ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russia widen, is ariel attacks on ukraine. she braces as ground forces, edge closer to the city center, new satellite images appear to show artillery, firing on residential areas on their way to the capitol. meanwhile, german chancellor, olaf schultz and french president, manuel mac for on demand an immediate cease fire in ukraine during a phone call to the vladimir putin. but they say the russian leader is not ready to enter the war. and as a russian horse is close in on,

keep more and more people are fleeing ukraine. united nation says over q and a half 1000000 have found refuge abroad since the invasion began. ah, hello em claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on keith authorities in ukraine's a rocket attacks have destroyed an air base near the town of a steel cave in the cave region. its oil depot was also hit. russia's defense ministry says its army is continuing its attacks on a broader front earlier ukrainian officials released cctv footage of what they say is the mayor of the city of melia topple being abducted. you can see that happening here at the top of the screen. now the latest intelligence suggests that russian troops have advanced to within 25 kilometers of chief

power. sunrise in the capitol has become synonymous with the sound of gunfire and air raid sirens. ah, these satellite images appear to show russian forces regrouping for a possible assault on keith. the company that took them said they also show artillery, firing towards residential areas, as well as burning homes and other buildings. russia is expanding its military campaign across other parts of ukraine. intensifying attacks on cities under siege and hitting new civilian targets with bombs and missiles strikes. residents of this eastern time and have been forced under ground. near then, you shall munoz. i hope that my relatives see me. this is throughout my sister, my daughter and grand daughter. you my grandchildren and keith in god knows where

else you close are far away. come was with new. i don't know where you put a war has given every one into hiding. i know that the ability to those who ventured out of their basements find their homes destroyed still they carry on with web is life less hope, as may say that he has russian forces move further west. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians flee their homeland but not every one is able to with one woman. yup. was the city of maria pull is now completely surrounded by russian soldiers. and every one in sight is trapped. the moves in the horrid that said, i say this will pain, my little boy, mother you, paul remains besieged by the enemy whirl. or is this good russian troops did not let our aid into the city and continue to torture. our people who gain our mowing

po, residence, softer. i'll try again to send food or water you on medicine in somehow with a year's a war. duma, the gum magdalana, hela miss ha, firefighters continue to try and save people from the rubble. ukrainian officials say more than 1500 people have been killed. there is little chance that the ukrainians inside merrier pull will see peace return to what's left of their homes any time soon. let's get straight across to keith and speak to d. w correspondent. but she has ballinger mathias, britain's defense ministry saying russian a ground forces are advancing on it. keeps city center. i'm. can you tell us your assessment of the situation so about

252025 kilometers from where i am standing russian troops. i seem to be enhancing their positions, however, they have been there for almost since the beginning of the war. so for weeks, so it's absolutely unclear or why the british are saying that they are and closing in on key of what has happened is that russia has brought more troops inside this into these positions. and it seems to have a hold some ground there and have taken firmer control of these areas. but it doesn't look like they are closer to the city center than they have been yesterday the day before yesterday or a week ago. um, what we have seen is why the sky was just shouting slurs at, put in people here, of course are, i'm very angry out what's happening. so then there somebody is passing by and he's shouting, glory to ukraine. so you can see it's very emotional. these troops are that are

there, are they have been standing there for some time and, or and erm heard, there was a column if you remember that was 60 kilometers long or look, looked like rolling to was key of but didn't move. this column has dispersed and this has led some analysts to say that russia's troops are regrouping now. they're trying a different strategy. thanks for that mathias and we see the anger there on the streets from those people who are walking past you. i want to ask about the situation in a keep itself, especially with regard to supplies where things stand well, people be able to hold out against a possible ration on slot. the question is what this rational onslaught will look like. so there are different scenarios that are um, probable, and that are feared here. one of them would be that russia would be able to close the ringer on the capital. and then we would see something similar to where you

were poor people not being able to leave supplies, not coming in. i believe that the city has, of course, docked up with supplies, but you only get that far with these supplies. and we're also seeing that a lot of places inside the city, how can fortify there a lot of road blocks, et cetera. and the other scenario is a mass bombardment, like in hockey, where the use part of the city of the residential areas of the city are constantly being shelled and thus a humanitarian traces is, is, is brought upon the city. this is, is another thing. of course, people would be very, it would be very hard for people to, to, to, to live under the circumstances and to cope with them. but for now, what we're seeing when seeing also is that despite all efforts, russian troops had not have not managed to get any closer to the city than they have been there have, have been a few advances. other others have been ford back. so basically it stays where it is,

