oh ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin smoke in the sky in the west of ukraine. local authorities in the city of liver report, 3 new major explosions. as comes as moscow signals, a shift in focus to the eastern don about region. also on show us president joe biden is in warsaw where he's held his 1st meeting with ukrainian officials since the war of a gap. following those talks, he said to call for the west to stand up against russia's invasion and with millions displays due to the war in ukraine. many people are arriving in foreign

countries and deeply traumatized to take you to poland, to take a look at what is being done to help those most indeed. ah. hello, i'm claire richardson, a warm welcome to the show. we begin with breaking news from the western ukrainian city of live, where there have been reports of 3 powerful explosions of is located around 70 kilometers from the polish border. and has been seen as something of a safe haven for those fleeing the russian invasion of the eastern, northern and southern parts of ukraine. after the blast, black smoke was seen rising above the city. a local city council official called on people to remain calm and to stay in their homes. let's get straight across to d. w correspondent, funny for char, who is reporting for us from levine. a funny tell us what have you seen and heard

to run the middle of editing a story for the other news for to morrow as i heard explosions. and some of us actually know will tell felt maybe this is just found there. as it was really windy all day started to rain, but it turned out it wasn't found that was several explosions. it's yet not confirmed. actually want to target. all that attack was the governor here of the state. says that apparently fool people have been wounded in to ass tries, but once again, the conflicting information here, how many strikes, how many explosions and not even talking about just really how many people were wounded in it. i never thought and believed that actually i would have to wait a flak jacket and a helmet in the v of the biggest city of austin ukraine because actually this is a part of ukraine that so far more, less was considered safe, even though just over a week ago, our namak 18th, the us even in airport, which is about 7 kilometers from here, was also hit out without a casualties. thankfully,

but it clearly tells you that these attacks disastrous indicate that even the west and part of ukraine is not safe. the question with the is, if that of the s drive, so more of a symbolic, i have a more of a symbolic meaning to scare people that actually damage a lot of things. we do not know that yet. and despite these explosions, it does appear that people, there are out in the streets. and what was the reaction to this from where you were? exactly. even though you probably see people are walking behind me. actually the air i serene that signal that something is going to happen or is likely to happen. it's not over yet. so people are actually meant to be inside in a bomb shelter in a bunker or just beat in their bathrooms in the, in their apartment. because that's deemed a most safe place in any apartment either. yes, you see also people walking around because it's obviously not the 1st time that they hear an air raid. sometimes you hear is several times a day. and in a way i want to cli or not, but people are actually getting used to this. it's been almost about,

it's the 2nd month actually of this would it started of every 24th and people kind of develop a routine when they hear an air raid. however, a, certainly a bull people are inside, but then that speculation, but it's to the bad weather actually to they are right. we do not know, but they're always very mixed. reaction spent is an error. i siren, i have a given the fact that this is for the 2nd time that miss ellison hath hit cruise missiles hits live if it's certain indicates that boys to come. in fact, on the twitter page of the may off leave. if people are a warrant to stay at home, because he expects more air strikes, to calm and to hit live if to day. and when you can, you give us a sense of how close i you are to where these explosions took place. and how close our to the center for that matter. a quite close. yes, quite close a given if really those missiles hit the apparently the t v tower, but that's not confirmed yet. if that was the case, it's really just a few kilometers from here. but as i say, there's enough speculation,

what was actually hit. so as long as we do not know that information, i can only say that it happened who was the eastern part of living the eastern outskirts of the city center. but we could hear the explosions ourself here in the city center and a smoke. a has been photographed actually by one of my colleagues rising over a building. but once again, i do not want to feed into any speculation as long as we do not have more information, as you are waiting to hear for more information. what really, the target was all that explosion that happened just about an hour ago here and live in the biggest city of western ukraine. a correspondent, funny for char, reporting for us in love, if thank you so much for that update. so ukraine has now seen a month of fighting that has left thousands dad, and force more than $10000000.00 people to flee their homes. now moscow has said it shifting its focus to ukraine's eastern don bass region. and while the kremlin claims, it has largely successfully completed the 1st phase of what it calls its military

