[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight in order to stay indoors. the ukrainian capital keep under a 35 hour curfew as the russian attack. strength its new strikes and residential areas of the city have called death and destruction. heeds mayor patel eclipse co calling the hours to night leading into to morrow, difficult and dangerous. also coming up, we'll take you inside the besieged port of mario pole where people are trapped and

the red cross. it says it's impossible to deliver food or medicine. plus the night, we are all soldiers of music wielding the power of art in defense in defense of a free and democratic ukraine. new york metropolitan opera brings music lovers together to lift spirits and to raise money for the people suffering in ukraine. ah, i'm bring gov. it's good to have you with us on this tuesday. do not go outside unless you're running for a bomb. shelter of those are the orders of a $35.00 our curfew. that is now when effected, the ukrainian capital keep it comes after russia intensified as bombardment of the city on tuesday,

striking several residential areas before dawn with deadly results. it's the middle of the night in keith. those who are awake see the flash 1st. then comes the blast. ah, one targets an apartment block. authorities say several people died in a series of airstrikes on residential high rises west of the city center in the early hours of tuesday. many had the rescue workers to thank for being alive. oh yeah, we gathered our belongings and felt the smoke coming. we tried to take the stairs to get out. the staircase was already filled with smoke up, so we made a decision to remain in the apartment. no hurry o. kitson was burning, but thank god, the rescuers found us and they were able to bring us down. got him with russia's assault on,

the capitol appears to be inching closer to the heart of the city. our weapons factory in central keith was also hit. but here as elsewhere, civilians bore the brunt of the damage as the shelling intensified keeps, ma'am vitale. clinico announced a 35 hour curfew extending through thursday morning and he warned the capital stood before a difficult and dangerous moment. mister walker with a battle for key of edging ever closer, clinico appeal to all male residents to fight for them for liberty. do you agree? one who loves keith and who wants it to withstand must help as much as he can browse among many women and children was have left to get to safe places louisville. he bought the george. this is understandable. forward moves and many men who took families, there are back on to the city of b,

but georgia math. i appeal to those who have not yet done so. man, jewel, geeky, ites come back by this, but many key lights never left. both men and women. now some have to pick up the pieces lucky to be alive, but left with nothing. here, these are some intense hours in the besieged city of keith. i'm joined now by kiera roodick, a member of the ukrainian parliament. it's good to have you on the program. this curfew is now in force. what's the mood like right now where, where you are and do you think people have enough supplies to get them through this 35 hour curfew? hello, good evening. thank you so much for having me. so we have been preparing for a siege, both civilians and the government in

a while. it's actually have been since day one when we've since one to surround the city and storm us out. so right now, most of civilians do have the food and supplies, or at least were able to prepare. and as for the ones who can provide for themselves the cd and myself personally. and they are many teams and give who are helping out to make sure that each citizen has at least like $3.00 to $5.00 day supplies at home. so they wouldn't have to get our for food. and honestly, the crone of irons crisis has taught us a lot so as supplies at home, as for the curfew that was implemented, we do understand that it is because russians would most likely try to attack. and again, we're ready to that ground attack, and people and givens and a territorial defense resistance teams. the army,

we are training and we're getting ready. we're ready for the siege. and the p is city is now getting to be a fortress. what we are not ready for is there shelly? and their missiles are coming from the air. there is nothing that you can do as a person to protect yourself from the missiles, from the bolts that are coming with this makes me feel helpless and this is it. what is makes it so hard on us. miss really of me just ask you about that. you know, the fact that you don't have strong air defenses and in with this curve you do you feel like you've been told to stay in doors and pray, but you're not hit by a russian air strike tonight while people are sent are told to go to the bon shelters in the hear air, simon, but yes, the feeling of inability to protect yourself from this most dangerous part from the ear. this actually is devastating, and that is why as

