[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia intensifies attacks on ukrainian cities as the war enters its 2nd week. very conflicting claims over where the russia has taken control of the strategic port city of her song. despite russian advances, president vladimir zalinski urges ukrainians to keep up their resistance. more than a 1000000 people have now fled the war and the un wants. this is just the beginning . more help and more money will be needed to deal with the scale of the crisis. and at the un,

$141.00 countries condemn the russian invasion and full for an immediate withdrawal . the resolution for revealing the kremlin increasing isolation on the world stage . ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. as the war in ukraine enters its 2nd wait president for lauder may zalinski, is urging people to keep up their resistance, even as russia intensifies it's attacks on major cities. russian troops are in the black sea port of her san though they are. there are conflicting reports about whether they have complete control, further east, the cities of how to keep and mary poll are also under heavy attack. and ukrainian officials say a powerful explosion has hit central keys close to the defense ministry. they satellite images from u. s. company,

mac sa appear to show some of the destruction caused by the war, so saw with bomb craters, destroyed bridges, and factories and damaged homes. the company says the pictures were taken over the past week and that heavy cloud cover has prevented it satellites from tort taking you images. in the past day, a short while ago ukrainian president vladimir polanski had a defiant message for russian troops. would they will name there, they sleep, should the, wherever they go, they will be destroyed for they will not have come here. they will not have food and they will, they will not have one quiet moment to willie. the occupiers will receive only one thing from ukrainians. resistance vs resistant. lastly, the such resistance that they will forever remember that we don't give up what is ours or will need that they will remember what a patch or arctic war is the now yes for us ukrainians. this is a patch, erotic war of each is yanna. we know how patrick it was. start what you know,

and we know how the end. v for the invaders shibel me, zak inch, garza awake into this war. there still no clear number of casualties on either side, but it is clear that ukrainian civilians are paying a heavy price to government and keith says some 2000 civilians have been killed in russian air strike. so far. a claim that has not been independently verified and emotional reunion. this ukrainian man embraces his family for the 1st time since they were separated by a russian missile strike on cave. his wife and children had stepped out of their apartment, moments before the capitals tv tower was hit. but the soldiers shouted, ran quickly, which it was very scary. my youngest son ran and shouted faster, faster, were being shot. we're not going to make it. and we came here to the shelter. now

he's afraid to got side and can't stop crying. my oldest son shouted in his sleep. he shouted mom, we have to go to the shelter. people have been sheltering and caves metro stations for days. the young and old pets and humans alike. they don't know how long they'll have to spend down here or what will happen when their food runs out above ground. the invasion continues. shelling and street fighting between ukrainians and russian paratroopers have left ukraine, 2nd largest city park give in ruins. hundreds of fear dead in the port city of mary paul. after a 15 hour long russian bombardment and russia says it has taken full control of his son in the country south. one resident recorded the moment, he opened his curtains to see

a russian tank in the strait. they're turning people to stared said, shooting. you hear the sounds i think i should stroke recording before some troops. me in my hand. as air raid sirens blair out across cave. the battle for the heart of ukraine continues. ah, indeed, heavily correspondent nick connelly joins me now from levine in the west of you crime neg, what more can you tell us about the situation there this morning? well, it looks like that russian land defensive has got stuck. we also those pretty shortly pictures of a column of russian hardware that was estimates the 60 kilometers long that is not going anywhere. even in part seems to be stuck in the mud. i think the russians are coming up against

a lot more in the way of resistance from ukrainians than they expect to go to the soldiers, many of whom are very, very young conscripts expected to be greeted with open arms that has not happened. ukrainian army is doing better than expected and using the modern western empty tank and across and it was supplied by the us and u. k. rather nathan countries in recent months and the civilian population is just not giving them any peace. we have extra or images of the whole line, the people standing outside that towns on the roads in basically trying to block the adults, those russian tanks with their bodies and telling the often very kind of confused russian soldiers to go home and no one wants and presumably in response to all of that, what you just said, let me put and appears to have changed his strategy to effectively an all out assault on ukrainian cities. the civilian death. hell is rising rapidly and with the reports of cluster bombs as well. what can you tell us about that? it's, it's a really sad picture coming out of hash of,

