[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is here, we knew his life from rural in a nation under fire. ukraine. civilians caught in the cross hairs of the war. efforts continued to evacuate civilians after russia and ukraine agree a new ceasefire covering several cities. but keep accuses rushes. forces of attacking previous escape routes, plus the us and poland feud over how to send fighter jets to ukraine. the pentagon rejects war sause plan to send polish warplanes from

a u. s. space saying the proposal, this quote, serious concerns for the nato alliance and the leaders of germany and canada need to discuss the war in ukraine. here in the german capital, they pledge more support for keith and renew calls for an immediate cease fire. ah hello everyone. i am layla rock, thank you very much for joining us. renewed efforts are underway right now to get civilians out of besieged cities in ukraine for a 2nd day. russia and ukraine say they will observe a ceasefire to provide 6 evacuation routes. it's unclear though whether safety can be guaranteed conditions or worsening for those stuck in zones targeted by russian shelling as invasion meets resistance. there are fears now the russian military could step up

a tax on civilian areas. it's the 1st successful humanitarian corridor allowing desperate civilians to flee during a pause in the fighting. these convoys carried people from the north eastern city of summa, which is experienced heavy shelling in recent days. president vladimir lensky said it was just the start. for the 2, hundreds of people are saved about humanitarian aid has been delivered. but this is just a small percentage of what we have to do. and what is expected of us, because we already, humanitarian aid is ready and are transport already well there. further west, people fleeing the key f suburb of our pin, 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 left 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 rallying, he will her will. 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. so just to see if i'm overseas military analysts say the onslaught will likely get worse in the coming days. russian forces are increasingly turning to shelling civilian areas, an infrastructure. these air raid sirens in kiev warning people to stay indoors as the invasion entered its 14th day. but as the dawn broke, the national anthem echoed through the streets

a message of solidarity. ah, the show of resistance continues in kerosene and the 1st major city to fall under russian control ah, the capital, a symphony orchestra played a concert to those. he stayed behind a brief moment of duty to canter, the scenes of destruction that are becoming commonplace in ukraine. and take you to keep a city under pressure, corresponded mathias billing or is in the ukrainian capital for you or thomas mathias rather. where do things stand 2 weeks into the invasion yeah, we've heard the news. many places are really and bad in, in,

in dire conditions. or places that have been under siege where, or where food is, is, are shortages of food where they are full of problems with water, electricity multiple is one of them. we do not know whether the you, military and corridor has worked. there. seems that there, there have been no positive news from there. we still hope, but it's not completely clear what has happened. been happening there, but it doesn't look too good in other places. it's a little bit better. some people have been evacuated from, we've seen it. the northwestern suburbs of key of and also from so me in the north . but we have other places where the humanitarian situation is getting worse and worse, the russian troops are advancing very slowly. the ukrainian army is still doing heavy is, is resisting fiercely the advance and are quite successful in destroying a lot of our russian technology. just a few hours ago we heard loud explosions here in the sky over key. if are these

were again, planes that were shut down her by the air defense systems, the ukrainian air defense systems. um, it's a, it's quite a bloody and a wasteful war where, where russia is losing a lot of its matea deals and many soldiers die. so that's where we stand, we don't have a clear way where it's hiding. it seems stuck mathias, ours, the effort to get civilians out from war torn cities going it's different in different places. there was the idea today that a ceasefire would allow to advocate hate civilians from all the places that are under pressure. that would mean my report which i mentioned suddenly czerny heave and the north western suburbs of cave as well as some other places near. near harker in the north east. um some of them have worked,

but many of them seem not to have worked and even there where people have been evacuated, they're still many staying behind in these very dire conditions. so the humanitarian situation is really grave, very grave. and of course, there now worries that russia might double down. what are you hearing about russia intensifying its attacks across the country? and that's again hard to say. there has been, there have been attacks throughout the time, and russia is advancing slowly. but what we see that russia does not do it, is not able to, to, to turn the page completely. the gains that it has made in the south are there, but then the north, it's more there they are stalling. am it we're hearing that russia is regrouping, is bringing in new technology and is preparing for an a major assault on kia and other places in the north. but we do not know whether they will succeed or not until now. their successes have been a limited let say they are,

