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ah ah ah ah, the w 9 from berlin, russian forces sees ukraine's largest nuclear power plant. an early morning attack, killed several people, and sparks of fire at an on site training facility officials confirmed that has been no radiation leak. ukraine says russia is risking a major nuclear accident. also on the program. russia forces battle for control of more ukrainian cities after taking the strategic port of castle on the black sea,
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ukraine's leaders urged people to defend the country anyway, they kept. and ukrainians, arriving in the german capital, the greeted by volunteers including former syrian refugees. we meet some of those now offering their support. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. russian forces of seize control of europe's largest nuclear power plant at zappa regia and ukraine. se ukraine says russian troops, 5 shells at the plant over night, killing several people in sparking a fire at a training building. authorities say reactors would not damage to no radioactive material was released. well, leaders have condemned via tacker saying it risk a major nuclear disaster. the largest nuclear power plant in europe seized
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by russian forces a relief to many only a training building was set on fire in the fighting and ukrainian emergency services were able to extinguish the blades. so it's important to say that all the safety systems of the 6 reactors at the plant were not affect it at all. and that there has been no release of radioactive material. ukrainian authority said several people died in the fire. keith blamed the fire on russian projectiles. or assist keaton the russian tanks, knew what they were shelling, they were aiming directly at the station. this is tara, on an unprecedented level, or we enlightened immediate toughening of sanctions against drunk driving. the nichoela terrorist. we need immediate closure of the sky of u kramer. this is the only guarantee that russia, at least, will not strike with rockets involvement,
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targeting nuclear plants. here from the ivy, our boom boom will ottoman a victim. but nato allies were quick to rule out establishing a no fly zone once again. or they, they were united in condemnation of the russian attack. well, that attack on europe's biggest nuclear power plant is just one indication of how serious the fighting in ukraine has become. let's get law from date of his william flu croft. deadly in dire may be the best way to describe what's unfolding in ukraine, especially for civilians and cities around the country. they're facing aerial bombardment and shelling by russian forces. and we can see some of that on the map that we can put up behind me. it shows the latest areas of the most intense fighting is taking place between your crony ukrainian and russian forces engaged on the ground and where russian forces are trying to make the most headway. now, much of that is here in the south. we've heard a lot about fighting coming up from the crimea peninsula as russian force are
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trying to make their way both west and to east. we've already heard that they've in some way taken her san and are heavily shelling mario paul, both strategic port cities. now their effort may be to connect a chord or here in the east trapping ukrainian forces in that area or they could even depending on their progress, split the country into between east and west. now in the north, there is slow going progress towards russian forces on multiple points trying to in circle cave. and that could lead to some very, very serious problems for people. they are, as we've already been seeing over the last many days. now what's important to to note here is that none of this shows what rushes actually in control, because to really control these areas, you need a lot more troops and resources. and what russia has at the same time to trying to continue to make advances forward. and we've been hearing about reports of shortages of food fuel and other supplies for russian troops. all of that is needed
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for them to both hold and continue into territory. so instead, what we're seeing is russian forces upping attacks from the air on many of these cities heavy heavy attacks and maria pull in khaki in the east. and of course the capital key of this includes targeting civilian areas. military analysts say this resembles tactics at russia used in syria, which as we all know, lead to humanitarian katasha safe. and if that's not bad enough, there is the bigger threat that we saw in that report, which is the nuclear power plants. half of ukraine's electricity comes from 15 reactors at 4 different space, a spots around the country. plus of course you probably know about trin, noble, that out of action, former nuclear power plant that is now in nuclear disaster sight since the $986.00 meltdown that russian forces took last week. now the plants in the west, they are so far, seemingly safe and out of range from russian forces. but it's
