ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, ukraine's president calls for global protests against the war. for letter, mister lansky asks people to show their support for ukraine today. exactly. one month after russia started its full scale invasion. also coming up, millions have fled. the war in ukraine, but incredibly, some have already returned. we speak to a fashion designer and live who says coming home is an act of resistance. and us president joe biden, and french president in my one my call are among the world leaders in brussels as

an emergency. nato summit aims to stop the conflict from spreading. ah, i'm so me so much scanned. are glad you could join us a month on from russia's invasion of ukraine. peaceful lives had been shattered by incessant bombing, while homes and infrastructure had been destroyed. president volota musa lensky has appealed to the world to take to the streets in a universal show of defiance. as the situation in ukraine becomes ever bleaker. in a hospital in keys, ali eyes feeding her daughter victoria, who is just one month old. the baby survived russian shelling because her mother used her body as a shield. her father recounts how their apartment block was targeted as well. so. oh, sure. oh, could sharla. i woke up because polio was screaming,

and it was accompanied by the sound of glass crashing like an alarm fire. i saw a catastrophe. ah, i just heard all your shouting turned over and threw a blanket over them because so corner lasher could use a tax on residential areas. schools and hospitals have become a daily occurrence in the war with russian troops mostly stalled outside ukraine's main cities. they are resorting to bombing from afar new aust is ca speaking in english and appealing to the world ukrainian president the land for he called for a universal show of support life. com to your squares. your streets make yourselves winnable and short see that people mentor free. the matters piece matters you. great matters are us is trying to defeat the freedom of old people in europe. of all the people in the world. it tries to show that only crude and cruel force

metals, despite the destruction, russia has wrought. ukraine says it will not give up fighting, but the price of its defiance is a country laid to waste. let's get an update directly from the ground. now we have our corresponding funny for char in western ukraine in the city of love. if i funny a give us the latest on the war, what you're hearing and what you're seeing, where you are, mary paul, the town that's been really in the focus now for the past couple of weeks has been reduced to rubble. and actually the situation of the civilians there clearly represents or symbolizes the agony of hundreds of thousands of others in other parts of ukraine in the danverse region, but also in the capital and keith in so mean hard keith and so many towns that the rural, basically got to know during the past 4 weeks is this will was began. now in the midst of all of this, you are president zalinski who keeps calling on the road leaders,

but also civilians, both in russia and ukraine and elsewhere because he address other than the public. then 3 languages in russia, ukraine, and in english, he calls in every want to take to the streets today to bring an end to this war. now, this did not bring an end to the war so far because people there protesting in the past. and really, the question is, what politicians can politicians can do as this trio summit of nato e o u r g 7 is on the way at the same time you have people ukrainians who are actually returning here to here to the live, to us in ukraine. coming here from the uh, from the central station to return to ukraine because they say they can't just basically be in portland or elsewhere where they flat to as the war began. i just look on television, what's happening, but they want to help by simply returning and showing results, resistance by that. one of these are people or women are design. we met yesterday in the video, and this is her story. they escaped hora. the last trach

boarding one of these trains to poland you barn 2 or 2 grandchildren 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 listed 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 on poland. i will study and live there somehow that says at 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. 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 am here than we thought i'm way up about 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 louse, even on my message to 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 arid, silence air now. so there it siren again as, ah, we shot them was a girl's, if you want to go down, go over them. i had cerebral diarrhea. i am on yeah. w s, i'm afraid because it's unpredictable, but that the cost supplied sun, nebraska's, oil dock, a lamb. we need to stay alive for those of us at the factory can be a target to lee the explains as we had to the bunker. but just how responsible is it to ask others to return to you quain out lilia makes clear. gordon, with boy daily, and everyone is responsible for their own action. but in my law, additional, the 7 and everyone decides for themselves what they do with me,

but they say the choices they make. what ukraine means to them, nuclear, you know, all right, this is my choice, yahoo, berlin, that a stuck and the consequence of their choice of leaving or returning plays out here at this train station in levy. funny, remarkable stories of resilience there a month into this war when the invasion began. 4 weeks ago, you were in kiev. can you tell us what that was like? i will never forget the sound of what i woke up to assume didn't relate to explosion yet, but i actually thought somebody's just landing the hotel room door real hard just to realize that this was an explosion followed by several others. and what do you do is such a situation, of course you're a human being and you would just like to go. but so many journalists and us as well . we stayed and we reported something where you really do not know what the next

