ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president calls for global protests against the wall. below them is the lensky asks people to show their support for ukraine on thursday. exactly one month after rush of state, it started its full scale invasion. also coming up, u. s. president joe biden arrived in europe for emergency talks with the nato allies, leaders from g 7 and e. u. countries are also meeting in brussels to find

a way forward for ukraine. as international sanctions calls russia's currency to plummet, vladimir putin says the west must pay in roubles if it, once russian gaff, germany calls it a breach of contract and with ukraine's tough artists are among the millions who have fled the country. we meet composer valentine sylvester off who at the age of 84 escaped the war and is now here in germany. ah, i am a new cubes mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us today. in his latest video address, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has urged people around the world to show their support for the people of ukraine. speaking in english,

the lensky called on people to rally for freedom and peace from today, which is the one month anniversary of russia's full scale invasion. come to your squares, your streets, make yourselves winnable and horde. see that people matter. freedom matters piece matters. your grain madness. rush is trying to defeat the freedom of all people in europe. of all the people in the world. it tries to show that only crude and cruel force matters across ukraine. peaceful lives have been shattered by incessant bombing. while homes and infrastructure have been destroyed, one of the most devastated cities is the besieged port of maria pal, where ukraine says 100000 civilians are tracked without food, water, or medication. ah, per month into russia's invasion of ukraine attacks on the residential areas,

schools and hospitals have come to define how the kremlin wages war the shod ruins of the besieged city of maria poll, testify to how attacks on civilians have intensified as russia's advance as stoled city officials say that at least 2300 residents have been killed. targeting civilians contravenes the laws governing warfare. the u. s. has now formerly accused russia of war crimes in ukraine. last week, secretary of lincoln expressed his view that some of russians reported attacks did in fact constitute war crimes. he emphasized that the department of state and other us departments will be documenting and assessing the facts and the law surrounding these reports. this review underpins the assessment that the secretary announced today that russian forces are indeed committing war crimes in ukraine. actually in a hospital in chief all yes, feeding her one month old daughter victoria. the baby survived russians shelling

because the mother used her body to shield her. the father recounts how the apartment block was targeted. so, oh, sure. oh yeah, i could sharla. i woke up because polio was screaming and it was accompanied by the sound of glass crushing an alarm fire. i saw a catastrophe. ha! i just heard only a shouting turned over and threw a blanket over them. so cool, unless your procedure despite russian brutality ukraine fights on the price of its defiance is the country laid to waste. and to bring us up to date and joined by our correspondent, funny fletcher. she's in live eve in western ukraine. funny, thanks for joining us. this morning, give us the latest. what are you hearing where you are in ukraine? as you have just heard in that report, the devastation, the shelling disclosures continue to especially he taught mario paul, the f. her so much about that town,

which is really bearing the brunt and all of this where you really get the most hairy and pictures from and not only murray. pull, obviously other parts in the dorm bus region as well. also towards the north places like how to keep had a so assuming all names that basically the road got to know during the past 4 weeks when this war began, but also explosions reported from key of to the situation here. and ukraine remains very, very dye of course. so many people, millions are displaced, at least one quarter of the ukrainian population has been displaced. many of them have left towards the are poorly sher romania border across the border. but at least 6000000 are displaced internally because of this war that began exactly one month ago to day. on february 24th. now, president lensky has asked people around the world to protest against the wall. busy what do you make of this call? you think will, people will answer this call to action. we have seen demonstrations worldwide

in many parts of europe and i'll swear even before prior to this announcement what i make it, what i find quite interesting in that call to take to the streets that he actually did it in 3 languages in rush, yearn in english and in ukrainian, and especially in washing, he made clear that the russians should also realize of this is not their woe. and they shouldn't. i'll basically buy into this russian propaganda. he says, but you also call them to politicians. there are several summits to take place to day g, southern ne, to summit you summit. president biden is also here in is also in europe. and so he called basically politicians to a not risk a division amongst them, but to actually also have a unified response to stop. this was so very emotional address. once again for president savanski, there was quite interesting here in ukraine, the people who actually decided to return to this country now against all odds and despite the war that's going on, we met one women here live if,

