one week ago today, the russian invasion of ukraine began if the russian military expected a fast and furious victory. they misjudged the ukrainian pushback. russian forces, however, are now encircling key cities, including the capital key more and more of the targets are civilian. today, the you in general, of simply voted overwhelmingly to condemn russia's war on ukraine and it did so with a warning if peace is not possible for the people of ukraine, peace will become impossible. everywhere. i'm brinko from berlin. this is the day, ah, not marked the dawn of the new era, pitching his gravely miscalculate. he thought he could roll a new crane and the world would roll over, put was wrong. and now it appears,

rushing is preparing to increase the brutality of its campaign against ukraine, notifying death we've been shown to by russians. we're o scad, my us. why us regular people? you know, that is the brutality that i'm afraid we are witnessing and he's going to get was, it's going to get really quite grim. ah, also coming up gearhart. schroeder was once german chancellor for many years. he's also been a close friend of vladimir putin. and now he's seen as germany's statesman of shame should also start kicking him out if he doesn't move into next week. because i don't see how we can sanction those companies. and we have of sama chance that working actually for them. but to our viewers watching a p b s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with almost the entire world against vladimir putin's war to day in

a rear emergency session of the un general assembly. an overwhelming number of countries voted to condemn the russian invasion of ukraine, and called for an immediate withdrawal of russian forces on the global stage, russia is being judged on its actions and also by the company. it keeps other than russia. only 4 countries voted against the resolution, billers north korea, eritrea and syria. need we say more. here is more from inside the un headquarters in new york city. for almost a week, ukraine is fighting, fighting under the bombs and missiles fighting in the face of our mothers of hardware and in countless crowds of enemies. to day we call on russia to stop its unprovoked unjustified unconscionable war russia.

russia asks the vis draft resolution to be put to have a vote to negotiate and be colon. you not to support this draft to him? was you but given to the blood, that is off of the vault is as follows. the united nations is still alive and going through the process of catharsis, ice, believe in the united nations. now people of ukraine have more reasons to believe in the united nations. yeah, a signal of hope from the un for ukraine. let's take the story now to our correspondent connelly. he joins us from the western ukrainian city of levine. nick, it's good to see you. i mean, it was yet overwhelming vote of condemnation. today in new york city, we understand that new negotiations between ukraine and russia are about to take

place or the 2nd round is about to take place tomorrow. the 1st round didn't produce any results. is there any reason to think that the 2nd round will be any different approach editing there is i think this is the optics is about both sides wanting to be seen to be open to dialogue, especially for russia that will see began this war by invading ukraine. and now wants to detoxify its brand somewhat. we've seen them trying to talk about humanitarian corridors from civilian population because that doesn't quite how much heat they get an internationally for bombarding. you know, cities of, over a 1000000 people like even if people die in the homes from russian bombing and selling. so i think there's this desire on the rest of the parts to basically be able to point the finger ukraine saying well they haven't given into our demands for basic capitulation. so they don't have to dialogue, so they're unreasonable. so you know, when it's legitimately doing what we want to do,

so the ukrainians have to play along and turn up these talks. but i think for now, ukraine sees itself indicated in terms of the rest of the world coming round to the ukrainian way of seeing russia and explorations in terms of trying to serve in person by the world. great news will tell you, we have seen vladimir putin and russia heading that way since 2014 the rest of the world. and believe us, and it's taken this past week for that change. and people around the world are probably asking, you know, what is there to negotiate right now, particularly for the ukrainians. when you look at what's happening in the largest ukrainian cities, now you've got more targets that are being hit. more of those targets are civilians . and it's just escalating and me to how can you talk while you're still being fired at it's very difficult, isn't it? and i for now i don't see any great willingness among ukrainian civilians to give in. i think this has conversely,

unified ukrainians as never before. you have people, cross country, whatever language they might speak, ukrainian, or russian, whatever their background, just repulsed by what they've seen. and you know, people, even the, the moscow patriarchy orthodox church. this was a religious organization, was always seen as the kind of backbone to pro russian support in grain coming out and telling ukrainians to fight. and basically, you know, calling on by the region to call this off, even more through patriarchy, that hierarchy grain is basically calling out the crime. and then in terms of russian ability to influence your grade, that really is at a low ebb, i think, going forward, you know, this, i think the grades think that they are able to impose a price on russia with this. and we're seeing huge numbers of russian soldiers dying and lots of hardware being destroyed. to w. connelly with the latest tonight from western ukraine is always nic. thank you.