operation, analysts say it could be a sign russian president vladimir putin is trying to save face after failing to subdue ukraine or to capture its capital, keith. but as moscow changes focused the human suffering from its invasion shows no sign of the beating signs of spring greeted cheve on such a day as ukraine shakes off his winter and enters a new phase of war. when we were, oh, that may be a change in strategy after russian defeats oh, but there is little rest bike for those on the front lines of battle. ah, many of visibly exhausted, but steadfast. emit determination to stay. hooking through poosey jame. as you can see, he sais on our children and grandchildren a dying forget rotten hidden,

i'm 62. i can't leave this place. so one i'll stay here. if need be, i will die here will do. but i will not give them a crane who ukrainian forces have recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital keep still lives continue to be destroyed. oh, i thought you, well, i think at this hospital in hockey, the wounded continue to arrive as ukrainian forces come under heavy fire was a low dorm in maria pulls. there are some of the damage inflicted by bush and bombs . is clear my do it. so really, unfortunately, nothing remains of maria pull and that bombing it with savage weapons. i this last

week there have been explosions like i've never heard before. m a room to give a problem. they hit residential areas with rockets. oh, hundreds, continue to flee. maria poll saying good bye to their decimated city and to those who must stay behind. early we spoke to our correspondent nick connelly, and we asked him, what people in ukraine and in russia are likely to make of moscow's announcement today. i think there are very few people here, ukraine who would take that announcement at face value. i think this is more about trying to make less the demands make a more manageable goal to themselves, the russian public as a success, given what is arguably fiasco in the rest of the country and russia's failure to make significant progress in recent weeks. going into this, you had messages must go about being able to take care of in

a matter of days rather than weeks. and that obviously hasn't happened. indeed, there is a lot of fighting beyond dumbass, not just round me here in kiff 25 clubs is down the road and is being the fighting continues. although it seems like the cranes to be able to push back russian forces quite significantly in someplace in the cave in the south, around mich alive and had a song some news coming today that even the ukrainians were able to return to had a song which had been the one major ukrainian city under full russian control so far. so pretty difficult to really judge those catholic zone, many journalists, independence on the ground, but a sense that this is a war that is very much going on. and this is by no means the beginning of the end as a correspondent in economy for us and keith. we also spoke to the doctor eyeglass nat club. she's a lecturer in international politics, a university college london school. it's lawana and east european studies. and we asked her how the war is being portrayed within russia and how russians are reacting to its so this stage, we haven't seen much of sort of pushback against put in. now we have to keep in

mind that we all sort of back into the law to sort of coming all the j. so we have to watch instead of lurk, i was going on because we don't have much information about what's going on inside the regime in the country. it seems most russians see the sanctions and the effects that are happening on the ground. they're blaming not on the west, on the west of wanting to destroy russia, so they're not associating that with pushing said in ukraine. they're very much association, not with the west hating russia. and now they have been reports of sort of the russian defense minister should go suffering from sort of heart problems that have been sort of talk about potential sort of christian regime going against some of the senior officials. we haven't seen that at this stage. so i think the support is still there, but there is a clear recognition even at the senior level, that the original goals of operation just haven't succeeded was bring you up to

speed. now, with some other developments in the war and ukraine, french president and manuel mccoy has proposed an international mission to evacuate people from mario poll, ukrainian city, devastated by russian attacks across that he was working on a humanitarian operation together with turkey and greece. and he would soon call russian president vladimir putin to work out the details. crowds unfurled a giant ukrainian flag and shouted go home at a rally in voltage after russian forces entered the city and sees a hospital in the town. horses responded by firing into the air and to point stun grenades to disperse the crowd. and more than $130.00 refugees from ukraine have arrived in germany from over hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have fled to the small former soviet republic. germany plans to airlift 2500 refugees out of mold over to help him deal with the new arrivals. on his 2nd

