ah, ah ah, this is dw, the why we're from berlin, an apparent russian air strike destroys a children's hospital in the ukrainian city of mario for president ovalo, a. d mares of lensky calls the incident, an atrocity as fear mount there. russia could step up a tax on civilian targets. also coming up on the show, the us were jacks a polish plan to send warplanes to ukraine from a u. s. base. say the proposal, raise serious concerns for the nato alliance. and searching for safety. berlin struggles to cope as tens of thousands of ukrainian refugees arrived in the german

capital. ah, hello, i am clare richardson to our viewers on a p. b. as in the united states and around the world, a warm welcome to the shop. ukrainian officials are se russian bombs have hit a children's hospital in the ukrainian port city of mario poll, wounding at least 17 people, and warning that these images we are about to show you our disturbing. now this video shows a pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher just after several blasts hit the site. young children were also among those evacuated a blast, a crater, 2 stories deep could be seen outside the hospital, and the ground shook more than a mile away. ukrainian president as the lensky called the bombing an atrocity, and said people were buried under the wreckage. i want to bring in our

correspondence in ukraine, nick connelly and keith. and these are horrendous scenes that we are seeing from this hospital in mario, paul, can you tell us more about what has happened while the situation meribelle has been pretty atrocious for civilians for days now. and it seems to be just the combination of the city that is under siege from 3 sides with the see on the other side and russian troops or so on that see border. they've been left without power without mobile phone networks, teaching for days. and now we've all seen those extraordinary images that you just mentioned, marable, it's very difficult to get more in the way of concrete information because they're basically no jealous left on the ground who can independently verify this. but we've heard from miracles mass, who says that since this war has begun those past 2 weeks, he says more than a 1000 civilians have died. america, we can't verify the figure is certainly a place where people are suffering and are losing their lives on a daily basis. and where attempts,

great manager and corridors get failed repeatedly. you've been reporting for us from the capital key. can you tell us how things are looking from their key of the city in expectation of something worse? for now, he hadn't seen the kind of destruction exceed merganzoler in hockey. cities have had extensive bombing where civilians have died in their homes where government buildings been attacked for now. most of the fighting has been in the suburbs. base been, i think that most people in europe at least have seen those pictures in recent days . the british destroyed people losing their lives, civilians losing their lives on the, on their way out, trying to get out with their families, with their suitcases. here in center though there hadn't been that much destruction yet. the green and across the fence are still working to some extent the government government quarter incentive isn't locked down. and also there's a lot of nervousness optimal. those attempts to, to kill ukraine, some presidents lensky. and so there's a big fear of strangers. worry about rusty bridges and they're just sense that

people are constantly on it. now i want to talk more about these evacuation humanitarian chords. you've mentioned this appears some quarters have been save, others have come under russian. it's showing what has the situation been like today with that regard was very different picture depending on which one to come to you look at mary paul, as i mentioned that it's failed once again. and people are essentially stuck there in a situation is getting increasing desperate supplies were learned. now with that bombing, as we saw of the children. so school in the past country, some of these corridors have worked. it will be able to get on the train and head west towards leave ukraine beach in the west, near the border with bowden and the you. so people are able to move. but i think this is all very, very tenuous. this is not going to last long. the situation is just too difficult between russia, ukraine with soldiers dying every day. there isn't any trust between both sides to kind of keep this going and yes to help immunization route. so i,

but i don't think these guys ations are printed on the ground in a way that would enable them to enforce this kind of temporary c 5 military reasons . and to force both sides, stick to that side of the bargain, the grains of cooling for some kind of un peacekeeping mission. so we have to have more about that. but that certainly sounds so it sounds like something that might be needed and might actually have a great chance of making these corridors work. and what was in right now to w correspondent, nick connelly. thank you so much for that update. and the united states has rejected an offer by poland to give washington its fleet of mig 29 fighter jets opening the way for transfer on to ukraine. and keith has been calling for the soviet era jets which is pilots know how to fly, to help it fight rushes invasion. these are the warplanes war, so want to put at washington's disposal. he has been calling on countries to provide them with the russian made jet pilots already trained to fly. poland pro,

