ah, ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the war spreads to west of ukraine as missiles hate the city of la v. a maintenance facility near the cities airport was targeted . we'll get the latest from our correspondence on the ground. also coming out of the war zone, but still not safe with millions displaced by the conflict in ukraine. the un now warned that refugees are at risk of being traffic and exploited

and with war raging in ukraine, nato conducts its largest arctic military drill. in decades, we'll look at the purpose of this minute. ah, i'm glad o f as well come to the program and we start in western ukraine where russia attack the area around the airport or from the fif. the cities may assess the strikes damaged, an aircraft maintenance plant, and not the airport itself. no casualties have been reported. up until now the vive has been largely spared from major attacks. the city is located less than a 100 kilometers east of the polish border and has taken in some 200000 internally displaced people since the war began. oh, do raises the alarm. the cities man says,

an aircraft repair plant close to the airport was hit by russian missiles residency. the war could be coming closer. new girls ultimately ski o d o he fled here because of the attacks. and now they're starting to bump around here. they're on their sirens every morning, but now they've started to strike after the cyber lied to show you shanina allah! these were the strongest explosions i've heard since the beginning of the war was shot. and that didn't really know what to do. first i went out into the corridor because it's supposed to be the safe out laser. there wasn't time to go down to the bomb shelter, shadows on the boy, the people on the live go about their days as much as they can. but the atmosphere has started to shift. you don't want the enemies strike against live if it's further proved that they are not fighting ukrainian troops. they're fighting

to population. children, women, refugees, nothing is sacred today. this little that is, has so far been a safe haven and gateway, the ukrainians fleeing the wall. it has also been a vital hub for food and medical supplies. from here, they are transported to other areas desperate to humanitarian aid that meanwhile, outside of the live ukrainian soldiers have been training our 3rd party . they want to be prepared for the worst case scenario. you know, go straight to live, even speak to our correspondent, medea's bowling, or their mathias. could you tell us now what, what's the situation on the ground after this russian attack

her? so what we've been hearing is that 6 misses have been fired. it seems that's what her officials have said from the black sea. so from a ship, presumably. and the 2 of them have been intercepted and 4 hit this aircraft maintenance plan. that however, was not working at the time and left her has been already or has been off of work for, for some time. because of course, everybody expected this to be a target. m. russia has targeted airports and, and similar infrastructure since the beginning of the war, and also in all the parts of ukraine, including this western. so the, the west of ukraine has been largely spad attacks like this wise russia targeting this area now for the western of your brain has been largely sped attacks on the cities. that means on residential areas. we have not seen fighting on the ground. we have not seen people. we have not seen attacks on city centers as

we have seen in the east, the east, in the east. there is a war targeting the civilian population, the cities and the countryside as well. here military targets have been targeted since the beginning by rockets, many of these rockets i've been intercepted so much or some of the infrastructure as you'd large part of the airport, you're in vive, are still an damaged, although not operating. i'm at least not for civilian aircraft, but are these that these are targets has been clear from the beginning and a similar targets have been hit in other western ukrainian cities. vineyards are which is in central west in ukraine, has seen an attack on its airport, not so long ago. lot which is close to here has seen similar attacks and they have also been attacks on a training camp for the military not so far. so from the city here,

so there is no large scale war on western ukrainian cities, but of course, these rocket attacks on infrastructure targets. they have been part of the war and they're not surprising. now leave her seen a great influx of people are fleeing the war. how safe to these people feel now? not hot. that's hard to say. i mean, live is still one of the safer places in ukraine. it's still a place where you don't see fighting on the ground. you don't see mortar fire, for example. this is one of the, of the things that have caused so many costs. so many human lives is that shelling of residential buildings. and that makes the cities like marie po, for example. hark is basically on livable now. so this is not happening here. the people have fled here. it's also one of the places where people flee through many of us continue from here to europe. the buddhist border is quite close. so in that