day in poland, us president joe biden is set to deliver a speech on the crisis in ukraine. the white house says the president will call on the free world to stand against vladimir putin. a president biden is a worse off or talk with his polish counterpart on j duda. the 2 are set to discuss the situation in ukraine with the west, military, humanitarian and economic response to the war on the agenda earlier bite, and also met with the ukrainian a foreign minister and defense minister in his birth face to face talk with talk ukrainian officials since the war began, learned and for more let's go to our correspondent barbara vale who is outside the royal castle in warsaw, where we expect us president joe biden to speak soon. barbara, what can we expect to hear from bite him today? at the white house has announced this essays and ground breaking speech is speech that will set the course for the future in full western countries and the nato. and

generally the lines am to deal with the war in ukraine. how do we position ourselves? we need to be unified, that is supposed to be one of the messages we need to be strong in defending democracy because the fight that is being fought in ukraine is not only their own. it's our, it's the fight of all western countries, the fight of democracies against autocratic country. so this is the vain at this speech will be dead in trying to sort of set out the course of for the next 2 weeks and months and maybe years of dealing with russia and did particularly dealing with vladimir putin at his feet, we're expecting will come off the heels of biden's meeting with the polish president earlier today. do we know what came out of that? of course, a joe biden again, sort of for told to polish president that yes,

article fife, off the nato treaty the that's the article where a member of states promised each other that they will defend each single member state against invasions or incursions from the outside that is valid that that, that article really sort of fit holds true and we will stick to it. joe biden said we will do this. so at poland of course being a borderline estate here. the, the outer edge of a continent, the outside of the nato countries. and it will, it isn't if scared in a way that the war might sort of go across the border at that they might have to fit, defend themselves against russian incursions, maybe bombs or maybe incursions in their space. so that is yet to be seen. but joe biden try to really reassure the polar side they want to 30000. your soldiers is stationed in poland permanently. that's their wish. at the moment there are about 10000,

or we don't know yet where the biden made any additional promises there. but of course, generally he's really trying to do everything to tell poland that yes, we are by your side and we recognize your situation and you being very brave and dealing with it. and dealing particularly was the stream of refugees that is reaching cone. and on a daily basis, and in addition to the 30000 soldiers, are there other concrete demands that poland has made? colon has presented a whole a 10 point plan. they wouldn't much tougher measures against, against to vladimir putin and against russia. they say, for instance, we need to have a humanitarian mission, international mission, under the protection of nato, the united nation. so whoever, in order to alleviate the situation in areas like commodity, a pool where civilians are caught in this horrible seizure situations. and did they, that's their main demand really,

but there is more they said sanctions need to be much tougher. they need to come immediately. we can't wait to cut of oil and gas till the end of the year. it needs to be done. and now trade was russia that is still flowing through bellows, for instance, is supposed to be cut off totally. so there's a whole range of measures. many of them a could be done, could be done relatively quickly, but the main one, the one demand for humanitarian mission into ukraine. that is something that the american side has so far and tried to sort of block off. but we heard, for instance, from the french president monro mcclung today, that he also reiterates that call and says, yes, we can't watch what's happening there. we have to figure out a way to help people to get them out. so he is also raising his voice for admission . so slowly that the alliance might be moving that way, but it doesn't look particularly quickly are available for us in warsaw. thank you so much for reporting. and as barbara mentioned,

western countries have imposed economic sanctions on russia over its war. but so far, the european union has been reluctant to stop in ports of russian fossil fuels, which make of a large share of europe. energy mix eaters haven't been scrambling to find replacements pipelines still bringing rushing gas into the e. u. around 40 percent of europe's gas consumption comes from russia, which is why e. u. leaders haven't been able to agree a ban on imports as a way of trying to force moscow to end the war in ukraine. but what they did do the summit in brussels, attended by president biden, is a great deal to buy more gas from the u. s. was via and i think for vending machines we need to work toward developing infrastructure, which will allow us a greater capacity to move gas where we needed to see them both of often. that means we have taken a conscious decision to better connect national networks, exidine, some lender get on to an under the plan is to increase imports from america by an

