[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. ukraine accuses russia bombing, a theater, and maria pull that with sheltering hundreds of civilians. satellite images show the words children painted on the ground outside the makeshift shelter a few days before the attack. russia denies striking the build, also coming up ukrainian president vladimir lensky shopping criticizes germany,

is lack of leadership in addressing the growing threat posed by russia speaking by a video link from keith valencia, he said the sanctions on russia came too late and called for more help from berlin . ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. ukraine has accused of russia of committing further atrocities in the besieged port city of mario po, ukrainian official se, russian forces bomb. the theatre that was sheltering around a 1000 civilians, including children, president flawed him. his lensky says it was one of a number of attacks on civilians and just the past 24 hours and is calling for more help to defend his country. a warning, this report concert contains some distressing images. this theater, mario paul,

has been turned into rubble. satellite images published by us company shadow russian white for children, written in large white letters around the building. but that did not stop at being bombed from when you really will of god, the more my in blockaded, mario paul, the russian plane intentionally dropped a super powerful mom on a drama theater in the city said hundreds of people were hiding. there was shelling in all the building is destroyed. the number of casualties is not yet no give get there. hibler sion navy dall across my appall, similar images of devastation. mawson forces have perceived the city for over a week. now, cutting off civilians from food, water, electricity, and medical supplies i'm like with all of this local hospital,

has to operate with constant shelling around it. inside a desperate scene unfolds civilians lay injured and medical staff do what they can, we will oh. with those who are, who couldn't be saved, have been taken to the basement and covered and blankets with this little one. and he lived 22 days before he dined right now there is no more where they can store the bodies, brother, sure are those. but the most of them all the other hospitals have been bombed and no one can collect on here. there's no emergency services, there's nobody, i don't know where we would put them or how we will proceed from are you only a few have been able to escape monopole that even maps not safe ukrainian authority say, rushing forces while on a convoy fling,

mario poll leaving several people injured when joined by maria suez. shank. oh, she originally comes from the besieged city of marble, but is currently living in the west of ukraine. maria, some of your family are still in maryville. have you been able to speak to them and what are they telling you about the situation that high? yeah, yes. the the final vantage to my grandma was there alone and very folded in the house for 15 days without any hates. i was trying to see and we didn't have any connections with her. and finally, yesterday we found our close friends, the priest in the village, and managed to educate her from from the city. but still there, i a lot of our close people with who we don't have any context and you can leave

the city as the grandmother told you what the situation was like in the city. while the situation was really hurry molar the house nearby was absolutely destroy . it was bombed and the windows in my grandma house were also broken. so she was there with the freezing temperature for 2 weeks and she could eat just some red and water. so we were so happy to finally get in touch with her and now she stay but may have other people like thousands of people, i still there without any foods. and basically, so your client has a huge rush of targeting a fear to their mario poll that served apparently as a shelter for many civilians. what do you know about this theater? yeah,

it's hard breaking to see that there was bomb to now. and the last time i was there was a few months ago, it was crease months. and there was a beautiful christmas tree on this clara, just year by the theater. and i was go in there as a key to my parents now balance and i fear it. and now it's like just right. and there were thousands of people were hiding there . so i can't think about that really. so you are now in love if in the west of you kind of do you feel safe that now? yes, i do. i feel that pretty safe here. and you know, in comparison to marrying pole where thousands of people are dying every day and the shelling doesn't stop here, it's relatively safe. we hear sirens, we have

a few, but still like 15 years and they're like a lot of people who come here from different areas of ukraine and we are helping them finding some shelter and organizing sounds. i mean, is there an age so that they can go further to holland or to other european countries? maria su jenko. they're talking to us from the thank you very much for talking to us and ukraine's president brother mia zelinski has used alive address to deliver a harsh assessment of germany's political class and a powerful and often pointed speech to germany's parliament. lensky said lawmakers enabled booties invasion of ukraine by allowing to become dependent on energy and ports from russia. he also accused chance the whole of shows, of failing to recognize the growing threat posed by russia through the voice of an interpreter. here now is his address. in full shannon,

you might need the pamela double docking distinguished members of the parliament. madam president, members of the press settle, dea, german people, the y fi sa. i'm addressing here after 3 weeks of a full scale invasion great of ukraine by russian forces lead me after us 48 years of war. i've done life in the east of my state, tin dunbar. i'm addressing you today. is rash, who is bombing our sit is destroying great. everything, whatever. we have a new crime, william will be going home. seeka hospitals church this using rockets or bombs, a rocket propelled artillery. that is the inlet to the bottle. a great many craniums have died in 3 weeks thousands. so you say okay,

pass code was 408 children in the middle of here and here in my country in 2022 the like i said, and healing to you after what if you numerous meetings of appeal and request some of which have been heard of beads, belatedly, requests for support and assistance. and the sanctions. you're taking the boxes are obvious. not enough to stop the war. one has seen how many times your company who have last will not rush state the just uses. you should the several other not confident in order to finance the war in 3 weeks of this war and for our lives for our freedom. each of our we have become, convince the something we felt before, which you may not have known you. however,

