods safe, drinking water, shelter and protection. looking at it, i will continue to do everything in my power to contribute to an immediate cessation of hostilities and urgent negotiations for peace. people in ukraine

desperately need peace, and people around the world demanded. thank you very much. that was the main secretary general here at the big table with me now is our chief international origin walker richards. good to see you here. we don't have emergency sessions of the you in general assembly every day. so put this vote in context force. yeah, i mean the, in fact they've only happens. i think this is the 11th occasion that they've happened at all since the united nations was founded. well, what's happened here? this is really the 1st kind of barometer of really global opinion on russia. invasion of ukraine is taking place is the invasion began last week. and this took place after the un security council, a few days ago, held a vote on a similar resolution, a vote which russia managed to block using its veto power on the un security

council. now the general assembly is different. there is no veto power there. but for a resolution like this to pass a 2 thirds majority were required. well, that was exceeded with the vote here. but i think what was most interesting is not necessarily the number of countries voting for this resolution. not only that, but how few countries voted with russia. there were some, there were only 5 votes on russia's side. russians own vote. belarus, which is a party to this conflict because russian troops have been invading ukraine from belarus in the north, north korea, eritrea and syria. so all countries that are beholden in one way or another to russia. so although, as you just mentioned, rightly this is not binding so dizzy since by the un general assembly do not force russia to take some action or another, which technically it would have to if the security council had voted against it.

still, the degree of isolation is very, very striking, and that has to have an impact. and also the un, we itself to issue a judgment on russia's behavior. but when you look at these, the 4 other countries that voted against the resolution, you could say, you know, we can judge russia by the company, it keeps at the un. what will i think? what also equally interesting is some of the countries that you would have expected to vote with russia that didn't go to go and do that. so for instance, cuba abstained in this. they didn't vote against russia, but abstained. never think about it just a few weeks ago, the russians were in, in a move that was interpreted by some as, as just to provocation. some by some taken seriously. russia were saying, well, why don't we station weapons in cuba and see what the americans think of that drawing a comparison to as they see it. nato encroaching in that sort of sphere of influence

in eastern europe. so a country that's close enough to russia for russia to say, well, we could just put weapons there, abstained in this vote. venezuela is also a country that russia had framed like that saying, well, why don't we put weapons in venezuela? venezuela didn't even vote at all in this, in the, in this vote. also interesting in the un security council. a few days ago, the united arab emirates was one of the fence sitters so it abstained alongside china and india. in the vote today, it voted against russia. and so really interesting to kind of drill down on, on which countries did was it on this occasion? and in most cases, the news is bad for russia richer. what do you make about the position of china? because it was just a few weeks ago, we were reporting this new alliance, this relationship between china and russia that has the limits. yeah. so i think we

can't call it in alliance. and in fact, china said recently they're not allies, but they are strategic partners. but it's true, there's been a lot of focus on that in recent years, but increasingly in recent weeks. so remember, vladimir putin was in beijing just a few weeks ago at the beginning of the winter olympics, held a big meeting with she jan, paying put out this huge statement of kind of common purpose between russia and china. and here we have china now, abstaining in this not voting with russia, and it did the same thing in the un security council. and i think this, this cast an interesting light on china's position here because china, in recent weeks since this conflict, really started to heat up, has made clear that it supports russia on many of its kind of big strategic questions and complaints towards the west, particularly russia demand that nato never not expand any further. china supports that in has said that very vocally, but on the other hand,

china has also said that it stands by its commitments to the idea of sovereignty of, of states, territorial integrity, a territorial integrity can kind of sound like a little diplomatic jargon, but all it simply means is one country can't just sort of bite off other bits of another country can't march in and cross its borders. well, can china keep having it both ways saying, well, you know, we're all for territorial integrity and explicitly saying this also a place to ukraine and yet sort of supporting russia on these big, strategic questions surrounding nato. so china's position, looking definitely quite awkward at the moment. i did over years chief in the national, i had a ritual or giving us valuable context around this important to you in general assembly resolution today. richard, thank you. as the war in ukraine enters its 7th day,