of course here and there advancing and they have occupied territory. but they did not achieve the goals that they had said themselves are, and they're not near any and not anywhere near the american american experts and the american government seems to be thinking that surrounding key of which would be one goal. 111, step 2, it's taking the city is still at least a few days away. usually correspondents mathias bidding, her reporting from the ukrainian capital. but he has thank you very much for your continued coverage. and as the mathias has been reporting central, keith has still largely been spared from heavy fighting. but he has also went to the outskirts of the city and met with people preparing to repel the russian advance. setting up road blocks on the outskirts of keel. we are south west of the city and what is usually a quiet,

suburban area. this is one of the roads that lead directly into the territories that the russian army is already occupying. and the people here are preparing for an attack from that side. the russian troops are less than 10 kilometers away. e or not. his real name is a volunteer for the territorial defense forces. the citizen battalion that supports the army on the ground. their job is to prepare the area to make a russian advance as difficult as possible what it was was but going up with a sheet, a tank and easily push away these concrete blocks you see. but these iron hedgehogs, as we call them, cannot be pushed away with ya see, another will have to get out of their tank to clear, the rogue. i thought this will allow us to gain some time. i bulk of that's what these things do. so we're saying showing the overview of the volunteers serve close to their ho hoping to provide the armed forces with knowledge of the area dwarfed

in terms of technology. ukraine relies on its home field advantage, lay warm, or hot away to avoid worth of it. we are ready to fight sola, we are ready to take back our villages and cities will not let the enemy in our own home. so with a loose and we are doing better every day. but we are the only country that is challenging. one of the biggest army others on with our army. since the beginning of the war, the number of volunteers as searched, the territorial defense forces are officially part of the armed forces. but the members often have no military training. they're not supposed to fight on the front, but after the start of the war, they took up some military and policing tasks. checkpoints, all over the country, are operated by these groups just at the 5th rather into, throughout the deal. our job is to filter out hostile agents. are many people fleeing from over there as their houses are sheldon,

we will not let spies passes. refugees are there to get put to be them. visions of how young covers them remains the secret closer to the contact line. he hor inspects another barricade. yell widows, yes. yahveh validity. yeah. which of you did pretty well? i grew up here. i used to take the kids out here for outdoor trainings. i'm a trainer for outdoor sports, what used to kayak on these waters, but by that redo orientation, training, or whatever. i could never imagine seen combat here, then you can, you will follow it so, so computer who able to receive a interview this is where his territory ends. now, a bridge that leads over to the other side has already been blown up or fighting between russian and ukrainian forces remains intense and deadly. and the need to get civilians out of the line of fire all the more urgent for more we turn out to d. w. william croft. we've been hearing for days both that russian forces have

largely stalled and that they are preparing to press their invasion along the lines of attack they've made so far. at the same time, many cities remain under relentless shelling and aerial attack, and we can have a look at where things appear to stand based on the latest information we've been able to gather from military analyst. first, of course, around the capital of key russian forces are massing from multiple sides around the north and around the east. but apparently they still don't have the strength to launch a full on assault of this city. of nearly 3000000 people, ukrainian forces are reportedly challenging russian forces all along this line would advance, especially in the north eastern part of the country. you can see russian efforts to try to consolidate their gains here along the north just as they've done in the south by connecting their eastern forces with their southern forces. if they can do that, they'll be able to push on it to keep and continue to encircle a lot of the cities in the eastern part of the country. that's what it appears

they've done around the south. now we can have a look at where things are in terms of these so called humanitarian a corridors that we've been hearing so much about since saturday. there's been multiple ones of them. most of them have fail due to reported russian shelling, including directly at some of these civilians that we see here behind me. now we can see what the most, what the latest humanitarian quarters have been today. if we can put that up on the wall, these are now ukrainian ones. these are not the russian ones that were reported earlier in the week. ukrainian government officials are trying to get people out of an outdoor and maria poll. these besieged cities in the south trying to get them slightly for that further north into more from the fighting, and in the northern part from suzy. from so, me to thought tava. now, this is what a ukrainian officials are trying to get their people out. we've also been hearing

