ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. ukraine begins evacuating civilians after russia agrees to set up humanitarian port doors. ukraine government says it is moving people out of sunni, which has suffered under an intense russian bombardment. but skepticism remains after russia kept attacking during previous civil we need the women helping ukraine's war effort. many have fled their homes and left loved ones behind what they're doing, all they can to support soldiers on the front line. and

a message of solidarity from syria. we need an artist who knows what it's like to live under russians, bombardments. ah, i'm see me so much gander. glad you could join us. the united nation says 2000000 people have now fled the war in ukraine, but many people are still trapped in cities under siege by russian forces. ukraine says it has started evacuating people from several areas via humanitarian corridors agreed with russia. the foreign ministry shared this video, which it says shows people being bused out of the north eastern city, assuming the people on board. the buses are said to include students from india and china. earlier russia promised to open 5 safe routes to let people escape. but previous attempts to evacuate, people collapsed as russia renewed its attack sunni has been subject to an intense

russian bombardment. rescuers are searching for victims after an air strike killed at least 21 people overnight. but despite another night of airstrikes and shelling, the ukrainian military says that russia's advance has slowed significantly. ah, it's almost 2 weeks since russia invaded ukraine. but the capital still stands the anthem. now a morning ritual, wild rush and shelling continues to leave its scars on ukraine. like here in the key battleground of hawk eve, the people fight on, ah, go home. they chant, stunning, just meters away from it. armed adversaries did not know which in the game, speaking from keith, where he is bound to remain ukrainian,

president flawed, to me, as the landscape said, that piece was possible when you look my modem, uncle worried boots, so we will talk. we will insist on negotiations until we find a way to tell our people, hello, this is how we will come to pc demo. the will at keep central station. the exit is to western ukraine and beyond continues. levine mer said the city is buckling under the pressure, struggling to feed the hundreds of thousands seeking refuge and dealing with the hundreds of thousands more who passed through the city before traveling on to europe. the soon evening then as of today with levine has become the refuge fall. 200000 people who moved to levine,

hiding from bombardments and rocky strikes line hopes. i want to appeal to all international organizations to help what we need your support. we will what we need your direct participation here in levine, right. which is good. ukrainian officials speak of a slowing russian advance. but as the shelling continues and civilian casualties rise, the horrors of this war. we mean devastatingly clear, many ukrainians are fleeing russian attacks to cities in the west of the country and t w's. alexander phenomena is in love is in western ukraine, where many of them are heading high. alexandra, are there enough resources there to provide for all of the people who are coming from kiev and other cities from across ukraine, while with more and more people arriving cure in life and in the region,

it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide all the refugees were warm clothes with food and 1st and foremost with a safe place to stay. and according to the mayor, the city is slowly being stretched to its limits. and as he said, it's her near freed future. it will be difficult to provide all of the new arrivals with a safe place to say and actually at the moment their volunteers are doing an amazing job here. also providing people with hot tea with food. but we have also heard from, from a number of people here today. we are just now at their main railway station in leave, who told us that they could not find a place to stay. most of them coming from harkey in the eastern part of ukraine, and that is why they are all trying to get out of the country. as i said, we are at the rail, a railway station,

and you can see behind me still lines of passengers trying to get on a train to the polish border to get out. and what are those who are arriving there, telling you about what they have seen and witness? well, we are hearing heartbreaking stories. stories that are sometimes difficult to stomach . i have to admit, i met her 2 women from har keith, and they told me that there are devastated to, to have to see there is a beautiful home town being reduced to rubble, at least in some parts of the city. they had to hide in a and bunker to seek to hide from from a russian artillery attacks. one of them burst into tears when we were speaking because she told me that her mom is still in harkey, if she refused to leave her apartment. however, the woman that i spoke with, she, she does,

does know whether her mom is still alive. and of course we are hearing other stories from for instance, the city of more you pull, where people are still trapped her. however, there are also good news. a confirmed di, the ukrainian, a government that there is an over creation underway and we saw footage offer of a convoy leaving the city of from are you pull with many cars and buses? yeah, alexander, just to follow up on that. we have heard that these evacuations are under way in to me in your pin. i also admire you for what you just mentioned. but there are some conflicting reports we're getting on. some shelling near that quarter or at that quarter where you fall. and what more can you tell us about that? well, we knew that to 2 attempts to evacuate people from the city or more, your pl failed because the russian army, at least, according to the ukrainian government, opened fire on the street. the dro was supposed to lead people out of the city.

