[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, a sign of hope for civilians inside the ukrainian city of mario pope. for the 1st time, hundreds of been able to flee to safety along an escape route. and it comes as talks between washing and ukrainian negotiators are set to continue on tuesday. also coming up to night, the black sea port of odessa fortified its defenses as volunteer soldiers promised

fierce resistance against advancing russian forces. and the leaders of germany and turkey renewing calls for a ceasefire in ukraine, german chance, or olaf shoulds, a warning that a breakthrough in those talks must come soon. ah, i bring. gov is good to have you with his as we start another week with russian forces attacking ukraine to night. hundreds of people have escaped the besieged city of mario pole in south eastern you crate. now that despite the city being completely cut off from the rest of the world for days now ukrainian authority say the residents were able to flee the city along an escape route. in a convoy of some, 160 vehicles heading towards an area under ukrainian control, hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in mario poll without heat and other

basic necessities before today. all attempts to move civilians out of the city had failed. a peace talks between russian and ukrainian negotiators are set to continue tomorrow as the russian military steps up its assault on the capital. yet his love in a few yawning cur, has been sitting outside her apartments in the early morning hours. she's waiting for someone to pick her up after the apartment she has been living for decades was shelled over night. well this is it one room, another small one and a kitchen. that's what it was. it was 5 am when a shuttle in the house. she saw the building, there was a loud bang and then immediately some kind of white smoke that burned in the eyes in the throat. then i heard the fire fighters in the corridor saying don't go out.

the staircase is gone. so they had me climbed down on the fire fighters lead. yes, we are at the northern edge of ki if and this apartment building was fired upon from outside of the city from the russian positions north of kiff. cleaning up some of the debris. but it's hard to imagine people would ever be able to live here. again. authorities are saying that at least one person died in the attack. any more have lost everything they had. those who can still accessed their property or trying to secure their belongings. yes, levona is 83 years old. this is the 2nd war she has experienced her early childhood memories are of world war 2 name. yes.

does i feel very bad. i am tired. my head hurts badly. why do i have to live through this? i just want some rest. good. relative is on his way to pick her up. then she will have to start all over again. and our correspondent economy, he joins us now from the ukrainian capital. good evening to you, nick. how would you describe the situation in keith to night? its very tense, and people here have been living with the expectation of a russian attempt to take this with you fully in circle it and to cut it off from the rest of the world. like we've seen marable, they've been living with us for weeks now. it hasn't happened. there's still 2 main routes in and out. food medicine, other supplies, and soldiers coming in and out. but it is definitely a situation that is very 10th when we were filming that old lady in the report. and

we were hearing artillery pretty close, almost all the time. that was the kind of endless kind of string of bang going on. then there was kind of gun shots close to that is of the city limits that the edge of the kind of big build up areas. but it is very close here in center where i'm coast become a quarter. things are a bit further away, but used to often enough here, bang, that's often anti aircraft, guns and g missile systems trying to stop things, eating the central key. if we had to stay with them, lost their lives, their life off. one of those russian rockets was shot down in the debris. it's this person who was just going about is everyday business, you know, totally kind of average of kids. so it's a 10 situation, but now the war is still some way away, but people on the, the key of are now increasingly having to pay the price of this versus aggression. nancy, nick, i want to ask you about the city mario poll. ukrainian officials say that more than

2500 residents of the city have been killed so far. what do we know about the situation inside that city tonight? its dia, i was speaking to a young man earlier today basically was impossible to ring him by normal telephone connection, but you have generator and was able to case he gets mentioned. so he was sending me a voice messages and he was telling me about situation where lots people are having to basically break into shops to find food, to eat. where most people who didn't have generators hadn't had power 8 for days on end. what he was in the public town, even closer to the russian soldiers in the far end. so even to him, getting to those evacuation buses that we had today was going to be pretty much unrealistic. he was saying that the him, the scariest thing wasn't fighting which now got used to where shooting and kind of mortify during the day just become the norm and then allowed a more dangerous kind of weapons being used at night. the thing that he was really worried about was using that generator and losing the connect the outside world because some of the family, his girlfriend,

