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policy will have full live coverage from the buddhist doug. here in berlin. ah, i been for solon welcome ukraine, his calling on russia to allow civilians to escape the southern port of mariano, the local councils, his russian forces, who surrounded the city of reduced to ashes with constant bombing president blood of mister lensky, says, 100000 civilians are trapped without food, water or medication. what's even voice? according to savanski is the brushes seized, a humanitarian convoy, attempting to bring relief to mario pals besieged residence. bombs, keep falling on mud. you pull. the besieged city is under relentless shelling by russian forces. satellite pictures show the extent of the devastation,

apartment buildings burnt out. a metal factory shelled those who are able to flee my tuple, say conditions there are desperate rest of them. you didn't, you have to leave. all of mario pool aren't being held from spring. it was that elite of help you, people don't have water, the drink water that's not even fit for industrial purposes. there's no one you can ask for help. yoga prosy. hundreds of thousands of people are still stuck there under the falling bombs. stunned the nazi dean at the moment there around 100000 people living in mario pole under inhumane conditions under a complete siege without food, water and medicine. under constant shelling and bombardment seen them for several weeks. and we have been trying to organize the stable humanitarian corridors for mario poles, residence and almost all our attempts had been unfortunately obstructed by shelling

or deliberate terror by russian occupiers salem, a boat seed dormant thereon. russia is seeking to gain leverage with its relentless pounding of cities across ukraine. zalinski says keep, still hopes talks with russia can bring peace. he says, ukraine is prepared to discuss the status of crimea, and the separate is don bus region after a ceasefire. but any agreement would have to be approved by the ukrainian people, any concessions to russia will be a hard sell. barden won't be, was done with this. what was wrong with when it will have relatives who live over there? but there it stops. so the russians will never be our brothers again. convenient, would've brought in them. let's pick up on that point with dw corresponding fund. if a child who's in the v va, weston, ukraine, for us, funny, these guys russians will never be our brothers again. what, what's happening here? you can hear this on the streets of live as well. however, mostly what i hear is actually people expressing their grief,

their sorrow over what is happening in this country. they say they do not have time or do not even want to express hatred towards the russians. some say that it has nothing to do with russia as a whole about russia politics, and they actually express their hatred rather 2 boats. one man of latimore vladimir putin. but yesterday, when i observed almost a street fight between 2 people, ab, as one ukrainian man was starting to speak russia and that seemingly provoked another man. you really wonder just really just at this point, how follow these emotions go and are easily also violence can just start up on the pure fact that on ukrainian person starts to speak. russia, which is, by the way, very common. if you look at the history of ukraine, but it was part of the soviet union more than 3 decades ago and russian, the russian leg language was obligate, tory, and most schools in some schools, the only language actually that you are allowed to speak. so a bottom line of various reactions, but mostly as i say,

people are expressing the surrender grief rather than their hatred or any dislike it towards russia as a whole. how this bird is the situation for besieged residents of muddy opal in the south. we heard there that some of them don't even have clean water to drink. exactly. no clean water is one thing, but also no access to very basics. you need to survive. the war is in week number 4, actually is only almost one month that it also sorry, it started more than about one months ago. and this is a long time if you have no access to very basic speed, food, water, or clean water emetic and medical supplies, et cetera. if you listen to the city council who described yesterday, the state of murray pool as a place that's been reduced to ashes of a dad, land is really hard even put in words so hard to even imagine what is happening on

the ground with that people laying on the ground, medics not able to access a people who are either hiding or trapped in a residential buildings trying to bring some relief to them. so it's a devastating situation not only murray pool, by the way, but certainly of that toner to hobble which is so strategically important to a russia is very much in a focus right now. also the full course of trying to get people out from there. and they've been talks to end all this fighting, continuing via video link, or what, what you make of the comments from zalinski that there is progress being made. although it's quite confrontational, given what i just said, describing a situation, mary pool and other places in ukraine, you really do not have the impression at all, that there is progress at lisa. these other comments were here. and of course, on the other hand, you know, the president zalinski meets to somehow keep the spirit up. so by him saying

