[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live in from berlin tonight, a close call with a radioactive nightmare. russian forces of attack in seized, ukraine's largest nuclear power. plant grain to several people died. the attack ignited the fire at the site. the global atomic watched all confirming there has been no radiation leak. the greatest warning russia could trigger. another turnover, also coming up tonight's ukrainians training to fight as russian forces advance

ukraine accusing russian troops of targeting residential areas. and the other casualty of the invasion. russia's parliament outlawing criticism of the countries military, independent, russian news channels are being shut down. and now international news outlets including d. w. news are blocked. ah, i'm bring. gov is good to have you with us on to this friday to night. cities across ukraine are coming under, continued russian attack. the capital key reporting several missiles strikes, hitting residential areas. despite videos have destroyed apartment, buildings and houses. moscow continues to deny that it is targeting civilians. meanwhile, the mayor of the port of mario poll says that his city of surrounded and is running

out of food already one major city in the south is under russian control. that is the black sea port of harrison russian soldiers handout food to the people of the southern city of melli tofal. it's the 2nd city in ukraine said to be under the invaders control after half sun. ukrainian officials say the cities of nikolai of, and mario pole have repelled a tax so far. military analysts say the russians are trying to establish a southeastern corridor between the crimean peninsula, an elegance region. if russia's plan works, it would mean ukrainian forces, like this tank unit in the ganske, would be encircled on 3 sides. but spirits here are still high. with went that the m o o platoon a go we're not allowing the enemy to advance. i was and we're defending our infantry the only we won't allow it to be destroyed. we're backing the mala,

gunner sweat infantry blood as we say that the what is the 3rd group pencil? one of russia's other main objectives remains the capital key is threatened by a mass of convoy just outside the city and bombardment, including massive damage to civilian areas. this russian cruise missile was destroyed before it could hit its target cross to him asleep. this is a genocide against ukraine, the ukrainian people and ukrainian land. it is simply awful. things like this. if you are fired at residential houses all over greece and peaceful, multi story building, whitman and shanee heath cartesian from it's simply awful. you heard, you refer to prostitution. who to the west of key of witnesses say this trail of death was left by a russian convoy. what's his acre local owner? when? when the convoy was driving here,

one person went out and he was shot at our local medic went with his son to try to get him to the hospital, go to god. they didn't let him and we lost 3 people. no one wants to pick them up from the car on it because maybe there's an explosive inside of the go. good nick, which are because ukraine is hanging on, but every day is costing them dearly. and as in every war, the biggest cost as human life will you cream, says it barely avoided a radioactive disaster at one of its nuclear power plants on friday. russian troops seized control of europe's largest nuclear power plant and zappa, read seo in ukraine's se ukraine says that russian troops fired shells at the plant, killing several people in sparking a fire. at a training building, authorities say the reactors were not damaged and that no radioactive material was

released. world leaders today condemned the attack. the largest nuclear power plant in europe seized 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 where not affect it at all. and that there has been no release of radioactive material. ukrainian authority said several people died in the file. keith blamed the fire on russian projectiles or seascape than the russian tanks knew what they was shelling, they were aiming directly at the station. this is tara, on an unprecedented level, or when like, immediate toughening of sanctions against looking to resolving the nichoela terrorist, we need immediate closure of the sky of you,

kramer. this is the only guarantee that russia, at least, will not strike with rockets involvement, targeting mckillop, last year from the ivy out moment will ottoman abuse. 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. while i'm joined now by donald flett, he's a us citizen who has been living in ukraine for more than a year. he is in the city of harrison in southern ukraine, which is now said to be under russian control. mr. flack, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us to night on this claim that the city of harrison is under russian control. what do you say to that? well i, i it's, it's wrong but no, no disrespect to the news agencies,