russian forces or intensifying attacks on the countries main cities and claim to have taken control of the black sea port city of cares on that. it's close to crimea in the south. the ukrainian official has disputed their claim saying that fighting for the city is still going on. further to the east, the port city of mario pole is under heavy attack. you're quoting, the city's mayor. reuters is saying that russian forces are actively preventing civilians from leaving and at mario polls. water supply has been cut off ukraine's 2nd largest city car. keith is being shelled for a 3rd day in a row and keeps mayor has warned that russia is gathering troops close to the capital. ukraine says dozens of civilians have been killed in russian air strikes over recent days. numb from shock. this woman sits just 2 meters away from a dead body. one of

a number killed in russia, sustained attacks on hockey, ukraine, 2nd largest city, nazaburundi. i mean, we've been shown to by russians. we're all scared me. why us, why us regular people russia has continued to bond both residential areas and administrative buildings in the city. a local hospital has also been damaged, running liberal in my printer, 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 zack hi to mia spent the early hours of wednesday morning trying to control raging fires. local authorities say

a russian air strike hit the city, which is west of the capital cave. in cave 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, a miss i'll hit the city's t v tower killing at least 5 people. it's our is close to bumping ya a memorial site to one of the biggest single massacres of jews during the holocaust . oh, this is a country under attack with no one really sure when or how it blend and we go nails, you our correspondence. connelly,

he joins us from levine in western ukraine. good evening to you, nick. we are getting reports that ukraine has agreed to hold more negotiations with russia. delegates are expected to meet to morrow. we know that the 1st round of talks produced basically nothing. are you expecting anything from this? second round i had said no, i think this is all about the optics is about 9. besides wanting to be seen to not turn up for talks, because diplomatic, you'll see that it's very disadvantageous to be put yourself in position where you can be accused and not being a good dialogue. but in terms of the demand both sides, i mean, russia has to be said, went into this, it started to war, but then the demand were extraordinary. they said they wanted ukraine demilitarize to basically hon and permanently opens, rushed and intervention in future and not certified whatever that means. and which basically seems to me getting way to ukraine, government, democracy,

that government and putting in place wherever they want that be. so for now, i think still feels that it's able to defend itself. i think the russians would be very surprised how slow that progress being and how much they faced and how good you, great, you know me as being it using the west weapons. it's been delivered by the u. s. and the u. k. in other nature, members, so i think for now there's little incentive to to bunch. yeah. and it's hard to believe that negotiations of any sort can take place as long as bombs and missiles are still flying. we know that cur keith, the 2nd largest city in the country. it has been taking hits for a 3rd day in a row. what more can you tell us? i think sorry, and i why was it hard to keep on 16 to february the day that joe biden had initially said, we're going to be today x, the invasion. and i met people that are now writing me and sending me pictures of destruction around them. these are people sitting in their homes, not going anywhere, and just seeing destruction all around them and asking themselves if other

recruiting talks about ukraine, the russians being one people being brothers, being essentially the same country. and here is kind of a city that is coming from the border where most people in daily life would speak russian and yet see me. so little concern for civilian victims. this is, i think we really have to kind of think about this and not get use this will, this is the war of the kind. europe hasn't seen since the 2nd world war, 2 different scales of the geography and the bulk of war. this is being full of a 100 global says of territory with hundreds and thousands of tanks. helicopters, fighter jets, you know, people have known to last week got used to spending the evenings in bomb rate shelters, to extend some people than us to ask themselves. should i go down or not? because i've only been back in my flat for 40 minutes, and i haven't even managed to have done it yet, should i risk it or should i go back? yeah, and it's hard to believe we're now one week into this war. and we've heard from intelligence reports that the russian military had expected a faster and more furious progress to have been made in the 1st 7 days. that's not

the case on the.