[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russia signals, it may shift its war aims in ukraine, a senior russian military official says the 1st stage of its campaign is complete and that moscow would now focus on eastern ukraine. this comes as ukrainian forces recapture territory near keith. also coming out biden in poland. the u. s. president visits the nato ally and meet with american troops station near the border with ukraine. he's coming off a trip to brussels,

where he announced an energy deal with the european union. and the friday for future movement takes to the streets with protests across the globe. look at the link between the crime in crisis and the war and ukraine. ah, am abby cor boss and welcome to the program. as russia says it's completed its 1st phase of this war. the ukrainian military is pushing moscow's troops back and retaking territory around the capital. the united kingdom says ukraine has reclaimed several towns or keep still more civilian deaths. have been confirmed. local officials and mary o bull say 300 people died in the russian attack on a theater. last week, the russian worked for children, appeared outside the theatre in hopes of preventing an attack. the city has been

among the hardest hit so far. matter you fall in eastern ukraine has come to symbolize the devastation russian bombardment has wrought. most of the city has seen terrible destruction. people trapped your struggle to find food or water. ukrainian officials now believe some 300 people could have died in last week strike on a theater. their hundreds had been seeking shelter in the building when it was leveled by a russian bomb. here in nikolai, near the black sea, a rocket hit tatiana as building her neighbors were killed. her home is now wrecked. well, but she is staying put your afo to re key will stay in the co live and will be here until the end drifted on board. i will go back to work yesterday. my company is still operating for you. i would assume that a bottle in the do, i hope to carry on working more good,

just not do tv. but while russia keeps bombing from afar, its advance into ukraine's main cities has mostly stalled. ukrainian forces are pushing back on the front line, a needle pin just outside the capital. keep ukrainian forces have repelled the russians with a series of counter attacks. as this commander explains, he feel good with the russians. don't have the combat power. my men are hitting their supplies, and in cubicles armed citizens would be shooting from every window and door. china, men's m, ukraine's defences are holding loudly me to put in hopes of a lightening, quick war, dashed. but this battle comes at a high price, especially for human lives. it's hard to verify how many people have been killed in this war in a crematorium and keep dozens of earns lay unclaimed. the relatives of the dead

have fled and they had to leave their loved ones, remains behind. joining us now, w correspondent, knick connelly who's in the ukrainian capital, nick more. what more can you tell us about the situation in key right now? we have spent most today in doors just being an alerts, bombing bombing alerts bombing rate at large off the booming re looked. and this time actually, the bang seem to be a lot closer. louder they had been in previous weeks. that doesn't mean the russians are closer quite the opposite, but they are seemingly pumping this tactic of trying to shoot at even the center of kia from a fall from those positions where they still are about 25 kilometers away from the center. the city locked to that noise and do so ukrainian empty across systems, trying to shoot down missiles or other projectiles heading all way. but it certainly was very jarring. state was actually a beautiful day. and in recent days,

happiness as people were kind of getting used to war after a month, they were somehow adapting to it. and people who decided stay somehow finding a way to live with it and were coming out of the streets in great numbers. and we've seen before, and then suddenly these bangs, that felt very present, very close, suddenly bring that back back to people's minds. nick russia now says the 1st phase of this war is mostly complete. is there an indication that they're going to change tactics here? what do you think? well, this sounds a lot like brave talk for most to try and distract from russia's military pena's in this. if you remember at the beginning this campaign, they were pretty bombastic and their aims talk about the not fine ukraine, whatever that means about basically returning ukraine to rushes serve influences basically doing away with cranes sovereignty as a nation. that was essentially what they were saying. but in the future and again and again, basically talking about ukraine as a fake nation, a nation that being tripped up by western power trying to weaken russia. now

they're darling down on that demand dialing down on that aims to then be able to potentially explain to that population why less has been achieved. but i think people don't really believe it was from what they are come in. this is just tactical. this is a way to maybe try and distract maybe to prevent further west and sanctions to buy some time before those russian troops here. and you can be supplied with more supplies and to carry on this war. there isn't any sensitive from the inside. the russians are generally willing to cut their losses in any meaningful way. let's look at the military situation on the ground for a moment. western intelligence says, and they've been famous for a few days now that the russian offensive appears to have stalled, with little gains towards the capital, and the ukrainian forces are now retaking some areas around that capital. this war has not been going according to to ins, plans for some time. well, definitely, and i think there was also a summary hubris on the russian side. the belief that that ukraine would just collapse under pressure from russia. that the leadership that you democratic

