[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw, the live a from a burly and a parent rush, an air strike destroys a children's hospital in ukrainian city of mario, president, viola demeria lensky, calls the incident on atrocity as fears mount that russia could step up a tax on civilian targets also coming up on the show, the u. s. rejects a polish plan to send warplanes to ukraine from a u. s. base saying the proposal, raised 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 em claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. ukraine's president says a russian air strike has devastated a children's hospital in the besieged port city of mario paul. volunteers lensky wrote on twitter that the strike left children buried under debris and called the incident an atrocity. and the strike marks a violent escalation amid growing fear is that russia could increasingly target civilian infrastructure in ukraine. a warning that this coming report contains disturbing footage. ah, another explosion, rocks the besieged city of mario pole. but the target was no military installation . a children's hospital now in ruins, after

a direct hit from an apparent russian s strike ukrainian authorities, reportedly 17 injuries and fear. many more may still be trapped inside the world. health organization has verified 18 attacks on health facilities and workers. since the start of the invasion in statements on wednesday, it cold on russia to commit to a peaceful resolution will come and allow humanitarian aid to reach those in need. when this violence is breaking, eh, it's breaking bodies is breaking minds and it's breaking souls. and it's must, must, must stop. but it is not the doctors and the nurses. it is not the humanitarians . the co stopped the shiloh rushes invasion continues to meet heavy resistance. but military analysts warned that russian forces are increasingly shelling civilian

areas in the northeastern city of summa, the 1st successful humanitarian corridor desperate ukrainians, managed to flee during a pause in the fighting while further west, hundreds more. flee the keefe city of if and crossing a damaged bridge that russian troops have repeatedly fired on as civilians tried to get across. but even as some managed to escape during the ceasefire, air raid sirens sound and keith, wanting people to stay indoors. thousands face, another long night sheltering in caves, metro station finding what safety they can on the ground. i want to bring in our correspondence in ukraine, nick connelly and keith. and these are horrendous scenes that we're 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 c on the other side, and russian troops or so on that see border. they've been left without power, without mobile phone networks for 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 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 that figure is certainly a place where people are suffering and are losing their lives on a daily basis. and where attempts create manager and corridors have failed. and 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? and now he hadn't seen the kind of destruction mcmurry older and hockey cities who

have had extensive bombing west 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 the suitcases. here in the center though there hasn'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 you grant them to present lensky. so there's a big fear of strangers. worry about the bridge and, and it just sense that people are constantly on edge. i want to talk more about these evacuation humanitarian court, orange. you've mentioned that the appears some quarters have been save. others have come under russian is 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 country, some of these corridors have worked, it will be able to train them west towards leave ukraine pieces 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 just 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 cooling for some kind of un peacekeeping mission. so we have to have

more about that. but that certainly sounds 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 w correspondent, nick connelly. thank you so much for that update. well the united states has rebuffed 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 that its pilots know how to fly, to help it fight rush of invasion. these are the warplanes was so wanted 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 potent pro, sending its plains to the u. s. his ramstein airbase in western germany from where the u. s. could send them on to ukraine. tactful vase. no. this is it such a serious decision, like handling of the planes must be unanimous and taken unequivocally by all of the north atlantic lions just saw a park. this is why we have taken such

a decision. and to day the decision in the nato's hands. in the hands of the americans, evident, got knowledge of an anchor american in return, poland was expected to receive american made f. 16 fighters an idea floated by washington earlier in the month. but u. s. secretary of state and he blinkin said the plan presented issues also the prospect of fighter jets at the disposal of the united states government. departing from a u. s. nato. based in germany to fly into aerospace, contested with russia over ukraine, raises some serious concerns for the entire nato elias 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 ah, and the logistical challenges that it presents. speaking off to talks on the war with canadas prime minister justin trudeau, german chancellor, earl of schultz was quick to rule out the idea. yeah, mm hm. 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 this certainly does not include combat aircraft on c hellish. kindly come through target with poland. unwilling to act unilaterally and nato divided, it seems unlikely that these jets will be joining the fight in the skies ever ukraine. any time soon? let's get more from d to the is chief political editor, mikaela cook. now she spoke to christoph hoisin, who was the head of the munich security conference. he spoke about providing support to ukraine without risking direct confrontation with russia. ambassador hawkins demons, household ruled out germany delivering any fight. is it supposed 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, a lot of solidarity the what the our citizens doing is enormous. what we do in providing anti tank miss stingy 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 and the russian foreign ministers meeting tomorrow. they talk on the ukranian side that one might not want to join nato necessarily. soon after all the russian side, no longer sites regime change is a goal. what could be a potential outcome coming up on thursday? first of all, it is very important that the minister speak. i do not know where they stand out in the preparatory debates. but what the presence lensky has offered is 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 says he ultimately want? well, i think he, he wants what he said. i think that he wants to rebuild the soviet union under the russian flag, and he was totally mistaken. he's probably believed in what he sent that ukraine is not a real estate that ukraine is part of russia that you have fascists and people druck headaches and they're as they're 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 home can head of the news curate conference. thank you so much. thank you. my pleasure. my colleague, mckayla casner, allow it to take a look at some other developments in this conflict. the kremlin is reporting that

president vladimir putin and german chancellor left sholtes have spoken about the war in ukraine, discussing humanitarian corridors, among other things. in the call came as russian and ukrainian foreign minister as prepared to head to turkey for their 1st meaning. since the war began. the european union says it will add more russian oligarchs and government officials to it sanctions list. brussels also wants to monitor whether crypto currencies are being used to circumvent at sanctions. and 3 banks from bella, rue, say russian ally will be cut off from the swift banking system. will the refugee accident is seeing more and more ukrainians arrive here in berlin every day is 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 world. 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 heart 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 is a widow job with that 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 10 pre shelter here. they're being cared for in part by an end geo that operates shelters like these. it's manager tells us time is of the essence in this crisis. and having to under nafta, i got a call at 3 am on sunday morning to say the people would be moving in that day. just to my colleagues, work like crazy in constant shift us to get everything ready over the song ducks. 2 buses arrived carrying refugees in the course of the day,

and we thought that was it, but by evening, another passport out to our door with no advance notice to you. 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 angry or 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 actually 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 the as a chair to which is bessie by. i just want to say thank you to germany for helping us in this situation. that 1st of ally canon 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. you're watching a d. w news. i'm clear. richardson in berlin don't go away. chelsea delaney will be up next with the business. thanks so much for watching. people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. order families and the reason for these critical illness is we learn to give them straight people fleeing extreme ross getting 200 people with around the world