as you mentioned in your introduction to that we were in when the 16th february, that the initial date that the american said would be the invasion date. then everything was relaxed and they did that kind of big bang didn't happen, but the same street through walking on then the same people we were talking to them and now sending us pictures of homes destroyed those neighbors killed. and it does seem like the russians cheney, they realize they're not winning the kind of hand to hand or kind of direct confrontation. and they have to use the only real advance to have which is of power and indiscriminate bombing, increasingly targeting civilian infrastructure, power stations, teaching clothes, all kinds of things that can really up the price for filling population and keeping people trapped from big city without power potentially without eat, i guess pick, pick taishan is that that will increase the pressure on ukraine's democratically elected governments to get into compromise, to capitulate. i mean, you have to remember that russians demands are basically ukraine to put up the white flag. they want ukraine to demilitarized, to be permanently vulnerable to russian attack,

and to so called did not survive whatever that means. they haven't explained it. basically, they have said that they think that ukraine's democratic government is illegitimate . and that basically russia gets inside, who's in charge in this country, so very difficult. see where the government can really find any space for negotiation given those maximus to mom. can adam oscar now, as we've been reporting this morning, there are conflicting reports about various things in particular, who's in control of her phone. how difficult is it for journalists like yourself and others to get reliable information about what's going on? it is so narrowly difficult because there are few journalists in the actual frontline areas and it's but i mean here on the side on the russian held side basically 0 information coming out on both sides are trying to been things in their directions, keep morale up. we're seeing that, especially in russia, where there's basically no information about this war being given to the russian public in widest sense, even calling it a war is illegal, wanting band,

essentially by russia. few independent media who actually doing that, we're giving more information, have now been shut down, taking way in recent days. and we're seeing a real information where ukrainians, trying to cool up their friends and relatives in russia to kind of draw their attention to what's going on. his make sure they actually pay attention to pictures and on able to just go by and pretend with happening. and we saw earlier, we just heard defiant message from president of a lot of landscape saying the occupies will receive only one thing from ukrainians . and that resistance is resistance. are you seeing the same kind of resolve from the country that you're speaking to, that they're still willing to fight back or as this drags on? now, people starting to lose hope. i think by making such extraordinary demands, russia has, in a sense, sort of fell from the foot there. basically russia has put on the table that it doesn't see ukraine as a legitimate,

independent state. but they only see ukraine as viable if it's essentially manageable and direct biddable from moscow. they basically brought most people like up against themselves who previously were open to much more negotiation with russia . in st. moscow patriarchy built dog church, seen for a long time, was going to russia's main kind of source of influence and ukraine. coming out bishop saying that you guys should go and fight, telling russians that they are committing a sin of brotherly war. that this is not allowed. we've seen russia the stars of russian kind of media. and so people coming out to get this war and ukrainian stalls, real popular russia trying to get the rest of the nation to engage with this. and this is becoming increasingly a difficult situation even for the russian state itself. you've had to personal just getting very worried about their own population kind of realizing what's going on here. as the teachers know the ground. you've seen lots of families going to the border husband son's father bring their wives, their daughters, the children, to poland, to safety in the west,

and then coming back to fights. we've been seen ordinary villages taking tanks, stealing tanks from the russians, sending russian troops down the wrong way into basic ambushes. so this really feels like a kind of whole side, you know, where you just where i am now in the universe to their students making camouflage matching for the all me question. well maybe how much in fact that really has, but it definitely feels like everyone needs that distraction, needs to have that being in bed doing that bit, choose about money being collected, people giving into our salaries to the army. there is really a sense that given how open and how aggressive this russian attack has been and how clear they've been about their desire to basically turn ukraine into a kind of satellite state. i think they really have brought ukrainian thought together against them. hi, nick care, thanks very much for that. stay safe state of his neck huntley in love. if the un refugee agency says the number of people playing in crane has now passed the 1000000 mark,