sending its plains to the us, his ramstein airbase in western germany from where the u. s. could send them on to ukraine. tactful vase. no, this is yet such a serious decision like hanging out, the plains must be unanimous and taken unequivocally by all the north atlantic lions just thought. this is why we have taken such a decision with you and to day the decisions and nato's hands in the hands of the americans, evident, got knowledge of it. hancock, americans in return, poland was expected to receive american, made f. 16 fight. as an idea floated by washington earlier in the month, but u. s. secretary of state and he blinkin said the plan presented issues of the prospect of fighter jets at the disposal of the united states government. departing from the u. s. nato basin, germany to fly into aerospace, contested with russia over ukraine, raises some serious concerns for the entire nate alliance. so we have to work through the specifics of these things. i'm going for. what we're doing right now is continuing to consult, very closely with, with poland,

with other nato allies on this and the logistical challenges that it presents. speaking off the talks on the wall with canadas prime minister justin trudeau, german chancellor la schultz was quick to rule out the idea who may 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 feeling kind of come for talking with poland. unwilling to act unilaterally and nato divided, it seems unlikely that these jets will be joining the fight in the skies of ukraine anytime soon. let's get more on the story from our correspondence in washington. oliver's olive. hi oliver. us secretary of estate antony blink and has just said, we will continue to consult closely with poland and the other nato allies on

potential on the potential for jets to ukraine. i mean, that doesn't sound like he's entirely closing the door on the possibility. does it? i'll certainly not claire. what it shows is that there is political will of course, but at the same time it's a tricky task and a fine line. they're walking on right now. poland saying yes, ukraine can have those jets those make to russian made fighter jets. but they certainly don't want to be held accountable for delivering those jets into that war between russia and ukraine. so the offer being made by the police side, it was to bring them to the u. s. air force base on german soil. ramstein, of course involving 2 other natal members, whether u. s. is saying we're not interested in that solution either. so certainly some kind of a blame game that's going on here, or nobody wants to be the scapegoat in the end for actively involving itself into that conflict. now the challenge will certainly be how to do it without being drawn into a wide, a war. that's basically the discussion that's going on right now. and certainly,

of course, without a further involvement of natal in the war between russia and ukraine. and oliver, what's been equally interesting is how this has all developed. i mean, whole and didn't discuss this offer with the united states before it announced a publicly on tuesday. at least that is what the u. s. is saying, and it seems to have caught them by surprise. what position does that put washington in? yes, certainly. i caught them by surprise. claire, especially because the secretary of state, anthony blink and just was in poland himself a few days ago, and the topic was not discuss, at least not to that extent. now another aspect we're hearing right now, quite often in washington, is that actually though surface to surface to air mis files that are being delivered by nato partners to ukraine could be far more important in the future. because the air space over ukraine is considered very dangerous for ukrainian fighter jets anyway, because russian, because of the russian president presents there. and because of the russian fighter jets that are flying over ukraine, still ukraine has most of its fleet. and that is also because of that reason

because they simply can't use it. it's too dangerous. but they have been very successful shooting down russian jets with those surface to air missiles. and so that might be another potential way forward in the future. and on thursday, vice president come on, harris is that to meet the polish president in warsaw as part of her mission to reinforce western unity in the face of russian aggression. what can we expect from that meeting? well, there will certainly show unity there in an effort, of course, to deter russia. so poland is very concerned about the russian aggression. poland, as you know, shares a border with bella rues, the country had russian troops. a mass has been turned into some kind of a russian pop regime recently. and so one part of her mission, there will be reassurance for poland and also for the other eastern nato member part partners. and again, it's a fine line for the u. s, which is delivering arms to ukraine, which wants to support eastern nato members. country natal members of course a,

