ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukrainian president followed or mr. lansky says 100000 people are trapped in body poll and many have no food or water. the port city is under constant, russian bombardment. zelinski says shelling is sabotaging civilian escape routes and he accuses russian soldiers of blocking a convoy of humanitarian belief. also coming up from 4000 ukrainians are seeking refuge from the war in israel. we take you to one small town that's especially happy to welcome to refugees and find them new home. german chair for olaf schultz

tells parliament ukrainian refugees are welcome in germany and t. f can rely on his support. what he says, cutting off russian gas would hurt europe more than moscow and the world's best walking away from tennis that just 25 years old. after 3 grand slam victories, australia's ashley bardy shocks the sports world by calling it quits in the prime of her career. we'll look at why. ah, i'm serious, almost gonna glad you could join us. ukraine has calling on russia to allow civilians to escape the southern port of mighty you bull. the local council says russian forces who have surrounded the city, have reduced it to ashes with constant bombing president vladimir salons. he says, 800000 civilians are trapped without food, water, or medication. so lensky says,

russian forces seized a humanitarian convoy, attempting to bring relief to muddy opal's, besieged residence. mm. 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. hundreds of thousands of people are still stuck here under the falling bombs. it's donna nazi dana at the moment there around 100000 people living in mario, poland, inhumane conditions under a complete siege without food, water and medicine, under constant shelling and bombardment to see them for several weeks. and we have been trying to organize this table, humanitarian corridors for mario poles, residence and almost all our attempts had been unfortunately obstructed by shelling or deliberate terror by russia occupiers. salem, a boat seed dormant darrell,

those who were able to flee mud, you both say conditions there are desperate for them. you did you hear the people of mario paul aren't being cold from spring? it was that elite of help wondering, you can admit that people don't have water, the drink water. that's not even fit for industrial purposes, but yet there's no one you can ask for help. yoga ukraine announced an agreement had been found to evacuate residents from towns and cities through 9 humanitarian corridors. on wednesday. russia continues to pummel cities across ukraine like here in the capital key, where drones attack the scientific institute or here in had keith in the northeast of the country where a missiles fell. president leukemia zelinski is still hopeful that

talks with russia can bring peace. he says, ukraine is prepared to discuss the status of crimea and the separate this don bass region after a ceasefire. but any agreement would have to be approved by the ukrainian people. we can speak now to our correspondent funding for char. she's standing by for us in western ukraine in the city of if i funny, we are hearing the news that an agreement has been reached to evacuate civilians trapped in ukrainian cities via 9 humanitarian cor doors. what more can you tell us about that? well this is pretty good news if those non humanitarian corridors actually operate and people can be evacuated. something of course, as we have seen during this ward in the past weeks, either worked in a very limited way or not at all. and when it comes to the town of mario pool, unfortunately there's no agreement. they in terms of trying to get people out and have a humanitarian corridor established to get a significant number of people,

a significant number of people out at least 100000 people. instead, ukraine said that in a nearby town, they basically set up transportation for people who make it out this far. and of course so many of them would like to just make it here. we are right know to live, which is basically the last town owned away out from ukraine to poland, but millions and millions of people who have that goal to finally leave. remain trapped in the residential areas, remain trapped in a situation where they themselves do not know, not just to how to get out, but even just how to get basic information. how to make that attempt, the desperate attempt at this point, especially murray pool to exit. ukraine. yeah, as you said, there are an estimated a 100000 civilians remaining in money. you pull, it has been hit so hard. what conditions are they facing? it's really hard to put that inverse at this point. just imagine for full weeks now

people either limited access or have any access actually to food. some of them are reported to drink, very unsafe food, actually there is no clean water, no power. and as i say, no access to communication, you have to imagine people are out on the street. they call be buried. and, and people who are in dire need of medical help to, to help survive conscious make it to the next will spickle because they are bombed . as the city council pointed out yesterday from ukraine. they really are painted a very devastating picture. connie murray, pull a place that's been that reduced to ashes of a dead, a lance quote. really, i've never been to marry a pool, but just from the sources we have on the ground. and if that information that we are getting is just one part of the story, i don't even want to imagine what the full scope of the devastation is in mario pull. funny, just a quick last question talks and the fighting have continued any progress there.