regard this hasn't really changed yet. this is still one of the places where people flee to to relative of course safety, or correspondent, but he has building other in the v is many thanks, mathias rushes, defense ministry says a russian forces are fighting in the center of the port city of mario pole, that information is not been independently confirmed. marrable has experience some of russia's fierce is bombardments. local officials say about 80 percent of the cities dwellings have been destroyed, and more than 350000 people are now trapped without heating and other basic necessities. on wednesday, russian forces bomb to theater that will sheltering hundreds of civilians. 130 people have been rescued according to maria pulls, ma'am. the full extent of casualties is still unclear. d w now commonly managed to get through to a 19 year old named uri in mario paul, who sent us these was messages and no, no,

i'm in right now. i hear planes. i hear shooting every 5 or 10 minutes with the sound of fighting. never goes away so we can just hello motor need that visit. it's been days since intense shelling started here where i am now. he seems filters for clue own us. ukrainian and russian forces are fighting for you and i haven't been able to leave my house. no, we can. all of this is the 5th day. i've been stuck inside the machine. he knew nicholas sleeman was armitage, near you pictures. i've seen people dead on the streets with my own eyes turned on me. some are you near my house? there is a shop. i was near by when it was hit by a shell. i went to see what happened and saw 4 bodies though they were probably hit

by shrapnel gear. their bodies were only picked up 2 days later. a couple of them obviously issued his teachers either 3 or 4 days after the war began. people started running out of food and yet moodily even the shops were shot and people started rating shops that had been damaged by shelling in search of food on getting another 3 or 4 days later. people were so hungry that they started breaking into shops that had stayed on damaged. that's because they needed to eat like marine is eliza distorted to the you do i she just crossed unless you the water, the sure city is gone. food doesn't exist anymore, or it's been destroyed. of the shops had been smashed up by hungry people. he could go to it, and our buildings have been pulverized, says daniel, post as to my friends, went round the city and saw 5 story buildings were only the seller was left and was dan you. i thought that the couple block sodium yellows or p reconciliate use it

over time. it used to all the explosions. but you're not really scared anymore perfectly. when something hits nearby, i've stopped running into the cellar, then you just becomes normal with the p which cause i get stressed when there's no internet down. and i can't reach my relatives or my girlfriend who already managed to get to germany. news news because of the roaches interviewing. all i think about mine is when i'll be able to get out of here and see her in the near the bus if it is for this whole. but it's the explosions and the shooting aren't as scary anymore as losing touch with the people you love. but i so i submitted an immune and since we spoke to him, uri has a deed managed to escape. malia. let's have a look now at some of the other developments in that conflict. written media regulate has revoked the license of the russian television channel,

r t over the coverage of the war and ukraine. r t has called the ban on fair and accused the regulator of being a tool for the british government. the european union isn't a symbol of ban on r t. earlier this month. after australia and japan have announced new sanctions on russia as punishment for the invasion of ukraine. the sanctions started multiple individuals and organizations, including russia, central bank, the finance ministry, and to oregon linked to australia, mining industry. germany's foreign minister has outlined her vision for a security policy reset on a lena bear book called for an end to german complacency about autocratic regimes. she also said the biggest challenge to global security was climate change. germany has been forced to reexamine its decades old approach to security of the rush as a base motion. 1 1 with millions of people fleeing the fighting in ukraine and

arriving in foreign countries, united nations is now warning of the risks they face of being trafficked and exploited. of the more than 3000000 to lead, francis russia invaded in february. the vast majority of women and children, many men have stayed behind to fight. germany is now hosting nearly 200000 ukrainian refugees. the w's, marianna evanston spoke to one woman named katerina who safely arrived in berlin with her children. it's not about life curious about to run and escape as far as on the 24th of february. it was clear that the war started and we are state at home for 2 days. and it was the most unforgettable days in my life. i had to panic attacks and i was i couldn't sleep, i couldn't eat, i understood that. i have to save the life of my child. my life, my mother is life and we ran, we draw 4 days to poland porter. and on the 4th of march,

