ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, israel launches diplomatic efforts to become a mediator between russia and ukraine. that's us. russian forces resumed their offensive after a failed evacuation effort in south eastern ukraine, and in the occupied city of paris on the residence. take to the streets to protest against the russian troops. also coming up the number of ukrainian refugees fleeing the fighting is expected to hit 1500000 today. the majority of that number have been arriving, and poland will get an update on the situation at the border and thousands of

people around the world to take part in demonstrations condemning russian president vladimir putin and calling for an end to the war. ah. hello monica jones. welcome to the program. israel prime minister naphtali bennett has held face to face talks with russian president vladimir putin as he seeks to become a mediator in the conflict with ukraine. the meeting came after plans to evacuate civilians from 2 besieged cities and south eastern ukraine, failed with both sides, blaming the other for not adhering to a temporary cease fire agreement. russian forces have now resumed their attacks against several key cities. meanwhile, in russian health care san ukrainians have taken to the streets and a show of defiance against the occupiers.

ah, person is ukraine? protests as gather in the 1st major city to full to russian forces, shouting in defiance of the soldiers occupying the city. many others on the move, an endless line of cars outside the capitol cave. as civilians attempts to escape the russian advance. for thousands more of forced to flee through the wreckage on foot, carrying only what they can throughout at all, a battle of narratives is being waged as both sides release images, claiming military victories. the russian ministry of defense shows what it coals destroyed ukrainian tanks, and russian arma advancing near keith. while ukraine released this video,

apparently from a drone, allegedly showing a russian helicopter being shot down. this battle of claim and counter claim had seen both sides blame each other for the collapse of promised humanitarian corridors. after days of relentless shelling in the key port city of mario pulled, russia said on saturday morning, it would stop firing and allow civilians to flee from the area to the nearby city of val enough co. but just hours later, ukraine's deputy prime minister complained that russia wasn't respecting the partial ceased file yet was neither did the thing i did, you know, from 9 o'clock in the morning on march 5th, we had a preliminary agreement that we will create to should be an italian corey to us long of that gotten mario, paul. so i note the fact that russia has violated its agreements even with the red cross and has not complied with its commitments and the shelling the city of on the that you have studia. mr. will, nevada. ah rushes, defense ministry,

blame to ukraine for the sci fi as collapse on saturday evening, it confirmed that russia had resumed offensive actions on maria po for those civilians still trapped in the city. the war of words is irrelevant compared to the real human cost of the ongoing conflict. a boy just 18 months old hit by shelling, doctors could not save his life. oh dw mathias bellinger is joining us now from key. if mattie has tell us about the situation there. yeah, i think as you can see behind me, there are very few people on the streets now in key. if her there has been fighting in the northern suburbs or on the northern fringes of the capital for 10 days now, almost from the beginning of the war, russian troops have moved onto kia from bella rose and from russia from north eastern north west. and are they, i have tried to and circle the city however,

they have been fought back by the ukrainian military. and this is pretty much where it stands at the moment. some of the sites where the fighting is happening now, are also some of them where it was happening in the beginning, many people have left the capital now it's a bit, there are much less people here. others prefer to sit at home as much as they can. you can, you don't see the usual life here. however, survival is not an or not a problem here in the city this. there, the supermarkets are stocked electricity and water is running. so if we don't see these humanitarian a problems that we see in other cities that are under attack, but fear pressure is of cause there and fear. what will happen? right, i mean you just mentioned about the she monitoring catastrophe that we've also just seen this report. the ceasefire a now mary, you paul collapsed, but now there seems to be help for another monetary corridor out of the city of kai

chief in the east. what more do you know about that? i don't really know about about that, but so i'll keep has, has been open for the past few days. trains were still running. i was at the, at the station or in leave that and western ukraine where many refugees arrived and, and po and, and, and her trains from her keep were arriving there hockey was, are surrounded at briefly, but then it seems that a parts are open. so the problem in harkey is that the city is constantly sheldon. many people cannot leave because they feel it's too dangerous to leave. there are but the humanitarian situation is not as bad as in mary. you are poor. however, of course, her people are not leaving for no reason. it's a very, very, a hot place that's very hard to say live and to stay now. right. did at least mathias bellinger. they're reporting for us in kia, for mathias,

thank you so much. and while attention continue to grow between moscow and the west to germany is looking to israel to help lower the temperature on saturday. chancellor will have shalt hosted israel prime minister now sally bennett, in berlin. it's the 2nd time this week. the 2 leaders met after charles visited jerusalem on wednesday to discuss a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. bennett has offered to act as a mediator with israel, maintaining good relations with both russia and ukraine. bennett, surprised many when he on saturday became the 1st world leader to meet face to face with vladimir putin. since he launched the invasion. that visit was followed by talks with ukrainian president will not me up sir lensky. and for more on that, let's bring in detail the political correspondent, benjamin are the rest of the group. benjamin germany and israel share a very special relationship. i think one can say that,