making it the fastest exodus of refugees. so far this century most are heading towards poland with other neighboring countries like romania, also taking in refugees. but sama having to wait longer than others to cross to safety. as d. w correspondent, fanny fisher observed, approved, nay. on the border. finally here, thousands are pouring towards the ukrainian border with romania as wrote spreads of the tailback of refugees, of the polish crossing with harrowing images still in their minds and few items in their hands. they arrive at the last checkpoint to safety oksana and her kids needed 4 days to get here from keith. on her mind. what's ahead. we are going to look for work she car because i need to provide for my children and my husband stage to defend his country. you know, men of fighting age between 18 and 60 have to stay there also many none. ukrainians

who want to new students, migrant. workers about half a 1000000 according to you and estimates. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing for the lives heading west for the border. not all these people from across ukraine are running from the same thing. but are they all getting the same treatment? i met fled from heavily bon pad, keith, a student from egypt. he says he's growing frustrated about being made to wait in freezing temperatures while ukrainians are led through the they let us only was of to like, oh, hundreds of tunes we will was i can say anything or this would study or humans also like visit us any bishop care more about us. i've met, as he has already been to live if, but was not less su at the border with paul. and there we are far away from other countries as the same situation swore also on us. i don't think we should be for them to live. oh, don't look right. his friend also from egypt,

disagree on his way. i sheila rhodes as beeble z, have no home to go. and actually we have home. we have user to we can go now like to see, but they don't have any bliss to those officials here. do not want to talk on camera about why there are 2 lines, one for foreigners, one for ukrainians, but they tell us their goal is to maintain con, here. they're concerned that the situation might get out of control. as more refugee stake the alternative route to romania, we are not allowed to firm i've met and his friends crossed the border. but after a few hours, they do just like thousands of others. finally, to safety and database correspondence on a fashion who filed that report joins me now. fanny, you're about 50 kilometers from the border with romania and moldova. how is the situation where you are people in chattanooga which is yes about

50 to 60 kilometers from the border with the romania trying to gather basically a 1st of all the belongings and the energy to make it through this a next challenge to get across the board of the people who arrive here in chat nifty have been through a lot already. some of them have been actually traveling for the past 4 days to make it from keith or from keith all the way here to the southwestern part of ukraine. so the next, just to them tried to make it across the border and as we have seen in that report, but also yesterday being at the border, the domain. yeah. the a lot of people who are now trying to look for alternative routes, as we know at the beginning of this full scale invasion that started last week that just the week ago and thursday, lot of people are pouring towards said the are western border with ball and but now as more and more people, i tried to make it through a pool at which is getting more and more difficult by today. doors to looking for alternative routes be through romania, moldova, hungary. there is a chance, a com tense,

add the board that we have witness yesterday because you have to imagine once you make it to the buddha, you really, i've been through a lot of, regardless by the you are a doll to or a child and obviously being a child you experience things on a different level even more so, but people are just trying to get across the board and bring up their own life and that of their families to safety. while you've obviously been speaking to lots of people, they're trying to flee, and we're hearing this harrowing stories. what kind of stories have been painted a picture if you will, of, of what people, what people, stories there, people who are, were coming from a key for example, that one family. i the mother of, of it for children. she was basically telling us if she didn't have any children, she probably would have stayed with her husband. now we hear that from a lot of women who really are justa. it's inconceivable actually for, for to all of us. what this means that you are trying to save one part of your

family while you have to leave another part behind. because obviously, if you're a man of fighting age between 18 and 60, you have to stay in ukraine. you have to be ready if you got the coal to actually join this fight and go to the front line even though a lot of men will tell you, have already done so because they don't want to give up any land. they don't want to give out the sovereignty of their country. oh, so i, we see a lot of children at the board out crying. god, they are of, in the waiting there, in freezing temperatures with their mother. and you don't even want to know what the eyes of these children have seen already. it's really a very hard frenching situation, even for us, just observing it and having to, to film this, obviously to keep everyone informed, let alone what, what will about the mental stage about the mental state. all of these people who have been through this. 5 some really are needed not just for days to arrive from how to give to the romanian border. but actually there were also people who tried

