ah, ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin desperate for a safe passage, ukrainians trapped in the besieged city of so we have one day to leave after russia agreed to receive fire red cross busters, take some residence away while the bombardment is put on pause but the evacuation of other cities fails to materialize as fighting starts up again on the escape routes. also coming up when it was attempting to conquer, he only got belated men in his math. he didn't go to late. ukrainian women and the

whole ukrainian nation will be standing up to everybody in their own way. but everybody strongest, one won't talk to you, craney and member of parliament here, rudy, who tells us why she stayed in ukraine and taking up arms and china shipping cost for maximum restraints in ukraine. the leader strongest words yet on russia's invasion. he says he regrets seeing war break out in europe, but stop short of saying who's to blame and priceless cultural heritage under threat, ukrainian museums and galleries scramble to protect their collections. but the russian attack has already cost here. we're verse of all damage. ah hello everyone, i'm a layla. thank you so much for your company. we open our coverage with the worsening humanitarian crisis in ukraine. an attempt to evacuate civilians from 5

ukrainian cities to day seems to have largely failed. moscow agreed to establish humanitarian corridors. but ukraine claims the russian troops resumed shelling on the route leading away from the city of new bulk. some residence at the northern city of sumi, meanwhile, have reportedly managed to flee. ukraine's government shared this video that you see right here, which shows red cross buses evacuating people before nightfall on the cease fire. and also he has seen heavy civilian casualties. local authorities say an air strike last night killed at least 21 people. all despite the increasing death, told the ukrainian army says that russia is seeing major setbacks and its 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, while bush and shelling continues to leave its scars on ukraine. like here in the keep battle ground of hawk eve, the people fight on, ah, go home. they chant, storming just meters away from it armed adversaries. i don't know which in the game, speaking from keith, where he is vowed to remain ukrainian president flor to me as a landscape, said that piece was possible when you look mobile the mobile oriented booth. 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 peacefully demo, don't we'll upkeep central station. the exit is to west in ukraine and beyond

continues. levine, mass said the city is buckling under the pressure, struggling to feed the hundreds of 1000 seeking refuge and dealing with the hundreds of thousands more who passed through the city before traveling on 2 of the countries. so usually they as of today because levine has become the refuge fall, 200000 people who move to levine, hiding from bombardments from rocky strikes line up. so 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? you will just get would ukrainian officials speak of a slowing russian advance but as a shelley continues on civilian casualties rise. the horrors of this wall

remained devastatingly clear. i was on a phenomena is at the front lines of the refugee crisis. she's in levine, which has become a hub for ukrainians, fleeing russian attacks. alexandra, are refugees still pouring into the viva, where you are, and what are the sharing with you about their experiences with people that are arriving here. have been through a lot. they are telling us about the ways how they escaped russian artillery assaults, how they had to hide in their basements, and many of them are deeply traumatized. let's take tatiana, for example. i met for a year, she is so from harkey and we started talking in russian because she is from the russian speaking part of the country. and she told me about her beautiful home town that i also know. and then she burst into tears because she reminded herself that parts of the city now are turned into rubble. and she was worried sick about her

mom who decided to stay there and she doesn't know whether her mom is okay or not. and as you can see, there are a lot of such stories that we are hearing at. people want to share them because they want the world to know what's happening here. do or i mean you're living which house turned into a hub for people trying to make it to safety as best they can? can the city still handle the influx of refugees? while the more people arrive here, the more difficult it's gonna be according to the mayor, the city is being stretched to its limits already. and he also said to day that it, it could be that a near future, they will not be able to provide the refugees with a safe place to state. of course, what people need is, it's food warm clothes medic. since but 1st and foremost, would they need a place to stay? there are staying in hotels. they are staying in apartments. but we met

a number of people today who told us that they don't have a place to stay. and that is one of the reasons why we are here at the railway station that you can hear. see behind me, there are still a lot of people trying to get to the polish boy. they're trying to get to pull into other european countries to feel safe. they're always on a phenomenal reporting from levine in ukraine. i wanna thank you so much for your continued college. and i'd like to take an hour to the ukrainian capital of keith to cara roodick. she's a member of the ukrainian parliament and leader of the liberal pro european hollows party cure a very warm welcome to the w news on the 13th of this war. i just want to ask you, how are you coping? hello, thank you for having me. well, it's thirteen's day and our cities are still standing though. the whole world will saying that we will fail after 24 to 48 hours. so i'm like,

