since the 2nd world war and the threat of a nuclear escalation hanging over it, ukrainians are continuing to fight and suffer for their freedom. russian forces are shelling cities in various parts of the country, causing widespread destruction and killing innocent civilians. it is people who are living this war to 10000000 in ukraine have been displaced. more than 3000000 have fled the bloodshed in their country. and like other refugees around the world, they're making the heart wrenching decisions to leave their homes and their loved ones for an unknown future. i'm abby, quite often in berlin and this is the day ah, the ukrainians are putting a very stiff defense. it's hard to get rid of the impression that america is holding ukraine by the had the russians have not achieved any of the

strategic objectives that they set out to a show noble nuclear power plant has been taken over by force, by weapons to point we and our allies are pulling together. this close design is being used by russia to prepare new attacks against our defense. and i am telling ukraine that they can rely on our support. with also coming up on the day, the global stories of people forced to flee due to war famine and tolerance, climate change, economic or political upheaval. the un says one in every se 95th person in the world is a refugee, a new children's book, looks at the human beings make the journey, seeking peace and freedom will talk to one of its co authors. ah, welcome to the program we begin the day with the human suffering of this war. a

freezing hell scape, riddled with dead bodies, is how human rights watch describes the ukrainian city of mary opal once home to 400000 people. now the most attacked and damaged city in the russian invasion. the kremlin is looking to capture the city to ensure itself a land root. keep as calling on moscow to allow the sum 100000 traps civilians to lead ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russian troops have seized a humanitarian convoy, attempting to bring relief to mary opal's besieged 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 were these in which russia claims to have hit

a ukrainian anti aircraft missile system. but shells aren't only falling on military targets in keys. 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, livable in my tuple, 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 . refuses, with law, russia has used more than a 1000 missiles against peaceful ukrainian cities. countless numbers of aerial bombs on the russian troops have destroyed dozens of our cities following some have been burned to ashes. philip dicky are probably 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 matthew polt. they're intended to collect people who managed to flee the besieged city and take them to safety. as the fighting continues, diplomats from both sides had been meeting to try and agree on a way to end the conflict. moscow was demanding ukraine's neutrality and its recognition of russian control over its territories. no breakthrough has been achieved so far, but ukraine's president go to me as a lensky said the talks are moving slowly forward. but i don't remember if you want to not, it is we are continuing to work at different levels to encourage russia to move towards peace, to end these brutal war, ukrainian representatives are participating in virtual talks every day. it's very difficult sometimes even confrontational, but little by little. we are making progress. let grogs

a girl gone. he them of put it rush us at the lack of a breakthrough, was the fault of ukraine and the united states. it accused washington of seeking to hinder moscow's talk with keith, to try and turn the tide of the war on ukraine's favor. here is russian foreign minister survey. love rav. did he go to let you loose. negotiations have begun that they have been difficult because the ukrainian side is constantly changing its physician and rejecting its own proposals. that despite them expressing an understanding to the things that should be agreed during the tours. it's difficult not to get the impression that they hand is being held by the americans. if you read the opinions of political scientists, both in russia and the west is the us, doesn't want these talks to reach a quick conclusion. show some tracking development in ukraine is dw correspondent. i mean as if he's in lovers and western ukraine. i'm in some 100000 people

struggling to survive and marry opal. what more are you hearing about the worsening conditions there? the people who are you pull are really bearing the brunt of this war right now. that's because russia has completely surrounded the city. they're bombing it from the sky. there is fighting in the streets and there's rockets coming from ships that are off the harbor. there are poles on the coast. now the people who are living there, it's very hard to know what they're going through, except by guessing from looking at satellite imagery of the destruction from hearing the few stories that managed to get out of there. we talked with a man a few days ago who just by chance was able to get out of the city and catch a ride out of that area to a safer area of ukraine. now the, the efforts are focused on not just trying to get humanitarian aid into that city, but to get those remaining people out about a quarter of the city's population still living there facing daily and bombardment

. the problem is because the russian troops us around in the city, it makes it nearly impossible to just go in and take people out of their 24 buses were sent on wednesday morning to pick people up, but only to a city just outside of mar, you pool and so the people who made it to the bus, those buses were just those, luckily enough to get out of the city 1st to where the pick up spot was. so it's a really serious situation for everybody has still in there. and unfortunately, very little information coming out at this point. and in terms of the military battles, army and ukraine is reportedly not just on the defensive, but gaining background. how successful have they been in recent days? well the ukrainians are celebrating a very small but significant symbolic victory. today the city council of a small town outside of kia, called boucher, this basically the suburbs, north west of kia,

where most of the fighting is happening. the city council said that ukrainian soldier surrounded that city and prepared to take it back from the russians who had occupied the area. now that is symbolically significant, because the russians who advanced on kia, got stuck just outside of the city. so if you craniums are able to take back areas outside of kia, that means they might be winning the larger battle for the capital city. and that is obviously a major gain for ukrainian. so small set forward, but for a lot of ukrainians are celebrating that as a way to show that they're not just on the defensive, they might even be gaining some last territory back. you've heard from the un chief who said that this war is on when one been a bowl rather, an experts have pointed out that the only way to stop this war is through negotiations. and we know negotiations are ongoing between russia and ukraine. we heard president lansky, call them confrontational law. rob referred to it as difficult. has there been some kind of movement at all with negotiations?