we were lucky to come to berlin. can you maybe describe for us a little bit about what this 4 day journey was like? these 4 days were the most carrying because when you stay in your apartment, you have and bomb shelter. when you are driving there is nothing. so that's why it, it, it was very carrying because you never know what's going to happen with you. but i, i clearly knew that i have no chance to stay. if i stay, i have 0 chances to stay life. i have to run, i have to use this chance. and why did you and your family decide that you would stay in berlin? ran such kind of critical situation happens. the 1st thing that you have in your mind is where you have friends where you have relatives to whom you can call

and ask for help. one, 0 that person, we are very lucky. we have a friend for many, many years in berlin, and i called him and said that we have to run can you please help us? can we stay in your house for? i don't know how much time for some period of time. and he told, sure you can come to you, we will be happy to see hon. help you in our think that you need do you have hopes that you'll some day be able to return back home? i try to step to mystic my father has just sent me the video from my village. i live 10 kilometers away from ki. if this is absolute with the peaceful area, nothing except private houses are there and half of this area is bombed. there is nothing that's ruin. ah, i,

i don't know. we hope so. we all want to go home. we are so grateful to everyone who helps us. but we want to go home. my child asks me every day, ma'am, when we are going to go home. and yesterday he asked me, mum, we're not going home. do i still have a home? i don't know what to say. of a more of the situation of the refugees. let's bring in a joe, argued any williams. she's with the united nations refugee agency. that you and hcr . well, you visited the areas bordering ukraine. what are the, are permanent dangers facing refugees right now? i think right now what we're saying is that there are so many complications on top of the initial needs. so of course there's shelter, food, water, medical supplies that are needed. but i think as the,

the last segment showed there is tremendous tragedy loss suffering. and probably trauma, there is a great deal of trauma that we will have to to be able to support. and then add on top of the fact that 90 percent of the refugees fleeing are women and children. and while we've seen such a warm out pouring of support and welcome among that there is the threat of predators of people trying to exploit the situation and exploit these women and children. ok, in case of the traffic was praying on refugees. is that a pattern emergent? what kind of cases are you seeing that so far we, we don't have a comprehensive evidence. what we are seeing are anecdotal incidents of reports of, of behavior that we know is, is very much of the type that we've seen in previous occasions with exploitation

abuse, gender based violence. and also as you mentioned traffic. so what we're trying to do is just support the national government across the region and further into other parts of europe and beyond. to ensure that there is a coordinated response and that also there is the information and be awareness among the refugees themselves so that they do have a heightened sense of the risk that may be involved. what about the situation inside ukraine? there's hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people there. do they face the same dangers? i think we fear what may happen in the coming days and weeks as we've seen. cities that we thought were safe havens, it seems are not necessarily safe. and, and as you mentioned, we estimate that at least 2000000 people may be internally displaced or on the move

inside the country. so in addition to the $3300000.00 who have become refugees and neighboring countries be, could be looking at potentials of many more millions becoming refugees and yes, facing similar protection risks. you have visited the areas bordering. you grand, you're aware of the situation of the refugees, that what about the logistics of the flow of a to, to these refugees? is that going to plan it is definitely scaling up across the board. so the national government have done a tremendous job of organizing the initial response you and hcr and other international organizations. and you and agencies are ramping up everywhere, not only and the surrounding countries, but also inside ukraine, sending in supplies, sending in staff members. so we are definitely scaling up. i think what we're afraid of is, are we going to be able to keep up with the numbers of people that are flowing out

of the country and that will be in need of greater and greater support jockey the williams head of global communications, the u. n. a refugee agencies, you edge see off. thank you very much for your time. thank you. meanwhile, nice home has been conducting a massive military exercise in norway the alliance. the drills are designed to tests, troops, readiness, or combat and cold conditions. some 30000 soldiers from 27 countries are involved. d, w, a check power. marcello on file this report from comp arena in no way fire and maneuver. $2500.00 french polish, spanish and portuguese soldiers. taking part in this nato exercise could brilliant jump. the soldiers told us,