who wants to show resistance by returning here and help her local staff to secured their jobs. let's have a listen. they escaped horror. the last trach boarding, one of these trains to poland, luba and her 2 grand children took 4 days to get here from her keith. a city heavily bumped domus bleckley at home and bela clear in the hockey region. horrible things are happening. there are bombings, dead bodies are lying around in the village for those who villages were completely destroyed. is it that a little she is lost? as emily? her grandchild, 16 year old carroll doesn't know if he will ever return to ukraine. delicious. i will stay with my parents in poland. i will study and live there somehow. that says there was the images of people fleeing ukraine, most of them women and children in great. however,

a small but growing number is headed back to ukraine. most of them men are ready to fight, but his estimated one in 5 is a woman. and a woman like lilia, a designer, she fled from keith on the day, the war began to france. now she's back. now much leave all. it's impossible to leave my team behind award for them, but i need to give people jobs the race in the future. yeah, that's why i'm here from we're thought we have about and my return is about supporting ukraine and those who don't know whether to return on what to do, how to live with the dye, li, shaken by the brutality of this war, she says she wants to secure jobs for her team or had to flee from keith. she's able to give work again. in this wedding dress factory, she found a temporary workspace. message lousy. knock my message to all women who are abroad on who may think about returning. and what to do here is just all i want to tell

them. shawn, we have the strongest men in the world and you said, shall vicky with him. we will win and can overcome any things the lion long. despite the optimism, the war is present here to our interview interrupted by eric, silence is now so they're at siren again. i wish there was a girls if you want to go down, go over them. i had samples i really i am on yeah. yeah. we'll use, i'm afraid because it's unpredictable but the, the cost of life sung nebraska's oil talk a lamb. we need to stay alive for those of it. the factory can be a target to lily explains as we had to the bunker, but just how responsible is it to ask others to return to you quain? now, lilia makes clear, gotten it, boy, danny zan. everyone is responsible for their own action. listen. but in my mod ish,

in the 7th and everyone decides for themselves what they do, this is what they say, the choices they make. what ukraine means of annual cleaning. all right, this is my choice, ja, liberal on that, a stock. and the consequence of their choice of leaving or returning plays out here at this train station in levy. honey, the invasion started a month ago. you are in keith at the time. take us back to that day. what was it like? i remember basically waking up to what i 1st thought was someone slamming the hotel room door real, real hard to then realize that this was an explosion followed by several other explosions that early morning, shortly after 4 am. it was a situation where people were under shock, where journalists that were in the same hotel where we were staying,

where under short people, they are basically going down on the road to report while others were remaining a lot. i'll try to report from their balconies, not knowing just is it really the beginning of the war? is it just a few explosions and that's it. so there was confusion, but especially shock on the ground. i've seen people who were trying to flee as soon as they could already, by the way, the way before the door. you could have this, you could feel the stance atmosphere in the air and nobody, even when the war broke out, when it's full scale invasion began actually, so that is going to happen. and we spent the week leading up to this full scale invasion. and there was so much speculation, so much discussion going on if there is going to be an invasion and whether that you're going to be just in quotes in the dumbass region or elsewhere. so a day in history full weeks ago where we still do not know what the consequences, the full scale consequences are going to be as this war, wages on the russian war against ukraine,

tanika in the v. thanks so much here reporting. take a look at some of the other developments in the war. a reporter working for an independent russian website has been killed and keith news outlets. the inside us at oksana, belinda died when russian forces shelled a suburb where she had been filming damage from an attack. at least 5 journalists have now died since russian troops invaded ukraine. 4 weeks ago. i took kremlin aid has become the 1st member of putin's inner circle to quit his post over the russian invasion anatoly to bice with putin's envoy to international organizations that he's better known as the architects have brushes, post soviet economic reforms. poland has expelled 45 russian diplomats accusing them of being kremlin spies. the government spokesman said it was part of warsaw, dismantling of the russian special services network in poland. they've been given

most of they've given most of the group 5 days to leave the country. moscow is called the accusations absurd. now it's a big day for diplomacy in brussels today with the leaders of ne, so g 7 and european union countries all coming together for talks on how to deal with the war in the ukraine. u. s. president joe biden arrived in the belgian capital late on wednesday at of an emergency summit of nato leaders. he'll also be taking part in the g 7 and you consultations. and we can cross straight to our brussels correspondent, bent of e got bound. it is going to be a busy day in brussels today. tell us what we can expect overseas 3 summits and over one message. and the messages would be to mr. put in from the west that this basically gathered here in brussels to stop the war and agreed to

