ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight from the rubble of that bombed theater. in mario poll, ukraine reports of survivors. hundreds of civilians including children, had taken shelter in the basement. when a rush, an air strike hits, there is no word on casualties to night. also coming up from the head of nato to

day a warning about the future of the war and the call for more solidarity with ukraine . and could the conflict reach all the way into outer space? report on how the war could impact cooperation on the international space station. ah lou. i bring gov to our viewers watching p b. s in the united states and do all of you around the world. welcome to night. after russia bombed a theater in the besieged city of mario po, the number of dead is still not known, but a ukrainian official is reporting that around a 130 survivors have emerged. the building was sheltering hundreds of civilians including children. when it was shelled by russian forces yesterday, ukraine's president zalinski says that it was just one of many attacks on civilians

. and he's called for more international help to defend his country. we have this report now and a warning, some of the images in our report. you may find disturbing. smoke bellows from the theatre. mario paul, after was hit by a bomb days before the satellite image shut. the russian watch for children, written in large white letters at both ends of the building, but that did not stop at being targeted. so my new belief will of god the more money blockaded maria paul ivy. a russian plain intentionally dropped to super powerful mom on a drama theatre 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 know give, give their hibler sion navy dall. across my appall, similar images of devastation. ma, some forces have perceived the city for over

a week now, cutting of civilians from food, water, electricity, and medical supplies. unlike 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. this little one and he lived 22 days before he dined. right now there is no more where they can store the bodies, brother, sugar, but most of them all the other hospitals have been bombed and no one can collect

here. there's no emergency services. there's nobody, jerry, i don't know where we will put them. how we will burrage them, are you only a few have been able to escape. mario poll 30 the last not safe ukraine and authority say russian forces were on a con. wifely maria poll, leaving several people injured. and for more now, joining us from ukraine is all hung flamenco. she is with the canadian institute for ukrainian studies at the university of alberta in canada. she's in cave to night and oh, okay, can you hear me? yes, i can hear you we, we appreciate you thinking the time we want to let our viewers know yours sitting in the dark right now, because people innkeeper been told to keep their lights off to protect themselves and to not attract it. he air strikes a talk to me. what's going on?

where you are right now. ah, it's seemingly quiet. today was a good day. it was a sunny day. there was a lot of people. there were a lot of people on the streets because we have the long curfew. so today people you know, went out to enjoy some fresh air and it's, you know, we can hear our, our different air defenses working. that gives us a reassurance that we're safe where occasionally some debrief from the myths style or in some shelling and damage is building. and we have if you're building the damaged and if you civilians killed, device shelling and by degrees of the messiah. but otherwise we feel that here with say from the ground to talk. now we're not so safe from the air. yeah. you know, that that's, that's unfortunately very true. and oh, i understand that um,

just before the invasion began, you left canada, you return to you crate. that's where you're from to help take care of your elderly father. you're there with him now i understand he's doing better, but you're in the middle of a war zone. we know a lot of people are trying to get out of the country. are you and your father you trying or you have plans to leaf ah no one concern is my father's health because he had a stroke, so i'm not sure that traveling. and a distance, you know, in fact, trained to where he lives in a private car would be safe for him. and 2nd that he refuses to leave. and then this is the case with a lot of people. the a lot of my friends are, is a number of reasons why people didn't want to leave. again, they have elderly relatives who refused to leave, to have made the children who are in the territorial defense forces. there are

people who just say, we're going to say this is our land, this is our home. we're not living. and people just do not believe that he was going to fall. they believe that he was going to send, you know, i, we, i'm a, you're a ukrainian scholar and you know, the history of your country. did you expect in the last 3 weeks to see such a strong sense of national unity in even resistance emerge? yes, i expect the 3rd the cursor basically i think is the resolution of dignity in which occurred in 2014 showed that ukrainians have a strong sense of national identity and strong sense of civic identity. they are freedom, living loving people. they appreciate that they have their own stage where they can,

you know, build their own life according to their own rules and their, i expected. i expect that the resistance to be strong in it. we know that you're researching the a lot of war, which is when stolid used famine intentionally in the 19 thirty's to kill millions of you craniums. that was a real trauma for the country, but it also provided glue for national identity. this invasion by russia. is it an analogous event in a way because we can speak about shore on many levels. there is like a physical direct trauma from observing what is going on now from observing depth, the destruction, the you know, the unfairness of what's going on. and there is such a thing as to what we call a curious trauma that we relieve our past trauma and we see what's going on.

