starts march 30th on d, w. ah, ah, ah, this is your news live from berlin. you leaders gather for crisis talks as war rages in ukraine, french president, michael hosting, a summit invest side to help coordinate a response to russia's invasion, ukraine's president of a lot of brazil lansky expected to make a virtual address to the gathering this as, as the path to peace remains elusive, talks between ukraine and russia, and in a new deal on a ceasefire. ukraine's foreign minister, val, it's ukraine,

will never surrender as his russian counterpart defends the invasion. plus permission to moscow. political reports, former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder is in the russian capital to try and mediate an end to the war. a new, great mister shorter has faced fierce criticism for his close ties with the kremlin . and humanitarian catastrophe. key accuses russia bombing, children's hospitals, in ukraine. authority say several people are dead, including at least one child. ah. hi everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you so much for joining us. all 27 of the use leaders are meeting and best sight. france for a crazy summer on the conflict in ukraine. the were waging on the use eastern

borders will dominate the discussions, leaders are expected to tackle, weaning the you off russian gas and oil, and bolstering the regions defense capabilities. while the summit had been organized long before russia launched that invasion into ukraine and top of the agenda were the economy and the pandemic. but now, all issues will be eclipsed by russia's hostilities on the use neighboring country and are just moments ago european commission present or is longer align. set out the agenda for the summit. take a listen. at this summit, we will rethink european defense with strong capabilities. we will, we think energy we have to get rid of the dependency of russian fossil fuels. and for that we need a massive, massive investment in renewables. and we will also certainly discuss ukraine as part of as our, of our european family. we want

a free and democratic ukraine with whom we share a common destiny. your commission president are stuff on the line. so we can just moments ago. let's take her to versailles due to abuse of course, wanted birth record is standing by barons. what are we to make of the commission presidents, a statement there? there's this mean fast tracking ukraine's membership to the you no, it doesn't mean that there will be no fast tracking. the leaders made it very clear when they arrived here. but they will think about a new security order for the whole of europe, for the whole of europe. they are dining in the hall of metaphysics, in this very splendid chateau here. 1919 after world war one in the it holds a new world order was created the voice to raging in ukraine. but the leaders already thinking about how your, the european security structure should look like after the war. and ukraine shall

be a part of this, also mo bird, also georgia. but there still a long way to go to membership. didn't make that very clear. there will no foss trek will be no foster to that. and now energy security also top of mind at where you are and what can we, what can we expect to see? will there be a consensus between the $27.00 heads of states in terms of reducing their reliance on that ration or energy? it's almost certain that the $727.00 leaders will not hear the plea from ukraine and to come to an embargo on russian oil and gas imports. are they both know to that because europe is too dependent on these impacts, but they will agree to phase out the dependency. and at the end of this year, already 2 thirds of gas imports from russia shall be cut and, but this is not, has not an immediate effect on russia. the war,

chest of fir vladimir bootable still be financed. but europeans, but they say is they say there is no other way out because we ought to ps to look at the impact that such an embargo would have on the european economies and emanuel my call, the host of the summit said her to herb is crushed by dodged villa and that europe has to be united on this and only then it came back, it can gain sovereignty and can gain new strength. and i understand that ukraine's president farmers lensky is due to make a virtual address to the leaders of the e that i gathered behind you. what about further support for ukraine? whether you will pledge more money for ukraine to buy a non lethal weapons, to buy ammunition and to, to have bring food and supplies into ukraine. but there will be no weapons transfer

. there will be no fighter jets or something coming from the u. s. so all the please and all the the demands are bloody murder zalinski might make in his videos will not be fulfilled. and this might be a little bit dis at not the little bit. it might be very disappointed for the ukrainians that are fighting the russians. did every christian's banter, vigor reporting from their sigh or whether you somebody's taking place? thank you so very much. and did have you corresponded by vessels, spoke to estonia, net prime minister kayak. alas, i had of the e u summit in versailles and got her take on how europe should respond to the events unfolding in ukraine. prime minister when european leaders are meeting here in paris in the shadow of the war in ukraine. what do you think they should do? what are you demands? what would you want to see out? we have a inform on meeting so no official decisions are made today. but of course we're