president lensky, would just run and lead on defended. that's ukraine's all me wouldn't be able to fight or would fight as badly. and as in fact, back in 2014, think that was a failure to understand this country has changed a lot since then. and that ukraine's all me is different. and there are hundreds of thousands of people that weren't on bath and who have combat experience. that's something that basically no other country in europe has that kind of pool of people . and there's even reports of russia stock putting parade uniforms with then found in a, in a garage outside kid. because they were expecting to hold of victory parade. and keep within days and now talk that some of these people who were meant to be that parade military orchestra members were now having to fight when actually they thought they were coming to grange to celebrate the russians victory of the frank, w correspondent, and economy. thank you. the u. s. and the you have announced a plan to reduce european countries dependence on russian gas at

a joint news conference with you. commission chief ursula founder lion president joe biden said the us would work to secure another 15000000000 cubic meters of gas for europe this year. he also said the current crisis is an opportunity to seek out renewable energy sources sooner on his 1st trip to europe. since russia's invasion of ukraine, u. s. president joe biden is stepping up efforts to assist you allies announcing a task force to reduce europe's reliance on russian fossil fuels. between european union. there were going to work to ensure an additional 115-1515 1000000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas l n g. for europe this year. and as you're, as you worked to discontinue it by russian gas, well before 2030 and all will also work to ensure additional you market demand for 50000000000 cubic meters. rowan g from united states annually by 2030 with

almost half of the ears, natural gas coming from russia. the european commission president said it sends a clear message that europe won't help fuel russia's war. mister president. joe, this war will be a strategic failure for putting so we want as europeans to diversify away from russia, towards suppliers that we trust that our friends and that are reliable. on thursday western powers gathered in brussels for back to back meetings of nato, the e u. and g 7, dropping the agenda, confronting the unprecedented threat to europe, stability, and the unpredictable aggression of russia's war against ukraine. natal chief reaffirmed his support for ukraine and a response if russia deployed a nuclear or biological attack, our top military commander, general walters house, activated needles, chemical, biological,

or rather logical and nuclear. the fence elements on allah's order pouring additional chemical and biological and nuclear defenses to reinforce or existing on new backing rooms. for moscow they promised more punishment and isolation, including new sanctions against hundreds of individuals and entities. g 7 leaders announced that they'll restrict the russian central banks use of gold, major, wheat producers, canada, and the u. s. that they'd increase exports to help combat the growing food security crisis caused by russia invasion of ukraine nail. luckily, but ukraine's president appealed for more military support and called out the block for not taking action against russia fast enough. he has added with this, the smaller sanctity you've applied sanctions. and we're grateful to that building . these are powerful steps could be, but it was a little late. we civil war because of the was preventive club. russia would not

have gone to war. no one knows for sure. but at least time, there was a chairs with nearly 4000000 ukrainians having fled the war. biden announce plan to welcome 100000 refugees. before leaving for poland to assess the humanitarian situation on the border with ukraine. while the west offer the shore and says by piling more pressure on russia and pivoting away from its energy supply, the fighting ranges on into a 2nd month urgency to find peace and stability have never been more pressing. the w marina strauss is in brussels. european leaders have just wrapped up their summit and had been talking to the press, ran out what stood out to so far. they all said that europe has never been this united. but they also said that this is mainly, or mainly due to the war rush us war in ukraine. and that was also one of the

topics at the past conferences that, that took place at this night here in brussels. and to be honest, it was not all unity today. the jo, cancel president, char, michelle said, well, we also have difficulties when it comes to discussion of energy. so today, the 2nd day of the same, it was all about energy prices in europe because due to russia's war and ukraine, prices have been soaring. a soaring even more than before. and today they discussed how these soaring prices can be dealt with. and there were very different opinions on this issue. so for example, spain, greece and other mediterranean countries, ones market interventions, their one price caps. and then we have germany, for example, that certainly does not want that. so ad tensor, olaf charles said in his press conference that he thinks this is not a good solution,

but that your leaders agreed on voluntary joint gas procurement. they also agreed that your states have to become less dependent on russian gas and surprisingly, and that they need the gas more gas storage is for the winters to come. marina, how much will the energy deal with the united states help countries like germany will be enough to make up for the shortfall if berlin was to move away entirely from russian energy? the answer is very clear. no. destined to not so chill biden. we saw it in the report has a promised to deliver though that u. s. has promised to deliver a 15000000000 cubic meters of l. n. t, a liquid natural gas to the european union. that is only 110th of what, what the european union receives of russian gas. so it is something, but it is not

