ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's fierce resistance to the russian invasion continues. ukraine's navy says it is destroyed a large russian landing ship of the port city of beth ganske, as president lensky calls for global protests against the will. also coming up, millions have fled the war in ukraine, but incredibly, some have already returned. we speak to a fashion designer in the viv who says coming home is an act of resistance. u. s. president joe biden and french president in 11. my call are among the world leaders

in brussels. as an emergency natal summit aims to stop the conflict from spreading . and north korea test fires a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that lands in japanese territorial waters. tokyo says it may be a new type of missile and calls the firing an unacceptable act of violence. ah, i'm so miss on the scanner. glad you could join us a month on from russia's invasion of ukraine. many peaceful lies have been shattered by incessant bombing, while homes and infrastructure have been destroyed. ukraine has retaliated with its navy, saying it is a sunk old russian landing ship. president vladimir zalinski 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 was 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 business. oh sure. oh, good charlotte. i woke up because polio was screaming and it was accompanied by the sound of glass crushing an alarm. fire or a catastrophe. ah, i just heard olivia shouting turned over and thrill blanket over them. so cornered leisure, cuz she's attacks 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. ukraine is fighting back. it's navy reported that it destroyed a large russian landing ship in the port city of better young ask. a boost for ukraine's forces. come in president viola demerits. zelinski is also working to

build up morale, re, and garner, international support life. come to your squares, your streets, make yourselves winnable, and short. see that people mentor freedom matters piece matters you great matters are us is trying to defeat the freedom of old people in europe of old 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 was began. now in the midst of all of this, you are the presidency. lensky who keeps calling on the road leaders, but also civilians, both in russia and ukraine and elsewhere because he address other than the public. the 3 languages in russia, ukraine, and in english, he calls every one 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, they're protesting in the past. and really, the question is, what politicians can politicians can do as this trio summit of nato e o u a 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. come here from the uh, from the central station to return it to ukraine because they say they can't just basically be in poland on or elsewhere with a 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 verb, and this is her story. ah, they escaped hora. their last trach boarding, one of these trains to poland ubuntu to 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. after bombings, dead bodies are lying around in the village for those who villages were completely destroyed. is it that a little she is list? says 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. number's leave all. it's impossible to leave my team behind award for them, but i need to give people jobs 0 in the future. yeah, that's why i'm here from, we're thought i'm way up about and my return is about supporting ukraine. and those who don't know whether to return on what to do, how to live up to the die 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 method 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 are at siren again. ah, wish them what a girls if you want to go down go over them. i had samples. i really i am on. yeah. jagow use i'm afraid because it's unpredictable, but that the cost of the light sun, nebraska's oil. thank

a lamb. we need to stay alive for those of it in the factory can be a target to li, explains as we had to the bunker. but just how responsible is it to ask others to return to ukraine out. lilia makes clear, gotten it by danny. and everyone is responsible for their own action. but in my, in law edition, on the 7th, and everyone decides for themselves what they do, the see what 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 in the consequence of their choice of leaving or returning plays on 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 in 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 at where you really do not know what the next hours 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 let me put in an 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 the fair thank you. leaders of the western military alliance. nato have been holding an emergency summit and brussels to discuss their response to the war in ukraine. the alliance is looking to double the number of battle groups in its eastern member states. one proposal also calls from making the deployments permanent, which would anger russia, which says it is threatened by nato expansion. but secretary general un stolen berg has repeated that nato will not send plains into ukraine,

saying the alliance needs to prevent the conflict from spreading. and we can go to our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena she standing by for us at nato headquarters. hi, alexander. we were expecting just a few minutes press conference with the secretary general stoughton sultan burg. but when to stand that that's been delayed by nearly an hour, can you tell us why and what that might tell us? well, i cannot give you a reason exactly why this is happening. i just spoke with the spokesperson of nato, and they told me that the reason is just simply because the meeting of the nato leaders off is still continuing. and we can imagine that there are many areas that, that they want to touch upon. they want to, to speak about rein force men's plan for the eastern flank off the alliance. they also want to speak about the potential use of chemical or biological

weapons by russia. many leaders that we spoke with before the meeting told us that they are very concerned and that they want the alliance to be prepared for whatever scenario. ahead of the thumb against oldenburg announced that nato would be doubling the number of battle groups on its eastern flank house, if significant as that move well, talking here, go to massive reinforcement, reinforcement of nato forces in that region. we have to remember that before the annexation of crimea in 24, need to didn't have any battle groups there. they decided to establish, establish the 1st 4 in 2016 and now they are adding 4 more. and that means there we are speaking about 40000 troops under direct nato command, and that is, of course, significant. and that is meant to reassure eastern european members of the alliance that nato is ready to defend them. if the war in ukraine could spill over into nato

