ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin tonight to ukraine, cities besieged and bombed as russian forces keep up the attack. apartments and houses have been destroyed even as moscow denies targeting civilians. more air strikes in keys. mario pole is surrounded and russians are now in control of the city of pearson. also coming up, russian force is attacked and seized ukraine's largest nuclear power plant. last night, no radiation was released, but ukraine says russia risks triggering another turnover. and the other casualty

of this war, rushes parliament, outlaws, criticism of the military, independent russian news channels are shutting down. and now international outlets, including dw news, are being blocked. blue . i'm brink off to our viewers watching on p. b, as in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome to night. cities across ukraine are coming under, continued russian attack. the capital key reporting several missile strikes, hitting residential areas. and despite videos and destroy department buildings and houses, moscow continues to deny that it is targeting civilians. meanwhile, the mayor of the port city of mario poll says that his city is surrounded and running out of fuel. already one major city in the south of the country is now in russian hands. 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 have san ukrainian. officials say the cities of nikolai of, and mario poll have repelled attacks so far. military analysts say the russians are trying to establish a southeastern corridor between the crimean peninsula and elegans 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 weren't that the m o pinnacle were not allowing the enemy to advance? i was and were defending our infantry the only we won't allow it to be destroyed. we're backing the mala, gunner sweat is infantry blood. as we say, the dorothy group in so one of russia's other main objectives remains the

capital key, is threatened by a massive 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, crossed a him of sleep. 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 buildings, whitman and shanee, he fought cartoonish from. it's simply awful. you heard, you refer to press the who to the west of key. if witnesses say, this trail of death was left by a russian convoy once as yankee coleclo. now 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 because maybe there's an explosive inside of nick, which a good, good ukraine is hanging on, but every day is costing them dearly. and as in every war, the biggest cost is human life or ukraine says it barely avoided a radioactive disaster. it will have its nuclear power plant. on friday, russian forces seized control of europe's largest nuclear power plant and zappa, read shia 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. authority say the reactors were not damaged and that no radioactive material was released or leaders have 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 and 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 fire. keith blamed the fire on russian projectiles or escaped them. the russian tanks knew what they were shelling, they were aiming directly at the station. this is tara, on an unprecedented level, or when like, immediate toughening of sanctions against look on to resolving the nichoela terrorist, we need immediate closure of the sky of u kraber. that is the only guarantee that russia, at least, will know, strike with rockets, involvement, targeting nuclear plants,

yet from the i've out moment will at them of the but nato allies were quick to rule out establishing a no fly zone. once again, all day they were united in condemnation of the russian attack. and the united nations security council held an emergency meeting to day following russia's attack on that nuclear power plant in ukraine. here is the us 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 attack last night put europe's largest nuclear power at grave risk. it was incredibly reckless and dangerous, and it threatened the safety of civilians across russia, ukraine, and europe. what a more now am joined from vienna by gow har mu hunch

a nova. 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. ah, well it's, it's certainly dangerous to the shooting at the nuclear power plant to have a fire that thank goodness the building itself does not imply it was a training facility. so it's hard to say just how close we were to 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 russian horses were pursuing in firing at the nuclear power plant facility. whether that was deliberately a targeted or it was caught in the fire that was generally happening around around the power plant. but as you said, there are several mechanical plans and, and the war is ongoing in russia showing no signs of stopping or turning 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 generating large electricity, a lot of heat so, 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, 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 cause or whoever is interesting situation and, and another vulnerability of the power plant is the spent fuel on. so wants to take

the reactor. once you take the spent fuel out of the reactor. cool, it's still very hot and very bad. you're active and it needs to spend some time cooling down at the site. 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 aunt and leave louise of them now? 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. native secretary general you in stoughton barrett has rejected ukraine's call for a no fly zone over the country, saying that would risk direct conflict between nato and russia. and that the good spark a war across all of europe. we have all of the strengths of the 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 natal territory. nate toys that defensive alarms. our court paused, is to keep our 30 nations safe. we are not part of this conflict. and we have responsibility to ensure it thus not escalate and spread beyond ukraine. because that would be even more devastating and more dangerous. with even more human suffering. nato is not seeking

