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to declare the war. not only do you play by the whole, well. speaking to d, w, former ukrainian president petro shanker, calls for more western support to defend ukraine, and talks between ukraine and russia, make no progress towards ending the war, ukraine's foreign minister vows ukraine will never surrender, as his russian counterpart defend the invasion. ah, i'm see me. so miss gander. glad you could join us. russian airstrikes has hit 2 children's hospitals in ukraine. official say 3 people died including a child when a series of blasts hit a maternity hospital in the besieged city of murder. you pull. russia denies the reports as fake news and says ukrainian troops had taken over the building. but western allies say the russian military is using weapons indiscriminately in what ukraine is calling

a genocide. we want to warn you that this next report contains some disturbing images. lisa renewed for my uncle. this smouldering ruins. not of a military installation, but a maternity hospital in mary a pole. the direct hit from an apparent russian air strike st. women in labor, fleeing into the called a hundreds i reported injured. mary poll has been the target of sustained bombing and shelling for days. mass graves have been dug for the dead. authorities have told people how to dispose of dead family members. wrap their bodies, tie the limbs and leave them on the street. ukrainian president followed amir zalinski is calling rushes attacks on civilians, a genocide showing him whimper. when would you be to day,

we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land. we all of the destroyed cities and everything they have done. no one is thought best trouble news or will vol laval. ivy are borne by the an aerial dorm on the maternity hospital. is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of ukrainians. grain? oh ins, autumn year, russian bomb this hit 2 more hospitals. ah, one of them, another children's hospital. their city is nearly a 150 kilometer is west of here and has come under increasing fire. just the night before another civilian target was hit. douglas lindsay lis

your move with you. this man wouldn't need a no fly zone any more, but we do not believe he won't need any fighter planes anymore. what we do here. we do diplomatic negotiations are stepping up. but as russia perseveres with heavy shelling, ukrainian civilians are paying a high price for vladimir putin is war? oh, i'm joined now by peter. what a shinkel he was president of ukraine from 2014 to 2019. and he is joining us from t of mr. poto shank a welcome to the w. we just saw images there from the bombed out maternity clinic and muddy you paul, 1st i want to start with getting your reaction to that attack. this is absolutely clear that this is the demonstration of the genocide of the rostrum. drops and absolutely madness the crazy man yet. oh jim that he can explain

for voight more than 50 ukraine and children were killed by russian troops online muddy, open. the mail friday hopefully inform about 1300 killed civilians. this is not only in my day opened when we have our maternity home, all children, hospital bed tech in more than 250 schools. more than $100.00 and plenty to hospitals. more than 2000 severe lim objects. and would this situation, this is no explanation, this is absolutely demonstration. the bratia act, even not like an aggressive, but there's a terroristic steps. and our reaction on these behavioral fujen and ross and wilson rosalyn spate would be exactly like at terroristic steps. and now it is extremely

important that the whole world is united or mr. vice little, really quick question. you said our reaction will be exactly like this, these terrorist that's what do you mean by that? it says that the we should be a shoulder to shoulder in the demonstration there, a support of ukraine not only by finance, not only by political means, but also in the defensive capabilities. with that situation, i think it would be difficult to explain why ukraine, who fighting here not only pull ukraine on soil, not only put our which children all 4 hour ladies. we are fighting here for freedom for democracy because put in, declare the war, not only to ukraine by the whole west, he declared the war against germany against us, against you gave against europe. and we should understand that. and given us the

jet fight a given as their auntie dan could lease aisles or a rocket launcher. ok, given as their i'm jack off, this is exactly the roll we, you gray me, i'm here on the ground fighting. can you imagine that from here to the position of that awesome troops is less than time kilometers? and the funny i used to prompt, i understood it. let's talk about what you just mentioned, this message to the west. we've seen some reluctance to send fighter jets to aid ukrainian force, as we know, as you know, that the nato has been reluctant, for example, to take up the offer from poland because of fears of escalating the conflict further. what do you think about these concerns from ukraine's allies festival. i want that you should have absolutely clear understanding which in do not stop on ukraine. if ukraine failed, nobody knows where to morrow it will appear. if fortune now one agreed there lamp