i think in order to understand why the negotiations continue like this and why you hear the lensky thing there. confrontation on the one hand, but also that we're making steps forward is because of what you're seeing on the ground. what i just discussed is little maybe surprising. victories small but surprising victory is that russia didn't expect even the craniums may not have expected when the invasion 1st took place. so i think the lensky right now is holding out to give anything away to russia until people really know on both sides . what the stakes are, what each party to this war has on the table there. so just a day ago, the lensky said, claimed that russia only has a few days worth of provisions left for its soldiers. now that could be informational wars to, to work against the morale of the russian soldiers. but russian, the military is really struggling with resources. 10 percent of its military

capacity might of already been lost. they've lost way more soldiers and they thought they would have. so i think when lensky mentions that it's happening step that we're making step by step progress, that means that things are happening on the ground that are changing the conditions of the negotiations. so i think what we're going to see is the lensky asking for a little bit more russia, knowing that it can't demand so much in order to bring an end to this conflict that is still claiming dozens of lives every day. if not hundreds. the w correspond acid reporting from ukraine. thank you. ah, you as president joe biden is heading to brussels to meet with nato leaders at an emergency summit on ukraine. the alliance is trying to balance further military assistance for ukraine, while avoiding a direct confrontation with moscow. nieto has promised more support to help ukraine protect itself from chemical warfare. but the alliance is also taking precautions

outside the country, deploying soldiers and weapons in eastern european member states. more reinforcements are on the way secretary general yen stolberg says, the alliance will send more troops to hungary, romania, bulgaria in slovakia and will double its number of battle group station. your russia soleberg has 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, that is a new sense of urgency because we cannot take a piece for granted. earlier we spoke to our nato correspondent in brussels, terry shoals. she told us more about what to expect from the summit. the most

important point for to morrow summit is to demonstrate that all 30 allies, europe, and the united states are completely on the same page when it comes to being willing to commit whatever it takes to defend alliance territory against any potential spill over from the war on ukraine, and that's a message they want to send both to the kremlin and also the eastern allies who are nervous about the potential effect that the war will have on them and, and that possibly, russian president vladimir putin will set his sights on them next. so all of these reinforcements are going to be very welcome in those capitals. they will also be joined at one point by ukrainian president for a lot of years, a lensky and he, of course, will be asking leila for things he's not going to get like like a no fly zone like these, these fighter jets that may or may not at one point be on their way to ukraine, but he is expected to hear from allies that they'll be sending more defensive equipment. and he'll get more moral support even though none of these allies are,

of course, willing to send forces to serve on the ground in ukraine. ah, ukrainian president lot, amir zalinski has addressed lawmakers in france. it's the latest in a series of speeches he's given before parliament of allied countries, ukrainian leader called for a minute of silence for ukraine and for victims of the war. he also told french lawmakers that they have many of the answers into this war and their hands are sending more weapons withdrawing french companies from russia and imposing stronger sanctions. dizzy blue don't. it isn't. okay. we need help even more help and support for freedom not to lose. it should be well armed tanks onto tanks, fighter jets, aerial defense. you can help us and we need it for freedom not to lose the will to support it with sanctions against the aggressor each week. the new sanctions package,

the sharp french companies should leave the russian market or no. oh shaw. lo while marcella and others, they should stop being the sponsors of russia's war machine. ah, the warren ukraine has forced millions of people of way mostly to neighboring countries. some jewish ukrainians are now flying to israel, which grant them the right to immigrate over $4000.00 ukrainians have arrived in israel since the start of the russian invasion. ah, they are safe at last. just a week ago. neatness. gov. his wife and sister arrived in israel from odessa, fleeing the war in ukraine, stuck a face of the giga to the cities of being bowman to ask her many have been destroyed. and there are many casualties among the civilian population. alina, that's what russian aggression looks like. i see skag associate as someplace hood.

