ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukrainian president followed him. your soleski criticizes germany's lack of leadership and addressing the growing threat posed by russia. speaking on a video link from p, as zaleski called for more help from berlin. and he underscored what he sees as germany strategic mistakes in making financial deals with russia. also coming up ukraine accuses russia of farming, a theater. and my are you pull sheltering? hundreds of civilians. satellite images show the word children painted on the ground outside the mixture of shelter

a few days before the attack. ah, i'm sim, is almost gone. glad you could join us. ukrainian president followed mister lansky has called on german chancellor, olaf shoals to show leadership and do more to help ukraine in the war against russia. in a speech to the german parliament, soleski that germany and europe needed to protect themselves against a new wall that rush us building against freedom. that statement was a clear nod to the berlin wall which divided the german capital during the cold war . zelinski also urged germany to support ukraine's bed to join the european union. here's what he set up, so not residential you but the, let me remind you of words when in europe is not going to survive, is not going to keep its value of former them made which by their

medicaid. i quote, the president of the urethra breaking once said boot in sherland. mister president, tear down the hood was up. now let me tends to chancellor chance. please take down. the swell live, germinate the role of leadership, but you deserve good. and if your of future generations will be proud of increased support, so to support these, so please support each and every ukrainian when stalk was lower. help us help us. we're gonna catch up with our chief political editor. miss electric. no. in the brenda stag in a moment, she's just gathering some impressions of how the bundis, og received that a very critical speech. so we'll hear from her in just a moment. but let's get an update on the situation on the ground in ukraine. now ukraine is accusing russia of attacking a theater that was being used as

a bomb shelter in the besieged port. city of my tuple, ukrainian officials say more than a 1000 civilians were in the theatre when it was hit. satellite images taken by private u. s. companies show the word children written on the ground in large white letters on both sides of the building. russia denies carrying out the attack and says it does not target civilians. we can go to our correspondent, alexandra phenomena. now she is in the city of live in western ukraine for us. hi, alexandra. we have been hearing these increasing reports of civilian targets being hit. what more can you tell us? well, images that were published by the queen authorities and other sources show the excessive damage to this drama theater in mar. you pull with the city officials saying that the russia dropped a bomb on the theatre were hundreds, up to 1200 people were sheltering at this time. we do not have any information.

how many people were killed or injured? we have to say that according to the mayor of the city, the entrance of this building is blocked by rubble. and we also have to stress that the city is under near constant bombardment. and so that situation there is a very difficult russia, as you just mentioned, has denied that it was them saying instead, without any evidence of that or the as of her battalion at far right per our military group that it's part of the ukrainian national guard is to be blamed, however, we have to question whether they would have such a cap military capability to launch such a strike. and we also have to stress that sir, in this war, russia has been systematically targeting civilian areas, hospitals, schools, and to give you a better understanding what it looks like on the ground we visited the city. obviously tamiya here is our report residential houses

reduced to rubble. people mourning the loss of their loved ones. this is a neighborhood injured tommy, a city around 150 kilometers west of ki, if that has been under constant shelling since the beginning of russia's war on ukraine. this is where we met the he whose house was completely destroyed by russian. matthias, remember, the bombs dropped and everything exploded. we just made it out. really. his 29 year old daughter however, was killed on the spot. you could see he appears coleman withdrawn. it seems like he is still not able to process what happened did, but it's mitchell is the night before we were sitting together and she's a little one. she said, daddy, you have a difficult personality, but i'm just like you. yes, that's what she told me before. she died,

those words remain in my heart just down the street a hospital and miss, i narrowly missed the building. dr. lesh tells us, he still shocked. while we are talking, the error rate alarm goes off again with the goal. and by showing you call it something we've never seen before. if enough, it's war. a war waged on a civilian population. so we're seeing that more civilians are being killed in ukraine than soldiers. it's you can, you can v quoted. you told me i just 150 kilometers away from the heavy fighting and key of has become a trends. it's point $48.00 deliveries to the capital and refugees fleeing the region. we met with the mayor say he's to homeland. his taff told us he's so busy he hardly sleeps in the senior booting hooton's approach to the cities that don't given is to intimidate us to break our will, but he's achieving the opposite. people are uniting,

they may show us us components of the messiah that hits the city. one of the targets, he says, was this cool in the city center. the building is heavily damaged. fortunately, there were no keeps here. when the attack happened. back at the ruins of c, he's house. he lost so much and yet he says he doesn't hated a people of russia. the ordinary people are not to blame. it's their leadership. say he wants to rebuild his house as soon as possible. at 1st he says, we need to please alexander, you are now back in love if, and that's a place where people had been fleeing to for safety. what are things like there now? well, almost every night we have a rate alarms going off at a don't to be specific. so people don't sleep at all or much. and they are on ash