territory over or if russia should decides to attack one of nato members. and we know that many eastern european nato members are very concerned. he heard from the lease who indian president, who told us that no one is safe. now, not even those members of nato who are far away from the border with russia. offend her. what about the threat of russia using chemical or even nuclear weapons? that something we heard young sultan burg warning about, he said there would be far reaching consequences for moscow if it were to use such weapons. how could nato react? well, we heard from some leaders today that the nato allies could react with more massive thing. sions no one here, and we ask that question a lot. wanted to talk about this being a red line for the alliance. but as i said, they're very concerned that russia frustrated about, you know,

not so moving forward as planned on the ground. and ukraine had, it could really use chemical or other weapons of mass destruction. and we know from the lens, keith address it to nato allies, that he has accused russia of using phosphorus bombs in some areas. those are not banned under chemical weapons convention, and they are governed by the convention of conventional weapons, but still human rights watch describes them as very cruel. and, and that was what are the lensky was accusing russia using an ukraine. are brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena at nato headquarters for us? we'll be coming back to you as we await that press conference a little bit later. thank you. russian president vladimir putin announced wednesday that future payments for his countries gas exports must be made in roubles. many see an effort to undermine western sanctions and prop up russia struggling currency

. as explained by put in the new rule would apply to countries sanctioning russia, but still receiving its gas exports. a list that includes the e, u and japan was the live video them. the number of western countries have taken illegitimate decisions on the so called freezing of russian are certainly models geographies. this collective west has actually drawn a line under the reliability of us currency. so when that you've already spoken about this, cross out the trust in these currency see to hear from old navy, couldn't renew them. but existing contracts are in dollars and euro's making the move dubious at best. john, can you go on? the announcement to pay in rouble is 1st and foremost a breach of contract. and we will now talk with european partners about how we respond to this unfolding. it's also unclear how payments would even take place. western banks don't trade heavily in rubles, russian banks could exchange the currencies, but that would undermine sanctions, giving russia much needed foreign currency. and in turn, strengthening the weaken,

rubel. i don't think there's practicable and we already here, but not only germany, but italy and austria have already declared that they will continue to deal with gas from, according to the existing contracts, which means that their payment will be made in a euro, or dollar, which also means the demand further complicates the use long and painful divorce from russian fossil fuels. now to some other developments in the war, a reporter working for an independent russian website has been killed in chief news outlet. the insider said, oak sanibel lena 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. the head of the international committee of the red cross peter maha,

has held talks with russian foreign minister survey lover of in moscow. the red cross president told russia it must abide by international laws on humanitarian conduct on war. mara also plans to discuss the issue of prisoners of war with defense officials provide a german parliament is debating a relief package announced by the government in response to spiraling energy costs triggered by the invasion. the measures include a 3 month reduction in fuel tax and a discount on public transport. prices for vehicle fuel reached record levels in germany on wednesday. you must. the world health organization says russia's war has left millions of ukrainians facing mental health problems. it is stressing the need for a psychological support. as the refugee crisis grows, with many struggling as their families are torn apart. the country is bordering ukraine have become a haven for millions of people fleeing the will. they arrive in poland and moldova desperate for safety. natalia, escape the shelling and michel naive,

but left her husband behind. oh we are. we fled when they started bombing. that's why we decided to leave our home 500 meters away from us. there was a rocket explosion. it was very scary. that's why we decided to leave the will you? many families have been separated by the fighting and i took a risk and fled with my daughter, but i relatives the 2 scared. my older daughter with her child was too scared. how could she manage? yep. he's only 4 years old, but it's also scary here. we don't know where to go now. those as, as soon as life with those of been the conflict has created the worst refugee crisis since the 2nd world war authorities are doing what they can to help you arrivals. most of the children here are without their fathers who are required to stay in ukraine to fight. the world health organization says arrivals are not only

suffering from a range of physical health problems, but also psychological distress. the need for psycho social support because people have been suffering but also children are displaced from their family. so this is tremendous mental health that is number one, number 2 or what vehicle number going to go? diseases for chronic diseases. people with high blood pressure. we've got to do follicular disease with diabetes. host treatment has been interrupted and the 3rd one or the clinical diseases. first and foremost, over 90 several you states on taking ukrainians in. but while these refugees have reached physical safety, many will need a lot of support to help heal the mental scars left by what they've experienced.

