[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from a berlin. russia widens its aerial attacks on ukraine. i keep braces as ground forces, edge closer to the city center, and new satellite images appear to show artillery, firing on residential areas on their way to the capitol. as russian forces close in on cave more and more people are fleeing ukraine, united nations says over q and a half 1000000 have found refuge abroad since the invasion began. and german chancellor,

olaf scholes and french president emanuel micron demand an immediate cease fire in ukraine during a phone call with vladimir putin, that they say the russian leader is not ready to enter the water. ah hello, i'm clare richardson, thanks so much for joining us. with a rush as war on a ukraine. now in its 3rd week, the capital keith is bracing for an all out attack. as the invading forces close in the city's mer, former heavyweight boxing champion vitaly clinico called on residence to prepare to fight morning russia. we will not give up and together we will stant. and meanwhile shelling has already reached the outskirts of keith. fire crews rushed to the scene. after a mortar struck an apartment building on the outskirts of keys,

luther published the all the artillery shelling started at around 6 30 in the morning are good. oh, she's pretty sick wrong. there are people living in these apartment buildings, the civilians. lou, this is a suburban area here with click go to the with russia, stuffing of its bombardment of ukrainian cities, including the capitol. it's feared more and more civilians will be caught in the crossfire satellite images show. russian forces just 25 kilometers from central cave president volota mir's. the lensky has promised ukrainians will put up us to fight. and what he's calling a war for the countries independence family, mon, my m will for we have no right to lead up in the intensity of our defense yet linens, no matter how difficult it is. we have no right to lead up in the force of our resistance. the enemy is bringing more columns into ukrainian territory, vehicle law, and then the besieged port city marsupial continues to bear the full brunt of

rushes bombardment. the humanitarian situation is worsening by the hour for hundreds of thousands, trapped without power running water or fresh food in the nearby southern city of multiple, which has already been taken by russian forces. residents turned out to protest against the alleged kidnapping of their mayor. and to demand his release as plating rages, people in and around keith will be hoping and praying that last minute diplomacy could still spare them the worst of what has happened to other ukrainian cities. let's get straight across to kevin's be today. he is correspondent, but he has a funny guy, mathias and britain's defense ministry saying russian a ground forces are advancing on it, keeps the 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 if 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 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 more 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 about 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 do things stand? will people be able to hold out against a possible ration onslaught? no, 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 have been fortified there a lot of road blocks, et cetera. and the other scenario is a mass bombardment, like in hoc of where the use part of the city of the residential areas of the city are constantly being shelled. and thus a humanitarian trice is, 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 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. c 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 our proposal? to solemn has taken the initiative to talk to both leaders. johnson has very good relations. the actual israeli government has very good relations to put into government under. there was an effort to to, to, to negotiate between the 2. however, so far or we're hearing is that nothing of this has really worked or that out there haven't been any results. there has been 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 the had not been such a pressure. and as a reaction to these news,

as the landscape suggested that israel 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 the relief, the humanitarian crisis. this is probably something that's much more likely to negotiate upon earth than any outcome of the war or correspondent matters. ballinger reporting for us from keith. thank you so much and please stay safe. now when i get across and now to maria, sarah jenko,

i've been speaking to her on dw news over the past week, have a shout to flee her home in mario paul for the relative safety of the western ukrainian city of the v. a. hi maria. welcome back, and thanks again for taking the time under these terrible circumstances. at 1st, some of our viewers may remember, but your grandmother is still in my old full. and the last time we spoke, you'd been unable to contact her for more than a week. and have you had any update on her situation now? hi, and thanks for heaven again. yes, i haven't heard anything from her for 11 days already. so still no connection with her or with the other relatives back leaving mary paul. however, yesterday we managed to get some updates from the neighbor who escaped the state 2 days ago, and they didn't see my grandmother personally. however, they share they that to,

while they are there they so the jordan's in my grandma house raised, you know, every morning. so at least this basic information gave me and my family some hope that she's there, she's alive. so this is the only use that i get from someone and mary both during the last few days, it was a terrible to have just that piece of information, but also encouraging to see that time of life. you said you've had no communication with others in mario. are you hearing anything about the situation there from others? yeah, i did a madge to reach any of my clothes. people. however, my friends parents called sure yesterday they managed to find some post in the center of the city where there was some weak bio network and they shared that to the city is being shout every hour,

every minutes. and i heard from telegram channel, you know, there are some groups, so when people communicate and exchange some information between them. so i heard that my neighborhood where my parents leave, it was really damaged to yesterday day. and the bomb have my house, where my parents have an apartment, and i have no idea by them. my apartment is still they. oh or it's completely destroyed. so this is terrifying. an area you are in levine now. what is your plan from there? well, i'm still here, i still have no plans to leave the country within the nearest future, and they held that the station at least here, will remain abates table as it is now. and we continue helping our people raise and said today was or again on the railway station trying to get some