there's a progress step by step, even though then he says, the situation between russia and ukraine remains confrontational, tells you what the picture is. it is at the status, it is as it is in ukraine, the war continues and the hope is, of course, increasing among so many that there must be an end to this soon. now there hope that people have here that more sanctions will be issued by the u. s. a. by european leaders this week, even though others, again, are skeptical because so many sanctions have been issued before without any change . so, yes, presidents lensky says hanging there, basically there is going to be progress step by step. but really, the question is at what price and what ukraine is going to look like at that point . very good point. and if i chose for us in levin wesson ukraine bringing us up to date there on the situation. i also spoke to under the asa ciocca, a member of the ukrainian parliament for the opposition party on us. his father was also

a parliamentarian and voted for an independent ukraine in 1991. so that you told us how today's invasion by russia is the latest battle in a long struggle for independence. we shall continue the jobs which you have previous generations of. great and did you can, enters will fighting for our land in 19 twenties, in 19 forties, 19 fifties, and now in 2022 we continue this fight. so it's very, very long story and we are huge nation. we're still 40000000 people in the center of europe being in the largest country, the europe, and definitely we are not going to step back. so neither me nor my father, if you would stay here with me now or no other pretty little additions, will agree on a compromise we do on a integrity. and so what energy of you, great know lends in both of us, which were internationally recognized united, united you up until he also took an opposition member of the ukrainian parliament

there. he's a look now at some other developments in the conflict. russian investigators have launched a criminal case against veteran russian journalists. alexander nick, are off. he had accused the army of deliberately shelling of maternity hospital embody awful. after off is the 1st prominent journalist who full foul of new legislation batting, criticism of roches boring, ukrainian, or russian winner of the 2021 nobel peace prize says he will auction off the prestigious medal and donate the proceeds to help you cranium. refugees. to meet fee or tough was the cope winner of the prize for his work is editor of no, by augusta, $1.00 of russia's last independent newspapers to yachts earned by the russian oligarch, romana prowler, which i have talked in turkey. avoiding european sanctions on russia super rich, a group of ukrainians demonstrate has tried to prevent one of the vessels moring to the turkish port. woodrum turkeys, criticized roches invasion of ukraine,

but rejects sanctions. 2 has been surprised at the apparent struggle russian forces have faced since launching their attacks on ukraine, despite having superior firepower and troop numbers. moscow has not so far had the success anticipated. but despite their difference in size, both militaries are suffering losses. from air, land and sea. russia had been proudly showing off its military might for months. and it was no secret that it was far superior to ukraine's before the war started. ukraine's armed forces were at around half a 1000000. but rush, it's, we're almost 3 times that at more than $1300000.00, why ukraine had around 2 and a half 1000 tanks. russia had nearly 12 and a half 1000,

almost 5 times its neighbors. ukraine's total air craft strength, including war planes and attack helicopters, stood at $318.00. rushes was more than 4000. but a month after the war began, these figures have probably changed dramatically with losses on both sides. the russian navy has continued to play a crucial role in the kremlin war efforts. caliber cruise missiles, our integral to the navy's ground strike capabilities. it's believed one was used to hit this government building in the city of car keys at the beginning of march. we believe russian is scanned a short range ballistic missiles have also been used in car keys and other

ukrainian cities. and moscow has been accused of using cluster bonds on residential areas, which would constitute a war crime. the kremlin has also claimed its fired hypersonic missiles like these at targets in ukraine. although this has not been independently verified. no one knows how much further russia will go in its assault on ukraine rules nor how long ukraine can withstand attacks like these well, from more perspective, let's bring in former british military officer from lead, which she teaches strategy, the university of portsmouth, in your opinion, who's winning this war right now. russia achieving their objectives by any means in fact have not taken any of the major, major targets just yet. you credit into holding them if you want to answer,