we're going to check in on some other news now. north korea has fired a long range missile in what japan is calling an unacceptable act of violence. japanese defense official say it may be a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile. tokyo says the projectile flew for over an hour and landed some 150 kilometers off of japan's west coast in the countries territorial waters. if confirmed it would be pyongyang 1st to intercontinental ballistic missile test. since 2017 we can speak to correspondent frank smith in sol for more on this story. hi frank. so north korea has launched this long range missile successfully of for the 1st time in 4 years. why? well right now. 3 we're, you know, the world's attention really is captured by what's going on with the war in ukraine . and a lot of people might think this has something to do with that. i'm not really sure

that's the case. well this is, you know, it's been for years since north re launched a long range intercontinental ballistic missile. it's done 12 missile test. so for this year, if we go back to, you know, when north korea previously launch such a missile back in 2017 or so in 2018, it had a summit. kim johnson and the leader of north korea had a summit with former us president donald trump. there kim agreed to spend essentially a moratorium on long range missile launches in nuclear tests. he's kept his word so far in return. he expected a change in what north recalls the hostile policy of the united states. specifically, north korea is talking about the sanctions of the united nations security sanctions that remain on north korea. otherwise, right now we just had an election here and so create a new conservative president. that vows to take

a hard line with north korea you and so fuel has come to power here. so this is also a message to south korea and to the united states that it wants to see some negotiations on sanctions relief. but frank, we've also seen south korea answer here with its own barrage of missiles and what is the risk of this really escalating? well, when we go back to the cold war and mutual assured destruction of the soviet union in the united states, it took a half an hour for an intercontinental ballistic missile to get from one of those countries to another, to a population center. here the risk is so much greater, we're talking about neighboring countries. and now we have the development of hypersonic missiles that take only 90 minutes to make it from pyongyang to solan. north korea's been testing those hypersonic missiles quite recently. so the chance of

a miscalculation is really increased when we're talking boat countries that are so close. and the development of these more swifter and more dangerous missiles correspond at frank smith speaking to us from so thank you very much. let's get a quick round up of some other headlines. emergency crews at the site of monday's plane crash in china say they have found more pieces of the aircraft and human remains. they're still searching for the 2nd black box, the flight data recorder, to try and figure out what caused the boeing $737.00 to suddenly nose dive from cruising altitude. 132 people, one board all are presumed dead to the united states. first female secretary of state, madeleine albright has died. albright served under president bill clinton from 997 to 2001. before that, she was washington's ambassador to the united nations of families that she was suffering from cancer. she was $84.00 and jamaica's prime minister has told britons

prince william that the caribbean island aims to become an independent nation. there were marks come during a week long tour of former british colonies by prince william and his wife kate protesters have been demanding britain formerly apologized for slavery and pay reparation. it has been 13 years since mathias maga applied for a job. as an astronaut, the german has been aboard the international space station since november and one by one his dreams of space are coming true. after 4 months at the international space station, german astronaut mathias mount a finally got his chance to experience this space walk. he left the i says together with his american colleague raja cherry and spent 6 and a half hours floating in outer space. mona had been preparing for this mission even before he left earth, doing simulations in the world's largest indoor pool in the us. the german astronaut has been at the i assess since last november. it's

a dream come true for him. 13 years ago he applied for a job as an astronaut. and now he could hardly wait to finally take part in this space. mission is very exciting and i'm really looking forward to it. it'll be a huge highlights of my space flight around once they install it. later on, during the space walk, the 2 astronauts repair to cooling system, replaced an important camera people, and installed a new electric and data cable for europe's 1st commercial research platform. bartolomeo, on this new platform, will allow companies and research bodies to conduct experiments outside the i assess more easily. it was developed by the european aerospace company, airbus the astronauts work, took them to various i assess modules including from the us, japan, and europe. people joke, so like bringing a passport let's yes, because i will be you wondering if the entire space station almost and other system

tracks before hama is currently working with 5 russian and 4 american astronauts. he is tasked with conducting more than $100.00 experiments on the i assess, including $36.00 commissioned by german research institutes. for example, he is working with this 3 d printer to make replacement parts. what was in his free time, he does photography, and i was enjoying the view from afar. the real it on my he's due to leave the i assess again in late april, but this time to head back to earth. let's get a reminder now of our top stories on the one month anniversary of russia's full scale invasion of ukraine president volota mir soleski has urged people around the world to protest and rally for peace. meanwhile, russia is continuing its bombardment of muddy you poll, where at least 100000 people were made trapped with little food or water. and the leaders of nato g 7 and european union countries are meeting in brussels for talks on how to deal with the war in ukraine. nato was looking to double its deployments

in eastern member state. that's it for this news update will be coming back to you live with that press conference from the emergency nato summit in brussels. stay with the w. ah ah, with

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