[000:00:00;00] ah ah, does the state w news live from berlin, russia widen since ariel attacks, all ukraine. the city of me pro and central ukraine is bombed for the 1st time in this war. troops are also edging closer to the capital cave, while hundreds of thousands remain trapped in the port city of mario full and heavy bombardment. also coming up a declaration of independence, a you leaders vow to roll back reliance on russian energy. after a crisis talks on the war, they,

i a 5 year plan to face out russian fossil fuel importance. the block also promises more military aid to keep and fresh sanctions on moscow. and the u. n. is calling it the fastest growing refugee crisis since world war 2. we report from the polar city of semi show where thousands of refugees are crossing the border from ukraine everyday. ah, i'm nicole relief to our viewers. joining us on p b. s in the united states, and everyone watching around the world. welcome. we start with russia expanding its military campaign and ukraine, hitting new targets with bombs and missiles, strikes and intensifying attacks on cities. already under siege, civilians are bearing a growing share of the suffering. the un says over $560.00 civilians have been

killed, but warned that the full toll was likely far higher. over 2 and a half 1000000 people have already fled the country. the city of denise pro in easton, ukraine, a new front in russia's war emergency services said at least 3 missiles hit civilian targets here, including the shoe factory for ukraine and other sign the russia is deliberately targeting civilians. much more we see more destruction of civilian infrastructure, merger of ukrainians by a terrorist state, the russian federation. there's always another person that are russia also launched . attacks on looks, can ivana from gifts to cities and western ukraine, far from the main battle zones. the kremlin unilaterally announced humanitarian corridors in places including mario pl, harkey, sion of eve and sumi, the 1st residence of sumi who managed to flee by one of the corridors,

arrived in the western city of review, or a chevy dealer and then liberally you'll so my lord i've seen planes fly over us and bomb our street several times. it was horrible. i took the kids and hid. no, only thought massena by he blessed him. yeah. i said i. they bombed our streets. our buildings are homes. one of the bombs kill 22 people, 3 of them children. the whole family died outside the capital, give ukrainian forces continue to battle russian troops. ukraine says military victories here have stalled. the russian offensive on the city. president vladimir lensky sounded a defiant tone. then was lewis cause i this gets impossible to say how many days we still have to free ukrainian land lewis. but we can say we will do it because we want it oprah. we have already reached a strategic turning point for this. we are moving towards our goal,

not towards our victory, but more in central give air raid sirens rang out again. russian forces are within striking distance. the battle for key if will be decisive in the outcome of this worn. let's bring in our corresponding mathias, bowling a. he is in key. if martinez, we just heard the ukrainian president talk about a strategic turning point in the war. are you seeing any signs of that in and around? keith? well as hard to say, i mean russia as far as western intelligence estimates had counted on gaining control of here within a few days and then of the whole country within 2 weeks, these 2 weeks are over and the russian advance is mostly dark, but they are still advancing, although at

a very slow pace the ukrainian military, i think there is no doubt about that has been impressive in holding back and fighting back russian advances. but of course, they're far from driving them out of the country from the turning point that he's talking about might really be that ukraine has been able to hold it as they have been also some retreats by russian forces. but overall, we seeing a, the 2 sides being engaged in battles throughout the whole line lines where russia has invaded. and i don't think many experts share the view that this, that there is some kind of a turning point. things are rather look like they are going. they're heading down for a very protective, protracted battle and protracted. will russia promised to open humanitarian corridors across ukraine on friday?

has that promise been kat i was promised to open your monetary in the corridors, not only on friday, but also on thursday on wednesday and many other times that have been some civilians escaping. i was yesterday at one of these so called humanitarian corridors, where people were able to escape one suburb of ki, if there was another one. the next town where there was another corridor supposed to open at this other town, the buses could not leave, but people could lead via bridge and the place where i was. so there are some possibilities to escape. but overall and there was also even a shelling. heard when, when we were there, so we according to would basically mean sees higher and then during the ceasefire, civilians would be able to leave some places. events have been able to lead, but in the worst it places like chinese or like, are you, paul,

that has been cut off from the rest of the world, from the rest of ukraine, a by russian forces besieged for more than a week. now nothing has changed, nobody has been able to leave the city. the conditions are still dire and there's fighting going on around the city this. the city is being shelled by the russian forces that have laid siege. so the overall answer is why there are some, some sparks of hope and some people have been able to escape some of the places overall. this promise has not been capt. martinez, bearing our and kia many thanks for your update. well, in the 16 days since the war started, the u. n says more than 2500000 people have fled ukraine, nearly half of them to poland. he w is beget. i shook. i traveled to the city of sham mitchell, near the border with ukraine and filed this report ah, after escaping the war zone,