president zalinski said, actually out early this morning that there's progress that's being made step by step. at the same time. he also said that ukraine and russia remained confrontational. so in a way, a mixed message, a message to was ukrainians who are here, who are showing resistance. hang in there, there's going to be some agreement at some point, while on the other hand, those who can leave dry to leave from these besieged owls like mario pool or had a keyboard, had a phones to me and other places. so if you ask me personally, a given the negotiations that ukraine already had, the delegations of ukraine and russia, i don't see any media change at this point. what people are hoping here on the ground with president zalinski reaching out to various politicians, but even to the pope yesterday, that at least as cease fire or limit to cease fire can be reached des, funny for char recording there for us from live if thank you thank you so much. the

war in ukraine has forced millions of people to flee mostly to neighboring countries. but some jewish refugees have a different goal, israel, which grant them the right to emigrate more than 4000 ukrainians have arrived in and serial. since the start of the russian invasion, ah, you say at last, just a week ago, neatness cut off his wife and sister arrived in israel from odessa, fleeing the war in ukraine. stuck aside so that if you go to the cities are being bomb into many have been destroyed and there are many casualties among the civilian population to linna. that's what russian aggression looks like. these guys are such as someplace for now they are living in the hotel in the small city of norfolk, i live alone with many other refugees. every one here is waiting for the entry documents to be processed. me tree is entitled to israeli citizenship because his

jewish, that's the law. he feels welcome already that this happened. yeah, we're getting lots of support here on the lease or were being fed and given clothes and everything that we need that's by deals with mike's medical model. and that's exactly how it should be, according to the male ones in emigrant himself from dover. now encourage his refugees to come to his city of your network with your mother. when selling 20 mentions cheaper rent than in television. is greenwood another bottle from where the one yesterday, but mostly abruptly he also uses facebook to invite refugees to know how gallia, which has already taken in 200 people fleet and the war. well, these railey government, still arguing about how much immigration the country can handle, the mayor ceased their arrival as a positive on iraq. mr. gil elliot, i look at other immigration waves in the past, the 1000000 and i see what it did to israel. i shall score more. it definitely did

a lot more familiar with from the migrants from back then all have high ranking job solutions. they've benefited the country for good, and i believe that will happen again more gemelli a lot. shabani poor. the city is no stranger to immigration, half the residence he is big russian. and unlike in other parts of israel, street signs are not only written in hebrew, arabic and english, but russian, too. and those who were once immigrants themselves are lending a helping hand to the more around the new israeli and needed more than one other than we we have. we have too much and we can give me 2. he says he now wants to find an apartment job and learn hebrew. he says he has no plans to return to ukraine, except to visit his parents who stayed behind in odessa. that report from

d. w 's. anya cough and she joins us from jerusalem for more on the story. hi anya . it's good to see you. we're seeing once again jewish people fleeing eastern europe for their lives. tell us more about how israelis are responding to this influx of refugees from ukraine. why as many as you have just seen in that piece, israel really is no stranger to immigration. the country has seen waves, self integration before, especially in the early ninety's, when people from the countries of the former soviet union arrived. and just to give you a little impression that 15 percent of the people here, a living in israel today are russian speaking. so the country really knows how to handle new arrivals. and some people also see the new arrival of jewish refugees as a way to strengthen the jewish character. so the jewish character of the state of israel. so when these people come here and they receive what you could probably

call a welcome package to the government, gives them 171700 heroes to get started. and also those refugees to right from the beginning. they are entitled to look for a job and sent their kids to school it. i know there were wreckage is coming, not just from ukraine, but also from beller. ruth and russia. so how many more a jewish refugees does israel expect? well, a since the beginning of the war of forced housing, jewish ukrainian refugees have arrived and israel, that number is indeed expected to increase the jewish agency. that is an organization who helps jewish people from around the world to want to immigrant. to israel says that $4500.00 more ukrainian refugees are already waiting to board a plane. those refugees, most of them a half left ukraine by now. and they are rating and neighboring countries like will

davia from where they will be here lifted to israel. that's jewish agency also says, as you mentioned, that they have seen a short increase in interest in immigration from countries like russia and b levels . the agency says that in those past weeks they have received the hotline has received more than 25000 calls. and the israeli government is expecting up to 100000 jewish refugees from russia. ukraine, n b levels in the coming month. just very quick. last question. on your what about the non jewish refugees have rules been changed to accommodate them as well? the arrival of non refugees is a bit more of a controversial issue of is certainly government in the beginning. had said they would take up to $5000.00 non jewish refugees. that cap was met or was criticism by the public. so that israeli government mouse said, okay, we'll make an exception for those people who have

a relative in israel. that relative though has been to guaranteed that the refugee only stays for one or 2 months to i quote, the interior, i'm an interior minister, get some air or correspondence on your car in jerusalem. thank you. german chance olaf sholtes has addressed parliament on the ukraine crisis shall said, sanctions against russia beginning to work and would be increased. what he said, nato would not police and no fly zone of ukraine because it could not risk direct confrontation with russia. shows also said ukrainian refugees are welcome in germany. here's more of what he had to say. hooting softens even exist. hooton's invasion is calling him his might. are some progress made in previously, you will be able to find the we and our allies are pulling together job a last week the we had to president lensky speaking to us here in the parliament. and he said it is hard to keep going it without the support of the world. this

