[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w news light from berlin and russian missiles hit the veil in western ukraine, destroying the facility for repairing military aircraft in the cities international airport will bring your the latest from i correspondent on the ground, also on the program, u. s. and chinese leaders speak about the war by phone. joe biden is expected to warn gigi and paying that china will pay a high price if it supports russia and fighting

rages in ukraine. nato conducts its largest arctic military drills for decades. look at what these exercises are trying to achieve. ah, i'm feel gail. welcome to the program. we saw in western ukraine where russia has attacked an area near the vibes airport. the strikes of damage to military aircraft maintenance facility, not the airport itself. no casualties have been reported. the v is less than a 100 kilometers east of the polish border and has been spared major attacks until now. around 200000 people have fled there from other more dangerous parts of the country. oh, do you raises the alarm? the city's main says,

an aircraft repair plant close to the airport was hit by russian missiles residence fear. the wall could be coming closer. noise. does the mosquito draw? he flat are here because of the attacks baba and now they're starting to bump around here. the run of their sirens every morning. but now they've started to strike after the cyber, like joe buell. 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. no, because it's supposed to be the safest place solid. there wasn't time to go down to the bomb shelter, shall. so on the boy, the people in 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 the population. children, women, refugees,

nothing is sacred today. when i go to the live her so far been a safe haven and gateway the ukrainians, flinging the wall. it has also been a vital hub for food and medical supplies. from here they are transported to other areas desperate for humanitarian aid. meanwhile, outside of live, ukrainian soldiers have been training harper, p. they want to be prepared for the worst case scenario. straight to the v as in western ukraine, then we have a joint date of the correspond mathias, a bullying at welcome a test. and then that starts with the target of this attack. tell us more about this maintenance facility. yeah, it was a maintenance facility close to the airport where aircraft could be repaired, the facility,

that's what the authorities have said was already off work. they didn't, they didn't to work there anymore. so that's why the casualties remain relatively low as somebody was injured, but no major casualties. nobody died and it was, of course, expected that they would hit there at some point. they have had airports and other infrastructure around the country for of, for several weeks, and other airports in western ukraine in cities that have also so far been sped of attacks on these cities on the civilian population. have seen similar things. so i've just been downtown and talk to some people and they were saying, yeah, there's no surprise in that this sir has been expected. it's the 1st time that it hits that close to this city. but other other targets in the area, including a military training facility that's also not so far from here. i have been here before. so this is part of what, what russia does is it destroys infrastructure and the western parts of ukraine,

where there's no fighting on the ground. right. okay, so no surprise. but people argue people that did use to feel quite safe in the viva . now we've heard from your report that that's changing, and are you seeing that i. e, as i, i, the people i spoke to have said that they did not are not surprised, and they did not see it this as a changing as changing the situation on the ground. but of course, everybody takes this in a different way. and of course people who were close a death who were some of whom we have just heard in the report. um they have said, yeah. and then they, it's kind of it, if you, i can say that for my own experience, even if you know that this couldn't, can happen. it's different if you hear it and you and, and you see it than if you just know it, that's for sure. but um and, and everybody here knew, of course,

before that the city has never been out of limits out of reach. but still it continues functioning as a major hub for refugees. and it's still a place where people find refuge. and i've also spoken to people who have said, yeah, they're here now they want to return to the places they have come from that are under much more threat under much more damage, but they do not want to leave the country. so it's a very mixed feeling on the ground, but i wouldn't say that this has shifted so dramatically. right. and how is the city coping with us? the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of people are remarkably well. one must say the city is very organized and even at the arrival when you are at the, at the, at the station where the trains arrived there, people, av, immediately there are fallen, tears will show them directions. there are buses to poland and 2 other places.

there are tense by the red cross. there are people who distribute at them into a makeshift shelters. law a, jim's or wherever they can stay for the night. um and the, the city is, is, is, is quite crowded. actually, it's much crop, more crowded than in peacetime because of all these people who are here either temporarily or fled here, but overall it's functioning. thank you for that mathias was as willing are in love, if elsewhere in ukraine, russia's defense minister says that russian forces are fighting in the center of the port of mary, of all and independent hasn't been that information hasn't been independently verified, but the city has experience some of russia's fiercest, bombardments, local officials say about 80 percent of dwellings have been destroyed, more than 350000 people, a trapped without heat and other basic necessities. early yesterday morning, russian forces bomb to fear,

to shelter and hundreds of civilians. the mass says 130 people have been rescued. the full extent of casualties still hasn't been established. the w correspondent, nick connelly made contact with 19 year old jewelry in mary paul who sent us these voice messages. and now i'm in right now. i hear planes rid of it, i hear shooting every 5 or 10 minutes with the sound of fighting. never goes away so. mm hm. so we wouldn't need that. was that it's been days since intense shilling started here where i am now with this for cool. last ukrainian and russian forces are fighting and i haven't been able to leave my house. we can all it's, this is the 5th day. i've been stuck inside the machine. you couldn't clean it was. i'm additionally,

