i love and respect with this, is it every news life from berlin? a nation under fire, ukraine, civilians caught in the cross hairs of the war officials in the city of mother. you both say children's hospital has been destroyed by a russian airstrike. as efforts continue nationwide to evacuate trap civilians to safety. also coming up a risk of radiation, growing concerns after a power outage at the chernobyl nuclear plant fears are that the russian control

facility may potentially lose the ability to coo radio, active fuel. the world's top nuclear watchdog says there is no immediate threat. and the leaders of jimmy and canada, me to discuss the war in you create here in the german capital. they pledge more support for key and renew calls for an immediate cease fire. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla iraq. thank you very much for joining us. renewed efforts are underway to get civilians out of besieged cities in ukraine for a 2nd day. russia and ukraine say they will observe a cease fire to provide 6 evacuation routes. it's unclear though whether safety can be guaranteed conditions or worsening for people stuck in zones targeted by russian shelling and moments ago ukrainian officials announced that

a children's hospital in the south eastern city of mar, you bowl, has been destroyed in a russian airstrike. and they are now mounting fears that russian forces will ramp 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 de lensky said it was just the start for dinner. hundreds of people are saved, humanitarian aid has been delivered. but this is just a small percentage of what we have to do. and what is expected of us. we already, humanitarian 8 is ready, and our transports are ready. well, they're 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 goodbyes. 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 fleeing. he was, 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 just the civil mover here. 0 military analysts say the onslaught will likely get worse in the coming days. russian forces are increasingly turning to shelling civilian areas and infrastructure. these air raid sirens in kiev warning people to stay indoors as the invasion entered its 14th day.

ah, but as the dawn broke, the national anthem echoed through the streets a message of solidarity. ah! the show of resistance continues in carson. the 1st major city to fall under russian control ah, the capitalist symphony orchestra played a concert to those who stayed behind a brief moment of beauty to canter, the scenes of destruction that are becoming commonplace in ukraine or hundreds of thousands of people escaping the fighting f streamed into the western ukrainian city of love. eve is become a mass of bottleneck. the only direction to flee being west. the debris

correspondence always on a phenomenon, shares some of their experiences. we are here at the railway station in the leaf, and you can see how busy it is here with long lines of people trying to get on a train to the polish border. mothers with a small kids, women with their pads, with hastily packed suitcases and plastic bags. many of them seem to be traumatized . many of them are worried sick about the loved ones that they left behind. when we started cover, we're from clack, of and the city has gone water than yet. but for all swimming, come with and i just have one question. what was it all for? who benefits from destroying such a beautiful city? we once had a wonderful mayor, he is now turning over in his grave. you can't look at that's left of the city without cried. i was born there. i grew up there,

i spent my whole life. there really isn't necessarily the brochure when you would do. you brought the people there now have been left for dead. they're hiding in basement with them. i can't even think about it. when i sit down to vista, they're sitting there without any electricity, water or heating my mother's hiding in a cellar. her mother is mother, you pool. she can't get hold of her. so just cook or what just like to throw my i haven't heard anything from her since march 2nd, 3rd cousin. yeah. i was just never would have expected something like this to happen, especially from russia and belarus. i have so many relatives in moscow. you must be in all girls. think of according to the city authorities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide all the refugees with food and clothes, and 1st and foremost where the place to state. and that is why many people here are desperate to get out, even though they don't know whether they will be able to come back. i don't know,

i never thought i'd have to flee, forgot it's with i don't know where we will go. whatever gods plan is certainly to poland, normally we are not leaving forever. will be back for sure. many of the people we met are originally from the russian speaking part of the country. they told us they would never expect russia to attack ukraine. they are angry and said, and some of them have a clear message to vladimir putin. yeah, i don't understand why you are against our membership in the you and are now literally pushing us towards europe. thank you very much, but please it cannot come at the cost of our lives and those of russians only in the peaceful way antiquated. she, she knew, honestly, i think put a nose. he is sick and will die soon. and he wants to take as many people with them as possible. so to reduce sub rosa, but mucus of thought measured once it did

