a ah ah, this is dw news live from a fairly kear braces for attack. the mayor of the ukrainian capital issues, a defiant call to the residents of the city, to prepare to fight. as russian artillery fire reaches the outskirts of keith. this is german chancellor. all our shoals and french president emanuel micron demand an immediate cease fire in ukraine during a phone call was lied. amir potent. but they say the russian leader is not ready to end the war. ah.

hello, i'm clear. richardson of a warm welcome to the show. with rush as war on ukraine now in its 3rd week, the capital key 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 residents to prepare to fight warning russia. we will not give up and together we will stand. 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 lib, lib liberal as the all the artillery showing started at around 6 30 in the morning with, oh, she's pretty sick around. there are people living in these apartment buildings. the civilians were blue. this is a suburban area here. they're providing mcgee, what's a good day with russia, stepping 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 followed. amir zalinski has promised ukrainians will put up us to fight in what he's calling a war for the country's independence. and we may, mine will brow. we have no right to lead up in the intensity of our defense governance. 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 only 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 melita pool, 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. now when i get across and now it to maria, sarah jenko, i've been speaking to her on d. w. news over the past week. have a she had 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 pal. however, yesterday we managed to get some updates from the neighbor who escaped the city 2 days ago and they didn't see my grandmother personally. however, they share they that to, while they are there they so the jordans 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 and 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, paul, 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 code 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 why them. my apartment is still there or completely destroyed. so this is terrifying. andrea, 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, for instance, said today with 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 the w news and please take care. thank. well, france has said, russian president vladimir putin shows no willingness to end the war with ukraine, french president, emanuel micron and german chancellor, all af sholtes held joint telephone talks with putin on saturday afternoon during

their 90 minute call. the 2 western leaders urged bruton to agree to an immediate cease fire in ukraine. schwartz is office said he and mc wrong, called on, put in to begin the process of finding a diplomatic solution. who didn't brief my horn and shoulder 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, 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 ukrainian 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 the ukraine, you may know the, 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 active. 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. but 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, it's 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 government 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. our political correspondent, thomas barrow. thanks so much for joining me in the studio with that update. let's take a look now. it's mother developments in russia's war in ukraine. ukrainian woman evacuated from a mario po maternity hospital after a russian air strike has now had her baby. little veronica was born in another hospital on the city's outskirts and rushes attack on the children's and maternity hospital on wednesday, led to widespread international condemnation in italy. thousands of people have joined a rally and want to florence as big a squares to show their support for ukraine. they watched a videotaped speech by a president of willa d mir zalinski, who called for more sanctions against moscow. florence is one of keith's partner

cities. and italian police have seized a yacht, worth 530000000 euros owned by russian oligarch. andre managed jenko in the port of trista. the billionaire was sanctioned in response to russia's invasion of ukraine last week. italian police seized several villas and yachts from phi russians on the use of sanctions list. and some news from the world of sports, the ukrainian team has surpassed its best ever performance at a paralympics after more metal success in beijing on saturday. or lic sondra on a nova one gold 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 $110.00 gold medals, and $28.00 over all the country is 2nd in the metals table behind hosts, china and 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 is safe and training with his club . the war in ukraine has turned deanna lots, life upside down. the wrestler had to flee a home town in live if yes, britain, 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 that i looked at my phone and saw a message from marco, the former, a good one, and i read it was going up and it was completely unexpected. yet you thought i was so happy to call them in your book. those are due to per yellow german coach ma command said picked up diana and her family at the ukrainian border. he brought them to berlin and let them stay in his office. don't meet that door. my dad couldn't come with us,

but the horse because he went to war to defend ukraine was at shadow green. 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. what should i want in an empty gold medal and to be an olympic champion, and to go down in history so that everyone will know me back 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 know 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, i, 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 and she news update at this hour. don't forget if you want more. you can also get in depth round the clock coverage of the war in ukraine on our website. ease of use of comp for on social media, diesel units. i'm clear, richardson at berlin from in the team here. thank you so much for joining us. we're, i'm just kinda, i think that's hard and in the end these are me. you are not a lot of to you anymore. we will send you back her. are you familiar with this with the smudges reliance of it? what's your story. ready of you wasn't, i was women, especially victims of violence. i love to take part in.