if you could get it. i've seen people dead on the streets with my own eyes. don't meet money 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 soft for bodies. if they were probably hit by shrapnel on their bodies were only picked up 2 days later, a couple of them obviously and she does teach at a studio 3 or 4 days after war began. people started running out of food and yet both in the even shops were shot and people started rating shops that had been damaged by shelling in search of food on put in 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 magazines, allows you to switch it to the you do i to just close to nothing. you the water, the sure city is gone. food doesn't exist any more, your it's been destroyed with the shops have been smashed up by hungry people. he

could have had our buildings have been pulverized, says daniel bruce, this to my friends, went round the city and saw a 5 story buildings where only the seller was left and was dan you. i thought that the couple of wall sodium yellows are pretty weak of civil use over time, which it used to all the explosions. lincoln said, well, you're not really scared any more perfectly when something hits nearby. i've stopped running into the cellar them yet. you just becomes normal, but the most and you could the bluish closure, i get stressed when there's no internet down and i can't reach my relatives or my girlfriend clinical to already managed to get to germany, to news news or the to roaches interviewing all. i think about mine is when i'll be able to get out of here and see her coming in the near the bronze. if it is the food at the explosions and the shooting edges aren't as scary anymore as losing touch with the people you love. about weiss who says, submitted an immunity we understand that you are a,

has now managed to get out of married with millions of people are fleeing the fighting and arriving in foreign countries. the united nations is warning of the rest of them being trafficked or exploited. of the more than the 3000000 people who fled ukraine since, since russia invited 3 weeks ago, the vast majority of women and children. many men have stayed behind to fight germany, hosting any 200000 ukrainian refugees. d w. money on evans team has been speaking with katerina, arrive safely in berlin with her children. it's not about to leave curious about to run and escape as far as the 24th of february. it was clear that the war started and, and we stayed 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's life, and we ran, we draw 4 days to poland, borton and, and the force 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 foreign taste were the most cowering. because when you stay in your apartment, you have and bomb shelter. when you are driving there is nothing. so that's why 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 a 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 van. 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 other person, we are very lucky. we has 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, how much time for some period of time. and he told jury, you can come here, we will be happy to see hon. help you in our think that you need do you have hopes that you will some day be able to return back home? i try to step to mistake. 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 ruin 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, mom, when we are going to go home. and yesterday he asked me, mom, we are not going home. do i still have a home i don't know what to say. crated refugee catherine, a pocket at sky speaking with dw is marianna evans d. or take a look at some more developments and this conflicts starting here in germany, right. a foreign minister has outlined her vision for a security policy reset. and atlanta babble 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 following russia's invasion of ukraine. russian president vladimir putin has hales what he calls his country special operation in ukraine. he was addressing a crowd to the concert in moscow, mocking the 8th anniversary of these countries annexation of crimea. thousands attended the event meeting, rushing flags almost closed in place. and with that said, the pro ration symbol for the war. german chancellor schoultz is urged mister, proven to commit to a cease fire and an hour long phone call. also called for an improvement to the humanitarian situation in ukraine. kremlin says i was approved and told the german chancellor that crate is stalling. a peace talks with unrealistic proposals and in another high stakes, a phone call us president joe biden has been speaking with chinese leaders using

pink to discuss the ukraine situation. president biden was expected to ask president g a not to provide any military or economic assistance for russia's war against ukraine. the u. s. police president uprooted reformed china about its invasion plans in advance. during talks in beijing, in february, president, she and mister put in place limitless friendship between the 2 countries. so let's explore what's likely to be happening behind the scenes that the job is chief international editor of richard walker or welcome richard. president biden has quite publicly threatened what he called costs if china fish russia, in this war, one of those costs likely to be what were there, a kind of 2 levels to this bill. on the, on the one hand, the u. s. could move to imposing sanctions on chinese banks or other institutions if it perceives that they are trying to break or side step the sanctions that the

united states has imposed to russia. these things are called secondary sanctions. so if you break the sanctions that we put on russia, then we put sanctions on you. so, so that's one step that they could do. but there's another potential level to this, a more serious one. and that is what happens if china does start to provide russia with military support. and if that happens, then we're entering really quite dangerous territory because the war in ukraine would then start to look like a proxy war between china supporting russia and the west supporting ukraine. and proxy was, these were, these are the stuff of the cold war. these were the sort of fist the side battles that the u. s. in russia, during those times fought between each other through these proxies. we could be entering a really severe cold war type confrontation if china goes down that road with trying to rush on one side, europe in the united states on the other. ok so,

