ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. a city demolished thousands killed some 100000, others trapped in mariel bull out of food, water, and fuel. the residents of the port city are struggling to survive as promises of humanitarian, poor doris, bail, and russian bombing continues us present. joe biden is in europe for emergency talks with nato allies on the war and ukraine. earlier, wednesday,

the blocks chief pledge more support for ukraine to protect itself against the threat of chemical warfare by russia. and the world's top rank women's tennis player steps away from the game. so happy, and i'm so ready. and i just know at the moment in my hot mail person, this is rod, australia, ash party retires saying she's ready to take on new challenges and find fulfillment elsewhere. ah, i'm abby qua, boss, and welcome to the program. we begin with the russian invasion of ukraine, which has seen incessant bombings, ariel dog fights, and st. battles and various parts of the country, the local councils, as russian forces, who serv and did the port city have reduced it to ashes keepers calling on moscow

to allow civilians to escape. mary o bull ukrainian president bought em. here's the lensky says, 100000 people are trapped without food, water, or medication salons. he also says russian troops have seized a humanitarian convoy, attempting to bring relief to mary opal's residence. ah, these are missiles fired by russia, from sea, and from land against ukraine. these images were released by russia's defense ministry as we're these in which russia claims to have hit a ukrainian anti aircraft missile system. but shells aren't only falling on military targets in keith, this home was hit by a russian strike. fire fighters worked to put out the blaze that followed.

hello, it was a strike on the roof. i walked out of the house, the smoke a cigarette and when i went back inside it happened. the ceiling collapsed, a buckle in mud. you pull the city under siege, hit relentlessly by russian bombing satellite images show the extent of the devastation. life as hell for people who are still stuck in the city. or excuse us, with law, russia has used more than a 1000 missiles against peaceful ukrainian. cities are countless numbers of aerial bombs on the russian troops have destroyed dozens of our cities following some have been burned to ashes. philip, cookie patropolis, in many cities, and villages under russian occupation. our people can't even bury their dead relatives with dignity. these buses are headed close to my new pole. they're intended to collect people who managed to flee the besieged city and take them to

safety. for more or less me to maria thomas in law live, she's head of the crimea platform department at the mission of the president of ukraine in crimea. maria, thank you for taking the time to speak to d w. now you've been working for years to document russia as human rights abuses in annex crimea. how has your work changed since rochelle launch this full scale invasion last month? hello. basically indeed, it's important to say that this war actually has start. that's not on february 24 over the current year, but much earlier in the year 214, when russian federation invaded crimea and occupied the crimean peninsula. and since then, and after its invaded russia invaded the boss as well. no. so since then you creating human rights community has been documenting the human rights violations and war crimes in those areas, although it wasn't easy because it all happens mostly without the direct access to

those territories. so we've been using various tools in order to get the information from there. but now i would say that in terms of working with crimea, the situation changed in the way that even those sources that we use inside the peninsula. those people who talk to us who communicated with us, who spoke openly about human rights abuses. now, i mean, they behave more carefully because we all understand that this people are already hostages because they're on the occupied territories. and now it's even more complicated scenes. russia also changed its legislation after this and you all out war her it was start was launched and started. so now when you say that russia wages war against ukraine, it may be qualified as

a france in the good. so to say, in the better case, it may be qualified as an administrative offense in worst case as a criminal offense. but nevertheless, it will proceed like a so called this curtis ation of the armed forces of the russian federation. so therefore, and we have plenty of cases like these in crania already. there are such cases. so in russia as well. so when people just say that, ok, russia is, went to a war in the large scale war against crane. and after that they were fined by the, by the court. now i do want to ask you after this full scale invasion again, as you said, the war started for you cranes 8 years ago. but this full scale invasion started 4 weeks ago, or is your team also looking at abuse is happening in other parts of the country now as well. and how difficult has that been given this incessant russian bombing and some of these places a. so the, actually, our team is,

and i would say it's, it's very, a different in terms of that. and now we have various people involved in the process of the documentation. basically the governmental institutions that i represent. now, prior, just few months ago, i was with the human rights actor, but recently shifted to the government of position. but nevertheless, civil society organizations, human rights organizations, jointly with governmental institutions, tried to collect as many information as it's possible in order to get the evidence as the testimony is the fax, the open source is information about those abuses that are taking place. and of course, it's in comparable in terms of the scales, all of those violations even to the years prior to that. because when it comes to crimea, there was no actually like a full fledged war there. i mean, the, with the arm beings will all of those awful things that we see now. it was,