for now they are living in the hotel in the small city of no haggling, along with many other refugees. every one here is waiting for the entry documents to be processed. miti is entitled to israeli citizenship because his jewish, that's the law, he feels welcome already had the letter, but yet we're getting lots of support here on the lease or were being fed and given clothes and everything that we need nazareth mux mccook mug. and that's exactly how it should be, according to the male ones in emigrant himself from all dover. and now encouraged refugees to come to his city of your network with your mother. one selling point he mentions cheaper rent than in telephone is brown with another bottle from with one year her you 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 the rock. mister keller, earlier should 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 and mostly my youngest from the migrant from back then all have high ranking job, so 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 integration, 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 to all kinds of them. and those who are 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. 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. the war and ukraine has displaced a quarter of the entire population. the united nation says 3000000 people have become refugees in mere weeks following the russian invasion. people having continued to flee conflict and persecution in various parts of the world. nearly 7000000 have left syria amid an ongoing war. some formerly and afghans have been forced from their country, and more than 2000000 people have fled south. so don, to asian american authors are trying to help children better understand why people flee their homes. they've written a nonfiction book featuring the stories of refugees from around the world to help

kids. and the rest of us humanize the people we call refugees. people who flood everything they know and love for a better life in foreign lands. joining me now is why chance she's the co author of escape. one day we had to run while thank you for taking the time to speak to d w. can you give us an idea of what or who rather inspired you and your sister to write this book? thank you so much for having me tonight. my identical twin sister ming and i co authored escape one day we had to run in honor of our nanny who literally swam from the southern tip of mainland china to british. hong kong in search of more opportunities were always fascinated by her journey. now that journey is a journey that so many have undertaken in various ways around the world over the course of decades and years. and some of the stories future in your book. talk about refugees who fled from east germany, to west germany from mexico and central america. to the u. s. from eritrea from

syria. talk to us a little bit about the story called cling. it's about 2 other sisters from a different country. that's right. our story about cling is about 2 amazing syrian sisters who fled syrian 2015 in help keep their overloaded boat afloat. these were swimmers used for, and sarah martini, who reportedly saved 18 lives while escaping syria. yesterday made the 1st ever refugee olympic team in rio and the summer games in tokyo. i believe one or both of them are living in germany. now. both sisters, incredible humanitarians. talk to us a little bit about you. you mentioned why you wrote the book in because of your nanny and the story that she shared with you. talk about the timing now. we know about the various wars going on around the world. what made you write this book now? we wanted to share in the simplest and most humane way possible, the stories of escape stories that are unfolding in the ukraine in sudan and where

people like our nanny were forced to leave their homes. but throughout history, people have been displaced by war, poverty, repression, violence, and we wanted to deep politicize migration and really point out illegal. immigration is meaningless term. you know, despite tremendous obstacles, refugees and migrants have had prosperous, productive lives beyond the trauma. our book includes the universal declaration of human rights including article 14, which says that everybody has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. that's on the very last page of the book after the various stories that you've compiled for this book. talk to us about why you decided to make this a children's book, why you think that it's important for children to understand the people that we call refugees. people who are forced to flee from their homes,

from their countries to foreign places for various reasons. my twin sister, me and i, our children's book authors and but really this book is for anybody from 7 to 70 or older, we hope that you'll order it from your local bookshop or via amazon or bookshop dot org. and we'd love for teachers and students and young people to use our title not only to learn about geography and history, but also to realize that refugees and migrants are brave, resilient, resourceful, and incredible human beings. why chan, co author of escape. one day we had to run. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. ah. america's 1st female secretary of state, madeline albright has died that on 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 in what was then czechoslovakia and emigrated to the us as a child in 1948. her family said she died after a battle with cancer. she was 84 years old. for more i'm joined by our washington correspondent, caroline ashmore, caroline, out from a refugee to the top. american diplomat. how will the us pay tribute to madeline albright was 1st let me say or he law that important to us politicians have already reacted to all rights a dead. for example, us ambassador linda thomas green field to the united nations. she honored old bride as a trade by laser and elementary, in remarks on the general assembly in the united nations. shortly after the news of her dad and also net prizes, spokesman of the state department. he said that the impact that she,

that all right has had on this building, meaning the se department is felt in every single day. and just about in every single cory door, he wants to call todd class with all bright and georgetown university school of foreign service. the funeral will probably take place at the washington cathedral and then the flag drive to casket will i and seat at the u. s. capital rotunda, like it is usually the case with highly recognized politicians, like it was the case with senator john mccain or called him power after there did really how will she be remembered in the united states? what will her legacy be there? well right was a woman who left the american dream. she came to the united states when she was 11 years old as a refugee escaping from that, you rub them 1st to the u. k. and then from a communist repression with her family to the united states. and then she became of

course, after many years, she became the 1st female, a u. s. secretary of state in this country, before albright, the inner circle of u. s. foreign policy making had been almost exclusively dominated by men. so her role on the foreign policy establishment also reflects the traditional roles of women in the fifties and sixties. and with her ambition and her strength. she was definitely an, an inspiration who encouraged women to pursue professional careers and on the policy level. albright will be remembered as an international is that she will be remembered for strengthening what she called an assertive multilateralism, meaning multi lateral responses against anti democratic and terrence. from miranda, for example, or haiti, or the balkans, and actually an issue that is now again highly relevant. corrina. sure. more in washington. thank you. that was the day and as ever the

conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter at dw news. i'm abby, called austin for all of us. here i did all the news in berlin. thanks for being with us. bye for now with ah ah, ah,

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