hour i going to look like. i remember speaking with rebecca, it is one of our anchors where the air raid siren went off. it was a day of full of uncertainties, not knowing what else is to come that day. because you have to imagine just a week before that when we arrived. there was so much speculation worldwide that it is going to be an invasion at all. and if there is one, but that's just going to be limited to the dumbass region, but nobody really that i've speak spoken to at that time. could imagine that there's going to be a war, there's going to be a war breaking out that also impacts the capital city, keith. now 4 weeks into the war, the 2nd month starting today. people here are still wondering, just so how far vladimir putin and russian miniature is going to go to fulfill what their plan is, which is to diminish, to rise and the nazi fi, this country. we have to see really where this history is going to lead and what the implications i going to be of all of this for the entire world debbie's funding

for char reporting from there. thank you. so what's a big day of diplomacy in brussels today with the leaders of nato d, the g 7 and the european union countries all coming together for talks on how to deal with the warn ukraine. leaders of nato countries are meeting at this hour for an emergency summit. the alliance is looking to double its true numbers and eastern member states. one proposal also calls for making the deployments permanent, which would anger russia, which says it is threatened by nato expansion. speaking at the start of the talks, nato secretary general, he had stolen bergs that the alliance needed to prevent the conflict from spreading . the fact these that we faced, the most serious security crisis in the generation, and therefore natal needs to respond. we need to do more on there for you to invest more on that. there's a new sense of urgency, but we have also made it clear data and we will not send in a nato troops on the ground or nato planes in the air. we do that,

be cool. so we have a responsibility to ensure that this conflict do not escalate the beyond ukraine, doctoral course, even more suffering even more. that's even more destruction. our brussels bureau chief, alexander phenomena standing by for us at nato headquarters. hi, alexandra. we heard jen suttonberg say yesterday that nato would double the number of battle groups on its eastern flank. how significant is that most? well, this is a massive brain force meant of nato forces. there. we just have to put it into context. just remembered that before the annexation of crimea in 2014 need to didn't have any battle groups in the region than they then after 2016 decided to establish 4 battle groups. and now they're adding 4 more info, vakio in romania,

in bulgaria, and in hungary, at that means $40000.00 troops under direct nato command plus 100000 additional you asked, troops deployed there and this is a massive reinforcement and i think it has to goals 1st of course, 1st of all, to reassure eastern european members that nato is going to defend them if the war is going to spill over into nato territory, or if russia should decide to attack one of them. and we heard from nato military officials, that there is a risk, and that is why the alliance wants to be proper of that. and it's also important for the alliance to send a strong signal to russia and don't miscalculate, don't risk anything. we are ready to dissent our territory and did alexander, we've seen a lot of unity between you, member states and nato as well

a month into this conflict. does that unity still hold? yes, it holds, however, we have to say that in the last week or so, we started to see some cracks there. just remember the discussion about whether some members of nato could provide soviet made. so if i to jets a to ukraine, or when we think about the proposal put forward by poland to isabela, establish thought of peacekeeping force in ukraine. other need till members were very quick to say, no, that's not gonna happen. so i think that the purpose of this meeting, today's also to show that old allies are on one page and that there are united when it comes to deal with russia. and d. w. 's, alexander phenomena nato headquarters for his following this big day of diplomacy in brussels. thank you, alex andrew. ok,

we're gonna move on to some other news now. north korea has fired a long range missile in response. neighboring south korea says it has fired a barrage of its own missiles. japan says north korea's projectile may be a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile in tokyo says it flew for over an hour and landed some a 150 kilometers off of japan's west coast. in the countries territorial waters. if that is confirmed, it would be pyongyang 1st intercontinental ballistic missile test since 2017. so after 4 months at the international space station, german astronaut mathias melba has finally had his 1st chance to experience the space while it mauer exited. the i as as together with his american colleague raja, chatty, and spent 6 and a half hours floating in space during the space walk, the jew astronauts repair to cooling system, replaced an important camera and they installed a new electric and data cable. hang on to install the cable to

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