a review when we live in the 21st century. we don't live in the 20th century anymore during the 2nd world war, where civilized people, but how civilized is it for the whole of ukraine to leave ukraine? well done, you have liberated us. thank you. we're dean by cba, or from the focal point to in ukraine levine. we take you now to do that. we report a baring. it's a sugar she is in poland right across from the ve. the 1st stop for those who managed to secure a place on those trains to safety, brigitte, what have these people been telling you that have made it to poland? i mean, many were even too exhausted to talk at all. because we have to imagine they escaped awards own and some told us they were even shot at while escaping. and they feared for the life. now they are here,

they are relieved that they are in safety, but they are still like disorientated. they don't know where to go from here. and when mother told us that her house in her keith was bombed by in the air strike and the full house was destroyed and she only could get her documents out. and her 2 children, the youngest is 4 or 4 years old. and and she, she just flared and worth was 3 days. and one night she had to sleep in the bitter cold on the street. and i mean, everybody, we were nearly everybody we were talking to today. they, they told us, please, i don't, we don't understand. why is nato not imposing and non fly zone? this would help us so much and also our husbands who had to stay back to fight. and one woman even yelled at us and said, yeah, don't you see, put in is, is, is like bombarding civil urines and why don't you do anything against it?

burger poland is growing through great length to help your korean refugees during whatever they can. how are they coping to be honest, i was really astonished how well organized things are. yeah, it's a little bit code it once a train rice, but then soon there are a lot of volunteers providing her refugees with food with free sim cards. was advised where to get shelter with and also which is very, very important. what is very, very important. where to go from here. so they, they, they get them on, on trains to other cities because this little city here only has 60000 inhabitants . so they're absolutely overwhelmed, but right now it's really working. well, we just talked to the mayor. he said he's a little prouder and i city and body said he's also little worried because he does

know how long these volunteers right now. they are 1200 wallet volunteers here in the town helping. but he said he doesn't know how long they can stay, but because at some point they have to get back to their life to their work. and, and that's why he right now is talking to international organization in the hope that they would take over to w, so big it's a shocker, reporting from the polish ukrainian border. thank you very much. the international atomic energy agency says there is no cause for immediate alarm. after a loss of electricity at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. the agency said it's saw quote, no critical impact on safety, even as the power loss means the plant may no longer be able to cool nuclear fuel. you creating officials of war. the power could lead to the release of radio activity. the plant has been occupied by russian forces since the early days of the

invasion while none the less so lots of concerns about this a development like to bring in the professor geraldine thomas, a director of the turn noble tissue bag, a research project that looks into radiation induced too much professor, so thank you so much for your time. let me 1st get your insights in terms of what happened in turnover earlier today. earlier today i'm from what i understand is there was a been a power outage. it's nothing that we should really be concerned about that will be diesel generators on site as well. but also you have to remember, chernobyl has been shot since 2000. and the last on the reactor was, i was actually, it was round about 2000. so the fuel has been sitting in the fuel homes for a while, cooling down actually after about 5 years, even if the water drains away this efficient as you keep that for fuel. cool. so

there shouldn't be any problems at all. a professor help us understand why is it problematic that a nuclear side is cut off from power? well, it depends on what the situation is at this particular point in time with gentle with it being inactive, being the fuel fuel rods, having cooled down for period of at 20 is that's probably not an awful lot of concern. if it was an active launch, like as we saw in focusing or an old cooling was last, unless the react is, are completely cool down. they need to be kept cool. but that's not the situation that you know, there are no active react. is there now, or you've outlined that diesel generators are likely jumped in to provide electricity for we understand what to days. what happens after that? well, my understanding is actually that the, the mechanisms that are involved in the safety of the site are not affected by the

power cause. but even if the, the deal generation stops after 2 days, the fuel itself is now in a state where it can be just left to draw in the air. so even pull the water evaporates from the palms, it will be perfectly safe to leave it in the air to be cool enough like that. now of course, the world has come to no turn oval as one of well is one of the most notorious nuclear accidents. is it likely that there might still be radiation leaks and who would be affected? highly unlikely? and if they were, it would only be the local area. the reason that that was the radioactive cloud that everybody is so worried about the actual accident in 1906 was that there was a large explosion which ejected the volatile elements into the atmosphere, into the upper atmosphere. and then they were carried around on the normal wind patterns that we have across europe. that is not going to happen. now. this is not an active plans. if there was anyway, the ation leakage a tool and that stress is very unlikely. it would only be to the local area.

