ah, ah ah, this is d w. news live from burly in russia. sees is its 1st major ukrainian city. madison confirms at the government headquarters of the port city is in the hands of invading troops despite the last president vladimir zalinski urges ukrainians to persevere and says, russia will pay for what he did. also on the program, more than a 1000000 civilians have now fled ukraine. and the you and he's warning, this is just the beginning. we'll bring the latest from the border with romania where people are trying to escape the fighting. and moscow's crackdown on

independent media continues the editors of a 30 year old and radio stations say they've been closed down because they refuse to broadcast pro war propaganda. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. russia has captured its 1st major ukrainian city, its forces. now occupy the administration building and carson. despite this ukraine says its troops are still in the area fighting for control of the port city, about 250000 people. the cities of khaki, mario paul, and the capital kia are also under attack. despite the losses ukrainian president followed me, is that answer? he used a televised address to promise that russia would be made to pay to rebuild the country. ha, so home,

these defiant residents of multiple a standing up to russian soldiers. after their city was taken, russian troops have also taken control of the regional government building in the key black sea port of has san, according to the regions governor, one resident record of the moment he opened his cousins to see a russian tank in the street. there turning people to stare and sight shooting in the pier, hear the sounds. i think i should stroke recording before some troops room ahead. he craned 2nd lodge, a city cock eve is still holding out, but rushes. bombardment has left its streets in ruins and dozens of civilians dead further to the east. the port city of mario paul is surrounded. after hours of shelling, cut off water and power. in keith present, zalinski remains defiant. would the will need necessarily should be wherever they

go, they will be destroyed for they will not have come here. they will not have food and they will not have one quiet moment to willie. the occupiers will receive only one thing from ukrainians, resistance vs resistance. as of the such resistance that they will forever remember that we don't give up what is ours. but russia's increasing attacks ascending more and more people fleeing for their lives. with the majority arriving here in poland, the un says more than 1000000 refugees have fled ukraine in just a week. back and keep those who remain have been taking refuge in the city's metro stations for days. they don't know how long they'll have to spend down here or what will happen when their food finally runs out. well let's hear from the ukrainian capital, alexandra mcvey to ok is a human rights lawyer and joins us from keith. welcome to

d. w. one of the past 24 hours been like for you like and t this 7 days. the i lost in time completely war. it's a horror think, but we resist to russian aggression. and i understand you're wanted about your father to fuzzy as well, but look a we are no worried to, to, to resist and to be able to push russians away from ukraine. young borders and to we avoid it about how to save ukrainian peaceful cities. we are horrid, how to save ukrainians, nice and on the regard to the broader picture. my personal problem is too small. really? is it possible to say what a normal day looks like under these extraordinary circumstances and you still go to

work, for instance, really story or when you should, if you ever done this us and work on different direction, we do as a lot of ukrainians door in this situation, we find what we can, what, what we can do their best interest, addition based off of experience, knowledge and, and help us to provide our input to the general struggle. so how are you organizing yourselves? we have no difference between day and night for current moment. speaker only the difference is good. during the night the russians intensifies the showings or the key if only the last night were more or less cool. but before it was in the, even in the shelling near to your station and they broke and heating heat in line. and so they, they started deliberately targets to be an object in wonder to provoked more

civilian casualties. sounds horrible our shops open. are you able to get to get to buy food? frankly speaking, i have no time to go into buy foods and to this is so we isn't done by by other my colleagues. we are constantly work and we try to use any minutes of our life because we don't know how much time we will have. and so what, what sort of work are you doing there? you know, my dinosaurs now work on several directions, detours in the convention war crimes because russia used to crime. so it's knowledge of conduct in war. second, we provide logistical support. there are a lot of people and needs and the right, a lot of initiative school provide the assistance, but we need to match people with this initiatives. and this is also one of our work . also our direction is working with international community. you may be have some

impression that west strongly support ukraine, but there are a lot of has to be done in west, haven't, haven't done it yet. for example, they've got to meet only for sleeps only for 7 russian banks. not for the whole russian banks, not for this beer, bon quiz, him main russian bank in the country. and we, we try to do other things as well. so aside from an end to the shooting, what the people then the most do thing. sorry i didn't understand question i do out what the people that need there, and we need to stop russia. a human you been in this distance is not enough. we need to stop this big teams to emerge under. so thank you so much for joining us. we wish you well, alexandra mcveigh joke and human rights lawyer and keith. thank you. well, there are growing reports of russia's attacking civilian residential areas in ukraine