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a different story, as we've heard about in the south, especially this power plant right here, zap for asia, that is europe biggest power plant. now the intern not international atomic energy agency citing ukrainian authority say it was shelled and set fire to overnight. and here you can see that plant just about a 120 kilometers south of a town by the same name, home to about 700000 people. now ukrainian forces say ukrainian authority say that they still remain in control of the nuclear power plant. but this morning, we heard from the i e, a director general that it's russian forces that are in control in this area south . and i as, as may be, even the plant property itself. so that director general mario grossi, he's called the situation unprecedented. he stressed that so far, there's been no release of radiation. the monitoring systems are functional and he's personally been traveling to or wants to travel to ukraine to meet with
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ukrainian and russian authorities negotiated deal to try to protect those nuclear power plants from the fighting puts him all on mission. the executive director of a vienna center for disarmament and non proliferation. and i know so cova. welcome to d w. what's your assessment? how dangerous was a separation incident? oh, thank you for having me. a incident that is dangerous on many levels because it happens for the 1st time in a country where we do have operating nuclear facilities, nuclear plants, we never had a war. city show military action where we had a nuclear power plants. having said that, what we knew about the current situation is something that probably
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should release some of the fears then mother was furious on those who follow it. first, what we know is that the project, how are the fighting? that was there? she is facility that is not area crude, so it is on the side of the all nuclear plan, but it is away from the fire was down. and the reactor actually the nuclear power plant has $63.00 actors, only one of them currently operates. and none of the fire or the projectiles heat in reactor, they'll rating one earlier this year that it operates normally. and there was no release on fridays and is the possibility of war part of the safety planning that
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goes into the construction of nuclear power plants. i didn't say that that it goes into the construction of our clients in terms of the work recently is unprecedented situation. but we also learn from the term no accident and cast a fee from fukushima. this to be put additional never safety measures for crisis city and the reactor and the zachary's a nuclear power plant. and now we're in these incident happen overnight. he's one of the reactors. first of all is different from to know reactor. even if we do have a situation where with direct fire are 1st of all and it has a container on which it can produce them even a plane crash. and 2nd, it has
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a built in safety features. the whole stoker, them probably could be a lucy lisa for the asian, but it will not be on the scale of her normal by any means. but it is dangerous to do you have the or, and if no entering conflict around that facility. because for the safety of reactors, he also need to have a constant pumping water to pull the reactor. so that doesn't go critical. the water at this point is what important in supply and interrupted then, then anything else. so that, that's where we are in terms of the assessment of what could go wrong. but obviously people never planned for nuclear power plants to
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operate in conflict. understood. and of course, the, the fear that we as, as, as non nuclear scientists have, is that a nuclear power plant like separate asia, could be used as a weapon. did st. you seem to be say, it's a possibility, but it would not be the catastrophic event that people are talking about. yes, there is a big difference between a weapon and nuclear power. now there is no comparison in terms of the impact that it can. even though we're all worried about possible release of ready, and we'll leave to at least our through to know catastrophe and more recently fukushima meltdown. so what we can conceivably home have made is something closer to focus in rather than
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an event that would be a result of a use of nuclear weapons for me. but we also should be cognizant of the fact that the ukranian operators and stuff works on the cloud are they are they, i have full control of the reactor in operations. any situation goes or to read further, they should be able to shut down reactor and prevent any release of nice. so thank you for providing that sort of reassurance, elena, as a call from the theater center for disarmament. a non proliferation my pleasure. the number of ukrainian cities remained under heavy bombardment, the bug c porter, cason is the only major urban centre to fall under russian control. since this war
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started more than a week ago, ukraine accuses russia of deliberately targeting civilian structures. meanwhile, people around the country appear determined to resist all over ukraine. people are getting ready to fight latitude in live eve. those with combat experience. teach those who have never held a gun before i get for one of the rubric. thoughtful i came here to get some understanding of what to do, how to defend myself and how to survive if the enemy comes for water, the knocker. and while it still com and live eve devastation elsewhere could give an indication of what could come. this is what the outskirts of keith look like. with russian forces advancing in the east and south president vladimir putin claimed that his so called special military operation is going to plan what is his get hold of the russian soldiers and offices are acting bravely like true heroes.