for one of the unique features of the situation we are all seeing is that this is an ongoing military conflict and taking place in a country that has a vast nuclear program. last week, russian forces captured the chernobyl nuclear power plant. and that's the side of the meltdown. back in 1986 radiation levels spiked after the tanks and troops kicked up. clowns of radioactive dust levels have since returned to normal. but there is now concern over the greater risk posed to ukraine's active nuclear power . reactors is an unprecedented situation in history. a nation with a major nuclear power program finding itself in the middle of a war. ukraine is dependent on nuclear power and operates one of the world's largest nuclear networks. it runs for power plants where the total of

15 reactors as the front line of the fighting edge is closer to the site. there are worries that one of them could get cold in the crossfire and spark yet another nuclear disaster. and we certainly hope that doesn't happen, but the risk is real, shall and birdie, he is a senior nuclear specialist with greenpeace. he joins me now from scotland. sean, it's good to have you on the program. we just heard the director of the i. e. a. it described this as a unique situation of war taking place in a region with a huge nuclear power program in network. so how high is the chance that we might see a nuclear accident as a result of this war book? who is it? it's impossible to see what the probability is because the, the situation in this terrible war in ukraine. what we do know is that nuclear installations in ukraine,

nuclear power plants are extremely vulnerable. these are very complex systems. they're dependent, particularly for electricity, for all of the. ready nation's grades, and that's one of our major concerns that in the event of britain, stability or damage to the global tricity supply, the reactors. and you're particularly were concerned about as a felicia and southern you claim that those racks will be dependent on their emergency diesel generators. and there's major questions or diesel generators that ability to operate. i'm a fuel behalf and is zachary show there's been questions over the last years about the reliability of those. the problem then becomes if you've got these massive reactors, there's currently 3 out of the 6 operating ass up regia, that there's enormous heat that needs to be cooled. and without the electricity supply, you soon run out the ability to cool your reactor core. and the spent fuel pools, which is where hundreds of tons of highly radioactive and hot spent fuel of stores

. and that's really the so some of the scenarios that we can look that are truly frightening. and john, what's the, i guess, what is the most likely cause of an accident? i mean, is it a cyber attack on the power grid that you're talking about, or, or would it be a direct hit by a missile? i mean, i'm thinking about after the 911 attacks, it was a lot of concern that terrorists could fly an airplane into one of the reactors. well, there are so many of course unknowns about this terrible situation. it is, makes no logical sense for anyone to fire a tank grand or a missile into a nuclear reactor. no nuclear power plant has been designed to withstand a non military attack of missiles and tank brands. but an accident is one of them, one more likely scenario evolve and deliberate attack. and as we've seen, the predictability of where russia fires, it's is missiles,

it's tank rennes. they're not particularly accurate. i'm more concerning is the effect it would have if maybe tens of kilometers away. there was some damage to the local grid supply, at which point the emergency diesel generators have to kick in. and that's when you get the potential of some serious, serious events. i wanna show you a just briefly of footage from ukraine, from today. nuclear power plant workers blocking the road to the city where the separates here, atomic power plant is located. now they're blocking the road, trying to keep russian troops from advancing the plant. they are one of the biggest nuclear site in europe. i mean, this is a sign, isn't that people on the ground or worried about the situation about an accident happening greenpeace? the day? it should it's record on, on the situation in the ukraine with regards nuclear power plant, bone ability and we explicitly said that we deeply respect the commitment of the

workers at euclidean nicholas are closer under unbearable circumstances. and you can imagine there's wars reaching in your immediate vicinity and you are absolutely dedicated to keeping that client as safe as possible. and the people of the community is erna regard, which is within 6 to 10 kilometers of the nuclear club. so is a terrible, terrible situation, and really, there is no way you can secure the safety of these nuclear power plants for military attack, unless the war is stopped. it's another of many, many reasons why this military, this invasion, this military adventure from britain asked and immediately an excellent argument for peace. shown bernie, with greenpeace, shall we appreciate your time and your valuable insights about a situation that is dangerous and fluid. thank you.

