[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin, ukrainians trapped in the besieged city of sumi have little time to leave after russia agrees to cease fire. red cross bosses take some residence away. ball the bombardment is put on pause for the evacuation of other cities fails to materialize . as fighting starts up again on the escape routes. also coming up a standing ovation for the leader of ukraine as he addresses the british parliament of lord. amir zalinski walks

a fine line between praising the us brits the u. k. excuse me, for its support in the fight against russia and leading for more direct intervention. ah. hello em claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. we open our coverage with the worsening humanitarian crisis in ukraine. an attempt to evacuate civilians from 5 ukrainian cities today seems to have largely failed. moscow agreed to establish humanitarian corridors, bought ukraine claims. russian troops resumed shelling on the route leading away from the city of mario pole. and some residents of the northern city of sumi have reportedly managed to flee. ukraine's government shared at this video, which shows red cross bosses evacuating people before nightfall. when the cease fire ends assume he has seen heavy civilian casualties,

local authorities to say an air strike last night killed at least 21 people. despite the increasing death toll, the ukrainian military says that russia is seeing major set acts and its advance has slowed significantly, leaving as fast as they can. people fled the north eastern city of sumi trying to get out before nightfall when a cease fire ends. the night before airstrikes hit residential buildings and a power plant. local authorities said 21. people were killed. further west people fleeing the city of air peen close to the capital key is crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians tried to get across. heartbreaking good byes, as many of the men split up from their families to go back and fight

others helping those unable to make the journey by themselves. who are you yearly yearly? you know we are fleeing, he will help she'll. she is barely walking, but we are doing our best. thank you. that is good. that we could cross the bridge . bombs are exploding over there. quite attending of european is totally damaged. she'll just the civil move actually. meanwhile in the capital president followed the mia zalinski refusing to flee the video message to his people trying to prepare them for the days to come. viciously with snow is falling. this is spring, coding ok with the war is the same as spring severe. but it will be all right, so we will in any way military analysts say the russian onslaught will

likely get worse. in the coming days. russian forces are increasingly turning to shelling civilian areas and infrastructure while their tanks and troops are bogged down outside key cities. in the port city of odessa, residents are mounting barricades in front of the beloved opera house. so far the city hasn't been head. but if the experience of the last several days is any guide . if anyone who stays behind should be prepared for the worst. and earlier we spoke with our correspondent nick connelly who described the situation in keith well, for now in downtown, keep where i am now this to let christy, they're still heating, they're still mobile phone networks. so that makes life bearable. and there are definitely more people here than you would think, to walk around the streets pretty empty apart from journalists and soldiers, and the occasional person working at all during pursuit market. we were out in the suburbs today, not far from it being slightly from the south in an area where the local turturro

defense forces are preparing for rational where they've blown up bridges, where they have tried to kind of block the roads in a way to prevent tanks moving across that pretty wide that the russians are going to build pontoon bridge to try and overwhelm the attempt to stop this happening. but it's kind of storage to see the kind of range of people now in uniform bearing arms. you had someone who usually takes high school kids on mountain hiking trips. you had people, you had people who work managing supermarkets, oldest people in now suddenly in boots in uniforms with a gun on their shoulder at checkpoints, trying to look for russians, sleeper agents, or to stop looting happening. and it's kind of extraordinary theme to people who would in normal life and never come across each other. now suddenly united by this danger to their homes. nick connelly reporting there from keith. i'm moving on to some breaking news. there has been movement on he reported 3 way deal between poland and the united states. it would seem crane supplied with mig $29.00 fighter

jets and poland. a foreign ministry says it is willing to put its entire fleet of the soviet era jets at the disposal of the u. s. that the u. s. says it wasn't pre consulted on the move by full. and so let's bring in dw correspondent terry schultz to help break all of this down for us. terry, let's talk about this new development. poland announcing its handing over its mig 29 fighter jets to the united states. they could now be sent on to ukraine. how significant is this update? what we have to see if it happens, claire, poland has announced it's willing to hand over. it's make 20 nines to, to the united states. we don't know yet whether the united states is prepared to take them even though we do know this has been under discussion for days. you are secretary of state, tony blink and confirmed that over the weekend. so we know that this has been something that poland and the united states have been discussing, and of course we hear from ukraine daily that they need more fighter aircraft. of course, they'd really like a no fly zone,

but that's not not in the works at the moment. so we need to see whether this happens as i understand it. the polish government would then expect the united states to take over any of the rules that the megs are playing at the moment because once they leave. so this is really a deal in the works and we're seeing the negotiation sort of play out in public. so there are a lot of, of, of pieces still in the, it's still in play here. and what is it about the make specifically that makes them a helpful for ukraine's purposes. these are planes that the ukrainian pilots know how to fly, that they would know how to fix it if you send them newer. newer aircraft that they haven't been trained on that of course isn't much help. and this is in fact what the ukrainians have asked for. there are 3 nato allies with these planes. in addition to poland, slovakia and bulgaria also have them. and the polish government in this announcement that it was willing to hand over its fleet, also called another nieto allies to do the same. now if nato country supplies ukraine with the fighter jets to shoot down russian plains,