a lot. and then there are also technical issues because in order to receive more liquid natural gas from yes, also from other parts of the world. for example, katara that you and the is the single you countries need to build terminals and that will take some time. so countries like germany, for example, say we are dependent on russian gas and russian energy. that is the problem. but we cannot ben this russian gas at the moment because it's just not possible. it rit will hit our economy to heart. d, w, correspond marina straus reporting. thank you. just hours after agreeing on a new energy deal with the e. u. u. s. president joe biden traveled to poland. he's now in the capital war, saw after spending time near the border with ukraine. there he met with polish president on j duda. the southeastern city of gal roof is where the u. s. military serves alongside polish troops as part of nato. bide more whole more talk to do

that this weekend on the west military humanitarian and economic response to russia's war on ukraine. and speaking at a briefing with president, do that, and military officials biden was clear about what he thinks is the way for word. the single most important thing that we can do in the outset is keep the democracies united in our opposition and our effort to curtail devastation that is occurring at the hands of a man who quite frankly, is walker. i think with the legal definition of well it always barbara hazel joins us now from warsaw. barbara, an american president in europe at the time of this war. what kind of message is private ant bite in sending with this visit? the message is absolutely clear. he has particularly by traveling to the border

region was ukraine as sent the message to president putin. and that is the ne, to a lines is ready to defend every foot off their territory. and that was something that the nature leaders reiterated when they mentioned brussels on thursday, and that is the main message of president biden. hughes is around $10000.00 us soldiers are stationed in poland. and this town you are sure that he visited today has about just a 1700 of them. and he set down was them to have a slice of pizza as american presidents tend to do when they visit their troops. and he said, we're very grateful for your service, and it is very important to defend the boarders here and defend the nato alliance and to show the moscow that they can't advance any further. so that is the strategic aim really off this visit here. barbara,

how much of this trip is to smooth things over with poland? we know that warsaw wanted to send soviet era jets to ukraine through the americans . but washington said that this would not be possible. yeah, there is some smoothing over of course to do it on on several levels, particularly was president boot duda because he supported donald trump by the spread assessor a weeks after the election. and i have weeks after from had lost the election as so there is a really some diplomatic work to do. but at the moment everyone feels that the present time is important. it's important to stand together, particularly as poland has really shown a very, very strong and very active role. pushing noted nato, pushing the european union, pushing the g 7 ad to go forward and to more do more. and of course, this misunderstanding those diplomatic problems about the meek fighters that the u

. s. felt couldn't be delivered because it would be a bit too obvious, a bit too offensive looking to laughter. poland, on the other hand, wanting to be a more it bit more aggressive here am day of course can be resolved. and the, the border areas of poland particularly are of course the, the points where it huge amounts of european and american weapons are brought into ukraine. they are really the turning points where the material that is needed in this war for the defense of ukraine is being brought in. so it is absolutely for both sides. it tremendously important and to work together and to forget everything that was in the past. as we mentioned off the top, he's been meeting with american troops and poland. what else is on his agenda during this trip? barbara, how he will a to morrow meet was some refugees. he could do this because in a behind me we have on one side, the hotel where president trump bed biden is staying. and on the other side, we have a just

a few steps away. the main station of was so he would just have to cross the street . of course it's not a safe enough for him, so he'll be going to a main stadium here in more so and meet some refugees there. he will also talk again to president. do dad, they will have a sit down, talk and resolve some of their problems probably. and then he's going to hold what is announced as a major speech here in public, at a historical place. and more so the former royal castle, the old palace air, where in 1997, president clinton well come, poland into nato. so biden will send up there and he will talk about the importance of this fight in ukraine for democracy international for the world order. as we know it, and he will ever iterate that. this is a fight that we all have to fight together. it's announced to be as an important

