[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is d, w. news live from bird that russian forces extends the aerial assault as explosions are reported in more ukrainian cities. city of to beanpole in central ukraine is bombed for the 1st time in this war. troops are also edging closer to the capital keep while hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the port city of mario pole. i made heavy bombardment that after days of heavy shelling and broken cease fire some residence of either the pin, northwest of kiva,

finally able to flee the devil corresponding that he is pulling up or bring us that story from crime. and a ban on russian gas in ports threatens to divide you leaders, they're making this morning in the sy for a 2nd day to discuss the blocks response to the war in you crime. past the russians, leaving home for refuge in finland amid sanctions from other countries. and a crackdown on free speech inside russia, people are leaving a country that's becoming more isolated way in helsinki, where a train line is one of the last open roots out of russia to you. ah, i'm anthony. how'd walk into the program? russian forces are extending day air strikes on ukrainian cities a day after high level talks between moscow and keith failed to produce

a diplomatic breakthrough emergency service. in central geek science i civilian targets into the pro were hit in the 1st aerial bob martin of the city. russia says it destroyed to military efforts in looks in a very fine kids. and the kremlin has unilaterally announced humanitarian corridors in places including matter. you pool hockey sumi and can. neath ukraine says civilians are suffering but agreements to evacuate. people have failed multiple times due to ongoing russian bombardment the for any authority say, 40000 people have now been evacuated from 5 different ukrainian cities, but they say sci fi has to allow more residents to flee, continued to be broken by russian troops. in the opin northwest of give people have been fling amid heavy bombardment as russian forces advanced on the capital. now a brief pause in shelling has allowed more residence to escape. a correspondent

mathias bellinger is this finally boarding a bus to safety. these refugees have just come out of the fighting zone northwest of keith. daria has been on the road for hours. we have left everything there and just fled. i don't know whether we will ever be able to come back here pin a suburb north west of kia has been one of the worst hit places in this world. these fires have been agreed and broken time. and again, just a few days ago, a family of 4 was killed near this bridge. they were shelled on their way out of the small town. to day it is come so far. the opportunity for many to find a lily. this is one of the places that had been fought about for days. people

have been sitting there trapped waiting for an opportunity to get out, leaving behind what they could not carry with them. people have been fleeing in a hurry. shelling can start again at any moment. some have been walking for many kilometers before being able to cross over the bridge to reach one of the buses. so that'll be if it's difficult and terrifying, the roads are destroyed, there's destroyed nutri equipment everywhere. dead bodies lie around this. we saw this while walking. just it's difficult for everybody, including old women. it's very frightening. many, i have no idea where to go next. this kindergarten was closed after the war began. it's now hosting people who have fled to fighting they do not in the some arrived without even wearing slippers. some come without

a coat. there are some grandmas went out to fetch water and were you vacuum on the spot because their life came and the whole retirement homes have been evacuated. the refugees can rest here for a few day. see when you call the national could come speak with everybody from one neighborhood left. a plane flew over us, then it suddenly turned dropped a bomb and everything was on fire. volunteers quickly evacuated, insurance, apparently as evacuation of peeing and other suburbs goes on. the kindergarten braces for more people to arrive in the coming days over more. let's talk to our correspondent in kidney connelly. nick, we just saw some of what the residents are going through on the outskirts of the capitol. what's the lightest well, in those kind of place like european yes people are getting out. we were there yesterday seeing people getting across that destroyed bridge. and it's been that

i'm sure you've seen images for people being carried in wheelchairs on stretchers or families with their pets. but very little the way of possessions is taking what they could grab in a hurry. but, or even though they were leaving and they were trying to take advantage of that situation. they were still artillery, shooting going on pretty close by. there were plumes smoke in the sky, you could hear it from different directions. so this is by no means a full temporary cease. father will allow people to leave in peace without any risk of harm to themselves. we've seen civilians written days losing their lives, trying to get out here where i am in downtown key about 25 clubs away from it, a pin. and some of the worst that fighting things are kind of eerily quiet. we haven't had that many air raid sirens in the last few days. there hadn't been direct air strikes. that's partly due to the fact that there is better air defense here for the center for the government quarter, for the definitely isn't expectation of worth things to come. people very wary of strangers. wary of all these reports,

we'd hearing of attempts to kill ukraine's democratically elected present lensky. so people keeping a very low prov, profile and streets pretty empty, except for soldiers. jealous. make reports of a night of a russian military convoy to the north. having been dispersed is that what you're hearing it's obviously pretty difficult to verify any of these claims because there are very few jonas directly on the front lines. and those to the ukrainian military is concerned about the the keeping information back in terms of where its defenses are. so there's and military sense ship on the russian and the ukraine side right now. but it does seem like the ukrainians are being pretty successful at potentially letting the russians advance their doing so. similarly, without the required back up in their lots of images on social media of russian tanks, russian almond vehicles being destroyed in what looks to be the suburbs of care of m. o, experts from abroad, slightly,