watch us. i am super devastated and hurt by all the pain and suffering that they see where they are. if you, yourself, ling through key of when we are taking refugees from on the outskirts of key of dead till we're bombarded by the russian missiles and bombs. i am super frustrated when we see children in bomb shelters, but i'm also motivated because i see my resistance team training because i see so many people in keel in the whole country helping each other. and we are getting ready to give russian forces that are coming to the capital and will come here pretty soon. we are happy to give them a good fight because what they are trying to take from us, they will not be able to. we are preparing for a see, we are preparing for a fight. we are preparing for every kind of you then. however, there is one thing that we cannot help ourselves with. we cannot use our rifles for

is the air force had x. and this is why we continually asking for a no fly zone or anything in particular, similar like the no fly zone so we can protect ourselves and so that my country has a chance to win this war. unfortunately, of course, neither were says they will not be able to provide that no fly zone as a no go for nato. i want to refer to when the invasion a was launched by russia. you posted a photo that went viral. i wanna pull that up and show it to our viewers. it's you in your apartment holding a kalashnikov, you explained how you never held a weapon in your hands before, but you were getting ready to defend your country. and obviously just hearing you speak right now, you're resolved to defend your country. are you, are you ready to fight? i know it's almost a redundant question because you already outlined your resolve. oh yes,

i'm ready to fight. i have been training along with my resistance team that we put together a day one of the war we. i have been training with them at 2 hours every day. so now i'm much better with their rifle than i was when this picture was taken. i'm the training and i'm, we're being a part of their larger teams and we are getting ready to oppose russian troops to fight version troops. or if they come to the city, we know that the capital has been a major goal for our office and for put in personally. and this is why it will be a tough, a goal to protect it. and this is why we a thing here. men as well as women are to be able to have all the hands that we have that could hair of who would bear arms to bear the arms and to be able to protect what is ours right now. what is the situation and key for right

now? i mean, obviously we have seen some very you're worrying developments. so russia unleashing mass, bombardments, in terms of the situation in and around keith, what can you tell us about that? so insane keys. oh, we are doing. i would say normal except for the heavy bombarding that is happening . so it's up to 10 times when the sirens go on and you have to go to the bomb shelter 10 times a day and imagine it being like family with the children. so it's terrifying and devastating and, and at some point you feel frightened because you get used to it. this is the war thing you get used to, to bombard your seat being bombarded. and we are very worried about the outskirts of the city that where people have to leave their homes because because they just don't have homes anymore because they were destroyed and we are worried about them

rush into the surrounding the city. we know that they are trying to take on their entrances and exits to the city, and obviously our goal is not to let them do that. so this is how the flight happens. we want to make sure that we are not on the seat and they are trying to circle the city and door there. few monetary and catastrophe, as they have done in murray. well, where children are dying of dehydration in 21st century children are dying of dehydration in the european country. can you believe this? can you believe that this is happening to us right now? so i will be begging, i will be asking, i will be persuading everybody who is in charge right now to give us the jets to give us the rockets to give us the missiles, anything so we can protect ourselves. so in 21st century, children would in cab to die of the hydration. before i let you go, i mean everyone as you've outlined there and very stark terms, is suffering incredibly on. this is almost ridiculous to ask you,

but international women's day is today. what does it mean to be a woman in ukraine today? it is. it's when instead of flowers that you are supposed to be carrying today, you are carrying guns. but i am privileged to be carrying guns to day and stand shoulder to shoulder with the man of ukraine, you know, and put in was attempting to conquer. he only calculated men in his math. he didn't calculate that ukrainian women and the whole ukrainian nation will be sending up to him everybody their own way. but everybody strong as one. and this is why we're fighting so hard and this is why and 30 in the off war with the largest army in the world. we are feel standing and we will be standing and we will going kiera, roodick, member of the, your quick ukrainian parliament. thank you very much. who wish your safety?