they had got out before. and as long as he was able to keep some kind of connection with these people and know what was going outside, he could somehow deal with the situation. but now i'm facing the prospect very soon of those russian troops, clothing in and in the last vestiges of kind of infrastructure being lost. if the web isn't going to leave. and as the young man, he's probably on the bottom of the list of those. it will going to be taken out, talks nick, between russia and ukraine negotiators took place today. they're scheduled to take place again tomorrow. dare we even try to see a slither of hope in the fact that they are talking a 2nd day? i'm not sure that is a positive sign. i think the fact that been delayed was perhaps more a question of tensions and difficulties finding starting points about and technical discussions. yes, that talks are happening at all. but i think this is more about the optics about

both sides needing to be seen to be open to dialogue rather than actually having anything to really talk about in terms of substantive concessions to the other. i mean, the russian side, jimmy has doll down the rhetoric a bit, but if you look at the detail, they still want basically a capitulation to the ukrainians. they want you not only to say that it won't join nato, but also to basically give most of its army to accept russian possession of antics crimea, to recognize those proclaimed separatists republican, the east. basically all things that would make it very difficult for president william, if you can't elect presidents, go to the great people and say this is what you've been speaking out for. this is what you've been losing your lives for, for us then basically to give in all the things that russia wants us to do. the economy with the latest tonight from keith. nick has always thank you where you cranes, black sea port of odessa is preparing for a russian attack. the city's mayor says the russian troops could soon surround the city on 3 sides,

effectively cutting it all from the rest of the country. locals are volunteering to defend their hometown and say, they're ready to fight the w alexander. phenomena reports to not we are in the center of odessa, you can see that the port city has been turned into a fortress. checkpoints and barricades built of satin bags have been erected throughout the city makoto roo ghetto, cuz the gin moves we are ready every day we go to sleep fully dressed, to be ready to cease shelter in anticipation of a missile strike mortal. but it is for cuba, shoveling sand into sand bags on odessa speech to strengthen the cities defences. volunteers such as alexander an engineer, say they want to make themselves useful, but the we are trying to support each other. we are trying to organize herself. and oh, so many people here i, i never know before, but now we are work as

a team. and this is the perfect example. and this is what we should do or this is of tremendous strategic importance for the ukrainians, and that makes the city a likely russian targets and capturing odessa passports. russia would be able to cut off ukraine from the black sea and from all supplies coming in by ship. ah, time and again, irrate sirens, go out, and residents have to seek shelter. it's almost too much to bear. alexandra tells me. her family has lived in odessa for 4 generations, but now alexandra says it's time for her and her daughter to flee. oh, the moon bahati tomorrow. i've been thinking the long should i leave my home, my family, my husband wash is below my. i love that it's so hard when you take only the necessities and go,

but everything it's necessary when they're when they move. so as far as margot at each time i wake up and my mom says for we need to take cover, i would take the cad, the phone and height of the home. so we sit there until the alarm is over and we should jim thumb, lot of companies of winchester warner. many people have already left believing that it's just a question of time to, for moscow twice to capture odessa. or this is ties with russia, stretched back many centuries to city, founded by russian empress. catherine the great is still largely russian speaking. but despite the deep seated connections, the people of odessa are prepared to meet, put in soldiers with fierce resistance. we visited a school that is now a volunteer center. natalia is in charge here. her message to the russian troops is simple. robin mac and we don't want to deliberate that. we are living wonderful

lives. we don't need to be liberated. they should not make up any myths about that, or believe them and use them as a pretext to violate or a peaceful life. natalia says, or des, since want to keep their city and they are ready to fight for it or more now i want to bring in for brief sportier. he's the see of the political consultancy rasmussen global, and he's a former director of policy planning with nato. it's good to have you on the program. let me ask you about what we're seeing here. we got odessa in the sal preparing for the worst. the war also getting closer to nater territory in the west . you have said that this all demands a clear message from nato. why should that message be? when figures should be several fold? and one, although it may said, should be that certain weapons, nuclear cubicle, have no place in this conflict. and that the use of those weapons will

fundamentally change the nature of the conflict with devastating consequences and to find that nato's leaders have not pushed back on the let me put in nuclear, our chemical weapon, black men, set the very dangerous precedent. so the fear we have of his collision is actually amplified because we're not responding with the right strategy that's on on vag. putting skeleton 3 steps, miss protein, let me ask you, a nato has not pushed back enough or correctly vladimir putin. he increased the alarm status for russia's nuclear arsenal when the invasion of ukraine began. how is nato supposed to respond to that? when nato was for them to decrease it to actually manage escalation with the soviet union and actually as been reinvigorated to manage also risk an

