ah, ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. brush involved continue to fall on the ukrainian city of merrier poll. president laudermill lansky says there is nothing left of one of his country's largest cities and call for direct talks with vladimir putin. also coming up finland border with russia is 1300 kilometers long. invasion of ukraine has many fins wondering what are the lines moscow is willing to cross and in the balkans sports clubs are offering refuge as well as

a place to compete to young ukrainian athletes playing ah i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program. after nearly a month of war and ukraine, russian forces are still struggling to take key cities. ukrainian forces say they've pushed back russian troops from a key suburb of cave. further slowing rushes assault on the capital. meanwhile, authorities in the strategic port city of mary you, paul, se fighting is raging on the streets amid russian bombardment. crowns. president says nothing is left of the city where tens of thousands of civilians remained trapped. yet more palms falling on the besieged city of mario paul, russian forces have been trying to take the key port for weeks civilians. lucky enough to escape to live if say conditions in the city,

a desperate to them you did. you hear the liberal of mario paul aren't being held. i'm speaking with that elite of help. or you can you eliminate that people don't have water, they drink water. that's not even fit for industrial purposes. as no one you can ask for help. yoga kia, another major cities of also in the target, so increased shelling with russia ramping up its bombardment. as its troops struggled to advance on the ground on tuesday, present, zalinski urge italian lawmakers to help force russia to negotiating table. olive says, thought maybe they may, asian has been going on for $27.00 days, practically one month. so we need even more sanctions, even more pressure, so that russia stops looking for more military reserves or mercenary, somewhere in syria or libya and starts looking for peace. so what if you follow with, with more and more ukranian cities being reduced to ruins like here and how keith

remains to be seen, what a peace deal would even look like. so lensky has said that keith is prepared to talk about the states crimea, and the separatist on beth's region after a ceasefire. but any agreement it would have to be put to a vote by the ukrainian people. but for many of them, including one of the residents of these bombed out flats, no hockey region, their relationship with russia has been changed for ever water. no one be, was done with this, or was ruled when it will have relatives who live over there. but there it stops, so the russians will never be our brothers again, along with it, brought a war in ukraine is causing security concerns in finland. the country shows a 1300 kilometer border with russia and wal relations with moscow have been amicable in recent decades. invasion of ukraine is causing many fins to reconsider their neutrality and support. joining nato natively correspondent terry schultz sent as this report. the kremlin has crossed many lines in past weeks. fins are

increasingly concerned about this one. there. 1300 kilometer border with russia. at the volley, my checkpoint. vigilance is the norm that captain, you see beckles says apart from a small number of people seeking refuge in finland, there's been no other impact from the war. yet, of course, we are prepared and we are preparing also for many kind of situation since have always lived with some degree of uncertainty sharing this long border with russia. but president vladimir putin's unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor has forced them to reassess. how far do the kremlin territorial ambitions go? where do they stop finland's delicate geostrategic balance? a civil relationship with moscow plus a well equipped, highly trained military has been shaken suddenly and for the 1st time, a majority of fins believe they need nato. the turn about is a reaction to russia's aggression says defense minister, auntie chi gonan. be able,

have thought that we would live in a peacetime into, into twenties, but now we have factored. i was in the middle of europe, but so far from finland. russia's assault has re ignited painful memories of the soviet invasion of finland in world war 2. just like its attack on ukraine. back then, moscow said it was responding to provocation. finns maintained their independence at huge cost. fighting alone, the experience led the country to become self reliant for its national security. with each adult trained to play a specific role in any emergency from natural disasters to weather events, to war. themes are not as scared as such, but they are aware, reservist training and public self defense courses have seen a huge jumping enrollment past 2 weeks. 250 new member has we haven't seen anything like that before. people want to survive an always stunted time to learn

things v fast. next month, the finish government will update its national security assessment and is widely expected to take a stance on nato membership. the kremlin has warned helsinki, the joining the alliance would bring serious consequences. hybrid threat expert, hannah smith says there are already signs of russian attempts to stir up conflict with. we have seen, for example, that there is now both in sweden and finland. a twitter from a embassy has come to ask any russian citizens to report to the embassies any wrong doing against them. given this environment, henry vaughan in a parliamentary advisor says nieto is a necessity. if we don't join in, we have to find the reasoning. why sort of what is the back for, for our security in the future as well? are, are close. international defense grow, grow should be enough, would be you be enough. we don't low, but knowing their own history and seeing ukraine's bleak future. most fins are now

no longer willing to risk their own outside nato. and that report from our brussels correspondent terry schultz. my earlier we spoke to terry and asked where the rushes threat of consequences if finland were to join nato is having any impact on decision making in helsinki. that threat has even been repeated just in the past few days. and especially now that both finland and sweden are in boy invited to nato to all ukraine meetings. that's certainly something that isn't sitting well in the kremlin. and this used to be the main reason that finland wasn't joining. it used to say that, you know, it could be provocative to join the alliance, and that may not be the best thing for its security. now that, that russia invaded ukraine, a peaceful neighbor, everything's changed. and i think finland has seen that staying out of nato is no guarantee that you won't be attacked. so that is really why we've seen this very, very dramatic change in finish public opinion. we had