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our troops fight with persistence, and full understanding that their cause is right all and when you minute produce, we will do all in the south. russian troops and the tanks have taken control of the key black sea port of how sun. they are also pressuring the port city of merrier pole. there is no water or electricity and the depths of winter to the east, ukraine's 2nd largest city. how he, if is still standing, despite russia's advances. but heavy bombardment has left buildings and ruins and dozens of civilian deaths. and shall noth nothing if we full go to forbid valuable next will be luck via home. in lithuania is stony on georgia, moldova, poland, value, and then they will go to the berlin wall, which is dark mode. it will need the doorbell, lindquist, to me. a 2nd round of talks between russian and ukrainian negotiators has met with
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some progress as the 2 sides agree to establish humanitarian corridors in some areas. for those resident who has not, i could not yet escape any such corridors, could provide some desperately needed respite. as go to ukraine then and joined d. w correspondent, but his bullying her and that live in western that ukraine. welcome with yes. what's the latest? yeah, there has been fighting and again in these hotspots that we've also seen some of it in these reports are, are you opposed to being surrounded but mostly cut off communication. we also hearing electricity and water being caught there. a situation of course is quite worrying and is one of the places where you monetary and corridor to bring in a human a tarion relief would be really needed. and today i have also spoken to people who
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have fled hargrove and other places of ukraine. um it's very in this situation is, is, is very bad. a lot of places have been bombed, have been, have been destroyed, towns around hard kiff and also the city center of ark. if people have been telling me that they have been, they were really scared, they were sitting in their apartments or in the bomb shelters. and we're really scared with everything that came down the city center of hard cuz of course, has been destroyed quite badly. fighting is also going on around keith in the suburbs of key if it doesn't seem that the of line has moved a lot, but fighting is certainly severe and, and, and her ongoing. right. a glimmer of good, good news. if i can put it that way, is that ukrainian and russian representatives do appear to have agreed a humanitarian corridors for people to leave the country, our people, they're taking that news well,
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it's badly said it's badly needed. a humanitarian corridors are badly needed. but let's be careful, they have agreed and is about to establish those. there are no specific agreements on where they will be and when and how they will operate or this is going to be figured out in the future. but for now, we don't know that yet. of course people, especially, of course, in these places, if they get the news, they need these corridors. and it's interesting just just watching that the strings behind you, which i do appear quite at quiet though. we have seen people. so sort of going about that their normal business it's, it's easy to get the idea that the whole country as it more but clearly it's a very patchy business. yeah, i've been to the way railway station earlier or where refugees keep arriving from all parts of the country. not only from car give and key of the most earth for over
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places, or are you poor, but also from other places where war has not yet hit, but people are expecting things to happen there. odessa, for example, in the south and also the eastern town of nipple, which is um, one of the major industrial hobbs as well. um, so people all over the country are, are, are, are scared. most of the fighting is happening in the north, in the east and in the south. this part west in ukraine and center ukraine is relatively untouched. if you don't count the refugees coming in the difficulties and providing them with shelter and food are, but they're there. they are and, and to have also been arrayed, but basically these areas have been less targeted and the city here and leaf is operating normally shops, not all shops are open, of course, but like basic necessities. you can buy stuff in the stores and, and public transport is running and the telephone, internet's electricity, everything. there is, of course,
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some pressure on the people here as well. people have also enlisted for, for, for, for the army. there is a curfew. people cannot be out on the street in the evenings is also dead. it's also forbidden to set uncle a, for example, in the streets of normal life has been affected, but it's not what we are seeing from the eastern and southern part of the country. thank you. for that, mrs. what he said earlier in the vein in weston ukraine, the nato secretary general against dalton, burke, has rejected ukraine's call for a no fly zone of the country. stay here for a meeting of alliance, foreign ministers. he said, such a move would risk direct conflict between his organization and to russia, sparking an all out war across europe. he went on to say that nato was ready to defend member states, which do not include ukraine. we have all that to strengthen our turns on the fence or lan in the air and at sea allies from north american europe have sent
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thousands more troops to the east and part of the alliance. we are deploying the nato response force for the 1st time and we have over a 130 yet at high alert and over 200 ships from the high north to the mediterranean. we will continue to do what it takes to protect them, defend every inch of nato, tony nate toys at the fencing alarms. our court paused is to keep our 30 nations safe. we are not part of this conflict and we have a responsibility to ensure it thus not escalate and spread beyond your crane. because that would be even more devastating and more dangerous. with even more human suffering, nato is not seeking