when russia invaded ukraine last week, experts worried that cyber attackers would wreak havoc, but that has not happened yet. ukraine's defense council says the number of cyber attacks has gone up significantly, but it's less than expected. internet giant such as microsoft, they've also help repel attackers. meanwhile, hackers around the world including the anonymous collective, have declared cyber war against russia or from washington d. c. i'm now joined by dimitri. i'll petrovitch, he's a computer security industry executive. he's co founder of the cybersecurity company crowd strike demetrius. good to have you on the program. are you surprised that we have not seen big cyber attacks connected to the war in ukraine so far? i'm actually not. it's important to understand that cyber is a great tool for grades on conflict. that, that area between peace and war,

once you're in actual warfare, that's when kinetic destruction, and bombing, and artillery and ground forces that the russians are bringing to bear on the ukraine's. that's when they take over. that's when they have a huge advantage. and cyber really plays a much more secondary role if at any at all. so i'm not surprised that the russians have not use much of cyber against ukraine so far. ok, so you say we're still more in this kinetic warfare. there's also reports though that the russian military is frustrated that they have not been able to advance as quickly or as far as they would have liked the 1st week. there are concerns about the state of mind to vladimir putin when you put all of these together, isn't this fertile ground then for a leader to call in his cyber warriors to launch an attack? i don't think so. i don't think that cyber will have significant role in actually suppressing ukrainian defenses. they're going to have to make more progress on the

ground if they're going to succeed in surrounding key of and actually trying to, to change the government. or i think it's important to understand that they made a lot of progress in, particularly in the south. they've moved 300 kilometers from crimea to mary opal. they moved to mich alive, which is another 300 kilometers to towards the east. that's a pretty rapid pace of advance if you compare it to us invasion of iraq. it took us 2 weeks to get to baghdad about 550 kilometers. they've been able to do this in 5 days. so they, yes, they've stalled a little bit in the northern side of the, of the korean conflict. but the, in the south is made a lot of progress. use president biden and other western leaders. they've said that they will not send nato troops to fight and ukraine. but can you imagine a scenario where a cyber attack could force them to change their mind? you know, this is one of the things i worry a lot about. i don't expect a lot of cyber activity in ukraine itself, but i do think that the russians are likely to retaliate both against europe and

the united states through cyber means in part 2 straight back at the very heart sanctions that have been opposed in the russian economy for this agree just invasion, and that's when we have a danger of a tit for tat escalation in cyberspace between the us and russia, escalating into more of a kinetic conflict if you can force the situation where russia heads are critical infrastructure, a financial industry, our energy industry and then the u. s. retaliates. it's unlikely to stay just in cyberspace. i was talking to people today, here in berlin, there's concerned that berlin to power and water supplies would be a target, a cyber target. if russia indeed decided to move beyond ukraine in this war, what would be your advice? how should the berlin government? how should western government? how should they be working right now to re pill a cyber attack from russia?

first of all, they should have started this months ago because if you haven't done anything up till now, it's really too late to be 5. defense says you can't do this overnight, but ideally they, they've been doing what the u. s. government has been doing, which is a program that they called shields up reaching out to the industry, particularly the critical infrastructure sectors. do share intelligence about what the russian trade craft is like in cyber space. what they should be prepared for. tell them to be at the highest possible state of alert. dimitri, i've heard of it with crowds drive to meter. we appreciate your time, and we appreciate you sharing some insight on the situation that the whole world is talking about right now. thank you. thank you. ah, it can easily be argued that the russian invasion of ukraine has forced a paradigm shift in the european foreign policy, but no country has been so fundamentally transformed white germany. it's post war doctrine of pacifism is, refusal to sell weapons to warn countries in europe,

and its reluctance to spend big money on its own military. those tenants of german foreign policy have been reversed in just the last week of the role of germany as the transit land communities window into the mind of vladimir putin. it has also blown up and inside germany, the most prominent collateral damage appears to be the reputation of former chancellor. gerhard schroeder, in the late 90 nineties, he was celebrated as a business savvy politician who could do business with russia after he left office, a lucrative personal relationship with the russian president morphed into a moment of national shame for the nation that he wants to lead. ah, their romance goes back a long way. in 2004, the russian president vladimir putin was a guest at german chance, like actually at us 60th birthday party.