they're trying finally arrived in poland. hundreds of women and children is a back to safety. at platform number 5 in samuel station either and her 2 children have been travelling for 3 days and freezing nights. they exhausted but relief to be getting help. the house in hockey was destroyed in a russian eric. so same nozzles, bombay kept bombing. i say it didn't stop martha. we had to take shelter in the bunker and we were traveled there for days of events when we decided to flee, or the marina will you call a little while ago. at the job, it was horrific. the children didn't stop crying, we tried to comfort them, had tried to stay calm, but inside we were also shaken what that was, what they show as blurry photos of hockey, their city in ruins. their husbands are still there because they are not allowed to

leave the country. 4 year old vanya doesn't understand why. i call the gate. i miss my daddy. we went on the train and we were going and going and going, lee village go far, gone. in the entrance hall, hundreds of wanted tears provide the new arrivals was food, water, clothes, free, sim cards and advice like olga many don't know where to go from here. know what to do next. every day, 5 to 10 trains from ukraine arrive here to station and the number continues to grow . to help all the arriving refugees has become a major challenge for the small city or for michelle, which itself has only $60000.00 citizen. the cities may are watching by coon, is coordinating the humanitarian relief effort since the warn ukraine began. he says he hasn't had more than 4 hours sleep a day. he's proud that his city as managed to provide help, but his work. he does know how long they can keep it up. we are,

we are the city whole not, you know, humanity, organization. so we will be not to do this for a, for a long time or a for the, for every know, just which i talk with someone transition to her boss for a long period of time. he, he tells us, is to quickly relocate the refugees to other cities. all guy is finally decided to continue her journey to war. so before i train leaves, she addresses all nay, to states mcwilliam without the trip. now i want to tell them to impose in no fly zone, because our families are still there with my parents, my brother, who is our husband or something. i want my family to survive. i want the bombing to stop and he took it, but that was the summer thrush on every once in was oh oh, that plans to call her husband and her parents. she doesn't have the strength yet because she's afraid they might not answer. and we can now speak to alina still, cause she is deputy director of the ukrainian red cross,

and she joins us from beneath ya in central ukraine. welcome, alina, the last time we spoke to you here on d. w, you were in a suburb of keith, but i understand you had to flee. can you tell us what happened? what do you mean? yes, that's true. i was in my house, got close to one, a village, and it's not far from here for around 30 kilometers from there. well, the place the location was a scary one, because every day we saw me styles flying over us to the media to the airport. not far from us, but at one lake, there was one moment when the new style hit the residential area and destroyed completely 5 houses. and it's exactly a couple of kilometers from us. so we decided that we are the next. that was very stressful. i'm pregnant, 8 months there are risks of delivering a baby to 2 months in advance because of the constant stress. that is why we fled the next morning. so now i'm in central ukraine,

although we have here air raid sirens, but no major, no bombing at the moment. things good. do you have any news on how evacuation efforts are going? we just heard from our correspondent that the so called humanitarian corridors are really holding well, yes. oh, i'm sitting in the notes, but i'm working 24 hours a day from here. coordinating with the rest of their growth and volunteers. and we had problems with the green of so called communitarian corridors a last week this week. but in a couple, in a couple of these days, these days, 3 days since 3 days ago, they call it or seem to be working. although i cannot say that they are efficient way, 100 percent, for instance, with the job this is not far from being there. there have been several attempts of

organizing recording to work from the 3rd attempt. they worked and together with a mental institution as a red cross of ukraine managed to create people from the from butcher and from other cities neighboring cities these days. when speaking about other teachers of ukraine, the green corridors, they're also partially functioning. and for instance, there is an agreement that today will be a green quoted order from you. this is hard to reach in the door opened and then it closed immediately because the shooting continued on with money. well, this is a disaster, or we have haven't been able to organize the court door from the 4th attempt. and we know that even the route was prepared, it was the mind of the military equipment was removed from the people started moving on this route and then shooting began at the civilians. so the corridor had

to close. so if you're not able to reach the civilians that are trapped in mario full, yes, we cannot reach them. although we have a small success in the past 2 days, all together with our colleagues we ever created for 5050000 people ready. so that's a small victory with money what we cannot reach into the city. that was alina still close deputy director of the ukrainian red cross. thank you so much for your time and stay safe. meanwhile, you leaders seem to be drawing lessons of their own from the complicated situation they are finding themselves in since the russian invasion of ukraine. they say they're working on a plan to phase out in ports of russian fossil fuels. speaking after a 2 day summit in verse i. e u commission chief was enough on deadlines set