a war with russia. yes, stoughton beg, speaking earlier today, european union foreign ministers. they held an emergency meeting in brussels today to discuss, stepping up their response to russia's invasion, u. s. secretary of state antony blink and traveled to brussels to join that 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 on the lion. he said that russia could face further sanctions where we know that this come far from over and to be very clear. we are ready to take further see them measures if footing does not stop and reverse the war. he has a nice, artless pull, and d w. 's, barbara hazel. she's in brussels. following these meetings, forrest getting me to you, barbara, do we know what these measures at? ursula underline is talking about. do we know what, what they could look like?

we know the outline, brent a more or less because some of the a european foreign ministers who were here in brussels talking to anthony anthony of lincoln at their canadian and british counterparts. because this was about making the sanction lines as, as large as possible. they outlined what this is about. it is about to closing any holes that are still in the kicking russia out of the swift a payment system. it is about to further it import or export a sanctions. that is the, you will not import any more minerals for instances, coal or a timber from russia, and it will close its ports suite to russian ships. we know that the air space, the european, is already close. and now the ports are supposed to be also closed, of course is some of the biggest and transport maritime transport companies have

already said that they will not deal with russian transport anymore, but so they are trying to sort of turn the screw a bit further. now the last point on this agenda, the last possible thing they can do is to cut off the oil and gas imports from russia. that is yet under discussions. there are countries like germany for instance, who are still sort of shying away from that. but it might, within the next week in indeed even come to that last desperate measure. and barbara, i have to ask, you've been covering brussels the eve for a long time below. what went through your mind the last just to be seeing how quickly the e g was able to agree on of these economic sanctions? you know, with unanimity the, you has absolutely sort of bent over backwards. they have a sort of grown really beyond their usual stature. they have really left all those so that pity is squabbles and in fighting and all those there,

those internal problems that are real and that they have behind them because this common spread was so overwhelming and is so overwhelming. the feeling that in this is not only about ukraine, even though they are now really in the fall line. but this is also about the rest of europe. the baltic states may be georgia may be, and this is so overwhelming that they just sort of turned around and you hardly know them anymore. suddenly they have shown that they can act decisively and quickly. and they have also, i mean this really needs to be emphasized. they have totally opened their door. it for a ukrainian refugees? no, we're a chrissy. whoever is fleeing the war can come and will be, will come to europe. those are really big steps. they are big steps and steps that just 2 weeks ago we could never imagine would have happened at least this you w barbara basil and brussels tonight. barbara, thank you. also today in ukraine's president zalinski gave

a live video address to people at anti war marches in cities across europe. i want you to listen to what he told the crowds. melinda, this 30 minutes, i would like to dedicate to you about all the little the people of europe, them. okie. i would like to call on you not to be silent. i would like you to come out on to the streets with him and civil haute. you crank with him, but a horse support our efforts and support our fight vehicle. because if ukraine will not stand euro, it will not static on the ronald, if we will full, you will full the should be the last of please still don't be silent. anybody who do not turn a blind eye on this and my dog come out and support ukraine as much as you can save it all yet showing up by day. but this evil would either be reporter

a conscience. zayna was in frankfurt, germany, where anti war protestors gathered to hear that address from the ukrainian president. hundreds of people gathered here in the center of frankfort, the financial hub of germany behind me, where a screen was set up, and ukrainian president vladimir zelinski made an emotional speech urging europeans to stand together with ukrainian people. he appealed to them to support the country against the russian war on the country. he urged the people who were listening to him intently across different cities, including frankfort, vienna, paris frog. do not turn their backs to the ukrainian people do not be silent. he also observed minutes of silence of people who have died in the war. the country men who are at the front lines and he also dedicated a minute for the people off europe. he said, if you crean worn stand, you are upon stand. the crowd cheered,