to make it across the polish border. so they were already in live it, which is the major town before crossing to paul, and they didn't get through. so they came to you to this part of the country, a lot of, lot of extort exhaustion there that we could see. but also a lot of fear and concern in the eyes of the people standing in line, trying to make it out of this country. and funny, where most people headed, what have they been telling you? do they plan to stay in romania or those border and countries that are they want to travel further into western europe? depends if you speak to foreigners, the about half a 1000000 students, a migrant workers who are here and ukraine, and they are stelling us to talk to actually make you told them so hold could be anything from egypt. nigeria, if they actually get the support from the government, because obviously it's very difficult right now to navigate anyone out of this country and to safety. but most people i be speaking to are just happy to make it

across the border. being romania be booked at us in the capital city and then move further north move probably to germany or poland because in poland, this is where there is a significant ukrainian minority. so the ukranian, especially ukrainians, especially rather they want to make it to pool and actually where they have relatives. so it depends where your family bought the priority of people who are at the border here, the germania, their priority is now just to get out of the country without having to stay in line for alice as we are witness yesterday. here in shad nifty hfc, which is basically the last stop before you exit this country funding. thank you. data, but he's funny fashion in western ukraine. a one most of the refugees have fled to countries bordering ukraine, as we just heard some anal starting to arrive in germany. preparations are underway around the country to open war shelters. as authorities anticipate thousands more arrivals,

d. w visited one reception center in the capital berlin. they've been on the move for days by car boss and from miles on foot travelling, however, they could to flee the wall. hundreds of people flying ukraine have arrived here in belin already, and many of them is staying with friends, family or volunteers, but others have come here to this refugee center to register and work out then next steps. dumber boston the, it's dangerous. there. people are shooting. i have a child fighter jets flying around houses. i exploding is terrible. so frightening, which is to rush. we have an issue. we didn't want to leave. it was so painful, but we did it because of the children. i didn't want to leave ukraine. we love our country, we have such a beautiful country. great people. it heard so much my room. we've been watching yahoo! where it's so hard. my heart is still, there was

a group. it's so hard to see that children are being bombed every day. we just one piece of the children, one piece so many children are dying. i don't know how we can stop hazelwood book boot. most people can only stay here for one night than that transferred to other accommodation authorities in berlin. say the city is preparing to host around $20000.00 people fleeing ukraine. for some of those arriving, it's not their 1st time having to flee. this man fled afghanistan 6 years ago with his family and had been living in ukraine since the best thing was that we had there at safety that we had of thought like latoya beloved up to in the chaos of the journey. he lost his cousin and still hasn't been able to reach him. he's alone he dont have like money, dont have anything he dont have for anything for them. i don't have any option to find them. this medical student originally from iran, came all the way from keith with his cat. at least,

it's better than saying middle off, we're going to filters. it was like nightmare. he had no idea what his future holds now. but he managed to find some way safe for his cat. a german student offered to lacoff to her a small relief in the face of the exhaustion so far. and the uncertainty still to come. and united nations general assembly has adopted a resolution demanding russia immediately stopped using force against you, crime and withdraw its military from the country. the historic non binding resolution was backed by 141 out of 193 members. states with only 5 countries voting against before the vote, ukraine's ambassador to the un accused russia of seeking to commit genocide in his country and called on the world to stand together against moscow's aggression. we are his un secretary general antonio terrace speaking. speaking after the vote,

the general assembly has spoken a secretary general. it is my duty to stand by this resolution and be guided by it's called. the message of the general assembly is law, then clears handles seeley. these ukraine now silenced the guns, now opened the door to dialogue and diplomacy. no. the territorial integrity and so for entity 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 airplane to see. but as bad as the situation is for the people, ukraine writes, no, it's threats to get much, much worse. thinking clock is it, i'm 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. and i spent more than date on the political correspondent, julius our deli julia. this resolution is non binding, so can it really make any difference? or if we expect russia to now suddenly stop the war because of this resolution, that is not going to happen. even though the resolution says they should immediately withdraw their 2 troops from ukraine footing is not going to do that. just because the un general assembly deciding that. but nonetheless, it is a strong signal, and especially it's rare, it doesn't really happen that often that the security council convenes the general assembly to vote on such a resolution. the last time it happened was in 1082. so that is already a signal of the importance of this vote. and also we've seen that ukraine has garnered quite