that they're trying to get people out of the area north, west of keep the capital where those russian forces are coming in and have been, have engaged in heavy battles outside of the city. as well as, of course, from the city of it's you, these are places where it's not quite clear yet where they're trying to get civilians to go. they just know they need to get them out. this is a very, very intense and tense situation. obviously it does seem to day, there's been slightly more success in getting people out of the cities we've been hearing from ukrainian officials, at least several 1000, if not more people getting out of the serious, a slightly safer place. the problem is what the safe even mean in ukraine, where russian, at least from the air, russian forces can attack anywhere in the country. and what today might be a somewhat safer city, could tomorrow be under siege. like many of the cities we're seeing already today. thank you so much, william. the pentagon has rejected

a plan by the polish government to transfer a fighter jets to the united states ramstein air base. to then be sent to ukraine pentagon at press secretary john kirby called the plan untenable. the disagreement is over where the jets would be sent from the u. s. ed floated the idea earlier this month of gifting pole, and a number of f sixteens if poland sent it's soviet era make 20 nines to the ukranian air force. but poland reportedly did not want the jets to leave for ukraine for within its own borders, for fear of russian retaliation and suggested delivering them from a u. s. air base. instead, vice president come la harris will have a chance to smooth things over when she meets the polish president and, or saw on thursday. ok, let's hope, but let's see now if we can get some clarification. march in resent ski is joining

us. he is a senior advisor at the warsaw security form, and he joins us from the polish capital. sir, thank you very much for your time. why do you think the was rejected the polish offer to send its fighter jets to ukraine via the us base ramstein? oh, thank you very much for the invitation. it's a pleasure to be here. let me shed a little bit light on this process because this exchange hasn't started with a polish offer. the exchange is really started publicly with the announcement of you that it's proven a 500000000 unprecedented. it's history package for military support. first, the 1st one ever and commenting on it. the representative for foreign policy, joseph brown, has underlined it could be used for provision of the military jets now. when everybody started putting one in one together,

it came out only just which could be given to a previous a need for training and on systems applications. for the military, pretty kind of military would be famous mix and of course, poland has had 2028 of them. so this is where we're really the exchange has started and already over the weekend, the intensive exchanges between publisher officials may talk officials and the us about how to tackle the how to deal with this. because there is actually quite a lot of will to, to get the equipment to, to the requirements. but to have the same time, you know, we've had a diplomatic, i think, a frenzy which you blew out a little bit out of proportions. when following all the consultations in poland, and with that we are partners to mention that that she might provide have 16 grand

instead, and all it is free to do it well. good was, were the polish response, came from the ministry for the 1st? well, the impression that we're getting is that the us feels that this idea was sprung on them. and so they are resisting this proposal. do you consider this? i don't know, dead in the water. i think this idea needs a little bit of calm around it and not to take it out of the out the proportion. i think it's a very difficult issue because it is clearly an escalation in delivery of the military 8 if you can use those terms. and there is a number of considerations if i aircraft is starting a military aircraft from foreign territory into a war zone. it could be considered as a, as actively engagement. this is what led them. governments of nato are trying to figure out how potentially to do it. i would say, let them do it and i would add to it. that's a,

this is not the only way to start protecting ukrainian air, more intensively, or we've got to the surface to air miss that can be delivered. we have much more stinger missiles that can be delivered. we have a u, a b that can be delivered on large scale. and you know, we had also potential ideas that ukraine could buy the service equipment by the use megs that would be implemented here. so i think we need to let the government's at work around is a little bit out of the spot. but of course there needs to be continued pressure on protecting ukrainian air because it is absolutely critical to support the ukrainian army in this area. and your country is on the forefront of this weapons to support ukraine, go to poland. poland has taken him more than a 1000000 refugees from ukraine. talk to us about pullman's role in this conflict. of course, it's a, it's a frontline country. if we can say this, that there is

a nearly $1500000.00 refugees probably by the end of today which would to have entered to poland to which it had been brought into poles homes, which have been taken care of in an incredible way. but of course, this, this influx will most likely increase, so at more and more support will be needed here to help them on the, on the military support front and in terms of the diplomatic front. of course, poland is one of the strongest voices for ukraine at, for supporting ukraine for it. ukraine immediate, the opening of the accession process to the, to the european union and for the strongest possible responses to, to russia, including with major sanctions. because that, you know, this is the, this is the only thing that a lot of people to will understand. it is the effect of power and might, on the other side. and this is what we've been advocate is side of the of europe for, for