so what is china is position public position on this war, which i've been professing quite as an independent position and it says that it wants peace and security for role that stand by things like territorial integrity. this is the sovereignty of individual countries and shipping has been talking about peace and security and some of the early reporting surrounding the phone call with joe biden. but the reality is that china has been rhetorically, quite aligned with russia. and it's been openly supporting russia complaints, in particular about nato, by the expansion of nato into eastern europe. russia is concerned that ukraine was going to join nato. and i only say that really, this does seem to be a genuine belief by the chinese particularly champagne. that the united states and nato provoked this war by expanding into what they see as russia,

backyard is fear of influence. i spoke to one of the senior american next, but on chinese foreign policy. to explain a little bit about the background to this position. let's take listen. i think that teaching believes that the united states is now implacably hostile towards china. he saw this start under the republicans in the trump administration and now continue under by ministration. and i think he has therefore attached more value to russia and has counted quite decidedly decisively towards russia in this this war in ukraine. so according to this reading of teaching pain, he is bracing and preparing for this long confrontation with united states and with the west and seas. russia as an important partner in preparing for. right. and is there any sign of that changing? well, the trouble is for china that this war is actually proving

a problem for it is creating huge instability in the world markets. we've seen the prices of commodities, oil, natural gas, wheat, grain, other commodities, or shooting up. china is very heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports. so this is bad for china's economy. instability in the world economy is just generally bad for the chinese economic model because it's biggest sporting power it needs good access to, to export market. so all of this is bad, plus, it's potentially dangerous for chinese reputation in the world with russia. so isolated in china is one of the last country standing by russia, standing by russia while we see atrocities taking place in ukraine. so she does face something of a dilemma here about whether to really kind of double down on that relationship with russia and confront the west, or whether to see whether it can put a little bit of distance between itself and russia. maybe quietly threw back charles,

try to get vladimir putin to move to some core sort of police peace agreement. this is what the americans certainly hope china will do. ok, so that's, that's china. russia, let's talk to the us because where relations now between those 2 countries, because a way for jordan trump here, we saw sanctions, we saw a trade embargo, we saw all sorts of things going on so that they're not friends clearly. well, donald trump certainly made some attacking china, one of the center pieces of his presidency, although he did come up with a partial tre deal with the chinese. but i think this refers back to what we were just talking to early early. it is true that in the united states, a growing consensus has established itself, not just in the republican party, not just a sort of around donald trump, but among the democrats to is one of the few areas in american politics where you

do have bipartisan agreement that china is the big geopolitical problem for them of the century, and they need to take a tough line against it. it just so happens at the moment that, of course, china is one of the few countries in the world that if it were minded to, could potentially get russia, could have some leverage over russia to de escalate the situation. so it does put it very, very delicate situation in water as right now. ok so so if the old sanctions, let's call them against china, the old us sanctions again, china is still in place. what else then it would president by be able to to throw out the situation? well, the level of sanctions, for instance over sheen. jang, you know the oppression of the week is that that has been taking place in the western province of shane jang in china. not anything like on the kind of level of sanctions that we see in the united states in russia. but i would kind of go back to what we were saying earlier. there are

a couple of levels of things that could take place if the united states decides that china is trying to breach sanctions on russia. it could impose the secondary sanctions. the big problem is if china supports the military, thank you for that. richard water walk at the w, the international editor. thanks very much. we'll take a look at some other news making headlines around the world are starting in india and pakistan where hindus are celebrating wholly the festival of colors, devotees at mark the festival vice mirroring, each other with brightly colored powder. dancing and singing festivities are much larger than the last 2 years because of a day in the corona virus cases. australia is great. barrier reef spread a hit by widespread bleaching due to unusually warm water temperatures. of the marine park authority says it's the worst bleaching damage for 2 years. conservation is tre, calling for more ambitious action from your stadium government on climate change.

nato has begun the massive military exercise in norway and the alliance as the drills are designed to train troops for combat in cold weather. conditions are on 30000 soldiers from 27 countries are involved. jack parker filed this report from cub right near the town of hama in norway, 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 posted their determination to defend their country. this exercise we are, we actually, i can see that we are a solid group and it's we are what we are working. i like i one organization. and if we are together, we will, i find

a way these drills have been in planning for 2 years. they're using the cold conditions in norway to train artillery, infantry and specialists. you can deal with chemical and biological attacks, checking interoperability 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 troops 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 ones, 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. i that they brew rebuild capabilities they gave away many years ago. the exercises here at camp runner a rule, so aimed at reassuring people living in norway, in the nearby town of hammer. people told us they're fully aware of the drills and norway has the border. we do with russia and we never know what can happen. so i think it's also a lot of fair in norway. what can happen? we don't know. nato will protect us. and i think ukraine would derek better 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 not the military, many of the soldiers present here will now participate in a 355 increase, strong drill and 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. news asia is next. i'll be back of the talk with

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