a ceasefire immediately. and the western countries also calling now president, poor to know chevy say ball awed, couldn't of, or criminal. that is quite a new development. and we will also hear mr salon ski, the president of ukraine will be a guest by a video link at all 3 summits. but it's very dark for that. his please for more robust military action or we'll get an answer today. now nato secretary general young sheldon berg actually spoke on wednesday ahead of the summit. let's take a quick listen to what he had to say. present to this invasion is brutal and the human suffering is horrifying and painful to witness. we are determined to do all we can to support ukraine, but we have a responsibility to ensure that a war does not escalate beyond ukraine and become a conflict between nato and russia. so clearly trying to keep

a balance there now in just one month of fi saying we've seen russia reduce ukrainian cities to rebel thousands, have been killed, nearly 4000000 of sled. and as you mentioned, talk of russia, committing war crimes fears putin, mice, even order a nuclear attack. is there really a sense among nato and e u members that they've done all they can, as we just heard, dalton berg saying they're i would say yes, later members agree that the military toolbox is more or less empty. they will not engage in a no fly zone. they will not send troops on the ground, then they will not send heavy armory. the only thing they will do is to provide more ammunition or anti tank. and andy aircraft misses, because nato insists, or the nato should not be involved in this conflict. and this is about the but everybody says here, although ne, to now is reinforcing itself to prevent

a spill over of this boy into native territory. and mr. stoughton burger, the detector general announced for new battle groups in eastern countries, but these are also symbolic moves because of these are only 4000 men and women altogether. so ned, his nato, was very reluctant to do more. and there are some countries that say we should do more, but this is a minority. so let's talk about unity then. the 1st days of the world war was marked by strong unity by even nato mendez, one month into the conflict. does that unity still hold as it did? yeah, there are some, there are some internally discussions about the how far sanctions should go should there be an embargo and russian energy in imports or not. but to the outside that you has decided not to go ahead with this embargo,

but now this has to be reassessed after president putin said he would only accept ruble nerve to pay for a guess. this could in fact mean that the, the gas input must stop because that you then i had to deal with the russian a central bank and by rubers there, which is impossible not under its own sanctions. so this will be on the table tonight at the european summit, but decisions. this is not clear, but they will prepare another round of sanctions serve against oligarchy and companies. but it's not only about russian oil, it's also about commodities and raw materials that are coming from russia. also, there europe is dependent. let's go back to was a native yen straightened. that was saying, he announced that he would double the number of battle groups on its eastern flank . now, does this suggest may be that while nature is insisting it won't intervene the

conflict, the alliance may ultimately have no other choice but to intervene? well, these better groups are basically men to reassure native members themselves that they would stick together in case, in the unlikely case the russia will invade, for example, in the baltics or in poland or other nato territory. and this is also the purpose of the travel of president biden here to present. he wants to say what he says. i written glad that the nato will adhere to its article 5, which says a, a tech on one is undertaken. all this, it should be reassurance, but nato has no appetite to get involved into this war. this is clear over and over again. so this will not happen. all right, c, w is bent, they get in brussels. thanks so much for that. now we just had our correspondent talking there, vladimir putin, it says the west will have to pay for russian gas with rubles from now on. rushes

currency has plummeted in value as a result of international sanctions. in a video conference ad by russian state broadcasters. hooton's said blacklisted countries would no longer be able to buy natural gas when you're, as are dollars. now that includes nations that have imposed sanctions on russia since it's invasion of ukraine, including the u. s. the u. k. japan and e. u. member states, a germany has called it a breach of contract, is how the russian president justified the news. give them a number of western countries of taken illegitimate decision on the so called freezing of russian ass only as a model securities. this collective west has actually drawn a line under the reliability of its current. cecil wouldn't that you've already spoken about this across the trust in these currency to hear from old navy kitchen moodle. more on this, i'm joined by chelsea delaney from d. w. business at chelsea tell us what does this attempt to force western countries

to pay for gas in roubles do for russia? well basically this, this forces particularly the you to pop up russia currency. the rubel has been had really hard by the sanctions. it was down by about 30 percent up until yesterday. now russia is going to be getting somewhere between 20800000000 euros worth of demand for its currency every day. that's how much gas that european countries have been buying over the course of this month on a daily basis. that is a huge influx of cash for russia that it desperately needs right now. it needs european companies buying the rubel so that it can use that money for whatever purposes it wants to fund the war to pop up its economy so that that's a major support for, for their economy. and german economy meant municipal, but how back very quickly responded to this move by foods. and let's take a listen to what he had, what he said, john, couldn't you go?