a member of ukrainian parliament, as a leader of the party, i continue pleadings to all our need to partners to everybody who can here to provide us with a no fly zone or a jet or any air force protection, so we will not be sitting just waiting until the bombs will be coming to our heads at if, if i should come in, let them coming. we will be fighting them. we will be standing against them. we have been training for that. we will be ready, but what if they will be just trying to bombard and get the city to the ground? there will be a very small amount of thing that we can do. we can to hide it shelters, and we can, you know that a no fly zone is not made. it says it's not going to happen. even if it were, it wouldn't happening in the next 2435 hours that you're having to face this curve for you. you have not lift keith in about half of the population of the city as

also decided to stay what, why are you still there? because this is my city, and this is my home. i wouldn't have another one. and my people, my constituency is here and they are all watching. and they are looking at me trying to find a signs of this fear in me a soul to, to use it as a reason to give up. and i'm saying no, we're not giving up. we are fighting, we're standing here because we will need to protect the city and we are protecting it. and no matter what happens, we will be ready to give. rush is a very, very with find the way that we are giving them the fight everywhere. a in ukraine where the attacking and regarding the no fly zone, i can tell you, and we do have a plan. our plan is to fight russians and our plan is to when are you planning? i should it what? what about you? do you have, do you have a machine gun? i mean, are you prepared to actually if there's urban warfare,

are you prepared to fight? yes, i do have my machine gun and i am ready to fight russians. and i have been training along with my resistance team that i put together, and it was training for the last 20 years for the last 20 days. so i am ready to give them a good fight if necessary, and same as i as the same as myself. there are many, many people in give who are standing up to the arm, kiera, rudy, a member of the ukrainian parliament. miss rebecca, you're very brave woman. we certainly wish you and everyone in cave all the best to night. thank you. thank you. and glory to crane with the prime ministers of poland. lydia and the czech republic have arrived mtv by train in what they are calling each show of support from ukraine's european allies. and

an official statement released the check republics. prime minister said that the purpose of the visit is to confirm the unequivocal support of the entire european union for the sovereignty and independence of ukraine. of the red cross as at hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, spent another day without aid. after hopes to get open 9 human corridors across the country, only partially succeeded. officials in mario polls say about 2000 civilian cars, did manage to leave the city that has been under siege now for weeks. but ukraine has again accused russia of blocking a convoy trying to get aid to people who were inside the city, where the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. your boy in the matter of seconds, they have to run for their lives. then the bombardment begins

with this is what life looks like and mario paul, the city under siege by russian forces. when i want the actual 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 your heavy sheylan has destroyed hens, 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 with movie then is that will responsibility for the war crimes of the russian military. it is inevitable. soon as his order for the deliberate humanitarian catastrophe in ukrainian cities moved the whole world. please. what is happening,

murray? your call at all. bully, fitted 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 aide convoy trying to reach the city is reportedly blocked by russian forces . this footage was released by the russian defense ministry. they say 200 buses have been prepared for the evacuation of mario pulled residence . and aid is on its way. i did a deal with one of your only new car convoys with humanitarian cargo were promptly formed and immediately sent you. the 1st convoy has already arrived in mario paul and delivered 450 tons of medical supplies, essentials, and food,

including baby food. going at their little information, not d. w is unable to verify, didn't ever even had deals him when, you know, i mean while fighting on the ground shows no sign of abating. meanwhile, nato says it will hold an emergency summit next week to address the alliance is response to the war in ukraine. the white house confirming that you as president joe biden will attend a native secretary general. you in stoughton burg saying that the military alliance is looking at changes to its security posture here in europe following russia's invasion of ukraine, of speaking ahead of a meeting of nato defense ministers to morrow. he also repeated concerns that russia might use chemical weapons. for months, we have exposed to russia's long list of lies. they claimed they did not plan to invade ukraine,

but they did. they claim that they were withdrawing their troops, but the sent in even more. they claim to be protecting civilians, but they are killing civilians. now, they are making absorbed claims about biological labs and chemical weapons in ukraine. this is just an old ally and we are concerned that moscow could stage a false flag operation, possibly including chemical weapons. well, as nato leaders prepared to discuss changes to the alliances security policies here in europe. current military exercises in norway could be a taste of what is to come more than $30000.00 troops from nato countries. are taking part in exercise is known as cold response. 2022. they're designed to test