a bit of support from the majority of members of the general assembly. and also some countries that traditionally might support russia have abstained from the vote. so on the one hand, it's not legally binding, but it puts pressure on russia and it shows that the international community is strongly behind ukraine. and it also is a diplomatic victory for ukraine. and also if we look at the vote in the security council earlier, sure, russia has a right to veto. so russia vetoed a resolution condemning the war. but out of 15 members, 11 voted in favor of the resolution and 3, abstain. so overall, quite a strong signal in support of ukraine. you touched on there, but tell us a little bit more about those traditional friends of russia who voted against including cuba and serbia, for example. yes, these are countries that are traditionally close with russia,

and it was expected that they would support russia. but what we've seen is that actually they didn't vote with russia so against the rebel through a resolution, but they abstained. now that shows that some of these countries are in a tricky situation. russia had even put forward a diplomatic effort to try to close and ties with these countries and tried to get them even more on that side. it sent some officials, for example, to cuba, to talk to the members of the government there. but cuba did end up abstaining, and that is because he was walking a fine line on the one hand, they haven't fully endorsed russia. they also have an openly condemned, its actions and the non endorsement. it is also because cuba is nervous about what it's trade partners. for example, in europe, you might do if it goes clearly with russia. but then we have the case of south africa which also abstain. and that was maybe a bit of a surprise for some and south africa has put out a statement explaining their,

their votes, saying that they find that the resolution itself does not create the right environment for diplomacy to take place. and that the un should push for diplomacy in the 1st place that they also find that the resolution does not address the security concerns that russia has. so in some way, sort of giving credit to what russia has been seeing in the last few weeks. you talk about the diplomacy, the all important word here and what does this mean, or if it doesn't have any real life implications, and it's not gonna, you know, cause russia to withdraw. what does it mean diplomatically for them? it certainly show that russia is isolated, right? now, of the few countries that are openly voted against the resolution are themselves considered. also pariahs states. i mean, it was russia itself, bell rues syria, north korea, and clearly, you know, the international community is not standing with russia right now. but that does not mean that the west is now just going to close all,

all ways of dialogue with russia. there is still hope they're talking to russia might bring the country to stop the war. that something that also german chancellor olive shawl said yesterday, it's now time to give diplomacy a chance. and i hope that dialogue can bring this conflict to an end quickly, even though it wasn't really good at preventing that conflict in the 1st place. now . all right, julia, sadly, thanks very much for explain that for us we hear some more headlines from this war . hundreds of ukrainian civilians have blocked straits to stop russian troops reaching europe's largest nuclear power plant. a video on social media shows civilian built roadblocks around the plant in the southeast ukrainian town of anna . hot out. russia claimed this week to have taken the town, but ukraine denies that claim. police in moscow have detained a group of children for laying flowers of the ukrainian embassy,

according to social media user. some were as young as 7 people were also arrested in saint petersburg. a monitoring group says more than 8000 anti war protesters have been detained in the past week. more than 40000 people gathered in the german city of munich on wednesday to protest the war. the crowd was 10 times larger than organizes had anticipated. and one of the biggest demonstrations the city has seen in years the international paralympic committee is banned russian and belarus and athletes from competing at the paralympics. it comes a day before the games begin in beijing and reverses a previous decision. on tuesday b i p. c said, athletes from the 2 countries could take part that as neutrals who former german chancellor gerhard schroeder is facing increasing political isolation for his failure to cut ties with the russian state. his condemned the war. but he hasn't announced the man behind it all. his long time,

friend vladimir putin. their bro vance goes back a long way. in 2004, the russian president vladimir putin was a guest at german chancellor. gerhard schroeder, 60th birthday party in hanover. later that year they were all smiles again, a shrewd a host of putin at his home, putin showed off a suit case of get hold of. it was just the start i was with you. hm. see, they got my or each other. they got to like each other, they got to trust each other, see, moving, see, for throw and see. and after leaving office, the friendship really paid off. cruder, landed a job with the controversial nord stream pipeline project to bring russian gas