a long time. i think it is time to realize this is the reality and act upon mister brzezinski in just a few words. a poem long sounded the alarm about the risk of russian aggression have pullman's partners, reacted to late. i think kids, that's honestly it is definitely too late, but it's also not to it really a time maybe to, to blame and shame, but her router to stand up to the, to the circumstance and to the situation. and this goes for, for many countries, and of course a germany being, being in the lead with the strongest, a political and economical power to stand up to, to put in aggression. and i think this is a time for germany to, to stand on the right side of history. and i think we're seeing this, this move, but it needs to really accelerate. and i think this is the expectation, capitals and war. so on capitals, in bucharest,

and the baltic states that that really we see more german leadership but also french leadership and, and other countries. and you really standing what it's for might at implicated applicator sanctions. are all, all the guards, blocking import of gas of oil. truly making the pain felt by russia. martin a brzezinski, a senior adviser at the war. so security for him. thank you for your time. thank you. room. canadian prime minister just in today, when german chancellor, olaf schultz have held talks in berlin, the pair discussed the trans atlantic response to the russian invasion of ukraine. mister schultz said, hopes of a military solution to the conflict were senseless saying he hoped diplomacy would prevail. mister trudeau meanwhile announced millions of dollars more in weapons

support for ukraine are following their meeting. the 2 leaders addressed the media where the german chancellor ruled out categorically, sending fighter jets to ukraine, tech a listen. we need to have a life. we've provided humanitarian assistance. we've also provided all kinds of equipment which includes some weapons as you know. apart from that however, we have to think very carefully about what we actually do. and the certainly does not include combat aircraft and phyllis kind of come from target. and the canadian prime minister just introduce, had this to say, canada and germany stand together against put in invasion. he represents a threat to democracy, to security, and to peace in europe and around the world. this morning i spoke with president zelinski highlighted once again the strength and determination of the ukrainian people and told him that canada will soon be sending highly specialized equipment

to them and invited him to address parliament in canada. and he accepted that canada mang or did have a political course on an in a hassle, was at the press conference. she said both leaders are walking a difficult line between aiding ukraine and preventing an escalation between russia and nato. the german chancellor will have choice and the canadian prime minister just introduced, stressed again that they stood in solidarity with ukraine. but when asked about whether germany would allow polish fighter jets to leave an american abbeys, here in germany, we'll have so it was very clear and said we have to be extremely careful in how we show this solid charity with ukraine. that does not include fighter planes were, will have shorts, his words. so of course, this is an extremely difficult line for the west to tread. an extremely tricky thing because they don't want to create a situation where vladimir putin could interpret nato park countries to become,

to have become parties in this war. and just introduce, also stressed to the fact that germany and canada and nato countries don't want to escalate the situation that thereby essentially supporting will have showed, says was did have a new political course on the nasa reporting for you there. british tennis player andy murray says he will donate the prize money. he wins this year to help children affected by the war and ukraine. moray is an ambassador for units of the united nations children's agency. he said on social media that he's working with the organization to provide medical supplies and development kits for children. murray, a former world number one is taking part in the tournament at indian wells this month, often referred to as the sports 5th grand slam and the english premier league has suspended it's broadcasting deal with russian partner oco sports in response to the countries invasion of ukraine the leagues decision was unanimous,

every club agreed to spite the more than $6000000.00 pounds a year. that ocho sport space for the rights to show matches in russia. while the premier league also said it would donate 1000000 pounds in humanitarian aid for the people of ukraine. you're watching the w news. here's a recap of the main story from the crisis. efforts have resumed to evacuate ukrainian civilians after both russia and ukraine agreed to a cease fire covering several ukrainian cities where keith has set the agreed humanitarian course have been in effective. ukraine has accused the russian military of shelling, escape routes for days. you watch me that we news our special coverage of the war in ukraine coming up next and news asia will follow. hundreds of indian students on their harrowing escape from ukraine's battlegrounds and india's key regional election that promises to be

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