thank you and glory to ukraine. nato secretary general against oldenburg, has warned that the ukraine crisis could quote, spiral out of control if it spreads beyond the borders of ukraine. speaking a lot via mister suttonberg also said it appears russian forces are deliberately targeting civilians as they try to flee the conflict. this is europe, sir foster stood growing refugee crisis since the 2nd world war. there are very credible reports of civilians coming under fire asked i try to evacuate. targeting civilians is a war crime and it's totally unacceptable. we need a real human italian corridors that are fully respected. yes, hallmark they're speaking moments ago. let's go to the w corresponding terry,

shall. she covers nato, and the e. u. terry, the nato secretary general, you installed berg, st. civilians are increasingly coming under fire in ukraine. that is a very serious statement in a worrying development. that's right, layla, and i think his, his starkest words were reminding the kremlin that this is a war crime. now, we might also note that the international criminal court has already opened an investigation into potential war crimes being committed in the conflict in ukraine . and this was a reminder coming from the nato secretary general. and i'm told that that mister stoughton berg was particularly disturbed by the images of civilians being shelled outside the city of urban. that's where we saw some of these humanitarian corridors come under fire. and also, if our viewers may forgive me this, this family who was killed as they tried to flee where you see, you see children lying dead as they tried to get out of the city of urban. and so

this is just a reminder to the russian government that everyone is watching. everyone when sees this and an attempt to make them feel that they will be held accountable, they will be held accountable. but does that mean that nato is prepared to change it? strategy, i mean, we just spoke to somebody from the ukranian parliament and she is almost begging for nato to impose a no fly zone over ukraine. you know, lately that we hear these voices imploring nato to impose a no fly zone every day. now since the shelling began, and this is just something that i'm told is not going to happen, that you would never get 30 allies to agree that this is the best course of action . and in fact, it's not because people are unmoved by what's happening there. it's because nato feels that this would actually increase the violence that it would be an escalation that in fact, then you would have nato and russia engaged in a direct war. and that this could possibly spread beyond the borders of ukraine and

that more people would die. but i, i admit it's a heartbreaking, heartbreaking situation. and it's understandable why the people of ukraine continued to call for this answer. in conclusion, the european commission, i understand just proposed a new plan to reduce its dependence on russian oil and gas. can you tell us more about that? that's right. in fact it's happening just now as we speak. and this is something that, of course, has been in the works for a long time. europe has long known that it needs to cut its dependence on russian oil and gas. but now once again, president putin has, has taken action, which makes it all the more pressing they are saying that they could cut the dependency by as much as 2 thirds by the end of this year by diversifying supplies, relying more on renewables. and this is something that the u. u feels is very, very necessary to cut off pollutants source of income, their shoals reporting from brussels. thank you, terry. let me guide you now to some of the other developments in the conflict. the

stony as prime minister kaya call us has called for more sanctions against russian crypto currency, oil and c port, while she was speaking as u. s. secretary said anthony lincoln wrapped up his tour of the baltic states. he said the us would defend every inch of nato, which includes a stony occupation and shell says it will end all involvement in the russian gas and oil market. it will stop buying oil shut down service stations and discontinue aviation fuel operations. the turnaround comes a week after shell, drew heavy criticism for buying russian crude oil and venezuela's president nicholas my daughter has confirmed that we can talk with the united states also included energy security. the u. s. is reportedly considering easing sanctions on venezuela to boost will supply as it seeks to reduce imports from russia

and that we're waiting to hear momentarily from usaa president joe, by new is expected to announce a ban on imports of russian oil into the country. the move is part of continuing actions to punish russia for its invasion of ukraine. russia exports only about 8 percent of oil to the united states compared to around 60 percent to europe. however, there are fears the us band could push already higher fuel prices in the country a notch higher. let's take an hour to washington. d. a. b is correspondent to curly. not choy curly. not good to have you with this. can you walk us through exactly what this band would mean? well, at the us and its allies in europe, they have already imposed a wave of sanctions as we know against russia last week. but until now they have

largely avoided targeting rushes, economic backbone. that means the gas and oil sector. why? because out of fear that limiting this oil sales could cause crude prices to spike in the u. s. and global the you already mentioned how important rushes oil is for europe. and for the us more for your benefit for the u. s. and the fact that motivated this decision was definitely the ukranian president mr. lensky, appealing and talking to you as lawmakers to support a ban on russian oil imports to weaken russia. and they are for the invasion and the war they're having in ukraine. they is, there is bipartisan support for this, but we don't know if a president biden is going to decide this by an executive order, or if he is going to sign the bill that the house produced yesterday. exactly. we're hoping to hear from the president momentarily, but in the meantime, how is the by ministration planning on compensating for the lack of oil supply or