won't russia see this as a clear act of war? but i wouldn't doubt that. that's what russia would call it, but of course it is seen virtually every thing as a provocation. nato simply taking in new members from eastern europe is a provocation. ukraine existing as, as an independent country as a provocation. i think that the russian government would say anything being done to help ukraine fight back is a provocation. at the same time, the west and nato have said that ukraine deserves the right and the equipment to defend itself. it's been heartbreaking for everyone to watch what's happening to ukraine, even as nato decides not to step in itself or correspondent terry shall to thank you so much for joining us with that update. ukrainian, president of a lot of years, a lensky has addressed british members of parliament in the house of commons. in london, the landscape received a standing ovation from empties, as he spoke to them via a video link from keith. he remains there despite increasing russian pressure on

the capital. we spoke about the hardships endured by civilians, but said his people would fight to ensure they do not lose their country. and the ukrainian leader appealed to britain and the west to do more to help his country police increase the pressure of sanctions against the south country and police are recognized misconduct as a terrorist state. and please make sure that our ukraine m skies are safe. so please make sure, oh w that you do what needs to be done and what, what is stipulated by the greatness of your country? alan frank ended of your correspondent charlotte chelsea pill in london for more. i charlotte, what stood out to you about zalinski speech to lawmakers losing extremely and motive speech that was given earlier this evening. he really day by day went through 13 days of war,

meant for ukraine. some of the horrors that he described having been in july saying that this was a war that he did not stop. now. he can tad ukraine's fine to purchase fries against the nazis in sophomore, worn and doing so. he entered comments made by full rich. when mister winston churchill doing that, said morning barry famous speech that will be known to burst public many around while he was saying will not give up the flight. whatever the cost in the forest feels, the shores in the streets. you also quote kids that and william shakespeare in the speech to, ah, he said to the question that's based ukraine is to be or not to be in. he said tonight he can say ukraine will be. he also addressed the british prime minister boris johnson directly. he asked for even more sanctions to be imposed, and you also asked that the ukrainian sizes kept saying reference that he has

repeated leave for a no fly zone, something that the you can on side. many others hasn't repeatedly defined. 3 clearly knows his audience. there are what has that reaction been to his address? there was a standing ovation from parliamentarians both before and after that speech absolutely packed house and just to really stress insignificance. this is the 1st time that a foreign leader, albeit by actually has addressed the house of commons in that chain, but like this. so people have been describing it. here is a historic moment. a prime minister boris johnson, immediately often responded. he said, never is the house listen to such an address. he said it's moved the hearts of everyone in this house. he's rest the u. k. from 10 to press on. did swenton the pressure on russia. thank you very much for that. charlotte chelsea pill our correspondent in london and take

a closer look at some other developments in the conflict. nato secretary general young st oldenburg says there's evidence that ukrainian civilians are deliberately being targeted as they try to flee conflict areas speaking in lot via stalls number . also warned, the conflict could spiral out of control if it spreads beyond ukraine's. borders have question and chinese president, she jam thing, has called for maximum restraint in ukraine. speaking on a call with european leaders, he said china was pained to see war break out in europe. but he stopped short of condemning russia for its invasion. china has criticized western sanctions against moscow. and mcdonalds says it is temporarily closing all of its $850.00 restaurants in russia saying it can no longer ignore the quote needless human suffering unfolding in ukraine. the company says they will continue to pay its employees. donald is the latest of more than $250.00 brands to halt operations in

russia. and police in the russian city of st. petersburg have detained a group of women protesting the invasion of ukraine. they were carrying signs that criticized the unnecessary death of russian soldiers. russia has recently passed tough penalties for opposing the military. since the start, a rushes invasion, ukraine's museums galleries and cultural institutions have been scrambling to protect their collections, and they have shipped pieces abroad, but that is becoming increasingly difficult. heavy shuttling has already caused considerable damage, so museum workers are staying behind to save what's 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 stores 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. if we 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 show your choice. this makes you feel better. you the sad shapes. so sad user server program bubble. 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. may be a futile attempt to protect them. but better than doing nothing at all. with gold, you may 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 from shelling it unless you're shock waves and it's small fragments or shrapnel with america, we're just trying everything we can home for yet more than empty walls at the museum in live. as this new chapter of ukraine's history begins, hopefully and grief, our constant companions, thanks so much for watching. ah, they've had no peace for, for decades. the people of iraq, their country is devastated and there's no end to violence.