and sort of the basic is foundations speech. we will love to hear more about the details to morrow, but he will try to leave his mark. you are in poland and again send a message to moscow and lead president putin know what he thinks about the war of aggression in ukraine. dw correspondent barbara visa reporting from warsaw. thank you barbara. the fridays for future climate movement has returned to the international stage with young activists taking part and hundreds of protests across the globe. a conflict and ukraine has given the demonstrations added urgency . ah, the war in ukraine was at the heart of the climate, strikes, 10000 people chic to the streets and berlin. to demonstrate for a rapid fossil fuel phase out for climate justice and above all for peace. for that they demanded an input ban on russian oil, gas, and coal machines. momentum, i'm ashamed at the moment that we don't touch the hard to end this war by stopping

the oil imports. and again, very early for lunch. stop by the clean hang. not you're supposed to, prices are of course connected in many ways of meaning that will cause us enormous damage to the climate to m. m. city so destroyed human life. so destroyed bomb. so dropped that causes considerable damage to the climate. that's what's incredibly important to think about. crisis together, all these crisis have to be considered and soul. together. the protests in berlin was the largest of around $300.00 events in germany. world wide demonstrations took place in more than 1000 places from taiwan to nigeria and else trailer there demonstrate has gathered in front of the prime minister's office to demand better climate protection in the phase of more frequent natural disasters. west main climate disaster off the climate disaster with bush fires and floods and not not just bush 5 mega bush by the mega floods that are just absolutely ravaging our

communities. and we know that it's fossil fuels that are exacerbating these floods in these climates is autism climate activists. in both else, trailyn berlin hoped that the war in ukraine will end soon. however, they are fight for climate. justice will probably continue for a very long time. the russian onslaught has sent millions of ukrainian searching for shelter, and then he left their homes in a hurry, taking only what they could carry for many of those arriving hungry in the western part of ukraine and levin. there's been a pleasant surprise for by provided by one of ukraine's top chefs d w. i mean, as if visited his kitchen. if you need a free meal in the eve, just ask for menu number to master chef it again. corporate tango is crafting a daily meal. for refugees, and just because it's free doesn't mean it's not going me going to be like that above the gravy. that's i'm fees and the audio wild

mushrooms global tank, it was certainly one of the most well known ships ukraine. he won the reality show master chef ukraine in 2015 and had a restaurant in here which he left behind. the very day russian baited as a man of fighting age corporate tank cannot leave the country. what have to enlist at the military called that he will do anything to help him brain. but as a soldier, he wouldn't be much help. my world is like being quarrelled. you know, i would allow b and everyone is like, my world. that's why i'm thinking that the if i take the gun, i will delay just her one of the worst soldiers in the world. but if i take knife and they go to the kitchen, i can be one of the best in the world. to day his 1st customers show up around 11 a. m. this couple arrived in the v from the central ukrainian city of zappa regia, a week ago. my name is melissa stone. we heard about eve can cup a tank

o for my smartphone from facebook crew. he's doing a good thing. we're very grateful to him. great. in such difficult times, he's made a menu for us, for the refugees. were very grateful. the free menu number 2 is paid for by profits from menu number one, which attracts those looking to support the cause and rub shoulders with a celebrity. chef is incurs lie of lust macrocosm, so that my wife heard about him on tv, but it's on my land line. jim could live, it's a de la button. yeah. but she told me about it, and we decided to come and see if there was really a free menu for refugee, etc. well, we wanted to block them support the restaurant is jalencia. lawyers only promote they have lost like us to can with g m for now the bistro is called others, but that name says global tank o could change. nothing right now and the div can be set in stone. a cranium

writer who flat her country last month to day one, the jerusalem. marathon valentine of rats, gal left ukraine with her 11 year old daughter, while her husband, who was also her coach, stayed behind. she told d w that fans back home had urged her to run for piece just a few weeks ago, valentine of the red scott was playing for her life. now the ukrainian marathon runner is trying to promote peace around the world, starting with the jerusalem marathon. before the race, she told d w about the support she still has back home. and i have a lot of from message from my grand kids, you know, from ukraine. osler's from a lot of, from a lot of people from, again, law in i was a research this and a very nice i stick here about it was unusually wet and

cold for the start of the jerusalem race. but after the journey she has been on, she just felt relieved to be running again. the race was a mixed event, so she cleverly used male runners as pace setters in a bid to be the 1st woman to cross the line. she achieved her goal and celebrated with the israeli and ukrainian flags. she hopes to soon be reunited with her husband, who is also her coach. what has remained in ukraine after the russian invasion? she bowed to do even better in the race next year. with her did you go the rather the rather than spend and i'm running next year when i have you guys my husband greg this a it is a metal that means so much after a terrible mom, her family,

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