norway's role in providing reinforcements if an attack on the alliance triggers article 5. now it states that an attack on one member of nato is an attack on all members, native, non nato members, finland and sweden are also taking part or what would an attack on nato mean for the alliance is partners, finland and sweden. both are militarily not align, but they also enjoy the closest form of cooperation that nato offers to non members . my next guest says that the tied to public opinion in sweden means that nato membership is looking more and more likely, even if the prime minister would prefer to keep the status. quote. benjamin todd about is a professor of ethno musicology and international affairs at the university of colorado. he joins me tonight from boulder, professor, it's good to have you on the program, your op ed piece in the wall street journal. this week, it, it makes it clear the swedish public are moving towards nato, the prime minister,

apparently not. why is that? historically the prime minister's party, the social democrats, have been really at the forefront of, of pushing back against native. this is a left leaning political alliance. and they have viewed nato as really an instrument of u. s. foreign policy, which of course in many aspects it is and a foreign policy that they don't like. however, as, as you will hear, echoing throughout media and throughout the conversation these weeks, the landscape has changed. and we've seen a dramatic shift in attitudes toward tornado, both in sweden, but even even more dramatically. i would say in finland, which is a country this week as closely partner in sweden as had a long and successful run as the insider outsider in europe. if you will, especially militarily, mead sweden was seen as a window into the other side of the iron curtain during the cold war,

but that that utility was really last effort. 1991. i mean, what have the swedes and the fence for that matter? what have they done the past 3 decades in terms of foreign policy? well, in for inform policy they, they gradually 2 things have gone on and they're quite, quite, it's quite puzzling, especially if you focus a suite on the one hand. there has been a dramatic drop in funding for, for the military, for defense and sweden. this is paradoxically happened at the same time as sweden status as neutral, has eroded and its partnership with the west. with great britain, with united states, with nato, has become stronger and stronger. well, still on paper, not being officially a member of nato. so that's, that's the sort of parallel dual lines that we've seen in the defense in foreign policy in these countries. since since the fall of the soviet union, i was looking at the statistics. i think sweden took in 860000 asylum seekers in

2015 and that was more per capita than any other european country. we know that much of sweden's budget has been earmarked for social welfare programs in the past . are we seeing a change in pocket book priorities in sweden, from social programs now to defense spent? so the government announced in the wake of russia's invasion, that they were going to increase defense spending to 2 percent. they crucially did not lay out a time table for when that when that change would take place. but i, i mentioned that just to, to draw everyone's attention to the fact that this have very suddenly and very recently it's, we haven't had a, let's say, of a full public debate. and hearing over where swedes and swedish politicians want public money to be devoted to, we've just seen this, this quick knee jerk reaction to russia. and in recognition of sweden's defense spending was, was inadequate. whether or not in the long term that would stay up in the course of public debate. i can only speculate on my speculations. yes. yeah, but,

but it's hard to, to this point have to ask, before we run out of time, you are an ethnic musicology professor at c use boulder college of music. but you also teach international relations. is there a link between music and foreign policy that the crisis in ukraine has revealed? i wish i suppose for professional reasons. i wish i could say that, but no, unfortunately, these are primarily 2 distinct areas of my research interests that i manifest in 2 different departmental assignments that a university will have. hope that we're all seeing the song of peace sooner rather than later. benjamin title about the university of colorado at boulder professor, we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thanks for having me. a russian woman who denounced the war in ukraine live on russian television has

been fined the equivalent of about 260 euros by a moscow court. foster daughter, marina of sac on e. cova is an editor at the state controlled out the channel. one of she held up an anti war side. you see it right here behind the studio, present or reading the news monday night, just her poster. read no war, stop the war. don't believe the propaganda. they are lying to you here. what i thought him home to find a lot of. she was arrested and detained before hor, her arrest of sienna cova released a video statement explaining why she did what she did in the last years. unfortunately, i've been working with kremlin 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 navine. we

