ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin for the 1st time since it started the war in ukraine. russia has seized a major city. the mayor of hassan confirming that the black sea port city is now in the hands of invading truths. ukrainian president zalinski saying russia will pay for what it has done. also coming up tonight, ukraine and russia failed to make a breakthrough in a 2nd round of talks. plus the u. a refugee agency says over 1000000 people have now fled. ukraine will get to so vakio where women and children are

confronting the reality of having to leave their home. ah, i bring gov, it's good to have you with us on this thursday. there is no progress to report. representatives from ukraine and russia have met on the bell roofs polish border for a 2nd round of talks about a possible ceasefire. ukraine is also expected to ask for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to get in and refugee to get out of the country. now this is just hours after the mayor of the city of harrison confirmed that russian troops took over the southern port city. this is the 1st major city to fall since russian forces began invading ukraine one week ago. ha, so home, these defiant residents of multiple

a standing up to russian soldiers after their city was taken russian troops of also taking 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 stern sight, shooting at the pier, hear the sounds they think richard stroke recording before something troops room ahead. he craned 2nd largest city car cave 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 of water and power in keith. present,

zalinski remains defiant. would the will ne, message leave 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 resistant loves 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 of flat ukraine in just a week. back and keep those who remain have been taking refuge in the cities 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. we want to go now to the ukranian capital. my 1st guest is alexandra mcphee. chuck. she's

a human rights lawyer. it's good to have you on the program. we know that the situation is going from bad to worse. what is a normal day looking like right now where you are? i mean, keith has a day, it looks like so different for different people because all of us find your own way home to be useful in this situation. hard to provide their own input to the general struggle against the russians invasion. like for me, i work in the room, i done so as you should use and we provide help for several directions. we, we, that you mentioned were crimes. we provide logistical assistance for people who need some, who have some needs and to connect them with that concrete initiatives. we work with international communities and do a lot of other things. let me ask you an example. you say that you are collecting

evidence of possible more crimes. do you expect to give that evidence that your organization is collecting to the i c. c? yes, for sure. it is. a prosecutor of international criminal court have already requested or ukrainians to send evidence or to, to him directly regardless of the language. and he provides a special context for 47424 is the evidence or to sent. so we're now to peer video testimonial or for weakness to who, who, who are preserved is a target li, shelling of civilian objects and civilian populations. and it will be our 1st and mission. and alexander, if you could, can you tell me what, what is in these video testimonies? i mean, what are people saying they have experienced we have

a severe methodology. we ask only question. we show like are in line with the international humanitarian law. so we don't to ask about feelings of the people or the emotions. so in this video, they said how their house is, where just to wait and that near this house is a when no military will just that all as it's my and we can qualify that is a deliberately, a target in this to be an object in order to provide them more civilian casualties and go with the pending in that population. and it's only going to have you seen these, these video testimonies yourself, have you seen them? i'm not responsible for analyzing this video testimonial. we have a decentralized initiatives and then a different will and tiers are responsible for the own part to work. but i so there are 4 things video, evidence of them. and they said target li attached just to be an object and from

human rights point of view. and from human being point of view, it's awful. i mean when you hear these reports of civilian targets being hit by these air strikes, what goes through your mind? they, they lake then suck, they posted it. you don't know, you bring a language that they couldn't open the premium facebook and read what people who experienced such kind of behavior a feeling and thoughts. it is a i in the spirit z i n, n a z z i in very different emotions, alexandra monte job joining us from the ukrainian capital key. we appreciate your time and we wish you all the best you're doing very important work. alexander, thank you. thank you. one week ago,

the reasons behind russia's massing of nearly 200000 troops on your grains borders became undeniable. russian president putin launched air attacks around the country and ordered his troops to move in. the w. william glue croft has more on what we've seen in the past week 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. half, and you'll remember that in 2014 potent 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 backed 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. the in rushes, ally beller, isn't. of course, russian forces in russia proper it self. and it's 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 is 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 who controls what now there's another danger here. the other danger is of course, nuclear energy. now we've already heard of fort, 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 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, 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, 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. that was d. w. william glue,

croft beer. my next guest is liam collins. he is a retired us special forces, colonel. he was a senior defense advisor to ukraine curl. it's good to have you on the program. i want to start by talking about what we're seeing along the black sea coast. now we've got russia gaining control of the port city of hair song. mario poll is under threat. do you see russia being able to get the entire coastal region of ukraine under its control and turning ukraine into a landlocked country? i think they have the potential to do that. but it's challenging, right? like the reporter, you know, accurately important. it simply owning it, like on the map where you have the colors there and actually controlling are not the same thing. so yes, without a doubt, even though mary might be shut off. and if they control that,

it will impede definitely the flow of goods in their, into ukraine. and what would that mean? i'm just trying to think of what was the situation on the ground be like for the ukrainian military if they have no access to the coast. yeah, i mean for the military, it their main effort really defending the capital of an harkey, and it's a very small military relative to the russian invasion. so they have to be delivered about where they're defending. they know they can't defend everywhere, they try to defend everywhere, then they're going to lose everywhere. they know they're going to take some of these losses. that's part of our operational tactical plan. in unfortunately, that's the most likely place where it appears to be happening. and what about the capital, we have been hearing from many military exports for the past week, saying that they are surprised that we're still not talking about kids being taken by the russian military. are you surprised? i mean, do you see them struggling to encircle and take the capitol?

yes, i said i spent 2 years going back and forth and helping advise them and in so they need massive reforms help from the west and they are very capable fighting for just they're fighting an overwhelming number. so i'm not surprised to see that having that success keeping them out of the capital because that's probably where the ukrainians want to concentrate their events. and if the russians try to get into the end of the city, then they're going to not only 5 russia military, but tens of thousands of russian volunteers are going to be attacking and harassing them throughout the ukrainian president. zalinski today, once again brought up the subject of a possible blockade over you creating an air space and he said to nato powers into the u. s. if you won't fly the jets for us, give us the jets and we will protect our own air space. is that a realistic option for that? the ukranian military could take those jets and basically keep the russians out.

it would be challenging. russia, no doubt has an anti aircraft capability. what, what airfields are they going to fly on from? craig would have to control those. i think it's more an anti aircraft rep from russia to worry about. and then if we gave them or the wes somebody gave them aircraft, it would have to be an aircraft. those powers are experience with they just can't happen to new platform and do that. so those are concerned that, you know, really overcome those. and i think that the challenge is probably too far. what about something similar to what israel has an iron dome? is it possible to put an iron dome over key, or what about over the entire country? i mean, is that in terms of technology, is it realistic? i don't think that's something they can implement in the middle of a war if you know, if they had time in advance of.