professor geraldine thomas, director of the turnover tissue bank. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. we greatly appreciate it. thank you very much. the u. s. has rejected a plan by the polish government to transfer fighter jets to the united states ramstein air base. to then be sent to ukraine, pentagon press secretary, john kirby, caught the idea untenable us vice president. commonly, harris is headed to poland to show support for the country, as it takes in the bulk of ukrainian refugees. but the diplomatic growl over the war plains but overshadow, revisit the main disagreement is over where the jets would be sent from. the us initially floated the idea early of this month of gifting, poland, a number of f sixteens, if poland were to send its soviet era, make 20 nines to the ukrainian air force, but poland will quarterly did not want the jets to leave from ukraine. rather,

it wanted it to from, within its borders rather for fear of russian retaliation. but we'd like to turn out to lieutenant general ben hodges. he's a retired u. s. army officer and the former commander of us forces in europe, and he joins us from frankfurt. germany, a very good day, sir. so good of you to make some time out to speak to us. why is sending weapons in to ukraine acceptable but sending fighter jets untenable? according to the pentagon, i completely disagree with this decision by the pentagon or the announcement. if that's the case, i'm not sure that the book is closed on this. so i love the initiative by poland to give capability that ukrainian need so they can defend themselves. i'm sure it's more complicated underneath than it seems. and i'm willing to bet that we're going to eventually get there. but to the point of your question,

i would not make the difference that providing aircraft is bad, the providing japanese good or acceptable. so i hope that we get this fixed very quickly. would you be in favor of neo intervening or enforcing a no fly zone over ukraine as the ukrainians have been leading nato to do well for sure. we cannot repeat what we did at trevor. lisa, in 1095 where your pin soldiers under un mandate stood outside the city, while 8000 and bosnian men and boys were murdered for public, a search go for or so. so we, we can do that or what deliberate murder of ukrainian citizens every single day because they're being targeted by russian force. still, this is not inconsequential. if nato gets inside ukrainian, aerospace, and on the ground and ukraine, that, that potentially changes the nature of what's going on here. for sure,

no air forces would destroy russian air forces. but the bigger point is, what are the implications and we want to preserve the unity of the alliance. so this is not a decision to be taken alone by the united states. i do think it's worth considering, though. most of the damage is being done in the cities is not by the russian air force. it's being done by systems on the ground. missiles, rockets, artillery, fired from a russian units inside ukraine and also inside russia. and by the black sea fleet. what can we do to help you crane, destroy those anti ship capability, more intelligence, longer range systems where we koreans could destroy the source of this damage. and there was lieutenant general ben hodges, a retired u. s. army officer and the former commander of us forces in europe. meanwhile, canadian prime minister just in trudeau in german chancellor shoals have held talks

in berlin. the pair discuss the transatlantic response to the russian invasion of ukraine. mister schultz said, hopes of a military solution to the conflict were senseless and he hope diplomacy would prevail. mister today, meanwhile, announced millions of dollars more in weapons support for ukraine. and following their meeting, the 2 leaders addressed the media where the german chelsor ruled out categorically, sending fighter jets to ukraine. yeah, we need to have a lice. 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 this certainly does not include combat aircraft on c. hill is kind of come to target and the canadian prime minister justin crudo trudeau rather had this to say, canada and germany stand together against buttons invasion. he represents

a threat to democracy, to security, and to peace in europe and around the world. this morning i spoke with president zalinski 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. ah, and he accepted. and d, w political correspondent, the nasa was at that very press conference as she said, both leaders are walking a difficult line between aiding ukraine and preventing an escalation between russia and nato. the german chancellor will of 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 or love. so it was very clear and said we have to be extremely careful in