obligatory to go and i am telling you crane that they can rely on our support that comes with. we have our chief political correspondent, melinda crane with us. you was watching the chance for speech for us earlier, melinda, what was your main takeaway from what you heard him say? 3 points really. first of all, a also what we heard there recognition that citizens are deeply concerned about what he called the unbearable images we're seeing out of ukraine and thanking citizens for all that they're doing, especially to welcome refugees on the other hand. also, recognition of enormous, concerned that this conflict could escalate, could possibly even spread to a nato, russian, a conflict, and thereby perhaps to this country. and he said, as you mentioned, that is not going to happen. that's why we won't do a no fly zone. secondly, trying to prepare citizens for the fact that crisis management is going to be ongoing, both because of the economic repercussions of this crisis. higher energy prices or

inflation ratcheting up and so on. possibly a global food crisis. all of which will, of course, probably entail additional government spending. and then thirdly, despite that need for short term crisis management, the need not to lose sight of long term girls, especially climate transformation. he pointed out that the ukraine crisis has made germany's aims of energy independence and weaning itself off of fossil fuels more important than ever. and that would require an enormous amount of spending in new infrastructure designed to facilitate uptake of renewables and so on. so those 3 main messages we know that allow sholtes underline solidarity with ukraine, but the ukranian president has directly called on him to do more. so is there any chance that some of that criticize from ukraine in particular, it could change germany stance on things like a no fly zone, or oil and gas imports from russia, not on the no fly zone. he was very clear about that. he said,

we will not risk that kind of a confrontation with russia and certainly has a lot of backing from other nato members on that point where germany is looking more isolated is on the point of oil and gas imports. as you know, the u. s. has moved to cut off russian oil imports. buying will be trans travelling tomorrow to brussels, to have an extraordinary summit with nato, with the un, with the g 7 which germany is currently sharing. we may see additional pressure there on germany on this point, but the chancellor said in his speech this morning, we will not do a short term embargo because it would cost jobs. it would cost growth, it would hurt our industry. we could lapse into recession and see all of the you go with us. so very clear message there as well. germany is certainly spending more than expected. so where will all of this money come from? well, there's 2 places. money can come from one is the t word, taxes. the government has been very careful not to mention that i was listening to

interviews this morning by members of the leading coalition parties. definitely going out of their way, not to talk about that. so it's going to have to come from borrowing and in fact, germany is now looking at taking on additional debt somewhere in the range of $200.00 to possibly even $250000000000.00 euros. as you know, germany's government coffers have been pretty well filled. that's why last year when he was still finance minister, chancellor schultz said that germany has great big bazooka that it would use to combat the pandemic. nonetheless, it took out a lot of additional debt for the pandemic. all of this will, at some point, have to be paid back. the pandemic debt is not going to be starting to pay back the rock and start to see payback until 2028. and it will continue for 30 years. that gives you an idea of the size and the length of that this debt burden will entail. very interesting, right. our chief political correspondent, melinda crane for us. thank you. since the beginning of russia's invasion of ukraine,

more than 360000 refugees have passed through neighboring mould of up the small countries, one of europe's poorest, and it is struggling to cope. but many residents also fear it could become the next target for russian president. vladimir putin, that's because of trans mystery, up an unrecognised break away state that declared independence from moldova in the early 19 ninety's, with russia's backing russian troops are still stationed there and many moldova, and say they feel threatened by their presence. reaching these villages east of the nice to river in moldova means embarking on a little odyssey. a fairy dating from soviet time stops off here a few times a day. this route over the water is the only way to get there without venturing into separatist church. re in mold of its east through trans mystery. even food is often transported by this detour using the ferry, according to arena, tavara knew whom wanted as trans mischief for an n g. o. god is

a good that has been an illegal military presence on our land for over 30 years. will soon pass by a so called peace keeping troop, where there are also russian soldiers. we've never really felt safe at the pier is victor. tim is a war veteran who has fought against the russians on the way to his home. we passed several military checkpoints, manned by russian soldiers. 1500 are officially stationed here. but security. so say that including reservists disfigure could be 10 times higher. added to this is 20000 tons of russian military equipment. off to victor got into trouble with some russian soldiers. he was forced to leave his house in trans nestea. he now lives in his parents house in the republic of moldova. he doesn't want to think about the prospect of a russian invasion. yo, she lot of mobile mobile. if that happens,

everything would return to how it was that years ago with all of russia's well known methods of punishment. i would probably be deported to siberia or they would shoot me. every one is scared of the russians. rickety mish knows what he's talking about. he's kept his old uniform from the 1990 to walk between trans mistrial and the former soviet republic. moldova, the short war ended in several 100 said and independence from moldova for trans mysteria, which isn't recognized internationally, but is financed by russia. lou, i lost 3 friends in that war. we had been together as a group with the worst moment was when one of us steps on a mine engine yet. oh victor t mish serves his home grown wine and raises his glass for victory for ukraine.