the reduction of oil supply? the u, as in his eyes, they already made the decision that they are going to use $60000000.00 barrels off of the reserves they have. so this is going to ease and does a pain, especially for the citizens in the different countries. but again, banning the imports from russia is not going to be as painful for the united states as it is going to be for europe. so the impact is definitely going to be a difference, although the citizens are going to notice that here in the u. s. and that is going to happen in an election year layla. it's remember, remember, it's a midterm elections this year. and democrats, of course, are afraid that they are going to face a loss because of the increasing energy prices and the inflation the highest in the last 40 years. a very, very difficult situation. everybody said no, no,

final thoughts, very briefly, us delegation as we've been reporting, met with a venezuelan, the government officials over the weekend about talks in terms of energy supplies. if venezuela becomes part of the new energy policy of the us, how comfortable are americans with us? well, american citizens who will, of course, care of her in the 1st place about their money. how much are they going to pay at the end for their gasoline? am but the question for the administration is it is a lose lose situation because are they going to have a deal with $1.00 to have or with the other one with my daughter or with put in that is a loosely situation from respite and or to kind of more reporting from washington. thank you so much. sonny's presence using thing has reportedly called for quote,

maximum restraint in ukraine. mister j was speaking at a virtual summit with french president m anyway. mccall and german chancellor channels, state broadcaster c, c t, v reported mr. g as saying that china was, quote, pained to see the flames of war we ignited in europe. it is one of the strongest statements to emerge from china after the russian invasion. beijing, us so far abstain from voting against russia at the u. n. and has refused to condemn it's attack. let's get you more on the china angola for that. i'd like to turn to our china analyst, clifford conan. thank you so much for being here, clifford. what role is china playing or not playing in this war? i think it will now am, china has been very much defined by what it isn't doing role model is doing it's, it's been backing russia. it's taken a neutral stance, but it's, it's in all of its statements and refusing to condemn the invasion. indeed, and refusing to even calls an invasion by constantly just attacking the u. s.

basically. it's, it's, it's more a question of what it's inactivity means. and i think that seen as it being an almost enabler of the aggression in, into ukraine. another's talk of maybe china wanting to mediate, i don't know how many, how credible those those suggestions are, but would it be a good broker in this, in this conflict? well, i'm just sort of wondering how exactly china would mediate because it seems to me that the 2 sides are actually fairly good at talking to themselves, talking to each other and it wouldn't be a question of just delivering messages. so what it could mean is more that, i mean, until now we've had all this talk about china and russia about the closeness there and, but then today in this message, we saw how he was saying, you know, the tragedy of flames of war in europe. again, so perhaps there's just a sort of a very slight inkling that that the attitude might be changing. the attitude might be changing, but is china backing away from its alliance with the rush hour or is that a stretch? i think it's a stretch because the to the to 10 and she are very,

very close. and if you cast your mind back to the winter olympics, when they hailed a new era of cooperation and everything, you know, we've seen, we've just seen that they really are too close. however, china's international standing has suffered, i think the for being seen as an enabler. of what's happening in the ukraine in ukraine, and i think that's something that maybe it's thinking that it, it needs to rectify or it needs to bring it to be seen, at least to be taking part in what could be a solution that was but there are a lot of mixed signals coming from beijing. i mean it, what does that tell you? it's ambivalence. yeah, i mean it's, it's kind of stuck on the, on the fence in a way because it has back to russia so strongly. i think there's probably a certain surprise that have the west reacted. i think normally they would have expected europe in the us to, to react at different speeds if at all, and also been surprised at how the ukrainians have fought back and how the invasion

wasn't a quick, a quick invasion. i think there's credible intelligence that he possibly did know in advance of the invasion, but presumably he was. so the idea, she, this is, was so the idea that it would be a quick event and that, you know, we rather be painless, but now it shaping up into something with much broader geopolitical ramifications. and that's going to be problematic for china in a few words. do you think that because of this war, europe might decide to take a more tougher stance on china? i do because i think this is basically called out china. and we now know where china stands on certain key issues. and i think that's going to be hard to, to go back from writer. clifford coroner, art china, alice. so good to have you. thank you for insight. it was indeed every news. here's a recap of the main story from the crisis. ukraine has started evacuating civilians via humanitarian court orders. coordinated with russia. video appears to show buses

leaving the north eastern city of sumi, but he is accusing russia. russian forces of breaking a cease fire agreement to let people out of my you full thank you so much for spending this part of your day. were there some way let her walk in berlin. i'll see you in a bit to stick around with a chance. is up next with ah, with

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