it seems like your find yourselves behind the wall again. no longer a berlin wall, but rather wall running all through europe, between freedom and liver are bought and this won't get strong and strong and high and high, told and told her with every bomb falling under grain has no measures are taken either to help us stop the war, how could that happen? when did it have to make jerry politicians dear german people over you know, why was responsible at a time where we kept telling us that the nor streams pipelines were on a weapon the morning preparation for image war. the answer was got from you was gonna max to sit on him. it's economy. this is, was the cement for this new wall that red building blocks. when we ask you what your grant has to do to become a member of nato am i received

a credit guarantees that you heard was that such an option is not on the table yet and will not be on the table in the future. this is very sad for us now we're talking about potential extension of your train that they're being union. they definitely and for some this is positive. but 2nd deep down, those are again building blocks. as a new was being constructed, we have been asking approach many times, but opposing preventive section sanctions to make the aggressor feel that you are a for some sort of issue with with solely. unfortunately, procrastination and delays are those are the analog and we so that you wanted to continue again. economy. economy economy is that after he was a business in the business, whereas my now the trade routes between you and the state that has grown again the

brutal war back to europe. again, a separate, there's a wall dividing. what you'll see from that state and you don't see what's going on behind that wall. that wall stands between us from the peoples of europe. and that is what we are going through today. i'm speaking on behalf of the ukrainians here we were talking about you paul. and i was speaking to you on behalf of residency of the city of civilians who are being besieged and located by the russian troops and russian troops or raising to the ground. so those are destroying everything. who's there and everything that is there? hundreds of 1000 people are selling 247 without water, without electric power, without communication,

20 for 7 weeks long. the thrust military does not distinguish civilian versus military targets and they target they don't have anything if will be, will be utilizing the quarter. so although we would be not, yesterday maternity hospital was destroyed, residential facilities destroyed, no military objects whatsoever. whether it is showing everything around the clock will not, and they do not stop shelling and circling the city without letting any human tenant ship and want to get to the city. in order to prevent us from rescuing our civilian population does there this you can see this. you cannot favorite people not to know me with this because in berlin there, bridge what it means to you, what it meant to you then. and it was possible because this guy was safe and then

was right. whereas now it will enable the train that we cannot organize the rush missiles and airy bombs are constantly used. a shell, a bomb, or our can bob. and yet, and i'm speaking to you on behalf of elderly taste on lot of those who have of those who went through your where in fact, last year, the presence my was there as we had it is. and history was more which execution of massachusetts in berlin, and the same young memorial complex. it was actually tried by russian missiles, never again, has been the slogan,

but now looks like it doesn't mean anything i love nor war is never again looks. so the grass is trying to destroy everything for what will live. i'm addressing you on behalf of holland, that a treat, those who are just protecting our nation, defending our values, you those fellows that are someone's in europe. but the possibility that you'll be free and nuttall, it's other nations to cross on your freedoms. and also something that we, that we cannot defend ourselves without your leadership who come that the overseas stays, which turned out to be much closer to us. and you will europeans because of the swallow that has been though that you will fail to notice what is going on. on the other side of

a wall. we keep on fighting 3 another in order to save or you might not, or that isn't gentlemen. german people, i'm thankful to everybody who has been supporting us know much. emily to probably chairman's colonel is to have been helping us showing the truth about the evil that pressure you into your grain. we cancelled 2 interpreters business and then women who have put humanity well above the normal way above the profits. so let's try and you try this wrong provides but doing life and death more otherwise, we cannot guarantee peace and secrets to create enter europe for that matter. never do, not even i would,

i'm thankful to those who don't hesitate before switching off a switch and about sources of income is used by russia in which the war and others who are against building any we want to be there, share this responsibility when it comes to saving human light, it's hard for us to withstand without the world's system, without your assistance with protecting your by protecting your early we protect your show. thank you for those who are strong enough to help us so that they cannot feel ashamed afterwards. 80 years after our cities were destroyed during the cycle of war, all of

a sudden in after 2000 people are tortured and executed. 10 years ago in the same atrocities are happening and the skill sets not redeemed yet. repentance is needed now and now we're coming back and we're separated by a new wall. yes, that will put on the stand for or for how long. let me this will you try and ask you to think about this. what has to been done in order for you to europe, to be able to uphold their val dancer? which side of the former actor presently from reagan when he was here and believe his at his feet long mister president turned down the wall. so let me tell you the same thing. now. concession was