. like these apartment builders in car. he said we'll civilians died in this attack . russia continues to say it's only targeting military installations. the international criminal course is looking into whether russian forces have committed war crimes. t w's investigative unit has also been gathering visual that evidence of attacks and civilian targets. and it paints a grim picture of this conflict. the w investigative reporter louis sanders is an expert on security, terrorism and war crimes joins us now. welcome louis. so just walk us through some of the material you've collected and what a white might indicate that war crimes have been committed for the past couple of days, we been looking into an attack on a regional administrative building in the heart of hard key to be precise at freedom square, now that attack left 6 people dead and dozens more wounded. now if we look at the c,

c t tell t v footage, you can see that the if you go and frame by frame, you can see the projectile right before it hits the before impact. and we spoke to military experts with the help of military experts we were able to identify the projectile as a russian need, caliber cruise missile. now why is that important? well, cruise missiles, generally speaking, have multiple guidance systems as part of the system, which suggests that this could have been a targeted attack. ok, and could this just have been a terrible mistake? it's unlikely we went through and mapped the area around freedom square to see if there were any military installations that could be considered legitimate military targets. and we couldn't find any, the only facilities that we found that were connected to the ukrainian armed forces was a hospital and a university and generally under international law and the rules of engagement.

these are considered off limits. and so what is, what is quite interesting is that we spoke to a residence in the area and witnesses who told us that they had heard 2 explosions . that morning, 18 o'clock, and 110 minutes later. now from previous investigations that we've conducted in syria, we've seen that russian armed forces target when they, when they attack a target twice, there's a lot of work that's been done to show that that shows intent. now, intent is often the hardest thing to prove when going after war crimes, and that'll probably be the largest challenge, especially in this case. but the early indications show that this particular example could be a war crime, right. and war crimes investigators are particularly interested in the weapons use . just talk us through what they can tell us will cluster bombs are a good example and there are indications that russian forces are using cluster

bombs in urban areas. now in this footage, you can see a cluster like explosions happening within a residential building. now we spoke to a military experts to identify what kind of attack was happening here. and they told us that this is most likely a cluster bomb. now the only other weapon it could have been would have shown larger explosions, closer to the surface of the building. now the problem with cluster bonds is that the indiscriminately harm civilians and enact devastation, especially in urban settings such as this one. and so when, when war crimes investigators, when they start seeing the use of cluster bombs in a conflict, it usually signals a sign that, you know, there's, there's quite possibly war crimes being committed here. and in this case, in ukraine, as this also brings, there's also been a lot of talk about russia's alleged use of fomo. barrick bombs, just explain what val, please. so the past couple of days, there's been

a lot of videos and images being shared on social media, showing the purported use of thermal buried bombs and launchers being taken by russian armed forces. 2 battlefields across ukraine now were still in the process of verifying this content and but early indication showed that there could be credence behind the material. now the problem with thermal barry in rushes, ally beller, isn't. of course, russian forces in russia proper it self and is from these 3 points that russian troops came in and we can have a look now where things went from last week to this week. now we see where these troops have moved in from, as we were talking about from the north east and the south. now ukrainian resistance has been fierce and has been slowing down. russian advances moving into the country. but we have seen some progress by russian forces. like here we see

a land bridge between crimea, ann maria, pull going up into the eastern part. only major city so far that russia has been able to take. now it's very important to note that of course, what we mean when we see these kinds of images is not that russia has full control of these areas. it's a very delicate, very dangerous, very fluid situation. if russia really wants to occupy these areas, it requires a lot of troops require supplies, it requires fuel, it requires logistics. at the same time, it seems that russia wants to keep pushing into the country. that's can be very, very difficult for a lot of fighting. there yet, so those are probably, at least for now, relatively safe. but the ones in the south, including the largest nuclear reactor in all of europe, could be vulnerable by some reports. there are russian forces just 35 kilometers from them. now, so far, ukraine's energy authority says they are still in control of these plants and they are operating normally. the international atomic energy agency ensures global

