iraq destruction of the nation this week on d. w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. russia's bombardment of ukraine edge is closer to the center of the capital. you strikes on residential areas in cave, cause death and destruction may of italy, clerical calls it a difficult and dangerous moment. we also report on the situation in the besieged city of mario pole where traumatized residents are running out of food and water, and many thousands remain trapped and an unusual act of defiance the

russian journalists protest. so countries, boy, ukraine live on the state, run t v new ah, i'm glad elf us welcome to the program. the ukrainian capital keith has been rocked by a series of powerful explosions hitting residential areas early on tuesday. the attacks came just hours before talks between ukraine and russia was said to resume a high rise. apartment building was struck and several deaths and injuries were reported. fierce fighting has been going on for days between russian and ukrainian forces in the northwest outskirts of chief. but major road and trade routes from the capital remain open, or that half of chiefs, 3000000 inhabitants have fled the city since the start of the russian offences. as

a response to the attacks keeps may, it may a bitterly clips go announced a 36 hour curfew. furious globe me in the booth space today is a difficult and dangerous my middle commando heavy according to the decision of the military command from today. march 15th from 20100 hours. the curfew is established in keith. several movement through the city is prohibited without special passes. or you can only go out to reach a shelter. the curfew will apply until 7 am on march 7th to romco. simon. therefore, i asked her all keep residents to prepare for the fact that they will have to be a home what before 2 days or with in the case of an alarm. in shelter, i was assume overdue oil gritty as to allow civilians to be evacuated. they also hoping to be able to deliver aid to the besieged city of

merrier pope where the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. in a matter of seconds, they have to run for their lives. then the bombardment begins with this is what life looks like and mario paul, a city under siege by russian forces. when i want the feel on you, we have no information at all. we know nothing. it looks like we are living in a deep forest. they should have told us something, at least about what's going on and where like your heavy sheylan has destroyed homes. supermarkets and hospitals and mario paul residents have been without food,

water, and electricity. more than 2000 people have died here since the war began. it will be done is that will responsibility for the war crimes of the russian military . it is inevitable. soon as his ward for the deliberate humanitarian catastrophe in ukrainian cities knew the whole world please. what is happening, mary? of all, i do believe footage from above shows the scale of destruction across the city, which is completely surrounded by russian forces. on monday, a 1st convoy of civilians was able to escape mario paul. the 1st evacuation in 2 weeks of russian bombardment. but an 8 convoy trying to reach the city is reportedly blocked by russian forces. this footage was released by the russian defense ministry. they say 200 passes have been

prepared for the evacuation of mario pull residence. and aid is on its way. i'll get a junior, sort of your only new car convoys with humanitarian cargo were promptly formed and immediately sent you. the 1st convoy has already arrived and maria paul and delivered 450 tons of medical supplies, essentials and food, including baby food going at their mercy. for information, not a w is unable to verify legion. i remember her dealership were, you know, i mean while fighting on the ground shows no sign of abating. when are drawn pearl anna stalk garcia, the deputy director of the ukrainian red cross. and she is currently in valencia in central ukraine. or you have a team working in mario pool at the moment. what are you hearing from them? good afternoon. well, it's true that our team, our emergency response team is working in a minute, but it's around 15 people of,

of team plus others continuous on a d s. so our number is bigger than that, that they're currently working in to see to they're actually based. they have always been based in the city, but we have no connection with them from time to time. once in a couple of days we get in touch with them because there is no mobile connection. unfortunately, as well as yesterday to city water and everything else. we know that they are all safe now, well not say, but live at least and then delivering the actually, when you turn in mission they, we have almost used always to read a stockpile of food and other necessities. and we are now trying to negotiate locally where it is possible in the city to replenish our supply, to deliver water and food and other things to the population of the situation is in fact very difficult to. we do not know how with things are going on now there might be open because no, no connection with so some civilian,

so we here have much to leave. how difficult has it been getting people supplies to people still stuck there? well, we cannot, we have a big supply of everything in fact, because of the major support of our partners and the business and everything. but we cannot get into the city in order to get into the city and to deliver humanitarian aid. there we need to be sure many times courtney door, which hasn't been successful for almost 2 weeks. that is why we cannot replenish our supply from other parts. are you calling to let you know that that's the problem and the interview that the reuters news agency has quoted ukrainian officials actually using russia blocking. there's a convoy into the city. is there anything to that? yes, it's true. the there is a big human italian convoy,