human rights watch is investigating those reports and we just need to understand that there is because of that. a lot of mistrust. here people just don't trust whatever the russian government is, a promising, whatever they are saying they just do not trust them. and, and i have, i had a very interesting conversation with a woman from, from harkey, a russian speaking part of ukraine, who told me, listen, we a speak russian, we actually have family in moscow. and now what we are seeing happening in our city is so devastating. they are claiming they came here to liberate ours and there are destroying our cities and killing our families. and it just her rating. heartbreaking to, to listen to those stories. he'd have his alexander phenomenal reporting there for us from of thank you very much.

all across ukraine, ordinary people have signed up to help the war effort. many of them are far from home after fleeing the russian invasion to cities further west for lots of women that meant leaving their loved ones behind to fight dw is funny for char met a group of women in the city of tennessee, in between 9th and a bomb shelter of their spending, their days volunteering to support soldiers on the front lines. one do at a time. these women here had very normal lives before the russian invasion. some of them teachers, i t specialists, their weapon for peace. bread is nice. i know what it's like to be hungry. it's very important to fit our this it. when those you do not know we're all ukrainians. see a bit of it. us housed 30. i think the breath shall feed soldiers, men and women at the front line. martha lift jenko spearheads. a team of 30 volunteers says that bread men's clothes in us home love something we can share

with you late. the 120 people share this house already. it was built for 80 by marta and various donors 5 years ago to help survivors of domestic violence, she know, accommodates internally displaced women and children. marina just arrived, the 2 children from keith after 4 days on the route. then we'll just had a lot of kids for either in the basement or in a garage t as all the time. all a countries been killed and destroyed, wides easily shoot. she must eat though she's not hungry, concerned about her sister who is stealing key. the shelter was located in chattanooga sea in western ukraine still relatively safe, but fearing the worst preparations are in place. what used to be a gym has become a makeshift bomb shelter during the night. moments of comfort much needed for every one. in another room, volunteers sewing ukrainian flax in high demand. now the patches for soldiers to

stop the bleeding times of war. highlight the importance of women. marta says it sad all that the mush at that said might he do this because her have to do it. women do the same as man. i will women odd the front line. i love him and fight and also die. i follow women drive trucks and looked flower and them was m a water. so my rosen wonderful moral. leaving you. praying with her 2 children is not an option . she says she cannot leave her husband or her country behind. and she will be needed here to once the war is over. domestic violence will be on the rise. she says, just like in 2014, when fighting began in easton ukraine and up and then appoint a little de enough to listen to what they learned enough people learn to kill, to be aggressive. and very often when they're a town home, they don't receive rehabilitation from the government. they led their anger out on their wives and children. several of all the can not imagine what will happen after

this for i am shown as morley for stacy 89. no one can, but every one hopes for peace. we've been looking there at how women are helping the war, african ukraine, women and children also make up the majority of the 2000000 who have already fled the conflict. we want to take a closer look now at their plight, and we can speak to anita about the up. she's the deputy executive director at u. n . women, and she's joining us to speak about this topic. thank you very much for being with us here. and d, w, how does the situation of women in this war differ from that of men? well, 1st had a very basic level, the men or constructed and all fighting, but women are the ones who are taking their children, their families, and flea. so in this conflict, as in any other conflict,

women and children end up bearing the disproportionate bulletin off the crisis. well they, those who are fleeing in particular are at risk of becoming victims of violence and exploitation. and this conflict in many others. as you said, what measures need to be put in place to ensure that they are protected when humanitarian aid is given, it must be given with gender lambs because it is very important that the particular exigencies of situations that women find themselves and are taken into account for example, it's really important to ensure that we are thinking about women's physical needs, which is not something that necessarily comes immediately to the mind of an ordinary humanitarian work. so you need to think about what needs women may have, particularly in their care giving function that may require different physical infrastructure, different kinds of provisions, different hours of service,

all of those need to be taught through through agenda length. if we look at the situation facing both women who are a staying to healthy effort and those who are fleeing, what worries you most? well, the good thing that, of course, worries off the most is the fact that there is no peace yet that the overwhelming worry at this stage that the fighting continues, that the risk conflict that there are more depth. but to your specific question on what worries us is, there is a huge, internally displeased population now. and we will have to make sure that they can live in a way that is dignified and humane in the midst of this crisis. and for those who are flee, yes, the countries are opening up and giving them temporary residency. but how are they