but with a lot more, a fire power and troops see is seemingly coming in. let's talk about the diplomatic efforts. ukrainian president zalinski has suggested it talks with russia in jerusalem. and what else can you tell us about that proposal? jerusalem has taken the initiative to talk to both leaders, generals and has very good relations. the actual israeli government has very good relations to put into government. and there was an effort to to, to, to negotiate between the 2. however, so far, or we're hearing as that, nothing of this has really worked, or that had to haven't been any results. there has been at the news, or that israel was pressuring ukraine to surrender. this has been reject or this, this has been falsified by the ukranian government saying that they had not been such a pressure. and as a reaction to these news, as an ask as suggested that is where it might invite the 2 parties to negotiate in

jerusalem. but it's only one possible way where people could be negotiating. the problem is, what could they been negotiating against when there is the maximum demand from russia's that russia is still upholding, that ukraine basically give up its army and its sovereignty and ukraine, demanding russian troops out of the country. so there is not much to negotiate about except, and that's the hope that this might be advancing to have in attempts to negotiate a smaller or problems like humanitarian corridors, to release the pressure on the population to repeat release to relieve the humanitarian crisis. this is probably something that's much more likely to negotiate upon earth than any outcome of the war. okay, our correspondent matches buying a reporting for us from the keeper. thank you so much and please stay safe. or france says, russian president vladimir putin shows no willingness to end the war with ukraine.

french president m o m i, crohn and german chancellor, olaf sholtes held a joint telephone, talked with putin on saturday afternoon during the 90 minute call. the 2 western leaders urged prudent to agree to an immediate cease fire in ukraine. schwartz is office said he and mac, ron called on putin to begin the process of finding a diplomatic solution. and put in brief, mccoy and schultz on recent talks between russian and ukrainian negotiating teams. and let's dive into this with our political correspondence. thomas barrow. he joins me now in the studio at thomas. you tell us more about what has come out of this round of diplomacy. so france and germany have placed their hopes for a long time already. but now more than ever on trying to find a diplomatic solution, what that specifically means is that they want 1st and foremost a ceasefire. an immediate cease fire that something that did come out of that, of that talk, that they asked vladimir putin for that specific ceasefire. that has to be the pre

condition for what was been described as structured talks to try and find a political solution to this war. now that is the goal. but if you judge by what french officials have been saying after that, coal, turning those goals into concrete action will be particularly difficult with french officials. stressing that from that call, it was clear that that you put in did not show any willingness to end the war in ukraine. so at least we have here the concrete goal. the german and french leaders now have turning that into action will be another matter altogether. and they're of course not the 1st leaders who've attempted to mediate between russia and ukraine. how successful do you think my crime shows are likely to be well, they have already played an important role even before this war. let's not forget that france and germany in various circumstances in various crises, have worked hand in hand to try and find solutions. and in particular, the ukranian context. after the 2014 crisis, france and germany did play

a very important role mediating in trying to find a political solution to the situation in the eastern part of ukraine, you may know the normandy format, which then also led to the so called minced agreements france and germany did play an important role there in a such. they still believe now that they can play a very important role when he comes to finding a diplomatic, a political solution to the war. but it's important to see this from a wider aspect, if it's not only germany and france, we see, for example, leaders in israel also willing to play an important role in turkey, trying to play an important diplomatic role. what all this tells us is that the international communities, particularly interested in trying to find diplomatic solutions to this war. even though it is particularly difficult at the moment. in fact, is not just heads of state trying to find a solution. we have this rather unusual case where the former german chancellor, gerhard schroeder, i had actually attempted to get involved in negotiations even flying to moscow this