people here have long since come to terms with living in a divided land encountering russian soldiers on a daily basis. and they fear they could be russia next targets. neat, damn me with scarcity of course was scheduled by the children are also terrified because we know what can happen, especially here in these villages them quicker. my am if a, if it goes up, moldova doesn't have a proper military to speak of and is neither a member of nato or the e u, leaving the country and it's residence, feeling exposed now to some other headlines, chinese official say they have recovered one black box from the china eastern airlines flight which crashed on monday. all passengers and crew are believed to have died when the plane nose dived into a mountain side. relatives attempted to visit the crash sown in the countryside in

southern china, but there were blocked by officials. the taliban has shut secondary schools across af ghana, stand for girls just hours after reopening them for the 1st time since they took power. authorities ordered the students to go home causing confusion over the regimes policy. earlier this week, the education ministry had said schools would be reopened for girls and several provinces. one person is dead after a tornado swept through the city and several of new orleans in the us. the storm had power lines and destroyed homes in an area that is still recovering from the devastation caused by hurricane ida last year. these are empty and they've been protests in kingston, jamaica calling for the country to cut ties with britain's royal family and demanding reparations for slavery. the purchase commerce britons prince william and his wife kate visit the former colony. last year, the island of barbados, remove the queen, a head of state sports now in the world's top rank female tennis player, australia as ash barty has unexpectedly retired from the game at the age of 25 body

announced her decision just weeks after becoming the 1st australian to win the australian open in 44 years. she's also won the french open and wimbledon, and has been the world number one women tennis player for the past 2 years. but bardy said she was leaving the game to chase other dreams. anthony howard from the to the sports is with us on the story. hi, anthony. it's a high seems to come as, as a shock. was there any sign that this was coming? it's possible to hunt for clues, like anything in the way that she's approached a career and a lot before it. contrast it to the way the men are doing it to me. so revenue $1.35 chasing cuddle number $22.00. fighting roger federer at another job which federal 40 bleeding into we socks on bad knees. chasing more titles, he wants more more more. think about them. what ash did in 2019 she won the french open for that's what she did or didn't do the next year. she didn't go back in the faith. she chose to, to stay in australia during the covey times and take it easy. there was a famous shot of her as outside of this, with the trophy is when she went to the football in australia. and she can be seen

in the stands clenched fist with one hand, and holding a beer and the other shouting for her team. the richmond tigers. you think she couldn't already be loved enough in australia before she seen with a beer at the football that she didn't want to go back and defend at all costs. she wanted to enjoy her loss. so if you're looking for clues like that, i guess that's where you start. she didn't go for sponsorship deal. she just wanted to be there. and i think as shocking as this movie is in a sporting sense, it really confirms and underlies why she was loved in australia and in the tennis world is that she always did it on her to. and she's different to the rest. and now she leaves with this delicate little micro of leaving as the world's number one. yeah. and did, leaving at the very top. she said she wants to chase her dreams. what could that mean? by process of elimination, she probably won't do a ted talk. she's not going to do a spotlight in the media at least full time. she's not going to chase at the office are going to be there. and i don't see of logging what she's having for breakfast on instagram everyday. it's just not her style. and what she hasn't mentioned is

her leadership role. it's really unofficial, i guess. but you see her here at the very what she chose to do after the strike in open go back to the aboriginal community where she's become very proud the a leader in that community. but also in australia, it's not what she did again, underlining zamiah's house. she did it. if you say strength skill determination, that's involved with re champion but now champion, but now with us body you dollars on top, bryce and humility. and then on top of that, this decision which i think is maybe her crowning glory, it's a bad decision might on her, tim's on her schedule about her life. and it's not about more trophies, does not about more money. and that is the thing of re beauty. a lot of people talk about it and she's done. well, it really is a remarkable decision. we wish the best. anthony howard from dw sport, thanks for bringing us that story. and let's get a reminder now our top story rush us efforts to occupy the key ukrainian port of multiple continue with bombs, striking and industrial compound. president volota. mir soleski says

a 100000 residents were made trapped in the city. ukrainian forces continue to resist russia's attempts to take the capital key. coming up next, the special extended interview with ukrainian president to landscape with with

ah, ah, the war in ukraine president volunteered zalinski in an in depth interview clement that it was a lawyer. she wanted to, but she was, she was like a sham on national devout a scheme normally show them when they go to we have ordered the interview with ukrainian president zalinski next d w ah

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