with later that year they were all smiles again as shrewd a hosted protein at his home. putin showed up a suitcase of git it was just the start of the home. see, they got my each other, they got to like each other. they got to trust each other. think moving, see for throw and see. after school i left offers the friendship paid off, he landed a job with a controversial north stream pipeline project to bring russian gas direct to germany. then, and 2014 as russia and next crimea screwed. i celebrated his 70th birthday in saint petersburg with his friend flooding mia. despite growing unease at the former chancellor's behavior, the drop offers kept coming opposed with russian oil for him. ross left followed shoot. i was now leaning into his russian lobbyist reputation. at the time he told

the w, the german russian relationship should be one of 4. it was policy corporation instead of confrontation. just last month should i was nominated to join the board of kremlin controlled gas pump. put in saying his praises. be sure it would be a shooters to, to, we can only rejoice from was what the reason that the more mobile, the google borrowed then put in, invaded ukraine. while other former european leaders with drops and russia promptly quit them. shrewder didn't calling only for russia to stop the war. he blamed both sides for mistakes. mate isn't quite old men and you don't need the money. it's just, i don't know how to describe it and it's shameful for our party, then this week shoot us own team resigned in protest. having failed to persuade him to cut ties with putin. now those politicians and his own party and the opposition conservative staff had enough. we should also start kicking him out if he doesn't

move into next week because i don't see how we can sanction those companies. and we have a former chancellor working actually for them get hurt as a total embarrassment for my country, for germany. apart from him, having been the german chance before, everybody who, who still supports this regime, this dictatorship, this warlord called ruddy me putin, has to face consequences. whatever should and now decides it is this relationship more than anything that will define his legacy evermore. now i'm joined by helga lent he is a member of the german parliament for the social democratic party. that is the party of former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder. oh good, good to see you again. so what is your opinion is gearhart schroeder has he become the biggest point of shame for your party in post war german history?

well, i don't know if he's a love biggest, probably the most prominent, but i will remind you of mr. xerox scene and his race, his attitude and statements. so both are good, but he wasn't examples of shame. never he, when he wasn't just mother, he's no, he wasn't, but it doesn't make it better. and so it's, it's not a competition of shame. it's both in acceptable and he was the chancellor and i think it's very clear that it's morally and politically in acceptable should gearhart schroeder, should he sever all of his times to russia? yes. yes to i think it's important to see it's not just the question of ethics or moral. it's just simply also a political question. and he says he's a personal friend, but the moment has come and it came in the past to say,

i laid down all my mandates. i relinquish all my ties to putin to that putting regime. and he, if he doesn't, and he will and has to feel the consequences. but you know that he has not severed all of his ties to the criminal. and do you have any insider knowledge from the party? why is he refusing to cut those ties? well, i don't want to interpret psychologically, i'm not very close to him. there are some potty men with us who are close to them who have some relations. i do not. so i will not speculate about it. i think there is much more than a political. it's a very deep and strange personal wish to a relationship between them. but he should be politically wake enough and sensitive

enough to say it's not the time to defend this kind of friendship. but he has to say no to this regime. it's very simple and it's very clear, you know, he's been compared this week with former us president donald trump, who after the white supremacist riot, if you will, in charlottesville, virginia, 5 years ago, he said that there were good and bad people on both sides in that event and this week we've heard from the former chancellor saying that the war itself is bad, but there is room on both sides, ukraine and russia. i mean, he's not willing to point the finger and put in and say you are the problem. yeah, exactly. and is it's a typical pattern to, to, to change roads of all mixed the roles of perpetrators and weak tim's. and this is one of the most in acceptable

statements from him because there's no kind of relativity compare putin to still in ski. and you see who is bad and who's got, i think we have to make it such, such a clear difference between both of them. and if somebody defends, put in, in this way of defending his position, he is not acceptable as a political person. how gallant with the german parliament is always we appreciate your time in your insights. thank you. thank you. of the day's almost done. the conversation continues on line. you can follow me on twitter at brent gov tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody ah

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whatever it takes to find policeman follow with we are your is actually on fire made for mines with hello and welcome to focus on europe. thanks for joining us today. rush us war against ukraine is one that will have major repercussions for the entire continent . the imprinted will leave on europe as unforeseeable. even today. russia's military began attacking its neighbour in late february upon the orders of.