silently watched 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. pezora boob east lane. and the story has captured the world's attention to talk a little bit more about it. i'm joined now by our correspondence, emily, sherwin emily was based in our moscow bureau until the russian government closed it down. emily, so let's just talk about this woman that she's an editor, or she was it editor at channel one. she was inside, if you will, the state propaganda machine. that's right. yes. she and she said that i know she was detained. she that she had been question for 14 hours by authorities and that she hadn't slapped initially, lawyers were saying that they were not able to contact her. now, she's only, let's say, i've been charged with an administrative offense for organizing and unauthorized

protest. i essentially, for that statement that we saw where she said also, you know, people shouldn't be afraid to take to the streets. they can't arrest all of us. she could have gotten 10 days in jail for that, but russian law makes in it an exception for mother is essentially who have children under 14, which she does. so that means that she couldn't be put behind bars. there is some fear or let's say, you know, the possibility that she could be charged still over her actual tv performance, which included of course, the word war and also wellness will use and reporting what's happening. right, exactly. the authorities who said that it, it, you know, this is not a war that anyone who refers to it as such, shaw, you know, they shouldn't, essentially, it's a special operation. and there's also this new law on spreading fake fake information about russian soldiers about the war and so on. so there could be more had lately just through this. and you know, there's been some speculation of social media that all of this was the start that

maybe she's not really having an epiphany about what's been going on. and what did you think when you saw this? well, i saw her coming out of the court. you know, footage of that and it does seem i just to me, it doesn't make sense that someone would do this and that, that, that it would be a stunt that it would be a kremlin, you know, people were saying she's a kremlin puppet, a lot of ukrainian commentators specifically were saying that and what they do have a point about is of course, she was complicit within this system for so many years. she apparently was actually an editor at a channel one for you know, decades for 20 years. she was working, it seemed to be before that. so you know, she changed her mind, but she was complicit with the put in system for years and years leading up to this . and you could say that that means she essentially was complicit with this war as well. so is that argument? yeah, i mean, it's hard to see inside the mind, but it's definitely

a story that has grown the world's attention. emily's always thinking when new york's metropolitan opera has held a concert in support of ukraine, more than 3 and a half 1000 people filled the grand auditorium in the lincoln center that now this is a week after performance is by russian soprano ana, the trib coat were cancelled over her refusal to condemn the war. oh, proceeds from the sold out concert which was broadcast globally, including to ukraine. will go towards relief works. ah praise ukraine. from the heart of new york, the piece was composed by ukrainian valentine sylvester of in 2014 the year of another crisis. for the mets general manager pita gal. the concert was the only fitting response to the current conflict. to night,

we were all soldiers of music wielding the power of art in de french, in defense of a free and democratic ukraine. gales message was shared by guest of honor ukraine's ambassador to the un. the metropolitan opera that has the global spending reputation is similar to santa, very powerful messing around with me. only rides merrily right position that the world is art. music should be the music and the gesture behind it were also appreciated by fellow ukrainian or le mcginnis. however, iowa could even get out of their course. i feel like in this moment, all of us become electric m at there's like iran, pamela, 13 family. ah,

the evenings highlight was undoubtedly a stirring rendition of ukraine's national. and them lead by ukrainian baritone milady's last 2 years ski. he said he had asked his mother that can not to stream his performance in order to save desperately needed electricity. ah, and last but not least, over a 1000000 children are among those who've had to flee ukraine since this invasion began. many of travel to countries all across europe, 10 year old twins dimitry and victoria. they escaped to italy, and on their 1st day of school, they got a surprise greeting at the door. take a look at why isn't that beautiful?

more than 200 pupils and teachers gathered to give the 2 new arrivals a warm welcome. at the done melanie soon enough. humanity, let's say from all of us, i'll be back at the top, the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you that ah,

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