going to discuss ukraine and we can discuss how we can help you. crane and we also going to discuss out european perspective for ukraine and our own defense plans. so in, with regard to defense, for instance, what do you think you should do? europe, voice, a dwarf with regard to defense, hardly existent. so does, do you think they need to be a real see change in that? i think go, the situation has fundamentally changed this since the 24th of february. what we should do 1st, that we should all increase are expanding on defense a, as we have agreed in ne til, and you know, the minimum should be 2 percent. a 2nd thing we should do is to go from to terrence post church of defense plans. really, i mean how we defend our territory. and 3rd, we should also discuss our common capabilities because said there are some

capabilities that are at for any individual members. stay too expensive, but we should do this together. that would be the co operation for, for a europe. so there has been a 1st meeting between the russian of foreign minister lever off and the ukraine in foreign minister khalifa. no result there seems to be no chance for is even a ceasefire. m. do you think this is time now that europe turns to screw further of sanctions, washer and cutting off oil and gas the 1st of all, we have done very tough sanctions already and, and that is so what i'm happy about that we have been so united and so rapid as a, as well to put those sanctions forward. but of course we are discussing what else could we do in order to, you know, deprive a russian war machine, the money, and that to he's using it. american sauce is now fear that russia might be getting

ready for it. bio chemical or biological or chemical weapons attack. what then, what, how should you, how should native react? what do you think them, what we hear from russia? of course, these are, the news are very worrying the signs of a worrying. so we have to discuss what we can do to prevent this solid. what we must do ease to help ukraine in every possible way, politically, but oh, so financially and with military and nunley, the lady, i think this is the minimum we can do last question to you as the prime minister off a small baltic country, how afraid are you for yourself in your country. we are members of nato, so we are a covered by the arctic and 5, which says that the attack on one miss attack on all. so, you know,

attacking us would literally mean or so attacking france, germany or the united states. and therefore, we have the collective defense and we are not afraid we don't see any military threats right now to us and, and our focus is on helping ukraine. thank you. very much. meanwhile, the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine have held their 1st face to face talk since the kremlin invasion, but the 2 sides failed to make any significant progress. the high level talks were hosted by turkey on the sidelines of a diplomacy for in antalya. russia's foreign minister sag alive rough and president, putin says, president putin is ready to sit down for a summit. would ukraine's leaders lensky. meanwhile, ukrainian foreign minister to me choke labour reiterated please. she was stablish a humanitarian quarter and express hopes for their talks with moscow. while mister la, ralph defended moscow's invasion of ukraine, let's take a listen to what he said. we are yes. militarization of ukraine with no don't

without and doesn't matter. and we're not happy with americans deploying some weapons that would keep our target under control. number 2, we are again. so korean, turning into a neo ne says latest near san, and she's like, living old not says traditions where are those are new and as, as to marching all across ukraine. and so 4th grade, when those girls militants are trained in order to commit crimes and fag. so we want ukraine to be a neutral ne, san present put in her said many times, her, nothing was it insisting on needed not to expand anymore. we do not deprive your cramps from safety and security. on the contrary, we are ready to discuss a guarantees of safety to the benefit of cranes,

along with reuben nations. name's claudia, of course, considering citizen russia's safety. so high level talks in turkey to day that yielded no results. but let's find out what the impact has been. corresponded julian, john, sir joyce, is now from istanbul. dorian took a facility that facilitated these talks. no deal on a cease fire. no deal on humanitarian corridors. however, the turkish host describe the talks with turkish foreign minister. never chavel shallow who has been hosting the meetings to scribe the talks as difficult. in fact, he said, the best you could say was at least they were civil, wished really on the lines how 10th the meeting was between the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers, ukrainian foreign minister to metro color bay. oh, was visibly angry. he said basic humanitarian requests a 24 hour cease fire, i will humana tarion corridor. out of mariposa,

hundreds of 1000. the civilians could leave oliver of indicated he wasn't even a position to grant those concessions. and the fact that what possible concession by laughter off over the possible end of the conflict with a possible softening and turkeys in russia's position. and that of our offering, the possible summit between the ukrainian and russian president, they were very much tied to a conditions which the ukrainian set amounted to surrender. so little progress there as well. and it says, raising the question, the given the fact the apparent intransigence of live for us at this meeting and his inability to grant any concession or raise the question, why did he come here in the 1st place? and many people on to target his own. his arrival at these meetings as a concession, just a turkey turkey is seen as an important ally of russia all be that it is many way supporting ukraine and took his been loving very half a, some kind of facilitating if not mediation role. and this meeting was seen as a possible concession to turkey, but beyond that,