now, in the same terms as assault, not only you are ukrainians as individuals, but on our political nation and on our cultural nation, you know, on because put in, denies ukrainians, the right to exist. and he denies ukraine the right to exist as a state. so for us, it's a as hollow the more war than us all the on ukraine as a nation. you know, some people this is agreed but i believe ukrainians where target that because they were a freedom loving and because installing wanted to break their a position to collectively zation and to the soviets room. so he started them. no, now what just yeah, sure. a, but just before we run out of time, i just wanna ask you, your historian, you know, you study the past, but let's look into the future for just a moment of what kind of country do you think you crane is going to be when it comes out of this i seek in ukrainians

are now and forward looking nation. we remember our fast to us, but we are determined to overcome this. we are determined to overcome victimization . and i think people are now saying we're going to rebuild the better. we're going to rebuild at any cost. we're going to prevail, even though it's early in the war. and they think that ukrainians want to be the nation that people are proud to identify with, you know, like me like when is all of a sudden decided that she the ukraine and because it's full to be ukrainian. so i think ukrainians want to be pursuing a school contemporary and freedom loving ola domingo. joining us tonight from keith, although we appreciate you taking the time, it's such a dangerous time to share your story with us. we wish you and your father all the best, and we hope that very soon you'll be able to turn the lights back on. thank you.

thank you so much. thank you for having me. where you cranes, president goldman zalinski, has delivery and address and of scathing current criticism to germany's lawmakers in his speech to day via video link. he said that germany had enabled russia's invasion of his country by becoming dependent on russian energy imports. he also accused germany's political class of failing to recognize the growing russian threat and he called for more action to in the war. his country is not far from germany, and it is being destroyed by wall in is addressed to the german parliament, ukrainian presidency. lensky vividly described the atrocities russert, committing in ukraine, the invalid. over the past 3 weeks, many people have been killed thousands of ukrainians. the occupiers have killed 108 children. in the middle of you who in the year 2022 blighted little mort. i said

raoul, there were heads in hands as german lawmakers listened for 11 minutes to zalinski speaking live from ukraine. you. the ukranian president did not means his words more strongly criticized in berlin for continuing to import gas and oil from russia . assembled. zip is nearly is le santia, he puts in with some measures were taken to late. these sanctions have not been enough to stop for war. it is that we're seen just how many connections your company store have. i'm with russia, with a country that is using you and other countries to finance this wall over these past 3 weeks of wall giving. we've been fighting for our lives and for our freedom that, that it is live in the nurses just than us little never zelinski adds germany to do more, to support ukraine. if not, europe would not survive, he warned, would not be able to keep its values. he, he called what ukraine sees as a lack of proper support from berlin,

a new wall between germany and ukraine. glitchy at or is there a former comedian actor. and then president of the united states, ronald reagan once said, you, mister president, tear down with the small law as let us, let me tell you again who chancellor sholtes please break down this wall lead. if germany, the road of leadership said you deserve, and your future generations will be proud of, you might be doing it for him, at least support us support please support each and every ukrainian stopped the wall. he gwinnett, but the german government had said before the speech that it would not formerly respond. and so the session ended with

a standing ovation for the ukrainian president and with german lawmakers left to digest an inconvenient truth. when they do, the secretary general, you in stockton berg says that the alliance must prevent the conflict in ukraine from escalate. he spoke to day after talks with german transfer or watch sholtes here in berlin. he also met with germany's foreign minister on a lena bear book. here is part of what the said to reporters today. this approach to angle shows like this attack. the aggression is an attack on the liberty of the people in ukraine. and that makes it a war against our values, a war against our european liberty, mississippi. and this threat is one that we need to take seriously as an alliance. and we need to ensure that we are prepared. and this is why the german government, we decided yesterday on top of the 100000000000 years that we're going to put on top of what we're already spending on our defense capability to the sinners. and we