but then at the same time says no to a no fly zone over ukraine says no to delivering or being involved in a delivery of fighter jets to ukraine. so what they will do there is look for solutions to those topics and again, with the goal to be a to avoid being drawn into a wider conflict. ok, thanks oliver. our correspondent in dc of his out and with can more from d to the chief political editor, mikaela cochner. she spoke to christoph hoisin, who was head of the munich security conference. he spoke about providing support to ukraine without risking direct confrontation with russia. ambassador hawkins, german sausage, whole rule out germany delivering any 5 digit supposed that's also very unlikely to arrive now. is that a lack of solidarity with ukraine, or is that preventing a potential said world war? i think it's clearly the 2nd and it is very important that germany supports ukraine

and we do a lot lot of solidarity the what the, our citizens doing studies enormous. what we do in providing anti tank miss stingy is finger miss as this is very important, but to provide tighter planes would actually create a danger of a direct confrontation with russia. and this is something that the chancellors right of ruling out now, the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers meeting tomorrow. there's talk on the ukrainian side that one might not want to join nato necessarily. soon after all, the russian side, no longer side regime change as a goal, what could be a potential outcome coming up on thursday? first of all, it is very important that the minister speak. and i do not know where they stand out in the preparatory debates. but what presence lensky has offered to something that is very substantial and it would be good if the russians taking into consideration the miserable military situation. after all,

they are in that the russians would take this up and actually try to get a face saving way out. now you have sat across the table from me several times. what does he ultimately want? well, i think he, he wants what he said. i think that he wants to rebuild the soviet union under kind of the russian flag. and he was totally mistaken. he's probably believed in what he said that ukraine is not a real estate that ukraine is part of russia that you have fascists and people, druck headaches, there as their rulers. and he has to find out that it's the absolute opposite and they are pet. your take their, they do have their national identity, they are fighting and putting isn't a big dilemma right now. i'm back to the head of the news security conference. thank you so much. thank you. my pleasure. so that was my colleague, mckayla cuz her i'll take a look at some other developments in the conflict. the chrome one is reporting that president vladimir putin and a german chancellor. olaf sholtes have spoken about the war in ukraine,

discussing humanitarian corridors, among other things. the call came as russian and ukrainian foreign ministers prepared to head to turkey for their meeting. first meeting since the war began. the european union says it will add more russian oligarchy and government officials to its sanctions list. brussels also wants to monitor whether crypto currencies are being used to circumvent it. sanctions go, 3 banks from belarus. a russian ally will be cut off from the swift banking system and ukrainian authorities, se electricity has been cut off at the cher noble nuclear power plant, meaning it may no longer be possible to cool nuclear fuel. they warned that this could lead to the release of radioactivity, but the international atomic energy agency says it hasn't seen any evidence that the plant has become unsafe. hundreds of thousands of people escaping the fighting have made their way to the relative safety of the western ukrainian city of the heave. but it has become

a massive bottleneck. the only direction to flee being west. he w correspondent, alexandra phenomena, met up with some of the refugees. 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 suit cases and plastic bags. many of them seem to be traumatized. many of them are worried sick about the loved ones that they're left behind. when we start to cover who we are from cock have and the city has gone water than yet, but for all swimming, yeah. come with them. 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's 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. with you said lip, nobody even the brochure but the right do do both the people there now have been left for dead up at their hiding in basements with them. i can't even think about it when i sit down. bas. yeah, they're sitting there without any electricity, water or heating my mother's hiding in a cellar. her mother is mother you poor. she can't get hold of her. so just call it just like to throw my i haven't heard anything from her since march 2nd. because i knew i was just never would have expected something like this to happen, especially from russia and bella rose. i have so many relatives in moscow. you must be a more 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 were 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 news. my 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 sad, and some of them have a clear message to vladimir putin. 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. frantically, she knew, honestly, i think, put a nose he is sick and will die soon. and he wants to take as many people with him as possible, segregate sub boys of but mucus of a thought course wasn't,

wasn't did we've year when we live in the 21st century. we don't live in the 20th century anymore during the 2nd world war. where's civilized people? but how civilized is it for the whole of ukraine to leave ukraine? pretty well done. you have liberated us. thank you. redeem it by cba and the refugee accident is seeing more and more ukrainians arrived here in berlin . every day is called the capital off guard and is pushing resources to the lynette and 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 than what it looks like. he quoted, my sister still there is

