o fathers and subs starts april 16th on d, w. ah, ah, ah, missus dw news live from berlin, a chilling deadline, russia orders ukraine to surrender mario pole by monday morning. as fighting in the eastern city rages, russia, blaine's, what it calls ukrainian nationalists or ukraine's president bowler. junior zalinski holds moscow, sees a war crime as the deadline mirrors both countries, a promise more civilian evacuations. and we go to a children's hospital in a keep or staff are working around the clock to treat the injured despite enormous

challenges. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. russia has called on ukrainian forces defending the eastern city of mario ball to surrender by monday morning, moscow's blaming what it calls ukrainian nationalists for the humanitarian disaster unfolding their ukraine's president. while the demure zalinski says russia siege of mario paul is a war crime. both countries say they are planning to live civilian evacuations. for monday, russian state television recalls the destruction in maria pull. russia's military has managed to take parts of the besieged city following heavy bombardment. the price of its progress,

burnt out buildings and traumatized residence. a nearby steel plant was also hit. russia claims to be d nazi fine ukraine. but during an address to israeli parliament, ukrainian president for law miss zalinski himself. jewish said it was russia's invasion which was akin to naziism. notice that all the on the 24th of february 1920, the national social workers party of germany and sta. p, was founded. it's a part you took millions of lives destroyed, half the country, tried to kill nations, a 102 years later, on 24th of february. a criminal order was given to launch a large scale russian invasion on ukraine. they're taken to bearing the 3rd next to their homes in mario pole with graveyards out of reach. due to the fighting bodies lined the streets as the rush and choke hold. squeeze his life out of the city.

the war is wreaking havoc in other parts of the country to nikki. if people were evacuated from the fighting to the po, very suburb of the capitol isn't yet good. we were evacuated from shinkel village. there was terrible shooting day and night. but this is god's nightmare boy. of our building to demolished. it's just a terrible war. oh. but everywhere the russians go, they are met with defiance in the occupied city, of course, on angry residence, forced russian trucks to a stop. and eventually, to turn around more evidence, the russian evasion is not going to plan. in earlier we spoke with nicole at trophy medical and associate professor of international relations. and rector of mario full state university. he managed to get out of the besieged city of morrow.

paul and he told us about his escape, the experience so defaced while fleeing from ru paul actually reformed a huge con of course. and we and used to the way that was found by in the previous day on march 14 by 106 to carrasco. managed to get to separate asia, reformed this q to enter the as upper asia and this q of cars with a white ribbons on the doors. it was a shooting by mine throwing throwing machines and the heat, the car with a 4 people in 2 children. there they killed the parents of 2 and a half years children. it was in 7 meters from my car, and my car jumped actually. so how could, how could, how could you believe this people when they are shooting the civilians in the cars that are trying to get to get out from the war zone. the situation in multiple is

continue to be very difficult. the constant without any breaks or bomb been shootings. busy from different kinds of 4 weapons, from aircrafts today, they should it, and they had a bomb, the city from the war sheeps. so they use everything they have to give the city. so i can't call my opal city anymore. there is no city there. and all the neighbourhood a around my, my home, it's totally destroyed. totally. and for analysis on this, i want to bring in at damira my research. he's a senior fellow at the atlantic council europe center, and he joins us now from washington. d. c. i thank you so much for joining us. i want to begin by asking you about an interview given by lieutenant general ben hodges, the former commander of us forces in europe. and he has said the next 10 days we'll decide the war. i can you give us your take on that?

i have to say it's very difficult to know whether general hodges is correct on this . all of us in the for certain non official sphere are watching the news and trying to piece together exactly what's happening. just like you are in the media and we do see that the russians have failed to achieve their initial goals. absolutely, there's been a setback for them. and as the reporting is showing, the, the ukranian response has been quite fierce and they have managed to, to stall what has happened. but it's not clear to me, quite frankly, that the russians have not started adapting to the next phase of the war, which i think will be one of attrition. given the kinds of losses the russians are taking and the kind of a real morale that the ukrainians are showing. i think that the optimistic take is that perhaps a kind of necessary still made might emerge within the next 10 days. but i wouldn't

be quite so certain of that. it's just as likely that we, we could get just an ongoing grinding war that goes on for weeks. if not months. now the west has rejected ukraine's calls for a no fly zone because of the potential military escalation with russia. can you tell us what your analysis is of that? um, generally i am quite sympathetic about for the with the argument that we should not engage in the no fly zone. i think all the arguments that have been put forth about how that is in fact, quite dangerous. given that russia is a nuclear on power and to get into a hot shooting war with a nuclear power, we just don't know which way that would go. that said, i think that the question of a no fly zone actually tends to distract from the fact that we are quite engaged in this war. and we are doing a lot of ukrainians. the sections package has been quite unprecedented and is actually a inflicting quite a toll on russia's economy and beyond that are sending