the invasion of ukraine has bolstered their determination to defend their country. this exercise we are, we actually, i can see that we are a solid group. i it's, we are what we are working. i like i one organism. and if we are together, we will, i find the way these drills have been in planning for 2 years. they're using the cold conditions in norway to train artillery, infantry and specialist. you can deal with chemical and biological attacks checking into operability between countries. these are the signs on the sites of war, but this isn't war. this is training drills. practice right now. the nato military alliance has no plans to send through like these into the very real theater of war in ukraine. these groups are on a 5 day notice to deploy, but currently only within nato's borders. attending the drills,

general vollmer once the 2nd highest officer in the german army, and now a top nato commander told dw news exclusively. he's greatly in favor of the recent move by the german government to increase annual military spending to 2 percent of g d p, with an additional one off injection of a 100000000000 euros. our neighboring countries are counting on germany and with this announcement and with the will now to, to rebuild forces, re enforce them again, that is a strong statement. and of course, from a military perspective. and as a nato commander, i'm counting on germany that they brew rebuild capabilities. they gave away many years ago. the exercises here at camp renner a rule, so aimed at reassuring people living in norway, in the nearby town of hummer. people told us they're fully aware of the drills and norway has border. we do with russia and we never know what can happen.

so i think it's also a lot of fear in norway. what can happen? we don't know. nato will protect us. and i think ukraine would definitely be so if they very natal know, i'm afraid of that. and because i think we have to work and people to people in peace process and, and the military, many of the soldiers present here will now participate in a 355 increase, strong drill, cold response conducted by norway's own armed forces with nato involvement. the commanders say these exercises aren't designed as warnings for russia, only to prepare defensively. let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world induce in india and pakistan are celebrated wholly the festival of colors, people to mark the festival by smearing each other with bright colored powder.

dancing and singing facilities are much larger than the last 2 years because of the dip in corona virus. australia's great barrier reef has been hit by widespread bleaching due to unusually warm water temperatures. the marine park authority says it's the worst bleaching damage in 2 years. conservation conservationists are calling for more ambitious action from the australian government on climate change . germany is parliament has voted to relax. most corona virus restrictions, starting this sunday marston testing rules will be dropped apart from on public transport and in facilities for vulnerable groups. the change comes despite over 19 cases, rising steeply again as when a 100 days since anglo michael stepped down as germany's chance, like a new coalition led by social democrat. all shots took office, didn't take long before they were facing, was probably the biggest european crisis since the 2nd world war that's led to

a stunning reversal of many of their proposed policies. how it started this madana deutsche this modern germany of ours is strong. we do not have the slightest reason to fear the future things going on for the 2 comforts of her. how it's going to fuel on february 24th, 2022 marks. and a turning point in the history of our continuity dawns was continuance of shelter, became chancellor in december last year, leading a new kind of government. the 3 party coalition of social democrats, green's, and free market liberals. their slogan was dear more progress. and they had big plans for combating climate change, transforming the economy, and unleashing potential wellness or how it started. this is my thought. germany must be climate neutral by 2045. how it's going live, and we will not rest until peace is secured in europe. this climate and economy

minister, robert ha, back of the greens, launched an ambitious plan to boost renewable sources of energy. but the war in ukraine has turned the government's focus from domestic to foreign policy. instead of importing rush and gas through nord stream to the pipeline has been sealed how it started with that noise, we will create security through change and we will ensure security in change under zach how it's going. i there mr. douglas, we must invest significantly more insecurity. there's a new focus on the military. finance minister christian lintner has put aside concerns about public debt and committed billions of euros to buy american f. 35 combat aircraft. germany has also changed policy on arms deliveries, sending weapons to the crisis zone of ukraine. it's true, a lot of the government's time was spent on the other big crisis,

the covey pandemic vaccine rollout has continued not as quickly as hoped. health care emergency has been avoided yet, infections and now at record levels. but even the corona viruses had to take 2nd place behind, concerned about russia's war shelters. government wanted to start changing germany . instead, it has been changed by events. what i hope is that his lessons learned now is to more actively engage insecurity policy to change the culture from a paradigm changed by trade to a paradigm, heart and smart power diplomacy. under pacifist greens and budget conscious, free democrats gemini, could become one of the world's highest spending countries on defense. and the soft spoken chancellor finds himself at the center of a major international crisis. 100 days into its term. the coalition is changing

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