week. he's, of course, been strongly criticized for connections to the kremlin. and let's call it these freelance mediation attempts. i do think his involvement is the reason why chancellor shawl has decided to get involved now. no, i don't think it's the reason why chancellor shows is getting involved. now. i think that is something that the german government had wanted to do already in the past to try and find a diplomatic solution to this situation. but it does make diplomatic efforts, official diplomatic efforts more and more difficult, especially from a german perspective. because it gives the impression to the outside world that germany is not only one position that is not working or not united front that you have on the one hand, the german government and the, and the other hand. gerhard schroeder, for my german chancellor, between 19982005 who has been indeed very criticized by his closeness to the kremlin and by his job as a gas lobbyist for russian energy giants. and it's important to stress that this visit by god sorta was not coordinated with the current german government. from his

perspective, from gearhart showed us perspective, i understand, or at least i believe this would be an attempt on his side to try and polish his image. a little bit and clean up that image that has been very criticized because he has refused so far to drop to cancel those appointments that he has with those energy giant from russia. so a very difficult situation altogether from the government perspective, because it makes official negotiations much more difficult than expected or political correspondent, thomas ferrell. thanks so much for joining me in the studio with that update. let's bring you up to speed now with some other developments in the conflict german foreign minister anna lena bear walk, says germany will take in 2500 ukranian refugees who have fled to moldova. and she made the announcement on a visit to the mold oven. at capital, he, she now, the small nation has so far given shelter to 100000 people from ukraine. u. s.

troops continued to be deployed to europe, adding to thousands, who have already been sent to support nato allies following russia's u invasion of ukraine. but 130 soldiers left the u. s. state of georgia. the pentagon has ordered roughly 12000 service members from u. s. basis to europe. the international atomic energy agency says power has been partially restored to general, to the chernobyl nuclear power station. the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, ukrainian technicians say they are repairing the plant, which was seized by russian forces early in the war. the power supply is critical to keep reactor rod schools. now the un says that more than 2500000 refugees have fled to other countries. since the invasion of ukraine began. the majority of those people, 1500000 according to polish border authorities, have had to poland. others have made their way to hungary, slovakia, moldova,

and romania, more than 100000 have also entered russia. they're now joined by dw correspondent burger to show, cuz she joins me from a poland near the border with ukraine. hi, welcome to the show. thanks for joining us. you've just been speaking to these ukrainian refugees arriving. can you tell us a little bit about what their journeys have been like? we heard a lot of hurrying county today because the people who were arriving here, the women and children actually fled a war zone. they experienced heavy shelving that had been trapped in bunkers for 4 days during their escape. they had often to sleep in the freezing nights. why waiting at the border as some were even shuddered. so they are very relieved that they are here now, but they are still so worried about those who they had to leave behind. so their husbands there that other family parts like parents. so they really need some time

to adapt to the new situation. they suddenly, in that we recorded some of their accounts and my we can just listen food and how many people, all our forces threw themselves against putin. one beat, he is a criminal duncan in limbo, the she's the problem, his army use tanks to attack my grandmother's house. we prayed to god to grant her safe passage. my child was crying all the time because people were dying. can you do to woods? lumnick would you like to do you like i like watching, we didn't want to go away with the ones we didn't want to leave our houses. we only went away to save ourselves. let's get that up as a whole. what the home shed, or just the last one was it was very scary when the bombs hit our town directly. we lost light, electricity, and water miss was the and at 5 in the morning,

the bombs were falling down again, right in the center of the city hill and put them in your bed to load warm but, but don't you want to think help people, the bombs killed 21. people including 3 children. i have nightmares when i'm thinking about it. it was hard to wrap your head around just how much these people have left behind. i'm forget, i want to ask you from where you stand, how well poland has been able to accommodate these people arriving i think they are really doing a very, very good job here compared to the 1st day that the help is much better organized. now. we just came back from the border crossing and there are a lot of volunteers there who are providing food and clothes and the people who are arriving. they are immediately registered so they don't have to wait anymore in the cold. and they are placed on bosses to be relocated to other cities. but still,

i mean it's, it's a huge challenge for everybody here. just to give you an example. we are here now at the city of jerusalem. and the city has only 60000 citizens, but they are welcoming between 30000 at 50000 refugees every day. so that lee, that leads a lot of resources that we've heard polish authorities saying 1500000 people have already arrived. and if they continue arriving in poland at this pace will the authorities there be able to manage this will depend on how, how much am help and polar is getting from other european countries, especially if it comes to relocating the refugees. but from what we hear from the people, there's a strong commitment to, to further, well come the refugees. the only problem is right now the whole relief effort is