but the ukranian slag is still flying in front of the the white house, the cares on regional headquarters. office building is 3 old tank sitting there where there was no surrender. my understanding, i've been in contact with the mayor's office and he's been negotiating with the russian commander for a un sanctioned green card or out of scarce on to mania and hungry via railroad or water. logistically doable. we need about 2 weeks, 2 months to do it. the only limitation is fuel here. so the i was eager kravitz, coincidentally, 2 days before the invasion and he is fully supplied and ready. the only thing you need was medical bags for hovering feel industries. so we're waiting for this green

card or right to get the mother's babies and grandmothers out, and then we're going to fight. but not before this me ask you, if you say the mayor of their song is negotiating with russian forces, then that means russian forces are there in the city. correct? well, yes and no. right. 3 old tanks is not russian forces. and i have not seen one russian on the street here. no tags, nothing. we're going to pharmacies we're, we're living life is normal in the center, right? it's a political struggle. no fighting is as started yet, right? we have not yet begun to fight. but my original goes now you've been negotiating with kia with the approval of kias and god bless them. he is hello of the real fighting. like you're getting in khaki until we get the mothers and babies and grandmothers out. since you're saying you,

you've seen no type of military operation in moving into the city. no, no, no, not. not a military operation by the military operation. and you see, have you seen any russian soldiers on the streets? i have it on there. there are videos, right? but unless i see it my show for one of our network see it, we can't afford it. so that's the 1st analysis that i can give you. but the bottom line is ukranian flag is still fly in the white house here. okay? it's done on flint, in harrison to night. we appreciate you sharing us what you're seeing there in the city. thank you. thank you. so for the, for the united nations security council, i held an emergency meeting today,

following russia's attack at europe's biggest nuclear power plant in ukraine. here is the u. s. ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield. by the grace of god, the world narrowly averted a new killer catastrophe. last night we all waited to exhale as we watched the horrific situation unfold in real time. rushes the tac last night put europe's largest nuclear power. at great risk. it was incredibly reckless and dangerous, and it threatened the safety of civilians across russia, ukraine, and europe. well, for more now i am joined from vienna by gow har mu hunch and no, but she is a nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament specialist. it's good to have you on the program. you know, we just heard the world narrowly averted

a nuclear catastrophe. how dangerous was this incident last night? i think it had me. oh, well it's, it's certainly dangerous to the shooting at the new care plan and how to find that in goodness. the building itself was not my. it was a training facility. so it's, it's hard to say, just how close we were to clear catastrophe, but it's in imperative that russia stops attacking nuclear power plants in ukraine . yet you say, nuclear power plants. that's because there are several other power plants in ukraine. you should people not only in ukraine, but all of us here in europe and around the world, should we still be on high alert? i think i think yes, it's not clear what the goals are. russian horses are pursuing in firing at the nuclear power plant facility, whether that was deliberately targeted or it was caught in the fire that was

generally happening around around the power plant. but as you said, there are several people and, and the war is ongoing, and russia showing no signs is still being attorney back. and so yes it's, it's an, a sort of cause of serious concern. and do we know what kind of safety protocols there or for these nuclear power plant? for example, if russian forces were able to take out a large part of the electricity grid in ukraine with these nuclear power plants, do they have their own generators so that they can continue generating power to cool the fuel rods inside the reactors? yes, so as, as i said, it's important to keep the reactor core. cool because even if the emergency shut down is activated and the operations are shut down, the core continues to be very hot. and these are pretty large reactors, vdr, 1000 and generating large electricity

a lot of heat. so the core will continue to be hot and it's important to, to keep it cool. otherwise we're looking at situation now down. so every plan would have a backup to supply supply source. and so if the main line is shot and then the back of the shop and yes, this is this, it took talking about so, so that's, that's important to keep in mind that it's not just hitting the reactor building, but it's destroying the backup power supply that will be truly the cost or whatever is interesting situation and, and another vulnerability of the power plant is the spent fuel on. so once you take the reactor, once you take the spent fuel out of the reactor, cool, it's still very hot and very radioactive and it needs to spend some time cooling down at the side. what you don't want is again the cut off electricity supply to that side. any, any, anything else that could cause