which is also supported by the ukrainian red cross. our teams are on the way to monday, but we cannot get there and we are stuck in a pretty shitty gin. and we're not allowed into the city with the big community and can work fortunately. so get an accurate figures on the number of tests and number of people won't. it is very difficult. what's your assessment of the situation across the country right now? well, i can, i can not give you the figures and because we're not making these particular assessment, i can only say that a couple of days ago, the official reported figure of people was around 2.5, a, 2500 people did. but over the years, we can hear that a local authority say the sticker might be much bigger than even 10 times bigger than that. of course, deputy director of ukrainian red cross. thank you very much. thank you very much.

let's get more on the piece talks that are still going on from modi. w correspondent. and we sure who used to be our correspondent in moscow until our bureau that was closed. emily the are the talks how they're going from a russian perspective. so we heard, am in recent days, pretty optimistic tones from the ukranian side about the talks. the russians have been a little bit more careful about what they're saying. the head negotiator of the russian delegation are like me to begin ski yesterday said that there are talks happening every day via video link. another member of the delegation lanyard. slootsky said that there are signs of progress and that the positions of the 2 sides may be getting close to that there may even be some documents that the 2 sides can sign soon. but today are the kremlin spokesperson was rather more tight lipped. he said

that the fact that the 2 sides are talking at all is good. but there was no prognostic prognosis yet that it would be premature to talk about any results. but he did also mentioned that there could be talks between putins lensky and that the 2 delegations are discussing that at the moment. so that would obviously be kind of a breakthrough. in some ways. i, observers argue that the russian side maybe more willing to make concessions because the military operation hasn't been going as planned. they thought it seems that they would be able to take over more ukrainian territory much, much faster. and now they're encircling various cities, including, you know, advancing on key as, and that may be an attempt to put pressure on ukrainian side by kind of besieging various cities in order to get what they want in the negotiations. we want to talk to you about something that happened last night when a journalist with a country state run broadcast, a storm, the main news program holding a sign that read know was stop the war. don't believe the propaganda. they're all

lying to you. the she was quickly rested in husband reachable since before she was arrested. she posted a this video in the last years. unfortunately, i've been working with criminal propaganda on channel one and i feel very much ashamed of that. i am very ashamed that i allowed such lies on t v. i allowed the brainwashing of the russian people. we did not say anything in 2014. when it all started, we did not take to the streets and protests when the kremlin poison of albany. we silently watch this inhumane regime, and now the entire world has turned away from us. 10 more, future generations won't wash out the shame of this fratricidal war. the beast was a very courageous act, given the harsh punishments. emily and we've been hearing from day one of this invasion that russians have me getting the full picture. is that changing now? you think i would say no. and an indication for that is even the fact that even

critical media outlets. who did report on the fact that medina, i've shown you, you know, took to stay tv with that anti war poster. they were having to blur the poster because it mentioned the word, the word war, which russian is say, which russian authority say you're not allowed to call it towards a special operation. and they're obviously being very careful as well because there's this new law. that means that if you spread fakes about the military or about russian soldiers, you can get up to 15 years in prison. and actually there are a media reports that might enough sense of herself. we just saw in that clip that the investigative committee in russia has maybe begun investigating her as well under that new law. so she may get face up to 15 years in prison. as you were saying, it's extremely brave what she did very unusual for someone on russian state tv to do something like that and really go against the official line. i would say that in

general, it's harder and harder now to get any information about what's happening in ukraine . that doesn't tow the state media line. most independent media outlets have been blocked. many independent journalists have been forced to leave the country. facebook and instagram are now blocked in the country as well. and you can of course, access some of these media outlets. if you use a vpn, which means that you're essentially, you know, you downloading software. that means you can hide where you're located, hide your ip address, pretend that you're in a different country, apart from russia. but not everyone knows or cares enough to try to do that and to really look into what's happening. and you know, there, the russian authorities are also spreading fear. for example, there have been reports that people just normal people on the streets in mosque are being taken aside and by the police who then start reading their personal chat to see what they're writing to their friends about potentially this war. and many people believe state tv, especially in the older generation. there been