are strengthening the eastern borders of the alliance with german armed forces in bundeswehr, soldiers. nato, as all day increased, our the terms and defense, especially in the eastern part of the lines are. we now have hundreds of thousands of troops on heightened alert across the lines. or we have a 100000 use of forces troops in europe, or that us increased by several thousands of just the last 2 weeks. and then we have 40000 troops on the dyadic, nate to command, especially in these than potted iron, sir. and the german early the ship older. but the group are in the tray. no. on the doubling of the number of german forces, there is a just one example of this increase preston, sir online in the air and at sea. this is our immediate response certainly occur

message to moscow. that's her an attack on her one i'll, i will triggered response from the whole alliance. one for all, all for joining me here in the studio. now as our political course, simon young is, i mean, nato, in germany. they appear to be on the same page, but that does not change the fact that there is more and more pressure on germany to do more to help you. great. that's right. i'm in terms of military support. i think you have to understand that germany has already been on quite a journey over the last few weeks. you know, the beginning of this conflict in germany was marked as a promising a few 1000 helmets for ukrainian troops. now we're seeing deliver deliveries of anti tank weapons and to surface to air missiles and significant financial support and other logistical support going in to ukraine over the last couple of weeks. so i think that, you know, there is, there is support happening. gemini has been,

you know, traditionally somewhat sluggish or reluctant. you might say, as a nature partner, although it's a key nature country and that has changed. now we've got this commitment to spend a 100000000000 euros on defense spending and to get up to the nature of 2 percent of g d p target. so there's been a lot of changes also been significant german military participation in this nature project to strengthen its eastern flank. as it says, i am putting troops and equipment on the ground in the eastern european countries of nato and in the baltics and poland, and romania and so on. so i think there is a change of heart here in germany. the ukrainian president today accused germany basically of being an enabler, allowing whether you're putting to become the warrior that he is right now. and he also said that you're continuing to enable him by continuing to buy energy from him

. that's right. it was an extraordinarily tough sort of accusation. in this address from zalinski i thoughts and friends and seals. i said that to a gentleman is often repeated slogan of never again, never again. war and aggression by germany that stand a see said it's, it's has no value and no meaning because of what germany has done or failed to do as he sees it. well, you know, it's, of course he's, he's right in the sense that europe generally and germany in particular continues to be incredibly dependent on russian oil and gas. hundreds of millions of euro's going in daily to russia. and supposing this war effort, therefore, indirectly. but it's not so easy to just win yourself off that day to day. i, you know, it's a transition that so the group, the general government says it wants to get it on top of its canceled notes, drain that pipeline project. and there's more to do. some young is always, i mean,

thank you. and now to some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. russia today abstained from a un security council vote on renewing the u. n's assistance mission in afghanistan . russia accuse the other council members of ignoring new reality since the tele bond take over last year. 2 british iranian citizens are now back in the u. k. after years of detention in iran. nothing mean is a gallery, radcliffe, and a new shade assure you were accused of threatening iran a charge. they always deny. nash's new space telescope has captured its 1st complete picture of a distant store. the james web telescopes, mirrors were allowed aligned to produce the image of a star that a 100 times fainter than anything the human eye can detect. so i hope to use the telescope to observe the 1st galaxies formed in the universe 14000000000 years ago

. as staying in our space on friday, 3 russian cosmonaut are due to docket the international space station. but here on earth, there are fears that the invasion of ukraine could impact the cooperation that is crucial to the research that's being carried out by astronauts in 0 g at 400 kilometers above the earth. that one ukraine might seem far away, but the crisis has reached even the international space station. shortly after the russian invasion, u. s. presidential bio made it clear that space activities would not be excluded from sanctions. we estimated will cut off more than half of russia's high tech imports. will strike a blow through the ability to continue to modernize in a military ill degrade the aerospace industry, including our space program. it didn't take long for dmitri gordon,

the head of russia state space corporation was cause most to respond on twitter. me, if you block corporation with us, will save the ice from uncontrolled, the orbiting, and falling on the territory of the us or europe. to illustrate his point, a russian use agency posted a video suggesting that the russian section could detach, leaving the rest of the ice as to plummet to me. oh, it's referring to some basic physics to, to friction with gas molecules. their eyes are slow down and loses altitude around 70 meters per day. russian progress supply ships regularly correct it's orbit. without that the ice s would eventually fall on earth.