a fire or somehow opened up to the spent fuel aunts and pleased to offer outrageous? yeah, makes us realize how close of a call we had last night and you create nuclear nonproliferation expert are watching over joining us from the end. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. nato secretary general un stoughton berg has rejected ukraine's call for a no fly zone over the country, saying that wouldn't risk direct conflict between nato and russia and could spark a war across all of you. we have only to strengthen our turns on the fence line in the air and i see allies from north america. europe have sent 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 har, north to the mediterranean. we will continue to do what it takes to protect them, defend every inch of nato tight authority, nay, toys at the offensive alarms. our court paused is to keep our 13 nations safe. we are not part of this conflict and we have responsibility to ensure it thus not escalate on, spread beyond ukraine. because not would be even more devastating and more dangerous. with even more human suffering, nato is not seeking a war with russia. that was the head of native speaking earlier today. european union foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in brussels today to discuss, stepping up their response to russia's invasion. you are a secretary of state anthony blink,

and traveled to brussels to join the meeting. he praised e u countries for taking historic steps to sanction moscow for what he called putin's war of choice. he also met with european commission president ursula from the lion, who said that russia could face further sanctions together. we know that this conflict far from over and to be very clear. we are ready to take further, see them measures a footing does not stop and reverse the war. he has unleashed was european commission president speaking there also to de ukraine's president zalinski, gave a live video address to people at anti war marches in several cities across europe . i want you to listen to what he told the crowds. hey, linda. yeah, this 3rd minutes i would like to dedicate to you not all the, all the people of europe, no mulkey. i would like to call on you,

not to be silent. i would like you to come out on to the streets in with him and civil hort, ukraine with a horse support our efforts and supports our fight vehicle. because if ukraine will not stand europe, it will not stand at all at the ronald, if we will full, you will full feature visible. why? so please go, don't be silent. typically if we do not turn a blind eye on this semi dog come out and support ukraine as much as you can save it all yet showing up by day. but this a little, would it be reporter, a concha succeed that is in frankfurt, germany were anti war protesters gathered to hear that address from the cranium president. how did the crowd react to president zalinski? the crowd reacted with a as with clap off till he finished that speech with

a lot of excitement with a lot of hope and solidarity in standing up. oh, with the people off you green. and as you know, president lensky is known for those impassioned speeches as we have seen in this week. a lot of people really felt emotional. i was only talking to a woman who had come over half a german and half lithuanian. and she said, this is the moment for europe to stand together with all ukrainians and a, you know, she really said that, as the presence lensky said, that if you are not standing up, if you're turning a blind eye and an end of ukraine would also be in and of europe. so a lot of people dead gathered together and they were listening intently to that speech . and it was very,

very fascinate. it was an emotional plea for help to stand behind and stand together, the ukrainian people who are facing this unprecedented war against them. a cruncher . let me ask you. i know that this show of solidarity and i'm sure it was good for ukrainian president. but at the end of the day, you know, this is really up to the russian president. whether not this more on continues. did you get a sense among the crowd there that people feel powerless and frustrated? think it is actually a place where a lot of different i was views also exist. of course there are people who despise and they condemn ah, what is taking place? ha, you know, at that i, shes o e at this russian war in ukraine, but they also want europe to do more. and in the speech again,

it was reactivated vice president zalinski about a foster racking, ah, ukraine's a membership into the european union. and a lot of people who gathered here seem to, ah, kind of support that to bleed. ah, so then i also measures that they want a little more stringent and which are more strong against russia in it could be in terms of sanctions, more sanctions from, from the european countries, a country. we appreciate your reporting tonight from frankfurt, germany. thank you. or there have been protests against the war protest taking place inside russia. now, despite the government introducing new laws to clamp down on descent on friday, morning rushes parliament the duma pass legislation banning the spread of