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a war with russia. let's get more on that meeting from t w. correspondence at terry schultz is at nato headquarters in brussels. welcome back, terry. so what, what else did the nato secretary general have to stay? well, while i was listening to the secretary general, i was actually thinking about how this monologue would be heard in key of and in the other ukrainian cities where people are pleading day after day for nato to enforce a no fly zone. and the secretary general made clear as he has on previous occasions that this is just not going to happen. that in fact, no nato ally has an appetite to be engaged in a war with russia, which is what would happen if it needed to enforce a no fly zone to close the air space over ukraine. and he said, in fact, not just that, that this would engage nato allies with russia, but that it would not make it safer for ukraine that this would not help ukraine in its self defense. so if, if i were the ukrainians,
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i would not be taking any solace from, from what we're hearing out of nato headquarters today. and that's actually what i was thinking as i was into the secretary general that nato territory will be defended. but there's very little that it's willing to do at this point to help ukraine as an alliance of 30 nations. the fear of course, is that russia will not stop at you crying. how seriously is nato taking of those concerns? that is a serious concern, and it's been taken ever more seriously. as we saw the french president, many more con, speak with putin yesterday and come out of that conversation saying he is not willing to pull back to pull back his troops and things are going to get much worse . and so now we're also hearing that officials are taking more seriously putin's threats to, to expand, to, to retake more space. that was part of the soviet union. you're looking at countries like moldova, georgia, where you already have russian troops stationed in small areas like they were helping in eastern ukraine and those rebel held territories. and there's real
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concern in moldova, for example, that russia may try to come in and meet up with those troops, a couple of 1000 of them, they're stationed currently in moldova. and so, yes, they are taking that very seriously as that there seems to be nothing that is going to deter vladimir putin. thank you for that to terry d. w correspondent, a tory shows that nato headquarters will there have been protests against the war inside russia. now the government has introduced new laws to clamp down on descent or friday morning rushes parliament. the duma passed legislation banning the spread of information critical of russia's war or of its military forces. violations carry prison sentences of up to 15 years. free speech advocates a censorship has already increased countries. media watchdog has restricted access to d. w unto other international media websites, and the popular radio station echo moscow and independent tv channel and dodged
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have been closed down every day brings more ukrainian refugees to germany arriving. however, they count for the 6000 arrived in berlin's main train station on thursday, a load traveling on special rail services. the debate met some of the volunteers that allowed to hand amongst them. survivors of previous conflicts a journey people never thought that half to make thousands of refugees arriving at berlin's main train station. among them, women, children, grandparents and many international students, all of them fling the war in ukraine, exhausted after days on the move. jasa. gov, the city de la d. i met so many people who helped me with open hearts and so much love, but so you know, and i hope this love will help that we will manage this. my husband stayed in cave . my family, my mother's i'm so worried about them. i'm sorry,
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i can't talk anymore. we close the roof. so it was a visa bus. missed if so could awesome. we're safe now. yeah. so everything's okay . the web is not yours knows this, but yeah, like every one there. we just felt so hopeless. but we made it here. last night we were so scared every one was. so i'll never forget, nervous volunteers are picking people up from the platforms and bringing them here to get some help. this is where they can get a hot drink, warm clothes and medical attention. alongside the age organizations, dozens of volunteers have just turned up to help in any way they can, many offering to translate for people. others are handing out food and clothing. this help of fled to germany from syria 7 years ago. on the skies guns canarvy the lighter. i know exactly how these people are feeling. they've left their homes,
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their loved ones. they just want a safe life. even with the knocker, the height. some people are planning to stay in berlin for now. many have friends or family here. others want to travel onwards. refugees from ukraine can take the train for free in germany and elsewhere in europe. for many, this is just one stop on an even longer journey. the 2022 winter paralympic games are officially open. following the traditional ceremony of the birds nest stadium in beijing, there was no place for russia or for bella roost. grimes athletes received a warm welcome and some of them. jess, there. defiance in the wake of the russian invasion. on thursday, the international paralympic committee bowed to pressure and band russia, and bella roost from competing games run until the 13th of march. set you up to date
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