i would suggest that the answer is probably ukrainians are winning. at this point, the russians have now fit culminated, is that military means that the 1st phase, they've gone as far as they can. they've been stopped by the ukrainians, and they don't have sufficient supplies and equipment to go any further. but you reported, i mentioned russian, russia having 2000000 soldiers and x number of times and totally right. but they've deployed a far smaller number and they won't be able to get access to the rest for quite some time. the supply lines and communications are down. generals have been killed . where, where does that leave the russian military considering its very top down approach. yeah, that is your big top down there is east is an important one. we, or many of us anyway, those, those people have actually worked with the you kind of force underestimated that one of the advantages they have over the russians is the conceptual element of the element that looks at how you fight. and since 2014,

when they were defeated by russia, you praise, taking a very different approach in trade by western forces in something called mission come out of trucks tactic germans as german military. cause that means you trust your subordinates. and he pointed out that the russian, so take that view, they are at the top down approach. and that means your generals are things are working to the front and taking casualties. courses are the reasons for that. mainly western western hops, west in assisted, but certainly excellent. you training intelligence is able to target these high value targets. and the result is in the result of all these factors that essentially russian forces in most friends, if not in disarray, that very much halted. frank. none of that will make much of a difference if nuclear weapons come into play. how real is this threat the way? hearing from moscow? it's a threat for decades. the issue of nuclear weapons within russian military doctrine

has been treated as a simply a step forward. not the kind of extreme step change that we perhaps in the westward account, that, that doesn't mean that i would categorize what's going on, a little bit of saber rattling. russia quite understands that the deployment of such weapons, even in demonstration, would be a very real step change in the war and would almost certainly trigger nature involvement. could defeat on the ground. would you say the same for chemical and biological weapons? well that's what matters shift a little my own view is that chemical weapons, a biological weapons, boston themselves simply weapons a kid like any other should be treated as a red line. we have repeated time and time again last decade, not only in syria, but in crime, in other other places from the russians with red lines. what, when complied with? this should be treated that way. the risk here is that the diploma chemical weapons

be used as a false flag by russians by russian armed forces in order to, excuse other forms of escalation. frank, can you give us some hope as far as the people of ukraine go? what would turn the tide for you credit victory in this war? well, one of the 1st things we can do is stop telling everyone what we're doing. it's up to the, up to the west. it's up to nato's up to individual countries. what they do to help you create all this organize about whether should get faxes or this. so that piece of equipment should stop. nato should give when it comes to get what, what it is they want to get to not keep telling everybody about debating about the 2nd thing. and sure are sure the security of the baltic states that provides a boxed on us for the credit is themselves. but we can do is continue supplying them with the best weapons release, the bureaucratic shackles on handing over some ready, made ready may piece equipment. so for example, some of the piece equipment in the british or american arsenals that will require,

that is permissions to hand over those chuckles should be released. and finally, nato should start in red lines and complying with them for british military officer, frankly, which thank you very much for coming on the show today. appreciate it. well german chance though olaf sholtes is about to address parliament and will speak about his government's policy regarding russia's invasion of ukraine. but looking at life pictures of the buddhist talk right now where for english math at the moment is addressing the parliament for the opposition. for some big topics that have been going that are going to be coming up today of course, purchase of gas and oil supplies from russia, as well as of course, the chancellor's budget. we'll be talking to melinda crane about that in a moment. and the money that is at stake here, germany going into debt,

huge amounts of money being spent on germany redirecting it's funds as far as its energy needs go. but so far, chancellor shop has resistance stopping russian gas imports. that's a very important topic. we'll be looking at today. he did put a massive pipeline project with restaurant ice just before the war began. but let's check in now festival. with our parliamentary correspondent, i mean i've been a scuba baby set the scene 1st there at the buddhist. how can give us a sense of what we can expect from shots today? good morning. it will be indeed a lengthy debate to day. well, they'll talk about the budget, not only of the chancellor, but also of the foreign ministry. and also when it comes about the fence as a form, one of the big topics you mentioned, frederick mat, already the leader of the position here in the bonus stack. the session started, he was the 1st speaker, he's still addressing the parliament right now. and he started with strong criticism when it comes to all of the shortest site vendor, this new era that he announced at the end of february,