but 2 meetings are for the country's political leaders within just a few days. that is unusual. what do we know about the meeting between chancellor shoals and naphtali bennett, and what kind of joint efforts could we be looking at in order to end this war is indeed a special relationship. and that's what both leaders also underlying to when all of shaw's went to israel earlier this week for the 1st time was german chancellor. the talk that they held now was of course sure to there was no press conference after it. there was a press release. it was a chat on twitter by the spokesperson of the german government at around 1 40 in the morning saying that both of them remain will remain in close contact. and the common goal remains to end this war as quickly as possible. they spoke for one and a half hours for 90 minutes, and of course germany is looking towards israel if they can play a mediating role. because as you sat already,

israel place an important actor in this way because it has both warm relations with keith. and also with moscow, but it's of course difficult for them also because on one side, they have a good relationship with a kid with many, asking israel to take a tougher stand against russia. but of course they're also have a military corporation in syria. so it's a difficult situation so many see israel to play. an important role is immediate to trial and this war is right, is possible. did they have benjamin others gruber? thank you so much and here's a look now at some of the other developments in this conflict. several western media organizations say their support. suspending reporting in russia with many journalists leaving the country. the decision comes after the kremlin pass legislation cracking down on independent reporting. under the new law journalist can face up to 15 years in prison for describing put ins attack on ukraine as an invasion or war credit card to joins mastercard and visa say they're suspending

operations in russia dealing the latest blow to the increasingly isolated countries . and but a financial system, the move follows crushing economic sanctions imposed by the west in response to president putin's war on ukraine. russia's largest airline state owned arraf lot says it will hold all international flights except to belarus from the 8th of march . this comes after russia's aviation agency warned to draw some planes leased from foreign companies could be impounded under international sanctions. 33 countries have already banned russian aircraft from the air space. the number of ukrainian refugees fleeing the conflict is expected to reach one and a half 1000000 to day. more than 800000 have crossed into neighboring poland. there's been an outpouring of support from poles with many showing up to offer refugees places to stay or jobs. on saturday, you a secretary of state antony blinking, went to the border to discuss the crisis with his ukrainian counterparts. and for

more on the situation, let's talk now to an sharla warren. she's a columnist for foreign policy magazine and she's in, jamie shell in poland, and that is near the border with ukraine. so unsure you've, you've met a both while and tears and refugees there. oh, basically since the start of this conflict, what are they telling you? well, you know right now i am at a place which is very, very close to the border, just about 800 meters away. so i can constantly ambulances and buses going. that's just a sort of re emphasize that you know, the rush is constant constantly. ukrainians are crossing acrosta's border and coming to poland. the warranty as a stretch for they are indeed doing a good job there. sort of, you know, not only directing ukrainians, which buses and trains to take and informing them that all facilities the ukrainians are supposed to be free. but they also sort of looking out that out wallet on the wall and dears, like i've seen yet, german warranty is here,

for instance, that the warranty is who meet the ukrainians, you know, are a legitimate entities and not just gangsters will fooling of people inclined to benefit out of this situation. so that's really good work by the warranty, as, as far as refugees. a concern. i mean i can begin to tell you how are tragic. their stories are yesterday i met a lady. she had a 4 month old infant. she got married without childhood, sweetheart, a month before they had the child. and now the man has had to stay back home to fight. she said they both cried when they were saying bye bye to each other, but i kept are. i sort of asked her, you know, do you think that you're going to meet him again? and she said, there's no way i won't. i have to meet him again. you want to raise our child together to have so many as many people you need, you've got all these stories coming out for them. so for the refugees, this is, you know, many are going to their friends and family island. many are being offered by polish people, but of a tragic scenario and tell bora important. thank you so much for sharing those sir

. meetings with us. russia's unprovoked attack on its neighbor has seen a vast global outpouring of public support for ukraine. massive weakened demonstrations have once again been taking place around the world, demonstrate as quote for solidarity with ukraine condemning russian president vladimir putin and calling out for an end to the war. on the streets of london, rome dog, i said in tokyo, died, and on and on, one of the throngs of people around the world showed their support for ukraine. and their condemnation of russia. in munich, thousands of people formed a human chain that stretched for more than 4 kilometers. and i think it's totally awful, but the russians are doing a lot putting us doing. he's a murderer outrage over the war and ukraine is running high. as the un says, russian bombardment has already killed hundreds of civilians. a huge turnout at

paris is plus deliberate public demonstrators told d w, they want the west to step up support. this is a massive, massive injustice. and one of the worst thing that's happened in my locked almond, we're here to send a clear message to the ukranian people to support a message to vladimir putin to stop. now, when a message to europe in the west, you've done good so far do more. while moscow has forbidden protests that doesn't stop russians abroad from speaking out against their president. this war is war from our president, mr. fortune and non war people. he wants to portray this war as if she, it's war afresh, but it's not, it's worth wouldn't include russian. people don't support him. heck, while most of the world has condemned putin, he is not entirely without support outside his country, as evidenced by the turnout at this pro russian rally in the central african republic. a russia came to our country in

a moment of crisis. our country has suffered, our country has been mistreated by the rebels, and that is why we came to support russia, which came to give peace to our country. it watching dw news life from glen, with the back, with the latest news on the top of the hour for me and the team, thanks for watching. ah, in many countries, education is still a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes some young children work in mind. jobs instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish working with millions of children all over the world can't go to school with.