heavily depending on volunteers and the small community. slight sherito. we're where we are here now and, and we in a way we sense a growing frustration amongst those groups because and the polish government hasn't provided any additional help yet. so there is a little of frustration they are really waiting to get some more funding. brett's head. to be clear, this frustration is directed towards their own government rather than the refugees . t w's or get a shock, or thank you so much for your reporting. poland is of course not the only country where those fleeing the fighting are headed. and you're also crossing into moldova . earlier we spoke to salam, i'll dean, the founder of the angio team, humanity. so i'm all dean has been helping evacuate ukrainian, women and children from the southern city of nico life, to moldova, ukraine's neighbor to the southwest. and he joined us from that birthright.

like you said, it's a humanitarian crisis, as you see, but here is a little different. we it's, it's a, it's people like on the run. but you see shops open. you see text is driving people walking and then you see people running. so it's like different emotions like we're in of dempster, we're recreating women and children from their, their door just running towards the water. well, here it seems like it's different. some people want to stay, somebody want to go like some women don't want to leave their husband, so they're just so you know what we stay with what happens happens. so it's, it's, it's really difficult situation. we are because we're actually trying to get on the bus now. and then in the last 2nd to say no, i'm staying with my husband and this they don't want to leave. so it's, it's really emotional year. and then the situation is, is really bad, really, really bad. i was to la montana joining us there,

the founder of the angio team humanity. and since russia launched its invasion, 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 who refused to denounce russia's invasion. a critics say that blanket boycott must be avoided as they could burn the very bridges that culture seeks to build new. ringback high profile artists like oper, adieva, and an attacker. one of russia's biggest international stars were the 1st to come under fire for having close ties with flooding puting. in the kremlin, conductor valerie gave was fired by the munich philharmonic for refusing to denounce proteins invasion of ukraine. russia state back to 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 putin 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. the young of lucy shall we cannot allow a witch hunt on russian people and their culture of coma bans and boycotts. for example, of russian music and literature. these awakened the worst associations for me. other news associates you 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 backed russian films from the 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. of course, further, if you of, of thousands of russian artists have called for an immediate military withdrawal from ukraine, including popular hip hop artists oxymoron and musical director of the check philharmonic, semi on bush cough 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. and meanwhile, ukraine's team has surpassed its best ever performance at a paralympics and for more metal success. innovation on saturday, alexandra kona,

kona nova one at gold in the standing cross country event. while her teammate arena, we taking the bronze. despite the trauma of events back home, ukraine have now 110 gold medals in beijing and 28. overall. the country is 2nd in the metals table behind hosts china and clearly have disqualified chelsea owner, roman r bro. moving as a director of the club. the move comes after the british government imposed sanctions on the russian billionaire pulling the invasion of ukraine. the league said the decision will not affect the football clubs ability to train and play games. i remove richard said to have close ties to russian president vladimir putin and has already expressed his intention of selling the club. i can bring you up to speed now and some of the other stories we're following for you today. saudi arabia says it has executed $81.00 men convicted on charges, including terrorism and holding so called deviant beliefs. 7 yemenis and one syria

national were among those killed. the man included $37.00, saudi nationals who were found guilty of attempting to assassinate security officers and targeting police french far right. presidential candidates addicts and more has been ag to. while on the campaign trail, he had just arrived in the town of mos socked to meet its mare. when a man at crushed an egg on his head, to more is currently running forth in the presidential race. protesters and police have clashed in the bolivian city lapis. it began as a demonstration why teachers against working conditions and the lack of spending on education, things escalated when protesters through fireworks police, who responded with tear gas. the governments, as it is willing to listen to the teachers demands who are to be de leon is let's get a recap of the main story we're falling for you. russian horses appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on keith authorities in you praying say, rocket attacks have destroyed an air base near the town

a vessel kiff in the key region. it oil depot was also het rushes defense ministries as its army is continuing its attacks on a broad front as it is update at this hour. i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour and play richardson and berlin from in the team. thanks for joining us. ah, with ah, [000:00:00;00]

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