humidity baron's tab to to p if and there are a lot of people here and everyone wants to take part in some volunteering, initiated and help each other, maria, we're going to leave it there. thank you again for joining us on w. news and please take care. thank. 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 headed to poland. others have made their way to hungary, slovakia, moldova, and romania, more than a 100000 have also entered russia. and i'm 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've heard a lot of harry counts today because the people who are arriving here, the women and children actually fled a war zone. they experienced heavy shelving that had been trapped in bunkers for 4 days. urine there escaped, they had often to sleep in the freezing nights while 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 husband says that other family parts like parents, so they, they really need some time to adapt to the new situation. they suddenly and then we recorded some of their accounts and maybe we can just listen in food along with all our forces through themselves against putin. one beat he

is a criminal duncan in limbo, she's the problem, his army use tanks to attack my grandmother's house. we prayed to god to grant a 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 could kindly watch him. 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 was good that i was a whole lot. the home shed gorgeous thoughtfulness. it was very scary when the bombs hit our town directly. we lost light, electricity, and water is, 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, give those 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. a deal hard to wrap your head around just how much these people have left behind. i 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 for 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 opportunity. so, and this city has only 60000 citizens, but they are welcoming between 30000 at 50000 refugees every day so badly that leads

a lot of resources throughout. we've heard polish authorities saying 1500000 people have already arrived and if they continue arriving in poland at this pace will the authorities their be able to manage this will depend on how, how much help poland 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 in the small community. slight sharita. we're where we are 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 that had to be clear, this frustration is directed towards their own government rather than the refugees . d w's or get a shortcut. thank you so much for your reporting. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the conflict. a ukrainian woman evacuated from emory upon maternity hospital after a russian airstrike has had her baby. little veronica was born in another hospital on the cities outskirts rushes attack on the children's and maternity hospital on wednesday, led to widespread international condemnation. the international atomic energy agency says power has been partially restored to turnover nuclear power station. the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, ukrainian technician say they are repairing the plant, which was seized by russian forces early the war. in italy, thousands of people have joined a rally in one of florence as biggest squares to show their support for ukraine.

they watched a videotaped speech by president while a dimmer zalinski, who called for more sanctions against moscow. florence is one of keeps partner cities and france says russian president vladimir putin shows no willingness to end the war with ukraine, french president, emanuel macro and german chancellor, olaf sholtes held joint telephone talks with putin on saturday afternoon during the 90 minute call. the 2 western leaders urged fujen to agree to an immediate cease fire in ukraine. schwartz is office said he m a cron called on putting to begin the process of finding a diplomatic solution. hootin brief, micron and sholtes 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're 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 schultz 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 betron 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. our political correspondent, thomas barrow. thanks so much for joining me in the studio with that update. at an update from the world of sports, the ukranian team has surpassed its best ever performance at

a paralympics after more metal success in beijing on saturday. only sandra on a nova one goals in the standing cross country event with her teammate irina. we're taking the bronze despite the trauma of events back home. ukraine has now 110, gold metals, and 28 over all the country is 2nd in the metals table. just behind hosts, china and a teenage wrestler, diana light is among the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the war in ukraine. she's now in berlin after a german coach, welcomed her family. for now, she's safe and training with his club. the war in ukraine has turned deanna lot, sleif upside down. the wrestler had to flee our home town in live. if we up person, i say i woke up to another air raid siren and we were supposed to hide in an air raid shelter john e. so i got out ala is willoughby. i looked at my phone and saw a message from marco foreman, but a good one. if i read it,

was going up and it was completely unexpected. yeah, chittaya, i was so happy to quote you book those a good, a pretty yellow german coach malcolm and so picked up diana and her family at the ukrainian border. he brought them to berlin and let them stay in his office. one more. meet that or my dad can come with us, but the was because he went to war to defend ukraine. what is chateau korean? i'm really worried about my dad. yeah, i'm scared. who died yesterday and 2019 diana, one bronze at the under 15 european championship. she hopes to compete at the olympic sunday, horseshoe. i want an olympic gold medal to be an olympic champion,

and to go down in history so that every one will know me. that what i want the water and soon, and that ukraine will defeat russia. russia should give battle, every thing it took from us you would owe. this is abroad. i really want to return home to ukraine. hort to live if to see all my dear people, the coach us wise to see me bliss can a day than that he ah, her coaches in ukraine have enlisted in the army. deanna doesn't know how long chastain berlin for now. training is the only thing she has left going to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories that we are following for you to day. the head of the international committee of the red cross in yemen has asked the world not to forget the plight of people living through its long civil war. she urged for continued aid to alleviate one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. since 2014, the war has killed more than 150000 people. saudi arabia says it has

executed 81 men convicted on charges, including terrorism and holding so called deviant beliefs. 7, your menus, and one syrian were among those killed. the men included 37, saudi nationals who were found guilty of attempting to assassinate security officers and targeting police. and protesters and police have clashed in the bolivian city left us. it began as a demonstration by teachers against working conditions and the lack of spending on education, things escalated when protesters through fireworks of police, who responded with tear gas. and the government says it is willing to listen to the teachers demands you're watching dw news before we go, we'll get a recap of the main story from the crisis and ukraine. russian forces appear to be regrouping for a possible assault on keith authorities in ukraine. se rocket attacks have destroyed an air base near a town. a vessel kiff in the cave region is oil depot was also hits, brushes,

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