him report from the heart of brazil starts march 9th on d, w. ah ah ah, this is the w news. my from brother, ukraine and russia hold a 2nd round of talks in battle, rose a cease fire and humanitarian corridor on the agenda. in the south of ukraine, the port city of cas song falls to russian troops. several other cities including the capital key, remain under attack. also on the program, more than a 1000000 civilians have now flagged ukraine of the you and he's wanting. this is just the beginning of bringing the latest from the border with romania where people

are trying to escape the fighting and moscow crack down on independent media. continues the edison's of a 30 year old radio station say they've been closed down because they refuse to broadcast pro propaganda. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. representatives from ukraine and russia have met on the bella luce polish border. for a 2nd round of talks about a possible cease fire. you craigs, also expected to ask for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow aids to get in and for refugees to get out of the country. this is just hours after the merit of care song confirmed that russian troops took over the southern port city. it's the 1st major city to fall since a russian forces began the invasion ha,

home. these defiant residents of mallet appall 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 his son. according to the regions governor, one resident record of the moment he opened his cousins to see a russian tank in the street. they're turning people to steer inside. shooting to hear, hear the sounds. i think i should stroke recording before something troops room ahead. he craned 2nd largest 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 cave, present zalinski remains defiant. would the will name nancy surely should the

wherever they go, they will be destroyed for they will not have com 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 stuff, 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 keith, 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 mad, vater ok, 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 peterson 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 worried about your father. true fuzzy as well, but look a we are no worried to to, to resist and to be able to push russians every from ukraine young borders and to we avoided about how to save ukrainian peaceful cities. we are where it, 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 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 that during night the russians intensifies the shillings or the key if only the last night were more or less cool. but before you in the, even in the shelling near to your station and they broke and hitting hitting line. and so they, they started deliberately targets to be an object in wonder to provoke,

more civilian casualties. sounds horrible. our shops open. are you able to get to get to buy food? for english speaking, i have no time to go into buy foods and to this is 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 dentist, who has no work in several directions, if yours is the convention war crimes because russia used to crime. so it's knowledge of conduct in war. second, we provide logistical support that 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 pressure to be done in west, haven't. you haven't done it yet. for example, they've got to meet only for the least, only for 7 russian banks. not for the whole russian banks, not for this beer bank with them main russian bank in the country. and we, we, we try to do other things as well. so aside from an end to the shooting, what the people that need most do thing attorney, i don't understand question i do want to, people need their most on a day to day basis. aside from the and to the shooting. we need the grid to the reaction of the rest because human utility on the system is very important. now we have a humanitarian crisis. the rather whole seat used under crush and control where, where the house is, a totally destroyed and as people are without water,

without heat and without electricity and russians. shelling the civilians who tried to reach to the citizens provide assistance. but more of all, we need to stop this week teams to earth and we need to stop russia when you put in the systems is not enough. we need to stop this big teams to emerge. understood, thank you so much for joining us. we wish you well on sandra mcvey joke, a human rights lawyer and keith a week ago, the reasons behind russia's massing of 9200000 troops on ukraine's borders became undeniable. president putin launched attacks around the country and ordered his troops to move in. with him grew cleft house up more on the weeks. events from a bustling country to a war zone has been quite a week in ukraine. now,

we saw the 3 major staging areas that became invasion points. let's look where things stood before the invasion happened. you'll remember that in 2014, put and took over and then illegally annexed the crimea peninsula. now russia has had a naval base there for a very long time. and from his perspective, he saw ukraine getting closer to the west as a threat to that base, which is partly what motivated him to annex the entire peninsula. he also backs separatists in the largely russian speaking part of the don bus region to take that area. now this is where russian forces have been staging their troops, as well as from the north. 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 of the country. and if they can succeed in holding this land bridge, it means that the south and the east will be connected by russian forces. and it has the risk of trapping ukrainian troops into the eastern part of the country. also, we're hearing earlier about them capturing care song, the one of the only major cities 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 or 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 russia to do. so let's be careful, we talk about what exactly crew controls, what now there's another danger here. the other danger is of course, nuclear energy. now we've already heard reports. you've probably heard about tr noble, how that is the decommissioned nuclear disaster site, which has been uninhabitable since 1986 when that reactor there melted down. that is already in russian hands. but ukraine also has a 15 operational reactors at 4 different sites all around the country, providing the country with half of its total electricity. now the ones in the north west, there hasn't been 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 summer ports, or 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, which insures 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 and the 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. william, good cross. well, there are growing number of reports that russia is attacking civilian residential areas in ukraine. buildings like a bass apartment, blocking call, have several civilians died in this attack, but russia continues to assist. it's only targeting military installations. international criminal court says it's investigating whether russian forces have committed war crimes. d, w 's investigative unit has also been gathering visual evidence of attacks on

civilian targets. and it paints a grim picture. the w, investigative reporter, louis sans as a, as an expert on security, terrorism and war crimes joins us not 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, t l t, v footage, you can see that the if you go in 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 suggest 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 and 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.