nuclear safety has called on russia to avoid going anywhere near these nuclear reactors. but still watch dogs are extremely concerned about the safety of these plants as a potential for a radioactive release, if any of them come under fire, which would of course, have consequences not just for ukraine, but for the whole region. of even refugee agency says the number of people slaying you cray has now passed a 1000000 making it the fastest exodus of refugees the century, most adding for poland, but neighboring countries like romania and moldova are also taking people in. but some are having to wait longer than others to cross to safety as the w correspondent or funny for sure. so when she visited a port rodney on the romanian border finally here, thousands are pouring towards the ukrainian border with romania as word spreads of the tailback of refugees at the polish crossing. with harrowing images still in

their minds and few items in their hands. they arrive at the last check point to safety. oksana and her kids needed 4 days to get here from keith. on her mind. what's ahead. they're going to look for worse she car, because i need to provide for my children. and my husband stayed to defend his country. you know, men are fighting age between 18 and 60, have to stay there also many non ukrainians who want to leave students migrant workers. about half a 1000000 according to you and estimates. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing for their 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've met flat from heavily bon pad, keith, a student from egypt. he says his growing frustrated about being made to wait in freezing temperatures while ukrainians are led through the lay. let us only bust up

to like old hundreds of coons. we will was i can't say anything or others. what's that? we are humans also like visit us. any bishop care more about us. i've met says he has already been to live if, but was not let through at the border with pool 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 own, to live. right. his friend also from egypt disagree. the way i feel a world's is people. they have no home to go. and actually we have home we have is are to, we can go now like you see, but they don't have any list to those officials here do not want to talk on camera about why they are 2 lines, one for foreigners, one for ukrainians. but they tell us, their goal is to maintain con, here. there is concern that the situation might get out of control as more refugees take 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 law reporter filed by d w sir fanny fisher, who joins us from near the border with romania unmanned dover. welcome, funny. and let's start with some of the schumann stories that people are telling you, what are you hearing and there's so many individual stories fell in fact just between his life reporting service doing here in char nifty, 50 kilometers away from the romanian border. it's really hard to even just digest what we hear are seriously the is some people need for days at least if not even more to make it older, if on how to keep or from keith all the way here. some of them went already to live but couldn't get through, they say, and now they're trying to cross the romanian border again. others feel guilty of leaving people behind their grandparents. for example, one young a student

a told me that she's really feeling agony for her grandparents rained in northern part of this country without heating, without a medical supplies. and she just cannot leave ukraine while, as she doesn't feel like that her grandparents are safe to some people are in a way stranded here. many others cannot even stay here because they're not enough. a hotel. so any free rooms at this point and the ones that are, are super, super, very, very expensive in fact. so you see and hear very different accounts as people arrive here. but of course, many of them who made a t, i just tried to leave exit this country. and somehow i bring a little bit of a piece for the children, especially. and what they have been through over of the past week and give them a little bit of a pause wherever that next destination may be, as they're crossing the border to romania under for the 2 curious people trying to get out of the country just watching your report, it looks like

a brown queue on one side, under white crew on the other. what justification, oh, of course is a giving for apparently having preference to one over the other official say has nothing to do is skin color, but basically the passport you carry, they say to city, to put a system in place if a ukrainians and none ukrainians to maintain com, they actually claimed that a couple of days ago, some foreigners, india, as they claim be, cannot verify this independently whether this is true. but they say that these foreigners were trying to cross the board of violence because they were soon edge. so a fool of harrowing experiences from how to keep from where they came apparently, that he just wanted to leave. so after that incident, the officials told us at the, at the border that day a stablished is to line system. now, a definitely provokes different reactions from foreigners saw that we listened to, they at the board a said to definitely feel treated like 2nd class. how is it possible that they have