saying that at yesterday speech, there was not so much that he noticed about that. saying that the changes that the new government will need to do will be so big that even some parts of the coalition agreement should be renegotiated. bedroom in can you expect any big decisions or big announcements today as far as this speech goes? so what people have been ended and peas have been criticizing all of shelton that something also that we've also heard that since the speech, he, for example, did not a address or did not answer to ukraine in president is lensky when he addressed to parliament last week. and will they just continue with the schedule with business as usual? and of course, they'll talk not only about the defense spending when it comes, for example, to the new if fighter jets or to new equipment it for the bonus via but also of course, the covenant pandemic will play a major role with, of course, a,

the effect that the war in ukraine will also have on german economy, on german consumer. so it will be along debate and of course will keep you updated also after them. the german chancellor addresses the plenary at the parliament. thank you very much, ben. i mean, yeah, that's the fear business as usual, but we do have 2 disasters here that are being tackled by a new german government. let's see how they go. but let's bring you back here into the studio now. and melinda crane is joining me. our chief political correspond, belinda, this speech from schultz is billed as the chancellors budget. i mentioned just before. what does that make? well, actually, it's just a very small part of the over all german budget. the amount we're talking about today is 457000000000 euros. that's the total. the chancellor is budget is just 3 combat 7000000000 of that. so you think, or, you know, that's kind of minor, isn't it? but it, but this is simply the peg for what's called the general debate,

and the general debate can get very, very heated. in 2015 when the refugee crisis, the last refugee crisis was raging. we even saw one parliamentarian reading a parts from the bible, so it can be a very dramatic debate. and if we are not seeing business as usual here in germany at the moment, the government's new budget takes on a record amount of new data will, is very unusual for a country that has often been known as the sway be in housewife among e. u. member states at a huge chunk, as far as the notary spinning goes, let's now go to the buddhist god where mister schultz is about to address the parliamentary they get up with the dental speaker to get a colleague and a colleague, money donald, her colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, that goes on top for copeland, toyota, for moving can ways organ on board? got okay, lot of determination their citizens and ukraine. what do you sell fighters for their homeland? what's that sir?

still do. who turns invasion is stalling here in view. i'd i know some progress that has been made in previous days, and we had an hour or the president a lie, is that start pulling together. last week we had president lensky speaking to us here in the parliament desktops. and with that, it's hard to lensky. you will come in there, keep going without the support of the world, and i tell ukraine that they can rely on our support. that peeks begin. libra dodged on since the beginning of the lord, germany has been providing tangs equipment and other people. you wanted to military appliances to young crane and additional $1000000000.00. how about 8 available in military age together with our international partners. we've imposed sanctions that are unprecedented on busy business clients did for and for many months you have them prepared to make sure that they affect the right person and that they really

have an impact on suppose on her doctor's doctor. and we've asked for support all over the world. yeah, i would like to thank our foreign minister and alina babel for her athens in june. and we're seeing that the sanctions are indeed, effectively fight gibberish. lawson, d v, august, up just to, to see x change in russia. yes. basically close a lot of foreign companies are leaving as this is rational and that is only the beginnings beforehand. but some of us are here. and so most difficult consequences will only become evident in the next few weeks. and we are also in a process of tightening the sanctions when necessary in india. of course i'm hearing people are asking for a no fly zone or, or nato piece mission in ukraine. view that and as hard as it is, this is nothing that we're planning to do in terms of the human, not kids,

mr. i'm beat us winful in the later years after the end of the 2nd world war, we've avoided social contracts. are you involved in military confrontation and hi, there was good, was there not between nato and russia was his life. and that needs to remain the case really, goldman burger of the goals many citizens are very worried that you know, they understand go from the food for both. so know freedom spoken. pervert that. this is what a no fly zone. what mean? wonder every day before hundreds, i receive hundreds of letters and e mails. and whenever you speak to people are in the country. sooner or later, they'll ask you, will there be a war here in our country? he's of target colors. we're either and 40. and if you want to answer that question, there's only one way does, if you later won't become a party to this conflict. this is something that we agree. all of us,