going to create new lights for themselves in these new environment? and as we've already discussed, it's not only in ukraine that women and girls are finding themselves in situations of war, crisis conflict, where are you particularly concerned about their conditions? i wish i could say there was one place where i was less themselves than others. the fact is just proportional to in fact, of crises on women is seen in every single crises. whether you're looking at women and te gray women, enough gone. i found them and haiti, and it doesn't matter what the nature of the disaster the crisis is whether the crisis comes out of war. conflict or climate, climate disaster. the impact on women, partly because poverty is so deeply feminized is always worse than it is on other segments of the population. a neat about the a speaking to us, you and women deputy executive director. thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today. it was a pleasure. thank you. now to some other developments in the conflict,

u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin has arrived in estonia on day 2 of his visit to the baltic states. the visit aims to assure the 3 nato members of the organizations commitment to mutual defense in the wake of the russian invasion of ukraine. on monday, blinkin met with leaders of lithuania and latvia. the japanese government has announced additional sanctions against russia over it's invasion of ukraine. the measures include a ban on exports of oil, refining equipment, and asset freezes on 20 individuals. sanctions have also been announced against russia of ally bowers, india and russian president vladimir putin has denied reports that conscript that soldiers are being forced to fight in ukraine, saying the army only consists of professional soldiers. last week, russia introduced a new law to suppress reporting about the war and describes its invasion of ukraine as a special military option. you should use up roughly wash us bombardment of ukrainian

cities, feels all too familiar to many people in syria. russian forces have been carrying out attacks on syrian towns and cities in support of president bashar assad since 2015. now one syrian artist is using his work to send the message of solidarity. as is asked, my wants to tell the world how syrians have suffered. he wants to shake them up with his paintings, done on rubble in needless the last stronghold of the insurgents. it lip has repeatedly been the scene of russian air strikes. now more than anything else, as these wants to send a message of solidarity to the ukrainians in faraway europe, i know we have terrible memories of russian attacks. the destruction of us will. that's why we sympathize with the ukrainians luasa. we fear the worse for their civilian population and infrastructure i santa o. shakima, the abusive, a corona, russian fighter jets and helicopters,

have been attacking town ones and villages since september 2015. officially, they're fighting islamist terrorists, but in reality, they are hitting civilians. military expert, yours fun blood em says putin has been treating syria as an experimental laboratory in his art of the russian mentality to bomb, quite indiscriminately, you know. and, but i've seen over the years, more sophisticated and modernization of the equipment. and actually, this is the essence of for me from this year in operation, putting his testing more than $200.00 weapon systems. precision missiles fired from ships bunker busting weapons, drones and reconnaissance technology sites. hid include power plants that supply electricity and water cities like aleppo or bomb till all that is left is rubble. then they are encircled and starved out. cluster munitions are also used. hundreds

of clinics have been bombed some more than once. bakeries, markets and food supplies are becoming scarce. even schools have been hit, amnesty international, diana siemens says these are war crimes similar to what is happening now in ukraine . and in ukraine, amnesty international has documented at ads either was government and targeting. so infrastructure or using cluster ammunition, using indiscriminate, unlawful attacks in general, which that so many civilian casualties. and we've seen that over and over again. and in syria. from putin's point of view, his strategy in syria has been successful. russia has made its presence known in the middle east. assad is firmly back in the saddle, albeit by russia's grace, aussies as mar fights against being forgotten with his art, he hopes that the world will learn its lessons from the war in syria than alameda.

the world watched as thousands of syrians were killed by the name. so this should have taught them a lesson, or that if no one opposes these attacks, all of europe will soon experience. at the same hour. the noah shut the rob healey say the somber words from faraway syria after 11 years of war and destruction. that's get to more perspective on the story now. we can speak to kristen halbert. she is a journalist, author, and middle east expert, a particular focused on the warren syria. kristen, good to have you with us. a, we just heard a syrian artist there saying the world watched as thousands of syrians were killed . and if no one opposes these attacks, all of europe will soon experience the same. do you agree? well, one could definitely argue that if the international community had stopped letting me porting from waging this kind of war against syrian civilians, he would not treat encourage to do the same in ukraine yet. you know, we had called hor, no fly zones,