a bit butter during the day. there, of course, trying to continue with their lives the best they can. they have to get food, they have to earn some money and too many of them are trying to organize, help, help for those who are still in the central or eastern part of the country. this, a city has become, become an important hub for 8 deliveries heading is towards. but also, of course, for the many, many refugees that are still arriving here, fleeing to fighting in the eastern part of ukraine. and some of them then trouble on a, to cross the border into poland and, and to, to travel to other european countries as well. me, my federal, we've been hearing this cautious tones of optimism from both russian and ukrainian negotiators about making progress towards finding some sort of agreement. how optimistic are people there? well, people of course, hoping that there will be peace at this nightmare will be over soon. however,

there is a deep mistress, they don't trust anything that the russian government is saying or promising. however, when we look at the authorities, they are or did the ukrainian and the russian government officials, they're are both saying both sides are saying that their progress has been made and that there is room for compromises with the ukrainian president, indicating that the russian at russia has softened in stents on ukraine that russia doesn't demand any more that ukraine surrender. but of course, as it seems, both sides are still far apart. with regards to the positions d, w. 's, alexander phenomena reporting for us from the v. it's good to talk to you now, to some other developments in the conflict, the united nations top court has ordered russia to immediately halted the invasion of ukraine in the largely symbolic ruling,

the international court of justice that it see no evidence to support the war. moscow claims ukraine is carrying out genocide against russian speakers in the east of the country. nato secretary general ian sultan burg says the alliance has no plans to intervene on the ground in ukraine. and he once again rolled out, setting up and policing a no fly zone. he also said he is encouraged by progress report. it talks between russian and ukrainian negotiators. sees them long. russian president vladimir putin has given a new televised address, threatening russians who aligned themselves with the western, calling ambrose of gum and traitors. who did also denounced western sanctions on russia. instead, his invasion of ukraine, which he calls a military operation on you, is going to plough. when you look at you made use of the models to choose one of russia's most famous wrappers has taken a very public stand against the war oxy miran has shelved 6 sold out concerts in russia in protest. and instead staged a charity concert this week in the turkish city of his temple dw julia han was at

the gig along with hundreds of russians. ah, a rap concert against the war in ukraine. the show musician oxy miran plays at this east symbol club would probably land him in jail back home in russia void with almost approval of the war and ukraine has been going on for more than 2 weeks. and yet, there are tens of millions of russians who categorically disagree with this war, and i think this should be said as loud as possible, but more of the grown. sure. with them scully, the redstone sentiment resonated with many concert goers. hundreds lined up to get a glimpse of the artist. most of them were russians. what did he mean even though claims cannot order. it was we are all supporting the ukrainians and days. he still remained there because i actually want to show you that as russians we stand together against what is happening now. we're still quite, it's a shock ameren and his team have helped us concert in protest of concert them in

the little bush, the voters, it's, we're pretty at the, i'm, i don't want this war. i don't believe that it's a special operation. you know, i've been against, puking, for many years, against his claim to power. i'm ashamed of what our country has become. i was just that alone. oxymoron is one of russia's best known wrappers. he recently postponed his shows in moscow in saint petersburg and announced a series of charity concerts abroad, called russians against war. proceeds will go to woods, helping ukrainian refugees. he says, like oxy miran many russians who oppose the war, trying to go abroad. turkey is still allowing russian flights in its as space. thousands are estimated to have escaped to istanbul in recent weeks. now we flew from russia on march 8th. i because we felt very secure and scared and we didn't

want to stay there and i'd be we, we was, we were afraid to get stock there. so that's why we moved here to georgia and neither is very serious repression taking place against those who protest in russia on this become impossible to take to the streets because people are beaten up. he was more than being taken into custody. but he g is this is a nightmare. he is sayed over here. oh, a nightmare. that ripple oxymoron has decided he must speak out against even if that might mean he won't be able to return to russia any time soon with let's get a quick round up of some other headlines now. 2 british iranian citizens have arrived back in the u. k. after years of detention in iran, now that means that gary ratcliffe and of shae assure re touched down in england early thursday. they had been accused of threatening. the iranian state claims that

they denied their release came after long running negotiations between the british and arabian governments. a powerful earthquake has struck ne japan killing at least 4 people and injuring over a 100. it could be felt in central tokyo hundreds of kilometers away. the tremor hit the fukushima region where an earthquake triggered and nuclear disaster 11 years ago. the u. s. federal reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point. it is the 1st rate hike since 2018. the measure is aimed at controlling skyrocketing prices with inflation at a 40 year. hi. 6 more similar rate hikes are expected over the course of this year . just get a reminder of our headlines now. ukrainian president, the letter mr. lensky has criticized germany's lack of leadership in addressing the growing threat posed by russia. speaking to the germ of parliament from give so once he called for more health in the future,

and we didn't manage to catch up with our correspondent me say a lot on the ground. there are the point to start, but we will speak to her in the next hour for all of us here in berlin. thank you for watching tv w. ah ha, we're all set to go on field. yes, citizenship. and we're all live as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to me whatever it takes for lead from i'm following with w flyer made for mines. ah.