how we show the solidarity with ukraine that does not include fighter planes where we'll 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 the fact that germany and canada and nato countries don't want to escalate the situation at thereby essentially supporting will have choices was and that was due to be political correspondent in a hassle reporting earlier. let me tell you about the other developments in the conflict. the kremlin is reporting that president of latimer putin and german chancellor. all shawls have spoken about the war in ukraine. they reportedly discussed humanitarian corridors, and mister, put in brief mister shawls on the last round of talks between russia and ukraine,

germany has not confirmed the kremlin statement. the european union says it will add more russian oligarchy and government officials to its sanctions list. russel's also wants to monitor whether crypto currencies are being used to circumvent it. sanctions, 3 banks from by roost, rushes ally will be cut off from the swift banking system. the refugee exit, as is seen, thousands of ukrainians arrive here in berlin every day. it's called the capital off guard and is pushing resources to the limits. berlin has appealed for help from other parts of the country. safe at last, far from the war, the ukrainian refugees at this shelter arrived in berlin a few days ago, traumatized and exhausted. very few were willing to talk to us. one woman from the besieged city of car give told us she finally managed to get some sleep after

arriving here. she can't hold back her tears. what it looks like. he quoted my sister still there his own little job with that she lives in an apartment block on the 8th floor that you had. she told me she'll never leave. she'd rather die their bombs and missiles raining down on the city. will dial it when you're about 140 people have found temporary shelter here. they're being cared for in part by an en geo that operates shelters like these. it's manager tells us time is of the essence in this crisis. and having to under enough, i got a glory. i am on sunday morning to say the people would be moving in that day. that's my colleagues. work like crazy in constant shift us to get everything ready over the san talks to buses. arrived carrying refugees in the course of the day, and we thought that was it could by evening another passport out to our door with no advance notice that to your after arriving at berlin central train station

people are taken to their accommodation. more than 10000 refugees from ukraine arriving every day. the city has sounded, the alarm saying it can't cope. germany's interior minister has promised to help me can be ang, we are evaluating how to provide refugees from the war zones with a place to stay in germany. naturally, they can't all stay in berlin. the city can't cope on its own. melina line, an applicant stem. the government is working on a plan to coordinate the distribution of refugees, but all of germany states have pledged to take people in or me, as i said, to slow it is possible. i just want to say thank you to germany for helping us in this situation. the 1st of all, my grandmother and i will try to help a country in any way i can was presumably so it will take time to settle refugees across germany until then berlin will have to continue rolling out the help for new arrivals. while we're at war, raging at home,

many ukrainian artists have found shelter abroad. the keep city ballet was touring in france when russia invaded ukraine. is dancers delivered an emotional performance in paris while struggling to keep in touch with family and friends trapped at home? ah, the dancers of the key of city ballet left home thinking they were going on a european tour. now they have no idea when they'll get back home to ukraine. the ti i told you should lay in paris as offered them a stage and a temporary residency. clears it, unlocked the door, had creating is an act of resistance. d. as said, it's an act that says to those who want to occupy ukraine to vladimir putin. here we continue to look forward to look far upward to use culture also as a peaceful weapon nom up, but that's what we're doing here tonight. at the shuttling theater swap is you at the output you shut les are only part of the company was traveling when the war broke out. meaning many of their artists are still stuck in ukraine. the

uncertainty of what's to come has left the dancers physically and emotionally exhausted. a tried to connect a family all the time during the day during the night. check use. i can't explain what i am filling in because you invoice all the time, all 13 days. we are praying for our families, for grain amid the anxiety, the chance to keep dancing in france is a lifeline. being able to focus on work is kind of a bright point in our day. when we get to focus on ballet steps and focus on music and something other than the conflict in ukraine, the young dancers performed to a full house and too much applause on tuesday night. dancing

in safety and friends, but their hearts and minds are with their families in ukraine. they're watching it renews life from berlin. i'm way allow her rock. thank you very much for spending time with us with

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