a lot of reports as well, from people in ukraine who say, you know, i've been talking to my relatives in russia about what's happening about the fact that we're being bombed. and they don't believe me. so you just mentioned it that many of the older generations just rely on on stay tv for, for information. so how much support you reckon putting has for this among the average population? of course we don't know. i just mentioned this climate fear, there are some surveys that have been carried out, including one by state pollster, which has that around 68 percent support this quote, special operation independent observers put that number is more like 50 percent. but of course you can imagine if you get cold called by someone you don't know and asked what you think about the special operation. maybe you'll say that you think it's great if you're afraid. so we, it's hard to get a real picture. i think there is strong support for this,

especially because many people are convinced that you know of the, of the russian wine, which is that civilians are not being targeted that civilians are not dying in this war in you. and there are anti war protests sort of thing going on. nearly 15000 people have been arrested since the beginning of the war. but i think they'll be getting more and more afraid of the consequences in the coming weeks and months fit of use. i'm the sherman, thank you very much. i mean, i mean, while the polish, the check and the civilian prime minister is on their way to queue if they're traveling by train. and what is the 1st visit before lead us to ukraine's capital? since roches invasion started last month, the check prime minister petro fiala released this statement. the purpose of the visit is to confirm the unequivocal support of the entire p and union for the sovereignty and independence of ukraine. the statement was also released by the

polish government while corresponded, bound to legal is anywhere the european union's headquarters in brussels for us bent. that's a very high level delegation de ever. what are these 3 prime ministers bring with them other than words of support? well basically they bring this message of solidarity. the polish prime minister also issued a statement before you enter the train and also, and he says in such triggered times for the world, it's our duty to beaver history is forged in, but they don't have a new measures in their luggage. so to say they can of course, say that that you had said just decided on a 4th round of 1st sanctions, and that the russia will be kicked out of the world trade organization, the w t. o. not only by the united states, but also now by the european union, but they don't have a new measures or weapons or polish jets or

a no fly zone in, in their baggage. that's what ukraine had asked for, that this will not come. and the whole visit was also not endorsed by the european union that you says now that the counselor was informed, but does not actually actively support this journey because it's considered to be very risky at a security level. as you say, very risky, a very unusual step, but i imagine it was a lot of planning with 3 prime ministers travel to was on any word and how all this was prepared. the other 3 prime ministers informed the european union, the council actually last week in versailles when they met there for a special summit. and then everything was done in secret. and yesterday evening there was the confirmation that the, this, this train actually would go. but the, you assess here it's, it's very risky,

and it's not clear what they want to achieve by the sir, by this trevor and, and so the, the, the council president, char michelle, decided not to go and turn the room now see of the plays out because as you have reported already, you keith is under shelling and they are a very high risk to this trouble. and we will see when the strain returns the w. rosemont battle eager there for us. thanks. will his update a vatican officials said pope frances would be willing to facilitate dialogue to help stop the war in ukraine. a large majority of your grain and population identifies as orthodox christian. and while their religious leaders have publicly condemned the invasion, recent statements by the head of the orthodox church, russian patriarch, carol openly supported moscow's invasion. it says splintered the world wide orthodox church and is raising fairs of religious strife. it's

2020 and around 50 kilometers from moscow. a cathedral is being inaugurated in honor of the armed forces. a sign of how tightly entwined orthodox christianity and politics are in russia. the influence of the orthodox church leader is hard to under estimate the moscow's patriarch carol has made no bones about where his loyalty lies. he spoken of russia's opponents as evil forces portraying ukraine as a nation to coming to what he calls sinful western practices. such as gay pride parades, idea in ukraine, some 30000000 orthodox christians, a split between a self governing church on the ukrainian orthodox church, which is part of the moscow pottery a kate. but since the invasion, the rival leaders have been united in

a condemnation of russia with some churches left, not even able to provide a sanctuary from the assault many clerics in ukraine. and now joining calls for a complete split from the moscow church. and wild carrillo preaches justification. ukraine's 4 and a half 1000000 catholics are looking to the head of their church to wage piece. you know, great score. but while pope francis is called it a war which those death destruction and misery, he is neither named vladimir putin as the aggressor, nor appealed to crill to intervene on the side of peace. i'm a john the studio by w as a religious fs analyst, a martin got martin at it's religion has been sort of a bit of an under exposed side of this, this conflict. many people have been asking themselves, why is putin doing all this? and how important is faith for putins rule?