our european partners and the united states with the board of her nandan while it is as a matter of reason and everything else will be irresponsible. williard sent in pictures of the upcoming ladies and gentlemen, for decades, our dependence on oil, gas and coal from russia has increased. your band is an opinion, and yes, this dependence must be ended as fast as possible. i'm talk of them under, however, he said, doing that also gone so overnight. so what mean when the toner, up sharing here over into recession on st. andrews, lead thousands of jobs would be out. risk for by and our industries will be endangered losses, but is also part of the truth or that the sanctions already have a very harsh impact on the citizens. and only when they go to the filling station, pierce, or start with out of the sanctions. this of rule passes from there, but you also should rule docile, shouldn't have an impact that is harder for your opinions and for the russians.

that's very important. lima miss diamond, good deems been, be, doesn't had anybody of his absence of if we risk getting them our winder economies with him. and he would agree with our friends and partners. we've all chartered this course together. what had the onset of the crisis, ladies and gentlemen, the images that we see every day, also from ukraine, we are very, very hard to babble. images are destroyed, apartments, hospitals abroad and cities or occupation. and since he be this soldiers dying, mckinnon citizens, in a dead work, we see women and children fleeing from proteins, tangs and bombs clumsy bones in london, lubo and at the same time be it here in germany or in other european countries. it has been a vast amount of support that's and that's the spirit empathy of endorsement. 8 organizations tell us that never before and has added as much money been donated.

lenses and thousands of people have. nobody has open their hearts to the ukrainians, but also their apartment is by welcoming them at home life and other states. romania, poland, other neighboring countries to name, but a few are making an incredible contribution to health this is only looking at using continent and bad. it would, you is an inspiration and, and encourage language goggins organs here. but when i would like to thank the citizens in germany and in europe for everything they are offering to alleviate this crisis. li, just usually in legal terms the you direct is like provide clarity and temporary protection to everybody fleeing from ukraine by either in practical terms were facing an enormous challenge. it's been very grateful that our homes minister, nancy fairs,

is taking decisive steps to help this is deeply on should, is, needs an obligation good might. of everybody who's on top of all the different levels of our government and the citizens to work together instead of debating who is responsible for watch 1st for the president. so i'm very pleased that at the conference of state premiers, we managed to deal with all of the open questions and we said ourselves a deadline of 7th of april, but i took you for more agreements and i'm also happy that document was last year. you leaders also agreed to um, share the burden of taking in refugees and providing support alamahood. and that is something that all of us need to do now or clock the field. it is not yet unclear how many people from ukraine will come here to find

a safe haven. the only thing we know is that there will be many because that we don't know yet how large is one feeder all the media actually monetary and me to cover for and for reconstruction and ukraine will be. and whether there will be further global disruptions rolled into united nations, already warning of instability and starvation because of rising fruit prices. what is clear them to you is recall that we welcome to ref. when dodson bid in germany in all, but he is going to help germany in europe and in the world to the federal government is willing to take additional measures as the christian garcia. and i'm very grateful to finance minister laguna. also, also about that for drafting a supplementary budget in the next 2 weeks to make sure that we can, whether this crisis

not addresses. maybe even there's something else i would like to say to day one. for the lesson, we will try whatever we can to make sure that peas, that because it comes in like chow, our content, with the larger i, spoken to president zalinski repeatedly and all about it, the next steps are taken apart off. and i've also consulted president putin on several occasions last week because i'm to, to needs to understand and hear all the truth about your crane. and that truth is that the war of destroy ukraine. 14 of was lost to gov, but the war also destroys russia is future weapons have to be silenced. now what do you love? nevada is, was mills name of whitland. he ongoing negotiations between ukrainian. russia will be successful. nobody can know right now, but we're still,