caught her daughter between crimea and occupied dorm bus white to morrow, he do not want to make her lammed corridor for all. ah, rasa, do the cleaning grout region truly to anyway. this is and the, and in this is our joint tool. and ukraine simply don't have time to wait until their western politician make a decision to gala said james fight. this is very simple. and the says, 1st of all, this is the life of ukrainian every single hour. we lost our civilian, our soldiers, our children, and this, everybody should understand the price for delay, a band of the bad. don't have any doubts that the flight will be here. and for example, we, when we talking about a no fly zone any, if you are relaxed and not you, but rest them, condition are reluctant to give it to us because that is the demonstrating that some nato member states would be in the war. you should understand nato is already

in the war with russia, and this will was launch and not by them nature member states, but by butcher. and if tomorrow, for example, derosa will continue the attack of the chernobyl. a separate asia nuclear power station, which is 10 times more powerful than shall mobile. that is the fact that the, the nuclear contamination don't have any border. and that's why we are protecting the nuclear power station, protect them civilian objects to protect in ukraine. we are protecting germany, please. i as a president, we have very efficient work with a germany. i'm very much appreciated for the lead in the roles of the german chancellor. i'm giller american for their blunder stock, where we have a bipartisan support. i'm very much appreciate that. the diplomatic as of right. okay. which ever credential, but please now we definitely need emerson's capable because the front capability,

mr. punish ankle. i do want to get your take on diplomatic efforts because we have seen, as you know, this meeting between the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers earlier in the day that didn't seem to make much progress. but there seems to be some sort of door open, perhaps a window for the meeting between vladimir zalinski, the ukrainian president, and perhaps a vladimir putin. at the same time, you're saying vladimir putin is responsible for war crime for genocide. should there be diplomatic talks between the 2 leaders? definitely, yes was no any mation and the world wants be smaller than be great. and we sent you all don't what unit is and we have some progress because just want to weeks ago, 2 weeks ago or june is not what is, is refusing to meet zelinski to meet norman before much because he said that he has nothing to say to talk about today because of the free man army because of our soldiers because of the unity of ukraine and people who can understand that peasy

idea bleak the lips creek is pale with and i am today and i love it off, said that movie is ready to have a negotiated, please get out from your grey man soil. please get out your troop. please stop killing your grave. and this is absolutely perm basis for negotiation. okay. i definitely know we can very well and i have 5 years experience in negotiation with him. i don't, prosecutor goes no one, he would know never when he promised me to make a c is 5 to release the cost a just to his broke his throat. never could keep. he was. org but please just stronger. we are yet it more effective is a diplomacy. would you go as far as we allow them to go? now because of our unity because of the sanctioned because of our co operation. we care about unique jobs to stop boot please. let's not miss these jobs. okay. we'll

have to leave it there. pethel put a shank of the president of ukraine from 2014 to 2019. joining us today from kiev. thank you for sharing your insights with us today. now the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine have held their 1st face to face talk since the kremlin invasion, but the 2 sides fail to make any significant progress. the high level talks were hosted by turkey on the sidelines of the diplomacy forum and until yeah, rushes foreign minister survey love, rob said president putin is ready to sit down for a summit with ukraine leaders, zalinski, ukrainian foreign minister, demetrius who labor reiterated, please to establish a humanitarian quarter and express hopes for further talks with moscow lover of defended moscow's invasion of ukraine. here's what he said away against militarization of ukraine with netapp without and doesn't matter. and we're not happy with americans deploying some weapons that would keep our church under

control. number 2, we are again. so korean, turning into a neo ne, says ne ne sand. and she's like, living old not, not says traditions where others are new and as, as to marching all across ukraine and so forth. re, when those girls committed, sir, are trained in order to commit crimes and fag. so we want ukraine to be a neutral ne san present put in has said many times, i cannot them, was it insisting on and neither not to expand anymore. we do not deprive your cramps from safety and security. on the contrary, we are ready to discuss the guarantees of safety to the benefit of a cranes give us a long ways the those which is rubin nation so, so aims clogging of course, considering sit as a rush, has safety, ukraine's foreign minister pushed russia for an immediate response to agreeing to