it appears oliver wasn't going to make any further moves. so i think there is a great deal of disappointment over this meeting. a very delicate balancing actor that turkey is trying to pull off here. what does this mean now for took his role as a possible mediator with president her rich ab type heard one in spinning a conversation with the u. s. president joe biden. the seasoning our stress 30, he still saw these talks as a success in so far as that they are the highest level meeting between ukrainian and russian officials. and he stress the importance of dia, locker and diplomacy must play in resolving this conflict. that was the message to buy them and it does indicate a turkey still wants to play this kind of roll over of if not been a mediator at least been a facilitator. but i think the americans and, and also the many of took his western allies to see this, you, this ukrainian, a conflict as an opportunity to drag turkey away from its close relationship with russia and in particular urgent relationship with putin. herb herb,

one has been very outspoken over the invasion describe is unacceptable. and turkey is providing some very effective weapons to ukraine, in particular is drones and other military hardware. and the fact that these talks in antalya did fail and many are blaming a russian intransigent. i think that the americans, in particular, will be using this as further leverage on turkey to drag it further away from russia. it's been very positive us officials on what they say is turkey, very helpful stance over ukraine. and i think that the americans will be key in using that as a met. it also to moscow that turkish relationship with russia could be another victim in russia's invasion of ukraine toy and joe's reporting from istanbul, turkey, thank you very much to land former german child, sir garrett should or is reported to be in moscow for talks with the russian president vladimir putin on ending the conflict in ukraine. that's at least according to the news website. political. mister schluter has been criticized in

recent weeks for his close ties with the kremlin. he's known to be a personal friend of the russian president and a member of the supervisory board of the state owned energy giant raw, snuffed german chance. olive schultz has called on the former leader to step down from that controversial position that he's holding. all right, and i'd like to turn out to the political journalist at fly on the 8th who contributed to the article that were is reporting that mister shorter is in moscow for talks with putin. florian, thank you so much for your time. you are reporting along with your colleagues that ex chancellor. gerhard schroeder is now meeting with russian president vladimir putin. what more k tell us about that? got actually a very detailed account of the past days and that led to this meeting today. ah, the are our, our reporting that we put together. so the ukrainian side was actually at the, at the beginning of the ukrainian side, asked gach further to try and build

a bridge to, to let him put him and to try to negotiate by possibly conditions for a cease fire or, or something similar. so this initiative started late last week on friday, actually when i, when they approached her confident as afghans footer. and then on monday, already counselor a ukrainian every hierarchy ukraine. a delegation in turkey as well as it happens. but in istanbul, this time i'm talking about di, i mean, you know, all the things on the, on the agenda as we could us, we could report. so crimea, of course, the don bass, of course, and the nato christian, of course. so and only after that, gertrude agreed er to try his luck and get a meeting. try and get a meeting with letting me put in. so um, that's quite a marketable right now. we contacted, of course we saw your report and then we contacted the chancery and they have confirmed that they are not aware of any visit by mister shudder to

a mister putin or any mediation effort at that is spearheaded by at mister schroeder. so what does this tell you a, i mean, who is the acting on behalf of where he is certainly not acting on behalf of the general government as the, as the chance 3 confirmed a government officials actually told us that they learned the news from the media so from our reporting, so he's certainly not there on behalf of the government. he's also there on behalf of the social democratic party, which also district itself very quickly from any attempt of their former boston chancellor to mediate in conflict. i think very much that he is there on behalf of his own reputation that has been bruised and damaged in the past weeks and where he might hope to be able to repair that a little bit. but can he, i mean, by going rogue, look, are we all don't know how this meeting ends will end ended,

and i am sure we will find out into course what i can't imagine. honestly for letting me put in, there's that to be a little incentive to, to give gas food a little something is to embarrass western politics. i mean, a reportedly angle. and actually the former chancellor was the only western leader that went to put in took seriously if neither my call nor a short back successor have any have any luck in their own conversations with love, me, put in. but a former chancellor who's in the services are fresh and they don't. companies has that could be of course, a big humiliation for the west, which might be something we could even help for in this conflict as it might help. but this is one series, i just want to have a final thought from you how i'm presented is this look m. i has never come across a few more pedals. government are going robe as you put it,