a look at some other developments in the conflict. the russian winner of the 2021 nobel peace prize says he'll auction off the prestigious metal and donate the proceeds to help you cranny and refugees. dmitri moore, a tough, was the co winner of the prize for his work as editor of a neveah gazette. excuse me, one of russia's last independent newspapers to yachts owned by the russian oligarch, roman abramivitch have docked in turkey in an attempt to avoid european sanctions on russia's super rich. a group of ukrainian demonstrate is trying to prevent one of the vessels from warring in the turkish port of budrum. turkey has criticized russia's invasion a few crime, but rejects sanctions. 1 when jailed russian opposition later, alexander valley has been sentenced to 9 more years in prison. after a court found him guilty on charges of large scale fraud. valley has already

serving it was already serving a 2 and a half year sentence for alleged parole violations. he's been a vocal critic of president vladimir putin for a man facing 9 years under maximum security navarro. and he seemed unfazed by the verdict. and he tweeted soon after about the russian president in 2013 after hearing my 1st verdict, i wrote this, and now i will repeat it. don't be idle. the stoled sitting on an oil pipe will not overthrow itself. i hug and love every one. now wagner was already solving a 2 and a half year sentence in a prison on the outskirts of moscow. his steam worries that his transfer to a tight or facility will put his life in danger. robberies will be thoroughly for almost o n z a. the lawyers would have difficulties on entering his own me, so we will all have an access to lexi, i and i in general, if you didn't only wish. oh,

she's freedom. it was not his life novelties. life was already under threat in 2020, the kremlin critic felt severely ill on a flight in siberia. he was transferred to a hospital in germany where doctors found traces of a soviet era, nov agent. novi chalk the kremlin, denied any involvement in the poisoning, but russian authorities arrested novelty as soon as he went on to moscow. under the charge of why leading peril, novelty has long been critical of putin. in 2016, he announced that he would run as a presidential candidate against him in the next election. more recently, he has criticized putin's war on ukraine. the wine there was a powerful voice of people. he spoke about corruption and showed trash and said the alternative is the same as the with my husband or who was sentenced to 18 years in the, in jail from when you're russians. and for bill recess, of course, he's at

a he is a true freedom fighter m, his look at some other stories where following this hour, a man welding a knife has killed 4 people and seriously wounded to others in the self and is ready town of fishy but they silent was shot and killed by unidentified bystanders . israeli media identified the attacker is a 34 year old arab man from the nearby beto in town of huda for people have died in a boating accident off the coast of new zealand. 5 other passengers were rescued from the wreckage. the chanted fishing vessel, sunk in stormy weather on sunday night. survive as clung to the wreckage for hours before they were found. dive as a searching for one. the same person in a show of solidarity with you, cried sports clubs in the balkans and providing refuge for athletes escaping russia's invasion. it's a lifeline that not only provides the athletes with

a safe haven accommodation and meals. it also gives them the opportunity to continue their training and participate in competitions. most die in southern bosnia, when the cities student volleyball club made an offer to ukrainian clubs to provide a home depleting athletes. it didn't expect any response. but it's now hosting 7 players from the cranny and club about all ha cut. sure is one of them. my, its way to send me a message that we have an opportunity to go invoice in her movie. now that we have the proposition, as we doesn't know, row be going and we doesn't know anyone here and it was very unexpected. but it's a very good proposition for us. says she and her team mates have no idea what the

future holds for them. of course, we want to go home to our families, our friends, but now we don't know that it will when it will be. i feel a little guilty because i'm unsafe, but they are not now in the bulgarian city ivana, the hispanic tennis club answered the call of the countries tennis federation to help ukrainian players. the club zone air is hosting 2 families with 3 teenage players from odessa. among them 14 year old sasha grocer, who dreams of one day winning the australian open call to go with the 2 families and our father's stay in ukraine. our grand mother and father green's very said and my friend where is well, gary,

as tennis federation has helped about 12 ukrainian families with young players so far, it even plan to include them and national tournaments as well as giving them a home away from home. in watching did any news? here are the top stories where following foyer rushes efforts to occupy the k ukrainian port of matter. you poll, continue with bomb striking an industrial compound president. the landscape now says there is nothing left of the city ukrainian forces are also resisting russia's attempts to take the capital cave rising fears that russia will escalate the war to new heights. and a russian court has found jailed kremlin critic alex and a valet guilty of new charges. opposition later has been sentenced to 9 more years in prison. at 10 years update this al, i'm rebecca of british rob watts will bring you some business headlines after

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