safe passage for ukraine citizens in the meeting. i made a very simple proposal. i said, we all have our smartphones with us while probably minister lateral hes his last i phone. but that's, that's another story. and i said, i can call my officials right away. my president, my prime minister, my commander in chief and i give you 100 percent that they will provide all assurances that humanitarian corridors will work. i am ready to do it right now, right here in your presence. can you do the same? can you make the call? i'm sure you have all of them in the phone book. he did not respond to that. ukraine is strong, ukraine is fighting ukraine. made russian plan russian initial plans fail.

we're ready to seek, balanced diplomatic solutions to put an end to this war. but we will not surrender . our chief international editor, richard walker has been following this day of diplomacy for us, richard to very different messages we're hearing from the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers there. yeah, absolutely. i mean, the tile style, the tone couldn't be more different but, but ultimately they're both kind of telling the same story which is that nothing really came out of these talks. there was a lot of anticipation about these talks in the last few days. the fact that the happening at all, or just over 2 weeks into this war being taken by many is an optimistic sign that maybe some kind of progress could be taken. also some signs in the messaging on both sides that they could be some opening up a potential political space where you could potentially find scope for an agreement . but what we've heard today is essentially that no progress is being made even on

things where you might imagine that they are obvious things that should be achieved at this point. for instance, a humanitarian corridor from mario called the city. this being a bombarded most heavily at the moment, mutual labor saying that he really wanted to achieve that. and complaining this as a lover of didn't have the mandate to make a decision like that, as we just heard in the clip that the lever off, according to labor is telling of account of this wasn't in a position to cool. his boss is in agree to something like that. so frustration, i think coming from caliber from sergey lever off, he was essentially saying we were talking about all of this monitoring issues. but the main issue that is on the agenda at the moment was not for discussion here. that is concrete proposals that the russians say that they hand it over to the cranium. that the last low level talks which took place in belarus

a few days ago. and that they're waiting for a response to those. so really quite extraordinary lack of progress, i would say given the fact that you had the 2 most senior figures this in this crisis meeting for very long time. now this was the highest level context, as you said, since the start of the war, just to come back to this point on humanitarian quarter is on reaching some sort of common ground there. why has it been so difficult for both sides to find some sort of agreement on finding safe passage for ukrainians, particularly out of my are you paul, where we've seen heavy bombing again get with it? it's a good question. of course, achieving sci fi is even local, i see spies in was, is difficult, and even once they're agreed, they can sometimes break down. and it's not always clear where the responsibility lies for that. but of course, in this context, the aggressor is very obviously russia and obviously as the country that is being invaded, ukraine has the greatest interest in providing these humanitarian corridors in providing opportunities to rescue the citizens that they feel responsible for. so i

think it is a source of great frustration and it doesn't reflect well on the russians that these fires have broken down. and also that they evidently were not in a position to agree on this in this meeting today, given what we saw today, where do you think the next steps lie for further diplomatic talks yet? well, i mean both sides are saying that they're open to more talks and also the russians are saying, and this was one relatively concrete thing that we heard from 2nd level of. he said the vladimir putin is ready for a summit with his ukrainian count of a lot of years lensky, but that a lot of preparation has to be done. of course, a summit meeting between the 2 leaders would be a really major event. and that would be really where we started to see whether it was possible to find a political agreement around this crisis. but the way there is very onset,

it, it's really quite hard to see how they get there from the position they're in at the moment. from the rush telling of things they're waiting for a response from the ukranian side. and from what we're hearing from for a lot of miss zaleski, there was an interesting interview that he gave to american television to salient the week where he said, for instance, that he was going cool on the idea of george joining nate, right. and that there may be room to negotiate about issues like crimea and the eastern breakaway regions of you. right? so some kind of signals coming from the ukrainians, also some signals coming from a dmitri pest golf that, that's, of letting me putin spokesman about potential areas. well, simply beginning to kind of lay out with more clarity what the russian political demands might be for a political sense of a political settlement. so little bits of movement here and there the,