a gas that the russians would send those kind of units forward towards give without much more in the way of back up. and in lots of reasons, the ukraine right now, it seems like the cranes allowing the russians to advance faster than maybe the russians would have expect themselves. and then staying behind to then fight back out the russians from behind, from that, from her, from the sides as, as can ambush style can guerilla war that is seeming the tactic tactics the ukrainians, given their lesser resources and less amount of power. now choosing to try and push back the social events it given that situation and now some people have been able to lead of those who are left to keep residents think that they can hold out against the invention. eventual brush in advance. i think no one can give a really kind of straight, are fully kind of convincing answer to that. but i think people certainly hope so. and we've certainly heard from ukraine's politicians from present to lensky from a key of mer. former boxing will champion clips cove with leakage car that they are going to stay here till the last. they're not going anywhere. they're not going to

evacuate to save their lives. there's definitely a sense that people here, at least the political leadership, has its back to the wall and is not going anywhere and is not going to go anywhere to that would create panic among the ordinary russia, ukrainian soldiers and ukraine civilians. i think lots people here are just still in shock. they are in a situation now that they're gonna see potentially a full scale war, the kind we haven't seen since world war 2 on the streets of european capital with millions of people still here. yes. some investment to 1000000 have left the vessel millions of people living in the city and then are preparing for the ups. it was for street fighting for your level for and for a very, very bloody and distressing few days to come. nick connelly and keith many thanks his look now, some of the other developments in the conflict and demonstrators took to the streets of military paul in the ukraine to protest the russian invasion. and the presence of russian forces in the town in other nations has worn. i'd is

desperately needed in places like milly topple and appealed to moscow to allow for a safe passage. many tearing tornadoes have come under attack during previous agreed upon spies. ukrainian president valid email soleski has denied moscow's delegation. the key is preparing a chemical or biological weapons attack un security council. as meeting today to discuss the accusation upon russia's request, the u. s. a warning moscow is making the allegation as it prepares to use such weapons. in the u. s. senate is given final approval to a package of military and she, military and aid for ukraine, at least half of the $13600000000.00 major aimed to help us and equip ukraine's military to fight the russian invasion. you ladies are meeting in france for 2nd day of talks on the blocks response to the invasion. if you crime

the started arriving in versailles major topics on the agenda of defense spending and europe's dependence on russian fossil fuels. after the 1st i had talked the book ruled out fast tracking ukrainian membership to the a you but welcomed the idea of the country. joining the book, this is what you're paying council president, shall me show. had to say it isn't warmer. what do we also discussed, ukraine's request to join the european union. very clearly, ukraine belongs to the european family. so we want to support all efforts to strengthen ties with ukraine, jo, a router of return, let's crossover today, w correspondent, bar vessel, who is at the summit in facility. barbara, good to see you. we've just heard there from sha, michelle, ye crime is part of the european family, but the e u membership for now is out of reach. why is that ukraine as part of the european family? that's the diplomatic self. they put on the open wound that, of course, is the war in ukraine at the moment for the european union. this is just

a formula in order to sort of say, face. and there was a real pitched battle last night here in the serv, wonderful chateau behind us, between the european leaders, eastern european leaders against the ones from the west, and the older member countries who said, yeah, we can't fast track them. we can't take them too quickly. where's the, are many, many, a prime minister and, and it is from eastern european countries, said you have to help them or you have to give them assign that they could really come into the you as soon as this is possible in, in the end of course, said the, the cautious ones, one and said, do we'll yes we, we like you, it's like a distant uncle, but you will still have to stay away for the moment. another pitched battle, i guess, in your words, i'm moving away from russian oil and gas. i'm gram pam fi to albany has said the

block one band russian fossil fuels had divided. is the block on this issue? the block is in the prettiest in the same manner divided on that issue. i mean we, we didn't only hear victor alba and we heard the german chancellor of thought say pretty much the same. they're not yet ready to do it. what you will discuss is that they will sort of lower their dependency on, on russian gas till the end of the year by 2 3rd. but that is absolutely no help for ukraine at the moment. and this is a long term goal. and that makes sense politically, of course, but as for the moment there will be no really drastic sanctions. i mean, this is pretty much the last thing they could do. they will do, they will sort of implement all the other sanctions they can think of. and they are coming day by day and that that screw is tight, but this very last measure, they're not going to take it this week. and probably not next week. things will have to get even worse in ukraine until they're ready to do that. they might in the

end get there, but at the moment they're not giving a sign of it. barbara, that he wants to continue supporting you for and what is the latest on the provision of military and humanitarian aid? military aid is of course, given by the individual member states and they are keeping a bit quiet on that which might it, which might be sensible thing to do. because if you trump it this year, now we are giving another a 1000 stingers of whatever they still have in their military cupboards. it's not so smart. so it's still flowing. they're giving another another 500000000 to ukraine for humanitarian and other help. they also promising, of course, if ukraine stays the democratic country, if it does not in the end, get overrun by russia, they will help rebuild the country, which is scarce, consolation for ukrainians at the moment. and so this is what they're doing, they're going to do everything they, they say they will do everything to help refugees. they've been doing quite well on

that so far. now they're in this for the long run and we will see how it goes at the moment. yes, they're willing to help as much as they can. they definitely correspond barbara fazel at the e summit invoice. i thanks so much. well, not just ukrainian people that are flame russians are leaving their country to some say they're leaving due to new western sanctions, but others worry about their countries crackdown on free speech and growing isolation with many flights out of the country. no longer taking off. many russians are heading to finland by other means, ah, another train bringing people to safety. but the passengers and board this one, a russian rather than ukranian, with no flights to western europe trains on this route from st. petersburg to the