the announcement to pay in rubles, is 1st and foremost a breach of contract. and we will now talk without european partners about how we respond to this on for so he's calling a breach of contract. but can western countries including germany, of course, that are just so very dependent on russian gas really refuse this demand by pigeon . i think the response we've seen from european countries in particular we have to do is sort of acknowledge that this is mostly a european you problem at this point because the, you imports about 40 percent of its natural gas from russia for the u. s. u k. it's, it's really an insignificant amount. the u has been quite a gas, but from this demand we've heard from germany, as you mentioned, but also italy, thing, we're not going to do this because this is basically we getting the sanctions that we have on russia. it's supporting, you know, putin and has worn ukraine. i think it is quite difficult for a lot of companies to, to sort of face the prospect of losing russian gas over night. there is no option

for them to replace that amount of volume overnight. we've seen, you know, the european leaders really going around and trying to find other sources of, of natural gas this week over the past couple of weeks. even today, joe biden isn't and brussels and his is getting closer and closer to a deal to provide you with more natural gas. but all of these are sort of longer term solution. so they'll take several months if, if not years to really reduce the use dependence on russian gas for a lot of you come countries right now, it is going to be quite difficult these negotiation. so as we've heard from, from germany, this is a, basically a breach of their contracts. they're going to have to negotiate these contracts, which can be a difficult, you know, legal challenge. but this does definitely raise the prospect that we're going to see more more gas shortages here in the, in the short term, rising prices for consumers,

chelsea delaney from w business. thanks so much. ok. let's take a look at some of the other stories that were following for you at this hour. the united states, 1st female secretary of state, madeleine albright has died. albright served under president bill clinton from 1997 until 2001. before that, she was washington's ambassador to the united nations. a family said she was suffering from cancer. she was 84 years old. a storm in paraguay has killed at least 3 people and damaged numerous homes. schools and health centers. flash floods of hit, the capital essence yawn after several days of heavy rainfall, turning the streets of the city into rivers. jamaica's prime minister has told britons prince william that the caribbean island aims to become an independent nation. the remarks come during a week long tool of form of british colonies by prince william and his wife kate's protest as have been demanding britain formerly apologized for slavery,

and pay reparations. now among those who have fled their homes in ukraine, some of the country's top artists, dw, met with the 84 year old composer, valentine sylvester, of who at the age of $84.00 escape the war and is now here in germany. ringback balancing sylvester is one of ukraine's leading composers. earlier this month he fled his home in cuba with his daughter and granddaughter. now he's in berlin. oh so not so yes, it's becoming clear how little we appreciate times of peace and however, wonderful civilization is it so. so fragile sylvester of work is questioning introspective. mm. when ukraine was part of the soviet union, his music was banned for a time because it didn't conform to soviet ideals. but he kept going to became one

of ukraine's most distinctive musical voice. oh, must do latvian violinist get on kramer performed a piece by sir leicester of at a memorial concert for victims of the 941. bob in your massacre. when nazi troops murdered over 33000 jews outside keith. both kramer and sylvester of share a commitment to fighting against violence and to tell a tarion isn't. 2 and right now, against putin and his war on ukraine. good, tim burton is basically an international terrorist on par with. been loudon him with a 1000 times more powerful and dangerous. wish me a benefit concert for ukraine at the kaiser vill had memorial church in berlin. as soon as of astro arrived in the german capital, he began campaigning for ukrainians. at the same time, he's against calls for

a boycott on russian culture. a chest, yours has a tendency now to ostracize everything russian russian coach has given the world so much for music to painting. little thought as though well a mirror. despite a war that threatens the very existence of his home country, sylvester of stands by his personal convictions. oh, near federal horseshit emissions to schools the well the so loud driven by desire to become more and more monumental and good it but the engine. but this monumental ism is unbearable entirely as much right of the ones that isn't. we want to return to quiet and calm dish and what are his compositions are quiet and calm? reaction against a world driven by big egos and violence. oh,

shenise uptake for this hour. she's coming out next focus on europe with a look at exiled rations, protesting against putin from abroad. i'm an nicu this mckennan. thanks so much for joining us, and what can the double youth ah with

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