no bombing zones for years from syrians based on the principle of responsibility to protect. this didn't happen. we didn't even see the kind of sanctions in place that you see now. so you could argue in all that if we had put sanctions like now in back in 2016 when a leper was east and the leper was attacked, that this would probably be discouraged by the me put in from the kind of what the chief, raging now against ukraine, what do you think? russia's involvement in the warren, syria can tell us about the strategy that couldn't, might pursue in ukraine. i mean, what similarities have you seen so far? well, 1st of all, there's one big difference he had because about him, a protein went to syria because he was invited by president assad to help him in his fight against opponents within the country. so his intervention in sera is not illegal under intentional international law, like his attack against ukraine. but if you look at the similarities, i would see 2 things. first of all, the kind of war that he's waging on civilian areas on residential ariens and the

propaganda that she's using to explain this, you know, we see the kind of the same kind of musician, receipt, incendiary bombs, cluster, munitions, vacuum bombs. they are all band and civilian areas under the geneva convention, and this was being tried in syria before and nothing happened when russia try to use these things. we see this deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, namely hospitals, markets and schools. something that seems to repeat itself in ukraine and then the same and the same kind of grotesque propaganda to discredit your opponents and to justify his own actions. you know, it's always blaming the others in syria. it was always the terrorists and in the ukraine. now it's the neo nazis and the nationalists. so this is actually the big, the big 2 simulators that i'm seeing right now. what about what if we talk about humanitarian quarters? we know that they have failed so far in ukraine because russia has continued shelling, also civilian areas, as you've said. what is the experience with humanitarian quarters been in syria?

we'll actually, let's talk a little bit of about this name, a humanitarian corridor, supposed to help people. it's supposed to feed people wherever they are, but in your brain, like in syria, it was about displacing people. so the strategy is to seal off an area that you want to take control off, make the situation for the people trapped inside, so unbearable that they would want to leave, you know, through bomb being with asked price, the destruction of infrastructure. there will be a lack of medicine, there will be starvation at the russian army will cut electricity and internet from these places like my yoga, for example. this is a place that has been circled by now. so in the end, the people are sol attire that they will give up and they will be ready to leave and they surrender. and they agree to their own expulsion. so in their queue ation, in the sense it sounds like helping people, but in the end, as part of the was tragedy. it's really affects a form of ethnic cleansing, you know, in cerebral political cleansing because it was about the opponents of us hat that

was supposed to be displaced. why in ukraine it's really a form of ethnic cleansing. so we should not misunderstanding, misunderstand the sort of humanitarian quarter evacuation because it's really a form of displacement and get people out to be able to yes, to control the area that he wants to levy and to conquer, will have to leave it. there are middle east expert, kristin hallberg, thank you. thank you. since the start of rushes invasion, ukraine's museums galleries and cultural institutions have been scrambling to protect their collections, many of shipped pieces abroad, but that's becoming increasingly difficult. heavy shelling has already caused considerable damage, so museum workers are staying behind to save what is left. a nation's heritage, packed up in boxes. the andre shipped it's kim national museum, and levine is ukraine's largest art museum. it's doors have been closed since the russian invasion began. the museum already survived world war 2,

but whether it will survive this one unscathed, is unclear. it's extensive collections are being packed away into the seller. it remained but the worker, he, you know, it's so bitter for my soul, usually just spoke with you. sometimes tears are coming for your to reach that. i'm telling the truth good, because a lot of work has been put in here by our staff in boxes and it takes time energy. and when you do something good, you feel pleasure. liver to you today. you see empty walls, you're sure this makes you feel better. you the sad so sad. is that so that both are subtle? you know, we didn't believe it till the last minute that this could happen, but it did me sheesh. many of the cities sculptures have been carefully cloaked in foam wrap. maybe a futile attempt to protect them. but better than doing nothing at all. gold,

you regret not a linear muscle. we are well aware that we're not able to protect them from direct impact of abundance, but from any light damage that may occur. brookie from shelling it unless you're shock waves, postcards and small fragments or shrapnel about me. we're just trying everything we can home that wasn't empty walls at the museum in liveth. as this new chapter of ukraine's history begins, hope clear and grief. our constant companions. what is that in the world of sports is continuing to show solidarity with ukraine after russia's invasion. at last night's english premier league football match between tottenham and everton. the stadium was lit up in the blue and yellow of the ukrainians. lack of minutes applause was also held before the game kicked off. images of the premier leagues football stands together, campaign has been going out on its world, seed in response. china, which is a close ally of russia,

stopped showing matches from england's toughly. let's get a quick reminder of our top headline. ukraine has started evacuating civilians via humanitarian quarters, coordinated with russia. ukrainian officials shared a video of evacuations from the northeastern city of to me, but skepticism remains after the russian military kept attacking during previous ceasefire. thanks for watching. ah, ah, ah. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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