and there were people who were emotional here with that speech. i spoke to some of them. this is europe, and we as europeans, no matter where we are from, we need to show our support our respect. i hope that the 3 t is also more people in germany and all over the world to take action and do everything they can and her facilities to do for to ukraine and people seen in his eyes. and in his words that he need sir solidarity and the strength from all of europe, presidency, lensky hoff, to magnify the momentum which is building in ukraine support. that was a consciousness. i've seen the reporting from frankfurt, germany, where they have also been protests against the war taking place inside russia and that despite the government introducing new laws to clamped down on descent on friday morning rushes parliament the duma passed legislation banning the spread of information that is critical of russia's war or of its military forces. now,

violators could face prison sentences get this of up to 15 years. free speech advocates say that censorship has already increased the countries media watchdog has restricted access to d. w news and to other international media websites. and the popular radio station echo moscow in the independent tv channel endorsed. they have both closed down this way. we're here at the big table with me now is my colleague in really sure when you know are well, you know, we're from for reporting from inside russia. that is not possible now, but we're glad you're safe and sound here in the studio with this talk to me about the this draconian legislation that was passed today. while this draconian, as you say, legislation affects essentially any one voicing descent, including of course, all journalists, any one publicly 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 are calling neo nazis. and that the west is against russia, that russia is encircled by enemies. 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. t 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 do russians go now if they want to get unfiltered or uncensored news about what's going on, while they can still access s 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 pretended 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 them in demand for vpn since the invasion, according to some media reports, you can get information on telegram as well, which is the messaging service. then they have news 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 pollsters are saying around 66 percent in favor independent analyst to saying it might be more like 50 per cent. so that is a still a pretty big chunk of people who essentially are believing the state tv line. and 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. and so, you know, that's also making people afraid of going out if they weren't already afraid before . des, emily sherwin in lieu, we appreciate your insights, helping us understand what's going on inside russia. thank you for the impact of russia's invasion of ukraine is being felt in all quarters of the globe as people rush to get out of the country. more than $14000.00 nigerian nationals were known to be in ukraine, many have fled. and some are now wondering if they'll ever be able to return it was here at a numb day as equate international airport in a boucher where the 1st batch of nigerian evacuees arrived from ukraine. there evacuated by the nigerian government after crossing the border into romania. arrived looking tired because of long wait till death for so many days. and some

told me that the hut trek for $2.00 to $3.00 days on their foot to be able to cross to day romanian bada they are $475.00 of them. and they have been to commend pit inside here by the officious of the nigerian god men from the homely terry ministry and embassy and the airport of his shops who are all very scared. so like we decided to leave at the by day was very difficult to chris at the romanian border. some students faced additional challenges. this, this is in my life interface that people obviously best liberated that i be of any such you bought above for me, the romanians we accomodating before d. m. guy, the embassy of luck with dead us. do out from addition to as he denies any last i la cheese to clean ourselves for the families who waited anxiously at home. the

experience was almost indescribable. i don't know. i don't know how to safe as a mother, he went on the sand out of her, but i say mother, this is something i will not i noise, but even my enemy to su essex. now most are just relieved to be home. the cases is says there is something else, some to knows. we don't know what, what might happen if we stayed there. but now though we are located, we feel safe. if you're safe here at home. the 2020 when her paralympic games are officially opened. following the traditional ceremony at the birds nest stadium in bit, beijing, but there was no place for russia or bell roofs. ukraine's athletes, however, received a warm welcome and some of them gestured their defiance in the wake of the russian invasion on thursday. the international paralympic committee, belle de pressure and band russia, and deliveries from competing the games run until march 30. you're watching the w

news. his a summary of the latest developments in ukraine cities across the country are coming under continued russian attack and the capital to keep several missile stripes in residential areas. on friday, the port city of mario poll is reportedly surrounded and facing food shortages. moscow continues to deny that it is targeting civilians. this is d w news continuing coverage of the war in ukraine after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back. ah ah, with

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