a widow job with that the 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 so well done. when you're about 140 people have found 10 pre shelter here that being cared for in part by an angio that operates shelters like these. it's manager tells us. time is of the essence in this crisis. and having to under snuffed, i got a call at 3 am on sunday morning to say that people would be moving in that day just because my colleagues work like crazy in constant shift us to get everything ready over to san ducks. 2 buses arrived carrying refugees in the course of the day, and we thought that was it cut by evening. another boss point out to our door with no advance notice 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. we 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, and i believe 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 a chair, just law, which is bessie by i just want to say thank you to germany for helping us in this situation. that 1st of all, my grandmother and i will try to help the 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. and to find out more on the situation of refugees arriving from ukraine in germany and joined now by a member of the german parliament from the social democrats. the s p d and

a member of the committee for internal affairs of a warm welcome to hugger lint. i'm around a 10000 refugees are arriving every day in germany, and most of them are coming to berlin. what is the city doing to help these people? well, i think it's a kind of a luxury because it's a new situation and then the city is doing everything on the local, regional level to accommodation to acquire. and you had confirmation of the state of berlin. and on the other hand, a huge corporation with normal people, a warranty is offering their apartment offering to live together with improving crania. so it's a new kind of cooperation of civil society and state has to retain an outpouring of public support. but is berlin getting enough support from the federal government?

williams, our committee meeting committee on internal past just some minutes ago it ended and we've got some new them. now we're starting a new phase new p. read. and we're trying to combine the support of families from a crania, people saying, well, come to the families and of support for women of franklin up from the out in a region. so, but i'm just beginning the way to try to distribute to different regions to bring buses and trains to regions. for example, when i was a lower sex and the, and other parts of germany to get some pressure from berlin in pay. so it sounds like there is a system coming into place to distribute them to different german states. i want to ask what the situation is for refugees once they arrive in germany. will they be

able to have accommodation and to find employment in germany? yes, my will. and there really no more easily than, for example, refugees from 2 in the past because there's no assign procedure. every citizen of ukraine whose identity is clear, is able to work here in the future and to get support from the state to go to welfare and all that. and then apartment, of course, the, the actual problem is that in some municipalities in some city, there's a lot of pressure because it depends on the local community, blue, green communities, a kind of cool factor. but on the other hand, they are supporting in the integration of the people from craig as quite stunning compared to the lengthy procedures from people who arrive from places like syria. is it possible for these ukrainians to stay as long as they have like in germany?

well, the guidelines in european union directive and it says very clearly and it's correspondingly in the law in the paragraph 24 hour oftentimes because that they are able to stay for one you and it can be prolonged for another 2 years . so in the final stage, 3 of cause of the situation of the war is getting worse, maybe change, but 1st of all, it's one year and 2 years plus ok. how the lent a member of parliament from the social democratic party. thank you so much for joining us with that update. and with war raging at home, many ukrainian artists have found shelter abroad. the keep city ballet was touring in france when russia invaded ukraine. it's 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 tea i told you, shut, lay in paris, has offered them a stage and a temporary residency. please sit unlocked the door, had creating as 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 on that. but that's what we're doing here tonight at the shuttle . a theater swap is you at the output you shuttling 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 terrible shock with

dr to connect or family all the time during the day during the night check use. i can't explain what i am feeling because you in worries all the time. all 13 days, we are praying for our family history of 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. you're watching a dw news. let's get a recap of the main story we're following for you. ukrainian officials a say a russian air strike has devastated a children's hospital in the besieged city of mario. at least a dozen people are injured. president zalinski has called the incident on atrocity in watching a dw news from a per lynn. i'm clear, richard. then after a short break, i'll be back with you to take you through the day procedures with

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a subscribe to the dome documentary on youtube. ukrainian resistance has proved tougher than many thought in support. western countries are sending arms and aid and flapping more sanctions on russia, but as ukrainian president of willa dimmers, lensky pleads for fighter jets to counter russian air power. the west is largely refusing, and poland offered to make jets available via us base in germany by both washington and berlin rejected the idea. they and many others fear sending plains would fail to turn the tide in. you.