a 2027 deadline to end in ports of russian oil gas and coal, french president emanuel. my call also outlined an aide package of half a 1000000000 euros. forgive, including more military assistance, but leaders stopped short, a fast tracking e u membership for ukraine on the line rate, a rated that rushes invasion of ukraine threatens the energy security of all of europe. this crisis has indeed made us face up to our responsibilities in the face of a new reality. first, our duty to continue ensuring reliable, secure, and affordable supply of energy to european consumers in the midterm. this means getting rid of our dependency on russian gas by diversification of supply, by massively investing and renewables, and for more a lot of joint now by the delay of corresponding barbara veto. inverse sy where

this informal in use um, it came to an end to day barbara strategic autonomy, energy security is that you admitting they were too naive and making themselves so dependent on russia. yes, they are admitting it. and monro mac wrong at the french president who had during he came to office 5 years ago or been already talking about it more autonomy in europe. more independence to sort of be more self reliant. he had this, i told you so moment he could carpet, hardly it keep himself form from reiterating that. so yes, he was proven right in many other countries, in particular, germany where proven to be very naive, the, to trusting in their relations was russia and to trusting that good economic growth relations would relate into a close political and reliable political relationship. so all of this has been thrown down the drain. now all this is gone and they have to completely reoriented

their industrial policy, the energy policy, and their do political as a stand because they have recognized that everything they've done. and the few years in that regard was just not right. and this is what they're doing now. they're trying to become more self reliant. of course, they have to have a new energy policy. the whole green revolution will have to be sort of really speed it up, but, and that's the big button. this nicole, all of this is not helping ukraine in the short run. this is about the u shoring up its own future. but this is not what really the ukranian government and the ukrainian people are expecting from europe. at this time. ukraine wanted to see a fast tracking of its application to become an e u member at the end of this summer. it was there any movement on that there was no real movement. there was

a diplomatic formula that they would be on the track to accession later and be in principle. welcome in the european family. there was a fierce battle about this man could, can hardly imagine it during all of last night between european leaders, eastern european heads of state and government pushing for a more it better gesture and more direct gesture. better answer for, for ukraine membership bid entered the western ones, them, particularly from the northern some of the northern european countries saying, no, we can't really do this, said this has never been fast tracked before. there are rules they and so on and so forth. so they didn't give in, and in the end they won. and so what the key of his left was at the moment is a relatively hollow diplomatic wording. and you leaders are facing increasing pressure at home to ramp up assistance to ukraine. briefly, if you can, what more are they willing to do for ukraine?

there's plenty of assistance they're going to give more money. if 500000000 more will are proposed to be given full military aid. there is, of course, all the humanitarian aid they can manage to get into this country. it's logistically, very difficult. they have opened their doors, refugees and they said were willing to take in everybody. but the one thing they're not doing. and this is the main point really is they are not ready to go for a boycott of russian oil and gas. and this is what really would put it put in a war machine. because this is he, it is fed by what europe is paying every day up to 1000000000 euros for their imports from russian energy. so this is the last thing and they're not yet they're, they're not willing to do it at this point in time. maybe later, but not no, typically a corresponding buffer available. thank you so much. meanwhile, the ukranian president volota mirror zelinski urged the u. k to do more to hurt

russia financially when he addressed the british parliament this week. london is seen as a key front in the economic battle with large amounts of russian money flowing through the u. k. capital each here. big mass reports. we have an appointment at the ritz, one of the swankiest addresses in london with build browder. he was once one of russia's top foreign born investors, but quickly became an opponent flooded me put in before being expelled from the country. he is now living in london and has one of the kremlin sw biggest critics. britain has been a, a soft spot for dirty russian money for last 20 years. they've come here. ah, they, they like the rule of law. they like the property rights. and they like the fact that nobody's going to ask any questions. we're heading to the post district of berg ravia to eat and square, nicknamed red square, asking prices for a 5 bedroom flat here,

which over $20000000.00 euros. as for who the real owners are. no one needs to know anti corruption activists estimate that russians with ties to putin have invested almost 2000000000 euros and real estate alone. in recent years. there are shells, shell companies and trusts in an offshore crossen nominees and proxies. all i'm working hard to shield the true ownership of these properties. it's on the capital, a nickname, london, crowd. a city, a wash with money from the many rich russians who call it home. and not all of them have earned income. honestly. this week, the british parliament is passing a new law to cut the corrupt flow of money from russia to untangle opaque ownership stretches. but this is only a 1st step. experts say, legislation is just not enough. enforcement needs to be happen and it needs to be