or going somewhere in the center. the epicenter also for in the room of like michael to develop even calling a current government that is really very much unprecedented. she asked me, i had a political or journalist or flooring on it or who contributed to the article or that is reporting honor. mister schroeder, a meeting with mister putin in moscow. we appreciate your time. thank you for coming on. thanks for having me. and turning back to developments on the ground in ukraine, russian forces continue to advance on keith ariel footage, released by the ukranian army captured scenes of heavy fighting in the north eastern suburb of bravery. as russian forces attempt to surround the capital, it comes as outreach, mouths over an alleged russian era strike on a children's hospital in the south eastern city of multiple ukraine says several people, including at least one child, were killed. and

a warning. our next report contains disturbing images: rigor banu from a real good. this small during ruins, not of a military installation, but a maternity hospital in mary. a poll. the direct hit from an apparent russian air strike st. women in labor fleeing into the called a hundreds i reported injured. mary paul 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. wrapped their bodies, tie the lens and leave them on the st. ukrainian president. laudermill zalinski is calling rushes attacks on civilians, a genocide showing in limbo when you would be,

you'd leave today. we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia, which reflects all the evil that the occupiers have brought to our land and have with all of the destroyed cities and everything they have done. no one knew mr. festival news, or will it vulnerable either born but not an aerial bomb? on a maternity hospital? is the conclusive evidence that what is happening is a genocide of ukrainians. grain oh ins, autumn, your russian bomb is had 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 with just the night before another civilian target was hit. does it come and see this

one or you're more of your this man where it needed no fly zone any more. but we do not believe he won't need any fighter planes any more. what we do have we do have sick diplomatic negotiations are stepping up. but as russia perseveres with heavy shelling, ukrainian civilians are paying a high price for vladimir putin war o. let's take a look at some of the other developments in the conflict. he was vice president comalla harris says that washington is prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. she made the remarks in warsaw during talks with polish leaders, including prime minister matters murphy ski. earlier, the united states rejected a proposal from poland to transfer, make 29 fighter jets to a u. s. air base, and then deliver them to ukraine for city. and washington is warning of

a potential chemical or biological weapons attack by russia and ukraine. it comes after moscow accused the us of supporting a bio weapons program in ukraine. the binding ministration believes the accusation could be an attempt by the kremlin to justify such an attack. authorities in berlin say they are struggling to cope with a large number of refugees arriving in the german capital. city officials want the federal government to step up and help relocate thousands of mostly women and children to other parts of the country. thousands arrive every day. traumatized, exhausted. glad to be safe. what's hidden? because no law and people tried to help us and that i had to help what can handle. and just as a avid yvonne help and every month i told daddy about us, so it's a key among the good samaritans, this police officer who bid farewell to

a family of 4 whom she opened her home to leave. um, you know, the guy that the family was supposed to go to mac the berg last night, where they've been assigned to her. and after they've had too long days hanging around, i couldn't see them going to mike de berg again in the evening. mind. so the slate with me for a night. i know they're continuing on it, but i don't like that as well as the refugees offers of help keep coming to before sets up machines in the run up. we already gave money and donations, giles and yes, now we have consulted again and we said that because we have an upper floor with a guest room and a private bathroom. we were happy to make this available still in the nita so grade and seeing this people its hot rending watson, real blige. i'm he doesn't, he may be we'll be there one day and we'll need a hand and someone will. how pause you have to stick together being on,

i'm with autism, hired for germany. berlin has been at the face of this. exit is no official say they're running out of space, or the mayor says, no one can know how many will come if wilson. and as we knew on the 1st day when the attacks began, that we would have a very large movement of refugees as feeling that many people would also arrive here in berlin. we cannot yet see for sure how many the will be hard to knock. now it says that 5 extra accommodation centers will be set up in the capital, but officials are calling on the federal government to help transfer refugees to other parts of the country. you're watching the w news. here's a recap of the main story from the crisis. the leaders are holding crisis talks near paris to coordinate their response to russia's invasion of you, great french president. emily wanted my call said that you needed to agree on how

to reduce dependence on russian energy. he also said fast tracking your membership for you praying was unrealistic. you're watching it renews live from berlin. up next is news. asia with melissa chand, i'm layla iraq, and brilliant on behalf of all. sir. thank you for making as part of your day with with to the point. he's clear positions, international perspectives. the west has fired out one salva with economic sanctions, or another in an effort to stop hooton's war on ukraine calls for tougher action

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