the people being clinging on to. but if talks keep going like this is gonna take a very long time to make any progress, your chief international editor richard walker is always thanks so much for analysis. now to some other developments in the conflict, us, vice president campbell, a harris says that washington is prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. she made those remarks in warsaw during talks with polish leaders and coo, including prime minister mateusz. moreover, yet he earlier the united states rejected a proposal from poland to transfer mig 29 fighter jets to a u. s. air base and then deliver them to ukraine. washington as warning of a potential chemical or biological weapon attack by russia in ukraine. it comes after moscow accused us of supporting a bio weapons program in ukraine. the biden administration believes the accusation could be an attempt by the kremlin to justify such an attack. and the us house of representatives is approved a massive spending bill that includes $13600000000.00 of aid to ukraine and

european allies. the funds will cover the costs of sending us troops and weapons to eastern europe, as well as care for refugees. laid on the united nation says around 2200000 people have now fled ukraine. most of them are women and children, often leaving behind loved ones to fight, not knowing whether they will see each other again. the majority of the refugees are arriving in poland. d. w. 's alexander phenomena sent us this report from the western border crossing of shinny green. one last embrace before they say good bye. redeem has brought his family to the polish border so they can leave the country. he will be heading back to the frontlines. you did to you good to do the up. it is because of the kids all make with no one wants to leave their home. it's so hard to you. you can't explain. it actually will. it's hard to lose. we don't know whether we're going to see each other again either which moves you know will

throw on them bullies in it was so good. tell them by my side. when you're together with your family, you feel better now, i'll be alone. but i know they'll be safe one and it safety's just a few meters away. we are at the border check point in shaheen. the busiest border crossing between ukraine and poland. those who are now here have been waiting for hours, just like natalia and her twins. they escaped to russian, bombardments in harkins, in eastern ukraine, tossed among citizens. we've been through a lot. you're sitting in the whole or in the cellar with your children while they bombing the city. and don't know, i will a bomb dropped now and that's it. so what did we do to deserve that? natalia doesn't believe that the war will be over soon. many ukrainians seem to think the same and sold alliance at the border on not getting any shorter people on the move, both inside and outside the country in desperate need of protection and support. as

rushes war with ukraine continues an estimated 4000000 people may flee. the country, according to the united nations, hottie and snacks for free, distributed by you, queen anne international volunteers along the route to the border. this is where we meet not tele from keith. she's traveling alone with her 3 children. did them to deliver them to the children are suffering the most because my husband had to staying keith, they cry. my oldest son keeps asking. will we never, ever see dad again? and he starts crying again. the un has called it the fastest growing with hickey crisis in europe since word or 2. this is what it looks like in real life. the british government has halted the sale of premier league club shall see after it froze the assets of its russian owner roman abramivitch. he is

a close ally russian president putin. chelsea will still be allowed to play matches at the club, won't be able to sell new tickets to fans, sign players or sell merchandise. these measures are intended to deprive the oligarchy of benefiting from the clubs. ownership. ukrainian athletes have made another appeal for peace. at the beijing paralympics, several members of ukraine's national paralympic committee observed a minute of silence calling for an end to the war. despite grappling with rushes invasion of their homeland, the ukrainian team has thrived out the paralympics. they've claimed 6 gold medals, putting them 3rd in the table behind china and canada. the teams resilience has been applauded by the president of the international paralympic committee. with war, raging at home, many ukrainian artists have found shelter abroad. the key of city ballet was touring and france when russia invaded ukraine. its dancers delivered an emotional performance in paris while struggling to keep in touch with family and friends

trapped at home. or 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 t i told you, shut, lay in paris, as offered them a stage and a temporary residency. please sit unlocked the door, creating is an act of resistance. d, as said, it's an act. it 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. swab, if you at the output you shortly, 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 feeling because you in worries all the time. all 13 days. we are praying for our families for your 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 focus on ballet steps and focus on music and something other than the conflict anyway. 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.

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