escalation with like you, me put in russia. so i think if natal cannot do this job, then you really have to wonder about its purpose. and here it's about really a declaratory pushback, to remind me pretty, who made a, who may have made mistakes. but he's still a rational actor that the use of nuclear weapon will pull them, will be change the nature of this conflict and will have devastating consequences, including obviously for himself and his country. mister, you say that vladimir putin is a rational actor. how can we be sure of that? i mean, he has lived in an isolated bubble now for the last 2 years. how do we know what his thinking is? well, you never know 100 percent. obviously what these thinking is and whether it's 100 percent rational. but what you can see is still a way to operate that actually try to minimize cost. look at when there were

tensions including military tensions in syria. the russian forces were actually sometimes even walking back for the field, having an escalation with either the turkish forces or the american ones. so actually value me pretend is more rational than we might think, even if he has made the wrong call lately on, especially on this campaign in ukraine. we know that russia has issued another threat saying that western arms are nato weapon con boy's going into ukraine are legitimate target. let's assume that russia airstrikes were to hit. a con boy at the border with poland. what would be nato's response, or what should nato's response be to that? well, 1st i will ask, and so we have a question, which is, what can we do to prevent this situation? and what we can do is actually to lead to stop me pretend to set the terms of escalation,

because by him say this is my red light and you have to respect it. and by us, just abiding with it, we're actually validating his approach. so i think we need to carry on supply and those arms and go systems to the cranium so they can protect their population, indicate fight that war. that's the 1st thing civil and if it were to happen, i think natal will have indeed to, to strongly consider options to get involved in that conflict in a more direct way than it is now. february's pulled fascinating talking with you valuable insight into the way nato is thinking maybe should be thinking at this moment. thank you at yes, and here's a look now at some of the other developments in the ukraine conflict, un secretary general antonio terrace. as warned of the potential for nuclear war over ukraine terrace said to day that the prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable,

is now within the realm of possibility he's urging russia to stop is evasion of ukraine and to pursuit diplomacy. instead, the u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan, has worn china against helping russia evade the effects of global sanctions. u. s. officials have also reported that moscow has asked beijing for support, including military equipment. both russia and china have denied the reports. germany's de vincent ministry has confirmed it is planning to buy us made f $35.00 fighter jets as part of a push to modernize its armed forces. following the invasion of you crate that he jets will replace the countries aging tornado fleet. germany has also pledged to increase defense spending to more than 2 percent of g d p. that will surpass nato requires when you have a chance o shoals and the target president rich attire. air to one have repeated their calls for

a ceasefire in ukraine. chancellor sholtes is on his 1st official visit to ankara where he called on russian president vladimir putin to end the war and to allow he made a tarion corridors to be established near to. one of them says that turkey will continue to sant humanitarian aid to ukraine. but he would not rule out purchasing more weapons from russia. something that other native members have criticized in the past is little a bit of that present air to want did pledge to do everything that he can to mediate in this war. but in his remarks today to reporters, he stopped short of condemning the russian invasion. chancellor schultz, however, was much more direct. president added, no one and myself are absolutely in agreement that the violent military conflict in ukraine must be condemned. and that we want to see a ceasefire as soon as possible. it has to happen now, so that not so that we can save lives. they have to be safe corridors for civilians

so that they can escape what these areas of attack you them. this has to happen as soon as possible, but in every single day with every bomb russia is got moving further and further away from the international community and our values. so a clear appeal now to the russian president, stop this conflict, there can only be identical matic solution of it. yet we need to accelerate to the paramedic efforts for fuel that are offered a bit of a guesstimate. the turnkey. this is, you know, we'll do their best, i live alone. so bring together both party doesn't rule and we have either done our best to bring both parties together on the russian and ukrainian. the foreign ministers of value have convened in antalya fuller was the participation of my own foreign minister, as well as well. our correspondent jojo hon. she was at that press conference in