a lot of troops. pardon me, not troops, a lot of weapons, both western advanced kit as well as soviet era. antiaircraft weapons and other tools that are in fact a showing real gains for the ukrainians on the ground. now the question is, what happens next? your previous report was from mario pole. and as i understand that the russians have now given some kind of unspecified ultimatum to the ukrainians that they quit mar, you pull by 5 am in moscow time or face on specified consequences. should that go uglier? should there be no unrestricted, carpet bombing or worse, chemical weapons worse than that? well then, i think the west will have to reassess how it will approach the situation. does that mean no fly zones? i'm not sure it does. there are many things that the west can still do the fall, quite short of no fly zones that can quite inflict quite

a lot more pain on the russians. he mentioned worse than that. of course, russia as a nuclear armed power is for the west, one of the major concerns this weekend. you actually tweeted the new world is with us regardless of whether putin fires a nuclear weapon in this conflict. non proliferation is a dead idea that is quite a statement. can you tell us what you meant by it? well, i think you know, it, this has a lot to do with the fact that we have conceived of the world as being stabilized by, by a kind of mutually assured destruction that the process would be one of slowly phasing out nuclear weapons that aggression to this kind would ultimately be deterred several pieces have come out recently, arguing to the fact that we have badly misjudged how this works. and a lot of this has to do with the fact that the russians and the chinese themselves are able to field these so called a tactical nuclear weapons, battlefield nukes, which are able to actually, at least theoretically they have yet to be used in

a battle. but in theory can be used in a battle without escalating the whole conflict. 2 mutually assured destruction. in that with that is the background. we really will have to rethink how to do deterrence after this, how to prevent these trans was happening. how to use hard power and indeed not sort of a dream of the fact that a post nuclear world is within reach. i don't think that it is quite frank. unfortunately, i have to leave it there. but i'm here, my research, the senior fellow with the atlanta counsels europe center want to thank you so much for coming to d to leave news. thank you very much. now right from the start of this war, civilians have been paying the highest price. many families unable to flee their homes, have found themselves caught in the crossfire and some of those suffering the most are children. one hospital in a keith is trying to treat young survivors despite the challenges. for low to me is

lucky to be alive, is the car he was travelling in was hit by gun fired. 2 days after russia invaded ukraine, his father and his 6 year old cousin were killed. although the 13 year old survived, he's been left with serious injuries longer hulu. his face was hurt and his jaw and his nose were broken. his arm was hid, his leg was hit in 2 places as well as his other leg. he had one or 2 bullets in his back. i can't remember staff working at this children's hospital in the ukrainian capital keep, stay here round the clock. they have to because of the security situation and the amount of work they have. these are tough times. just rational, it's really terrible. it's challenging,

emotionally. it's awful. we live in the hospital, we don't go home. we are available 247, and any time day night morning, evenings we rushed to help the children and it's really difficult. maybe after all, her family, some of us new school cycle support, maybe more low. we only focus on 3 people, treatment children through the low to me it will need more surgery, doctors hope, and he will be able to walk again. but no one really knows if his emotional scars will ever he'll move good to. those are germany's dependency on russian gas has made europe biggest economy, dangerously exposed, and it's also meant in germany is reluctant to impose energy sanctions on russia. economics minister, robert high back, went to carter and the u. s. e to negotiate

a long term energy partnership. the trip is about energy and reducing germany's dependency on russian gas. germany wants to replace russian gas high with gas from guitar. after talks with the amir of guitar, the german economy minister said a deal had been sealed, goes on to your eyes and it's great news. and that was the purpose of this visit that we've agreed on a long term energy partnership, part myself and the companies that have come with us will now enter into deeper contract negotiations with the guitar re side. and just down at austin's, i to initial taxonomy to franchise many of the top german business leaders are traveling with havoc the visit is been seen as an opportunity for german companies to do business with guitar. despite open questions about democracy and human rights . after visiting guitar, the german delegation traveled on to the united arab emirates for talks on securing

green hydrogen, produced with renewable energy and in the world of sports ukrainian hygiene paras lava mo, who chick has won a gold medal at the world indoor championships in belgrade, which he only attended after a treacherous journey, and my whole chick cleared a bar at 2.02 meters to claim the goals. she said she had left ukraine amid explosions, fire, and air raid sirens with the trip to serviette taking her 3 days. she said her performance was a defense of ukrainian colors and the track you're watching it, he tell you news before we go, let's get a recap of our top story. russia has called on ukrainian forces defending the eastern city of mario full to surrender. by monday morning. moscow is blaming what it calls ukrainian nationalists for the humanitarian disaster unfolding their

ukraine's president willoughby mirror. the lensky has described russia's heavy bombardment of mario, both as a war crime. it is your news update at this hour. of course there is always more news and analysis on our website, d, w dot com. or you can check us out on social media. that's active use. i'm clear richardson in berlin for me and the team here. thank you so much for joining us. with a, we're all set to go v o. p. s. citizenship and we're all live. as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to whatever it takes to leave. and i'm following w. fire made for

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