properly or funded on vessels. what happens right now is that the national crime agencies has been on the funded for up a generation. so what we need to see now is for life with many does is to be funded to act now and use it to that they are even at the moment. so it was security personnel on it and square tried to prevent us from recording. oh, wonderful. mm. hm, it's a democracy and we, despite us having the right to film on the street to sunday, if you and you can, but we can. so mostly like 1st and foremost, i'd like to see 100 all a guards on the sanctions with having their properties frozen. secondly, i'd like to see assets identified and frozen after that. and, and thirdly, i'd like to see all of the russian banks, not just a few of them disconnected from swift. his criticism also has a past non motivation, browed, his friend and company lawyer died in the russian prison. he's long known how dangerous vladimir putin is. russian oligarchs, and in fact,

any one else who wanted to launch the money have so far been serve as well in london. it's been easy to find bankers, lawyers, estate agents to work with. when it comes to property, it's impossible to hide behind. sophisticated shell stretches open within an offshore trust. critics, a wondering whether it's taken the war in europe for the u. k. government to sir, is the change that vegas must reporting there. and let's now take a quick look at some other developments in the world today. last minute demands by russia are threatening to derail the ran nuclear talks, which are aimed at curving around nuclear capacity. the e u announced that negotiations would be put on pause even though a new deal is close to being finalized according to the blocks chief diplomat. saudi blogger, rife by darcy, has been released from prison after 10 years, according to his wife,

the activist was detained back in 2012 for advocating for an end to the influence of religion on public life, in saudi arabia. he was given a 10 year jail sentence on the charge of insulting islam since russia launched its invasion last month, the country has been facing what can be described as a vast cultural boycott. a growing number of institutions are going to great lengths to distance themselves from moscow. in many cases, cutting ties with renowned russian artists. but critics say such blanket boy cods could burn the very bridges that culture seeks to built. oh, high profile artist like oper, adieva, and an attacker. one of russians biggest international stars were the 1st to come under fire for having close ties with vladimir putin on the kremlin. conductor valerie gag iv was fired by the munich philharmonic for refusing to denounce putins invasion of ukraine. russia state back bolshoi belly had its entire summer season

in london cancelled. but some say the boycotts have gone too far. a course on the great russian novelist, fyodor dostoevsky was cancelled by an italian university. even though he's been dead since 1881. the enemy is putting not pushkin said dennis, you che german president of the writers association pen at a solidarity concert for ukraine. conductor daniel barton boy warned against blanket boycott in hex and young of lucia. we cannot allow a witch hunt on russian people and their culture, oh, coma bans and boycotts, for example of russian music and literature. these awakened the worst associations for me. other news i so soon. but can film festival has chosen to differentiate and will not ban russian filmmakers, but they will no longer accept anyone linked to the russian government after

ukraine called for a boycott of russian movies, many smaller festivals dropped state back to russian films from their programs. which means the crime comedy. no looking back, will not be shown at the glasgow film festival, even though it's director kil, sokolov has family ties to ukraine and has taken a strong stance against the war. we want to use culture as a bridge for exchange. but the question is, with whom am i working there and can the russian state use it? one should always check this and if you have the feeling something will be misused and it's better not to touch it. ready further, if you thousands of russian artists have called for an immediate military withdrawal from ukraine, including popular hip hop artist oxy milan, and musical director of the cheque philharmonic, simeon bischoff no easy feat when simply speaking out against pu, tim's regime can have serious consequences. art might indeed be the only way to

make sure all voices are heard. you're wanting dw news. here's a quick recap of the main story we're following for you today. the central ukrainian city of ne pro becomes a target of russian aerosols for the 1st time. emergency services say an apartment block and kindergarten were hit. russian troops are also edging closer to the capital key, while hundreds of thousands from me trapped in the port city of mario paul. and i have the bombardment and the cough really stay with us now. i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day. ah, ah,

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a room and it was harsh. fear. i even got white hairs learning the german language hit me a lot. this kid to me and quit, they'll flush trinity to interact with you want to know their story, migrant verifying and reliable information for my grants. no food, no water, no power. hundreds of thousands are trapped in dire conditions as russia keeps up. the pressure on ukraine's besieged cities, but it's not only here. the war is causing hardship. ukraine and russia are major food producers and food security worldwide is now under threat with millions facing