to wait there while others ukrainian? so just passing through what again, other foreigners who have spoken to said in a way they can understand because the ukrainians do not have a home to go to why they who enter the country ukraine let's say a few years ago. at least have their origin original destination, even though it's not clear how they are going to get back to, for example, edge, syria, egypt. and from all to all the other countries that they originally from. so it's really a mixed emotions. they at the border and not just here with the romania border, but also of course be af sienna in images and, and, and videos. but also from hearing from our reports at the border there that really it is a contents in at the board as people are trying to exit a very horrible situation in ukraine. and it cannot be fast enough for them. obviously also given a the, the, the climate right now it's winter, it is cold and people are just simply tired. they want to leave i thank you

for that funny for shaw reporting off a border with western you crime. thank you. refugees from ukraine and are starting to arrive in germany. areas around the country are preparing to open more shelters. as authorities anticipate thousands of arrivals, they w spring to a reception center in the capitol bowman. they've been on the move for days by car bus and from miles on foot travelling, however, they could to flee the wall. hundreds of people fleeing 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 that next steps. dumber boston, it's dangerous. there people are shooting. i have a child fighter jets. i flying around houses. i exploding is terrible. so frightening, which is 3 years old. next year 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 hurts so much. my room would thornton do? 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 that we just one piece or the children want he so many children are dying. i don't know how we can stop hazelwood book, but i mean 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 birth thing we thought we had there at 50 that we hung up. i would like latoya. we logged up to in the chaos of the

journey. he lost his cousin and still hasn't been able to reach him. his alone he dont have like many dont have anything he dont have for anything for them. i don't have any option to find him. this medical student originally from iran, came all the way from here 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 look after her, a small relief in the face of the exhaustion so far, and the uncertainty still to come. meanwhile, germany look set to supply more weapons to ukraine. a government source, as berlin has agreed to provide 2700 anti aircraft missiles. the weapons are soviet

designed. estrella missiles from the stalks of the former east german armed forces . germany is already committed to delivering a 1000 anti tank weapons. and 500 surface to air missiles brought in recently reversed a long standing policy of not exporting weapons to conflict zones. let's look at this change in german policy, them with that the w's chief international editor, richard walker. welcome, richard. and we'll, we'll start with a huge historical irony here that these missiles are soviet designed. that's right. german soviet era, missiles. so these are small enough to be operated by humans, so not a huge amount of, of equipment needed. these don't need to be transported on giant vehicles. and yet they date back to the cold war. these, these are missiles that the east german military used back in the day,

and these were also used by many other countries including ukraine itself. so i think the thinking here, assuming this is confirmed, we haven't had confirmation yet from the german government, but we are getting obviously those, those reports from in, based on statements by insiders. that essentially 2 things happening here on the one hand, these are not complicated weapons. they are a type of weapons that many people in the ukranian military would have been familiar with over the years. and on the other hand, their weapons that germany actually has available because famously, germany, military has been rather starved resources in recent years. and a lot of his equipment is degraded. but this is equipment that evidently wasn't being used. $2700.00 of these now being in for provision to the ukrainians. and so where does this escalation in germany is activity leave it relation, leave the relationship between russia and germany, and indeed russia and other countries who are also

a providing weapons to ukraine. yeah, i mean, germany isn't the only country that is taking a step like this, but it's a huge step for germany. i mean, germany had always regarded itself as a kind of a bridge builder between the western and russia over many decades. and now of course, with this invasion, that whole role that germany has played is being thrown into question germany very much coming down on the ukranian side saying that this invasion a justifies providing the ukrainians with weapons with which to defend themselves against an invasion that is not justified a tool, and as you just mentioned earlier, some weapons have already be supplied. so this would be essentially the 3rd of tranche of that the germans, so are stressing at the same time, there's a limit to this. this doesn't mean that germany wants to wait in to become partially to this conflict. and one of the minister's responsible robert hardback,

he's the minister of the economy. also, the vice chancellor was stressing that speaking to reporters, saying that we will not become.