i would say, silently occupied and sized by russians by the russian federation, unlikable boss. but nevertheless, even in dunbar, although there was a war over there for years, it wasn't so brutal as it is now. for instance, in model that was just described in your program. maria, you're documenting these war crimes. you're seeing the images on television, on what's happening in the rest of your country. when you look to the future. now, do you see a one where a vladimir putin or a senior russian official could one day, you know, face prosecution for launching this invasion of your country? ah, yes, definitely. and i think that it's one of the most important debates that are taking place within ukraine, but also with various legal experts around the globe is how actually it's possible to bring to responsibility russian officials. and the most obvious answer would be

the i c, c, the international criminal court which has already intensified its efforts for the investigation of the developments in ukraine scenes 2 or 14, basically not starting from now, but even prior to that. but another idea which seems to me very important is the treat you know, the separate treat you know, over of letting us put in the regime. some were in harkey, for instance, who was the city. it's offered a lot also from the, from the russian invasion and russian occupation as of now. but what i would like to underline because it's somehow interlinked with those debates that i can follow within the german media. and maybe public discussions is whether it's only about for the middle portion or not. i think that we have to be very clear and have to be very have. i mean, we have to be honest with ourselves that lots of people in russian federation do

support this war. and it's a huge challenge and it's a huge question of humanitarian kind. is what to do, how to work with the russian population in order to, you know, demilitarised the minds of those people who explicitly support this aggression against ukraine. so, but in which is not the, unfortunately, the only person who stands behind that, i'm afraid. that's the reality. maria thomas, with the crimea platform at the mission of the president of ukraine. thank you very much for your time. you as president joe biden has touched down in brussels. i had a meeting with nato leaders at an emergency summit on ukraine. the alliance is trying to balance further military assistance to ukraine, while avoiding a direct confrontation with moscow. nato has promised more support to help ukraine protect itself from chemical warfare. but the alliance is also taking precautions outside the country to point more soldiers and more weapons to eastern european

member states. secretary general young stoughton burges, as the alliance will send troops to hungary, romania, bulgarians, lakia. and we'll double its number of battle groups. station near russia, suttonberg also implored member states to invest more resources in order to stop the war from escalating the decisions we take to morrow will how far reaching implications, major reinforcements to our security will require major investments in defense. so i expect, unless we agree to read or boulder efforts to invest more, there is a new sense of urgency because we cannot take peace for granted. here's a look at some of the other developments in the conflict. a top kremlin aid has become the 1st member of putin's inner circle to quit his post over russia's war on

ukraine. anatole h. u buys was put in special representative for ties with international organizations, but is better known as the architect of rush as post soviet economic reforms. he has reportedly left the country. poland has expelled 45 russian diplomats, calling them kremlin spies, and government spokesperson said it was part of war saws, dismantling of the russian special services network in the country. they've given most of the group 5 days to leave poland. moscow has called the accusations absurd . when they say russian president vladimir putin says his country will start charging what he calls unfriendly countries in russian roubles for the gas they buy . hooton's as a freeze on russia, as acids by foreign nations, had destroyed moscow's trust and quote, compromised currencies like the dollar and the euro. upland. hope francis has made a fresh appeal for peace and ukraine. he paid tribute to the victims of war and

said buying and producing more weapons is not the solution to the problem. he urged both ukraine and russia to work together for peace. world's top ranked female tennis player, australia's ash bar. he has unexpectedly retired from the game at the age of 25 r t announced her decision just weeks after becoming the 1st australian to win the australian open and 44 years. she says she's leaving the game to chase other dreams . clutching a trophy ash bought he's lost outing was as the newly crowned australian open chaffey. she celebrated breaking the australian drought with bubbles in melbourne. but as the rest of the world was wondering how many more she could add to her total of 3 grand slams, she shed the red wrists and returned to the red center of the country to try and inspire the next aboriginal grand slam champion job. yeah,

i was giving an unvarnished glimpse of where her next set of dreams lay along the way unfulfilled. i'm happy and i know how much work it takes 2 to bring the best out of yourself and i've set it to my team. um multiple times. it's just, i don't have that in me anymore. she leaves the sport as it's number one ranked player. a french open wimbleton and very much an australian champion who leaves a global crowd wanting more. marick has 1st female secretary of state, madeline albright has died. she was 84 albright served as president bill clinton, secretary of state, from 1997 to 2001. before that she was washington's ambassador to the united nations. she was born in 1937 and what was ban czechoslovakia and emigrated to the

united states as a child in 1948. her family said she died after a battle with cancer. you're watching the w news. here's a recap of our main story. russia is continuing its efforts to occupy the key ukrainian port of mary, a pool of bombs striking and industrial compound president, amir zalinski says 100000 residents remain trapped in the city. the dw news, i'm abbey 4000, stick around for our full business update with my colleague rob watts. thanks for being with us. i'm just kinda, i think that hard and in the end is a me, you are not a lot us to you and more. we will send you back. are you familiar with this smokey's reliance of me? what's your story?

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