the turkish capital to day. good evening to you. you will hear what stood out to you and what these 2 leaders had to say. you know, we've got the leader of germany, the leader of turkey, both nato members. are they both on the same page? you you know what stood out to me were read those words by allah shows how he emphasized that the touch present in him agree on the need for an immediate cease fire in ukraine and how he basically on behalf of both of them the trust flooding. you put in and told him to stop the violence we would normally not hear such clear was from the turkish president who was always very careful not to anger moscow too much. and this is basically, you know, telling us what to show and read of type ad one disagree on how to deal with russia . what we've seen from the turkish president is a political balancing act. where on the one hand he supports ukraine,

he provided combat drones. turkey is an important member of nature. while on the other hand, he is trying not to risk ties with moscow because the, the turkish economy, an ailing economy, depends so much on russian energy, russian agriculture, important russian tourists, millions of tourists from russia and come to turkey every year, spending a much needed money much needed here, india economy. and that explains why turkey so far has kept its face open to russian employ planes and also has not joined western sanctions against russia. julia, when we look at the situation on the ground right now in ukraine, what role can germany in turkey really play in terms of bringing a diplomatic into this conflict? well, the turkish or president clearly sees himself as a mediator. he seems to enjoy that roland,

but general german position here is that all kinds of diplomatic efforts right now need to be supported because every one and president edwin seems to be one of these people still get through to vladimir putin. a need to be supported in these efforts . the, the meeting between the 2 foreign ministers here in turkey last week did not healed any results, but still they were welcome to all of show it's mentioned that to in today's press conference as well. but of course, it remains to be seen. what's happened, what, what will happen next? of course, a meeting between the 2 presidents of lighting, reporting and letting mr. lensky, it would be next on the agenda. but if they are going to take place here in turkey, for example, that's absolutely unclear as we speak to w johan with the ladies tonight on those efforts at a diplomatic in to the war you'll, you thank you. we're here to look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines this hour. we're australia in the netherlands. say that they've launched

legal action against russia over the downing of a militia airlines passenger flight over eastern ukraine. 8 years ago. all 298 people on board were killed, including a 196 dutch nationals and 38 australia. moscow has denied involvement in that incident. the senegalese army has launched in operation against separate is rebels in the southern region of castlemont. the military accusing the rebels of trafficking, timber and candidates. the conflict has been largely dormant for years. but it flared up last month when separatist clash with the army. john is seeing its highest number of covered 90 cases in 2 years. forcing several regions into lockdown schools. have been closed in shanghai and restrictions enforced in northeastern cities. now the city of shins then, is also in lockdown as neighboring hong kong struggles to cope with

a surge in do cases where the war in ukraine is casting a shadow over or did cast a shadow over last night's bath. the film awards in london. the prizes were handed out at london's royal albert hall in a star studded ceremony reminiscent of pre pandemic times. many nominees were badgers and ribbons in support of ukraine. oh, dressed with a message celebrating achievements in film does not mean forgetting the plight of ukrainians. i wearing yellow. it's not, not only and not to my character. i send the pain in his worrying about to support ukraine than the people in my industry that condemns russia's invasion of ukraine. and we stand squarely with oh fellow ukrainian film academy who we've been in touch with. and they've asked us to pass on

a message to the world as well. they won weston gin looks to keep reporting fairly and accurately. many of those students across to members inside a packed boy allow but who returned to normality after last he is virtual ceremony . host australian actress, rebel wilson had a message full rushes leader. luckily though, in all sign languages, this is the gesture for payton. ah, well, other than the best film prize went to dark weston. the power of the dog and its director, jane campion. belfast your body from belfast rather than in ocean out standing british film went to kenneth granite, semi autobiographical comedy drama. with that of the onset of northern islands. 3

decades of conflict, st. helena ah, a director brown. i can be subject matter to the current conflict in ukraine. history repeats itself. i think we have to look at stories that reflect what's going on. we are believable. what's going on in the world around is it would be conversation i think, is mainly to do with people, movies, at least not one and only will smith for me to you bleeding actor full williams family tennis by. i'll take a king, richard, who bought black or earth. joanna scanlon, hamlin, one leading actress for her portrayal of a widow who discovers her late husband has a secret family in often love. ah, the emperor asks us to bring peace for workers. momento nominated film science fiction. blockbuster june, missed out on the main gongs,

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