but the dependence goes both ways. us modules, for example, provide energy and life support systems for the russian section. therefore, splitting the station into separate units. his technically unfeasible expert said it would be very difficult for us to be upgrading on our own bias. s is an international partnership that was created as an international partnership with joint dependencies, which is what makes it such an amazing program. so it's nasa and i've been working towards more independence in space flight for some years now. they've built their own rockets that even plans to adapt us spacecraft like the sickness to take over re orbiting duties. but that will take time for now, the russian european and us american space agencies have no other choice than to continue cooperating.

but for how much longer i can talk about that. i'm join l by scott pace. he's director of the space policy institute at george washington university. it's got, it's good to have you on the program. you know, the us and russia. they've had problems in the past, but it didn't affect the i assess. but this is a completely different situation. now, how dangerous, how close are we to see cooperation in space end? well, it depends on what kind of cooperation you're talking about regarding the space station itself, right now, it's operating. normally. we have a customer who's being trained in the united states. santa johnson space center mark is planning to come home on the so use capsule of the moscow central control system called known as suit it, providing our command control when it's over russia. so actual operations are basically fine and the crew is performing as a crew. so notwithstanding,

all kinds of things being said on twitter. so despite what's happening here on earth, then, should the astronauts in the cars minutes, do they have any reason to be worried? immediately? no, i mean the cosmo shots all function as a team. so when they're out there, they work well together and in fact, you know, we have good personal and technical and professional relationships with the russians. the question really is a larger one of how long will cooperation be allowed to continue politically? from a technical standpoint, it can still continue, but from a course from a political standpoint, you know, this is a question is result of the extraordinary events. so a variety of things have been said, but so far there's been no steps toward actual separation. i think it, as was noted, the u. s. and russian sites are very interdependent on each other. the russian side

is dependent upon the u. s. for power and work with this and upon them for ocean. but we've made a commitment to the other with the other partners to continue to seek to continue operation through 2030. the russians are only committed through 2024. so they certainly have an option of deciding not to continue cooperation after 2024. and what, what would happen then scott, in 2024, if the russian say they're out. well then it would be a matter of having a, having a joint plan with the rest of the partners. i mean, the space station is controlled as a joint venture among all the partners. no one partner decides everything. so the russians could, for example, decide upon an orderly departure. they would send up no more cosmic knots. they would have to decide what they wanted to do with their segment if they were to detach their segment. of course, that would require active cooperation from the u. s. side. for example,

use of the canadian arm, the other partners would, they'd have to decide how to replace the propulsion and re boost capability, which would not be easy and not desirable by any means. but that's something that the partners would then have to look at. so it really, it depends on whether or not there is an orderly departure or whether there's a more precipitous one. and as far as we can tell right now everything is still performing orderly, although obviously everybody is aware of the larger the larger political context. well, let's hope that the situation here on the ground does not interfere with anything in the i s s, unless if it stays that way. scott pace with the space policy institute. we appreciate your time and insight tonight. scott, thank you. thank you very much. watching the w as a recap of the latest developments in the ukraine war, ukraine has accused russia of bombing

a theater in bowery of whole. that was sheltering hundreds of civilians. social media footage shows smoke coming from the building. the number of casualties is not known. a ukrainian law makers is a 130 survivors, have been rescued and nato secretary general un stoughton. bert says that the alliance must prevent escalation of the war beyond ukraine's borders. he spoke today in berlin, after high level talks that included the german foreign minister handling a bare bach there, bought repeated her call for a solidarity bridge for ukrainians. she announced special measures of support from aldo book, which is taking in lots of ukrainian refugees after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day, stick around. we will be right back with ah,

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invasion of ukraine entered its 4th week and with each passing day the battlefield of war and the cities full.