[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, the ukrainian capital keys. now under $35.00, our curfew. new russian strikes on residential areas of the city have cause death and destruction. keepers may vitale. clips coast is the hours leading into thursday will be difficult and dangerous. also coming up the e. u imposes for sanctions on vladimir putin, tina circle, and hikes, tariffs on russian importance. plus from new york,

a concert for you. ah, the metropolitan opera, sunrise, the full release, it organizes call the music a weapon against oppression. ah, i'm jared res. thank you very much for your company. the ukrainian capital key. it has been put under a temporary curfew until thursday morning. the $35.00, our curfew was declared by the city's mayor after russia intensified its bombardment of keys, including on several residential areas in a defined act of solidarity on choose day, a trigo of eastern european leaders held talks with ukraine's president. for me is the lensky in his threaten capital. in keys as the russian advance nears,

ukrainian soldiers have taken time to bury the fallen. here they are laying to rest . a comrade who was killed resisting the russians and bought a spill outside. keith, as ukrainians watched the ceremony, they know that there will be many more funerals before the guns fall silent. oh, my little sign of a peaceful solution is in size, present enfolded, mere zalinski, that he saw a glimmer of hope for compromise in talks with russia. even as moscow stepped off with bombardment of the capitol sellers, real glad it is important. and it's difficult, but important because any war ends in an agreement meeting is, continues easy enough, as i'm told the positions in the negotiations and more realistic in the of kidney. however, they still needs to be more time for decisions to be in ukraine's interests. i meanwhile, hailing glory to ukraine, the polish chickens, lavine and prime ministers became the 1st foreign leaders to visit keith. since russia's invasion, all 3 are former communist territories,

which are now members of the un nato. they reiterated the desire to give ukraine away to join the e u as soon as possible. oh, i hope it will be agree to the next couple of they so weeks and the candidate status will be given to the end of this year of the late like the 3 week old conflict is cranked up cold war level tensions between moscow in the west and driven more than 3000000 ukrainians fleeing across the border to seek refuge. zalinski also addressed to key concern used by vladimir putin to justify the invasion of russia's ex soviet neighbor. by saying ukraine should accept that it would not become a member of the nato defense alliance. is rosamille. sabrina, ukraine is not a member of nato with citizen. we understand that we've heard for years that the doors were opened, but we also heard that we could not join. it's a truth and it must be recognized to probably that over to his melody. this movement elsewhere in the west,

zelinski said he would address the u. s. congress later on wednesday, and joe biden will visit europe next week to shore of nato's unity as war rages on its eastern flank law. and as we just heard in that report, president zalinski has acknowledged that ukraine will not be joining nato. earlier, i asked christine bez xena from the german marshall fund. what impact this admission would have? it's an important step for president one sky to say politically that a foot that he understands that this is not what i ukraine will have and what it wants to have right now. president lumpy has been saying similar things in the last last week or so at various interviews. but it requires a policy change in ukraine. and in order to, to set that aside, the potential for nato membership was equally important, though, is a, whether this is something that president putin still finds to be the most important

detail and to be what europe is going to offer, rather than nato membership to write security guarantees and to provide a sense of belonging to ukraine after this horrible struggle and brutal war against russia on the side. the question is, does couldn't really want to focus on nato and you create not being and they don't or has he now suffering these losses? this very difficult fight, high casualty rate. does you want to take all of ukraine? not just when the nato question gets, it really depends what kind of appetite flat me person has right now. let's talk a bit more broadly about nicer. the head of nature. it's been hinting that the alliance will have to radically change its security stance in europe. and various, some, it's happening shortly. what changes do you expect on the way it's really important for nato to look at itself in the context of the ukraine, where the war,

i should warn you. crane nato has put plans in place reinforcements for the eastern flank of the alliance. the baltic states, poland. romania are right on the romanian colon right on the front lines of ukraine in the baltic states way between the sea and bella. ruth, colin, and grad russia. these are much more bold territories, especially since president putin said that he would like to push nato's military president back to where it wasn't 90. which means for all of these countries which is joined nato. nato should look at these countries and say, what do we need to position there to our plans from post 2014 and good into looking at the kind of war effort that russia is putting forth and ukraine in 2020 to what they have given ukraine before this invasion so that this happened that before thinking about kind of increase in the port,

is that what should be on the table? and that was the german martial funds christine ben xena speaking to me a little bit earlier. well, the european union has imposed a new round of sanctions against russia aimed at stifling financing of its invasion of ukraine. the measures also heat the inner circle of president vladimir putin. t w is christine wonder, has more now from brussels. as russia continues to bear arms, ukraine with bomb, the european union has delivered its latest blow to the kremlin with a fresh round of sanctions. they are designed to punish moscow for the death and devastation it has brought on its neighbour. the measures will be felt in russia by both the ordinary and the elite. they include banning the export of luxury goods to russia, stopping, steal product imports from russia, freezing the assets of the billionaire oligarchy, roman abramoff rich,