i think the for the war itself, religion place actually pretty important role. it's very difficult to gauge how important is for putting her house in sir. he might be his religious commitments, but there is a very long history in russia of essentially recruiting political, sent a religious sentiments of the among the population. are there to support political crusades. and the brooks amity of the orthodox church, particularly must divide bratcher take to the kremlin, has been essential for putting to actually rally the population behind the war effort. so in a sense, it's not really just a theological matter, but the church represents a very strong cultural position which is very conservative, very reactionary, and cease basically the criminal in a very capable defender of those social and cultural positions. ukraine is important for the orthodox church, briefly explain why,

very much. so because the pre, the process of conversion, of a group or the press of conversion of the slavic world, really, to some degree, starts in ukraine, coming from the south coming from greek orthodox churches. capital can turkey, but it's really, it's really the ukraine. what open, so to say the gates of the slavic were to christianity for the russians. the ukrainian church is actually very important and it has been one that has been very close to the most. quite patrick kate at obviously curial is also a very divisive figure. no, for really quite a long time. so he has actually manage over the last couple fears to break relations to several of his orthodox fears. so could we regard the key if, as the founding place really of the russian orthodox church isn't it? and could we regard this war as pu teens war to reclaim the jerusalem if you will, of the will for next to it?

there is absolutely no doubt in my mind at least following sort of the cycle, the cycle of news and explanations that there is a very strong messianic. you know, message being being essentially, you know, deployed. it's not really coming across when you look at politicians and when you listen to the news, but it's certainly there when you actually start to hear what people are saying, different parishes in different churches and so on. it's obvious that the speed of the ukrainian church, which now has actually 3 way split is seen as basically a run away ran away congregation for the church in moscow. but i think that it's also the case that the proximity of orthodoxy with russian sentiments of identity tend to actually look at ukraine. something that is essentially an escaping child of the, of the bruce, meat of the russian rules commit of the russian. i mean, not, not empire, but certainly imperium. sort of the space of influence. religious affairs was fun.

martin got there. thank you much. you're welcome out to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. russian prosecutors are seeking an additional 13 year jail term for the opposition leader alexander vonny on charges of fraud and contempt of contempt of court. yvonne is already serving a 2 and a half years sentence for parole. violations relating to charges. he says were made up to quash his political ambitions. the son of turkmenistan autocratic leader has won a decisive victory in the country's presidential election. the electoral commission declared sara betty and will come middle of the winter with 73 percent of the vote to succeed. his father, urban golly, the outgoing president announced he was stepping aside to give young lead us a chance. maritime agencies are working to re flow to cargo ship that stock off the us east coast vessels run by evergreen. that's the same

company who's contain a ship block, the suez canal, last year, disrupting one of the wells busiest shipping routes. there are no initial reports of injuries, pollution, or damage to the best vessel. while some countries around the world are dropping corona virus measures china and sticking to its 0 covert strategies, that's put millions of people in lockdown across the nation. more than 5000 new cases were confirmed on tuesday. factories and ports were being shot down, put in beijing strict approach to the test this streets of china as most populous city in slumber. shanghai is trying to stamp out stubborn corona virus. clusters with a partial lockdown. building are sealed off and travel restricted a routine that's all too familiar. but and what was i think this year is worse than

the 1st one. but we in shanghai aren't really panicking. unlike the 1st year, people are calmer and really paying attention to self protection along the line, but it many have food stored at home, just in case their community suddenly locked down. just an issue with the phone to the, from the vast majority of china's infections are in the northeast in dylan province . a full lockdown has been implemented there. although infections are rising, the official numbers are by no means dramatic at present. still, the 0 covert strategy persists with major cities being shuttered. concerns are mounting over whether the economy can withstand the closures in the capital, beijing, a lockdown is edging closer and frustration is growing happy and i can't understand what's happening and other cities. the measures were fairly successful,

and now it's starting all over again. when will it? and the highly contagious on the kron variant is testing the limits of china's 0 cove strategy. more than 2 years into the pandemic. that's it from me on the news team for now i'll i will update for you at the top of the hour gag office and berlin i saw ah ah ah ah

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