information that is critical of russia's war or of its military forces. violations carry prison sentences of up to 15 years. free speech advocates to say that censorship is already increased. the countries media watchdog has restricted access to d. w news and other international media websites and the popular radio station echo moscow and the independent tv channel dos they both enclose dale at your door. i am here at the big table with me now is my colleague in really sure when you know or well, you know, we're from for reporting from inside russia, that is not possible male, but we're glad you're safe and sound here in the studio with us talk to me about the this draconian legislation that was passed away. while this draconian, as you say, legislation affects essentially any one voicing descent, including of course, all journalists, any one public li voicing a line that doesn't kind of match up with the official line, which is of course,

that russia is carrying out this special operation as they are calling it to liberate ukraine from what they're calling neo nazis, and that the west is against russia, that russia is encircled by enemies. and veering off from this line on the war can land you up to 15 years in prison, and many media outlets are i think, really seriously thinking about the safety of their journalists. we've seen now the bbc saying that there are suspending the work of their journalists within the country that they're going to be reporting from abroad. w's office, of course, was closed several weeks ago before this invasion. now it seems that that was kind of a taste of what's to come and you were talking about media outlets being blocked that are outside of the country. essentially, it's all critical media outlets that russians were consuming that are abroad. so

that includes d, w, b, b, c, medusa, several other media outlets as well, that have russian language online sites. and also, almost all critical sources within the country are either closing down or having to fall into line. and social media is coming under pressure. so facebook today has also been blocked now by the russian media watchdog. so really draconian measures as you're saying, you know, that are supposed to make people feel afraid of even posting on facebook. where to russians go. now if they want to get unfiltered or uncensored news about what's going on, while they can still access media websites that are being blocked outside of the country. if they use a vpn. so that means that they're essentially using, you know, an app or something like that, to hide their ip address and pretend that they're in another country outside of

russia. and that means that they can freely then access information. but of course, that's something that people have to deal with. people have to download apps. in fact, we've seen apparently a rise in a, in demand for vpn. and since the invasion, according to some media reports, you can get information on telegram. well, which is the messaging service, then they have news, new sources, news channels on there as well. so, but the thing is that people have to really seek out that information at the moment . i think a lot of people who especially were shocked about what's going on anyway. people are in the state of shock, some people, they might not be seeking out this information. they might not be digging for it. and we understand there are reports, rumors that martial law could be introduced in russia in the next coming days. what are you hearing about that? well, the kremlin has denied that and has said that that's a fake we don't know at the moment, you know, almost everything seems possible. and of course,

introducing martial law would mean that the kremlin would probably have to admit that there, you know, that this is a war and not some kind of a special operation to free people or whatever. so that's potentially a problem. but it's really causing, at least among those people who have heard these rumors quite a lot of fear. a lot of people are trying to leave that. i've been speaking to and others, you know, i haven't heard those rumors are watching tv and are sure that this is going to be a short and victorious war for us. we been out of time. do we know how much support there is inside russia for this war in ukraine? well, we don't, we don't know government posters are saying around 66 percent in favor. independence analysts are saying it might be more like 50 percent, so that is a still a pretty big chunk of people who essentially are believing the state tv line. there have though, been protests. you mentioned that as well against the war over 8000 people have

been arrested in those protests or detained. i should say. so, you know, that's also making people afraid of going out if they weren't already afraid before . the w, emily? sure with emily, we appreciate your insights, helping us understand what's going on inside russia. thank of the 2022 winter paralympic games are officially open. following the traditional ceremony that took place in the birds nest stadium in beijing, but there was no place for russia and bella luce, ukraine's athletes. they received the warm welcome. some of them gestured their defiance in the wake of the russian invasion on thursday. the international paralympic committee bell to pressure in band at russia, and bella rues from competing. the games run until march 30. you're watching the w news. here's a summary of the latest developments in ukraine. russian forces have seized control

of ukraine's giant separate c a power plant. grain says russian troops shelled the facility, killing several people, sparking a fire authorities say no dangerous. radioactivity has been detected. the city w news continuing coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news followed by the day i hope to see the thing. ah,

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