pleased to turn down to sir, well, what do you have germany leadership that he deserves, that your descendants, future generations will only be prouder. please hold us to support the world. support bees support every ukrainian stomach and help us stop the war limit. bar glory to grain. i went are joined by a max locks. he is a member of the green party and sit on the german parliament's foreign affairs committee, or mister looks a stinging rebuke by president zalinski. they're delivered to german lawmakers like yourself. what was the reaction in the bonus tag? how to parliamentarians feel right now? the parliamentarians are really impressed by this speech of mister zelinski. he

showed us one more time you quinn. it's not only defending their own county, ukraine is defending so well use off the whole european union. ukraine is defending human rights and democracy, and that is why all parliamentarians stand on the side of ukraine. well, he also criticized a, the german government and also the whole political class really in just not seeing the threat that emanated from putins russia there. and a long germany to become dependent on, on, on russia's energy supplies. were you what, what was your feeling about that? you know, my party is fighting for many, many years to get independent of oil and gas from russia, especially. and she strengthened the when uber and angie and i think this is really important at this time. and minister bamberg and minister havoc are working tirelessly,

is that we can strengthen renewable energy. it's also secure to reason and get independent from rush and gas. and oh, but this doesn't work by night or yesterday, president biden gave a speech to congress after zalinski spoke to the bonus. doc went straight back to schedule business to day after the length is bitch. why was there no debate? the bonus tag has another political cancer than the u. s. congress. for example, we are working in every single subcommittee of this house to make sure we do every sing for ukraine. we can do as i it is for in paula's foreign policy or it's human italian aids odds defense policy max looks their member of the german parliament foreign affairs committee. thank you very much. thank you very much. now he was in the studio now is our seasons of walker richard. what was your main

impression from silence these speech to germany's parliament? yeah, when it really was a very uncomfortable speech for i think, many of the parliamentarian sitting there really quite a devastating rebuke by the lensky for, from his perspective, a litany, a failure to lead and failures to act by germany. i mean, if we just take, you know, one section sort of during the middle of the speech and he took the steam of a war in saying that there's a wall running through europe now. and it's not the berlin wall anymore, but it is a wall between freedom and slavery. and see said that this wall is getting higher and higher with every bull bomb that falls. but he said that this meant in that what projects like north stream to this controversial gas pipeline going from russia to germany, which he said that, how often did we tell you that north train to this pipeline was a weapon?

preparing for a major war? that what russia was doing that was building a dependency in western europe on russian gas sidelining ukraine in a way that could then be used as massive leverage in a scenario like we're facing now. and yeah, i think it was it absolutely extraordinary message that he had. and he said to the, to the assemble parliamentarians or we heard back from you is that this is all about the economy. this is business business business. it's all said, right, that's an economic matter business. this was on our shops. the gems will say this was his position until roughly the end of last year. no stream to was purely a business matter. that was also the line of angle america. they denied the geopolitical reality around this pipeline. and i think it is quite a shock to i think it was really a message that the entire political class and it is quite a shock to german politicians because by and large,

germany thinks of itself as an enlightened, kind of progressive state actor on the world stage it thinks that it has learned the lessons of the 2nd world war of the cold war, that it believes in peace. it has a message of peace and that it acts in the name of peace and, and building bridges between a society. and to get a message for it like this from the leader of a country that is under bombardment by russia with i think it will be a real wake up call for many of them. he also said that a country so far away from ukraine, like the u. s. has turned out to be a better friend than a germany, which is so close to crime. if you compare the 2 speeches to one of the gave today to the german parliament, the one that he gave yesterday to us congress. what's the main difference?

well, yeah, i mean, the one to congress was still, he was, it was requesting more support. but they were personal message of messages of thanks in that said to joe biden, for instance, he was, he was rallying for for the us to do more. but the, the framework of it was thank you for everything you've done so far. this was almost the other way round. it's like we've had to cajole you or fax on the ground to force you to acknowledge that your past behavior was wrong. and he ended with a moment teaching all i've sholtes directly to show the leadership that germany deserves in the future. generations will be proud of after zelinski is speech to congress by gave a speech as well. germany, germany, parliament returned to normal business straight after that speech was, was finished, there struck me as

a bit of old. i think many found that jarring. have been quite senior voices in the opposition saying that they that they were a pull by this, that the context of switch from a war time addressed by president under fire to talking about whatever you were planning to talk about anyway. we should stress though joe biden didn't stand up immediately after that. that was that that was an address later. but i think the, i think this was a big moment in germany and how it approaches this war and a very, very interesting part of the landscape communication campaign which he's taken so effectively. not just here, but 2 other parliaments around the world. and i think we'll see in the coming days, what kind of an impact it might have, for instance, whether it pushes germany further towards. acknowledging that the next step might be in ramping up the pressure on russia, an embargo on russian oil and gas. something so far,

the german government has insisted, it's simply in no position to do it. you walk our chief international editor there . thank you very much. richard for that in port and that's it for me and richard and the team for now i'll have an update for you. of course, at the top of the hour i've got office berlin from the other team i so with

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