and at this close to vladimir putin and denying russia special trading access into the e u market. the e essays, this new round of sanctions will put more economic pressure on the kremlin further crippling its ability to finance the invasion in the ukraine. but the block is still sending hundreds of millions of euro's insur rushes coffees every single day . that money is payments for the oil and gas europe buys from russia to keep the heating and lights on banding rushes. energy would deal a heavy blow to its economy, but it would also hurt ordinary europeans who are already seeing the cost of their living. so we have to find a solution, how we, as so soon as we can face out of this are fossil fuel delivers. but for the moment it is still extremely difficult. but this would make, of course, a huge impact. right now, every day,

we transfer 7 to 800000000 euros on the state budget or to the state budget of russia. since the end of february, the west has imposed thousands of sanctions on russia for its aggression towards ukraine. in just weeks, russia has overtaken iran to become the most sanctioned country in the world. it's not clear if this pressure will be enough to force russia to stop to journalists working for the usa network. fox news have been killed in ukraine camera. men piers suckers etzky here. same here at the front of this picture and ukrainian producer alexandra could seen of died when the vehicle they were traveling in now outside of kias came under fire. fox news said another reporter has been hospitalized at least 4 journalists have died covering the conflict. since it began about 3 weeks ago, was the international organization for migration says the number of people who

flayed the war and ukraine has passed. 3000000 more than half our neighboring poland and poland which until recently had luisel experience with refugees. an army of volunteers has turned out now to help and many more have opened their homes to take people in a peaceful lunch in warsaw switzer and her son alex, i'll say the to ukrainians, fled keith and a staying with a family in warsaw. oh yeah. we don't come, my son and i lived underground for 5 days, a big stella under the house. then we fled west through levine and across the border. it's very hard for us, especially mentally. i can still hear the sirens in my head and field explosions. here the but the city on the news, which i know most ah, and wall so alone, more than 4000 families took in refugees from ukraine. these are just the official figures,

and demand continues to rise. trains from ukraine arrived at the station every day, full of refugees, more than $10000.00 warsaw residents have registered as volunteers, intervene with them with a t o m. i just started volunteering here 5 minutes ago and i've already been asked to help twice. i barely started and i'm already in the thick of it. love them. it doesn't speak ukrainian, but he does speak russian. people like him a desperately needed right now. monica is also doing what she can and she is rust of her feet. it's stressful work that you need done well. so central station has never seen so many homeless people. they all have no roof over their heads and it's terrible. i just can't help it. i just have to help many refugees i initially being accommodated in holes. this one was built for sports and concepts. now women with small children,

men and old people are holding out here in stuffy air. it is the 3rd week of the war, and the coordinator is worried that was on those at the beginning. the enthusiasm was great and it still is, but it is slowly ebbing away. there are few opportunities to take in refugees and more and more people are coming. i don't know what will happen that immediate archaeology. more space has been created in this office building here, bureaucratic hurdles and now being of come because the refugees also want to work know or get them. don't want the kid over to them as long as that is war. we can't just sit around, we want to work and sent the children to kindergarten. what permits and social benefits? another challenge for poland, about $300000.00 refugees have stayed in war so so far, but almost 15 percent more residents. then at the start of the conflict when new york's metropolitan opera has held a concert in supportive ukraine, more than 3 and

a half 1000 people filled the grand auditorium in the lincoln center. this is our week after performance is by russian soprano and, and the trip co were canceled over her refusal to condemn the war or proceeds from the sold out concert will go towards relief works o prayer, 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, peter gale, the concert was the only fitting response to the current conflict. tonight, we're all soldiers of music wielding the power of art into 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

a global spending. reputation is saddam cassandra, very powerful messing around with only right, morally right position that the world is hard to music, shooting ah, the music and the gesture behind it were also appreciated by fellow ukrainian or lam. mcginnis. iowa could even gravel, their course. i feel like her in this moment, all of us become electric. it feels like iran, pamela, one free family. ah, the evenings highlight was undoubtedly a stirring rendition of ukraine's national anthem, led by ukrainian baritone milady sla boyar ski. he said he had asked his mother

back how not to stream his performance in order to save desperately needed electricity. ah, and you're up to date, our documentary program is up next. of course, you can also get in depth round of coverage of the war and ukraine on our website, dot com. now social media channels at dw g. i'm jared radian buildings have a great title. and we're interested in the global economy. our portfolio g w business beyond here's a closer look at the project. our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance . good is still the head with