additional 15000000000 cubic meters this year with a name to increasing that to $50000000000.00 per year in the coming years, currently, you imports from america stand at 22000000000 cubic meters annually. the use annual dependence on russia is a 150000000000 cubic meters, though. so the increases from the us won't be enough to plug the gaff. i know, i know the eliminate russian gas will have cost for europe, but it's not only the right thing to do from a moral standpoint is going to put us on a much stronger strategic footing. what isn't clear from the statement? it's how much more expensive the gas coming from the u. s. will be for europe, or how shipping ports, which will ready nearly a capacity for importing gas will be expanded. liquified natural gas doesn't just flow through pipelines. like rushing gas does. there's the well, in america,

you take a bucket of a gas out liquefy it, put it on a ship, send it across the atlantic, it goes into an important terminal which will take that liquid gas turn it back into. gotcha gas. and then it goes into the domestic pipeline infrastructure, and it is exactly the same way that the russian would be. but there are all those following the agreement with the u. s. equally discontinued the summit and hit a major friction point over whether government should might be allowed to intervene in the market to cup energy prices, which are soaring for their citizens. and many of those who flee ukraine often arrived traumatized in neighboring countries. the war itself, the sudden need to leave everything behind and the journey out, as well as the uncertainty of what might come next. all of that can be overwhelming . won't it abuse? monica shariska sent us this report from the train station in she michel on the polish border with ukraine. there she met ever boulden,

a polish psychotherapist who was offering new arrivals. psychological 1st aid. and a thing on sunday here to go. you move home in will not, i can baby live owner good pick up a 25 year old woman arrived without luggage carrying just her baby. she has 3 children. the youngest is just 10 months old. she couldn't bring anything as she traveled 3 days without sleeping without eating. when she got here, she was so exhausted. she was barely able to sleep at the fancy when we approached her and asked her where she had come from, whether she knew where to go. all she could say was her house had been hit and her husband was probably dead monday at one's and on in one family homeless. he mentioned to her income demolish in any got all the people who come here often worry less about themselves and what's going to happen to them than about those who stayed behind ukraine. fabulous in stephanie can, doesn't art woman irish be?

so we have certain stabilization techniques, a kind of exercise, actually a game between mother and child, not. the mother moves the child a little in principle like a tapping technique. and she gives them verbal suggestions. you are safe, i am here with you. it's over. nothing will happen to you. these techniques, stabilize and cut the nervous system of the child as an aunt of the mother, glen bowman, this is average diabetes and we give them these exercises so they can stabilize themselves and we ordered them to look after themselves. many are traveling into the unknown, but we say look after yourself, look after your child stabilize yourself. and if you find yourself struggling, find head property i live near dimensionally dank. we have seen many thanks, intimacy, gratitute, how fust conduct can be made, how people can help each other, but also a lot of sadness when they see a child who has been on the road for 3 days, or where

a little shoe is missing because there is nothing there. i'm a mother myself and that does affect as deeply this situation as sad as it is, is also shown us how much humanity there is in this word. and meanwhile, more than half a 1000000 people have fled to moldova neighbor romania. the country is a member of both the european union and nato, and is the 2nd most frequent destination for ukrainian refugees after poland. many arrived with harrowing tales of their escape from the war. it's just a short ride to safety, but for many here it comes after a long and perilous journey. this family reunited at the docks. some came by ferry, others overland, leaving behind a home caught in some of the fiercest fighting so far. we could either log on michael alive. the situation is very bad. one got to sir. it is being shell from

every direction. oh no more. the people who are able to flee are fleeing the room. it is hard. oh boy, i want to go home. i want to go home very much. ukraine's short border with romania runs along the danube river fairies land at the town of is sacha with only a few 1000 inhabitants. it is become yet another transit point as refugees flow out of ukraine. many of the new arrivals are fleeing southern ukraine, where the russians have been attacking cities like mc alive, near the black sea coast, and moving towards the major port, city of odessa lake and wayne through the us. i could have never believed in such things before. we do that honestly, this is a shock. my. you know, we could have never believed that the sky would have been so dangerous. you're getting close to that, we'd be afraid of airplanes and other things for me. i didn't expect any of this yet. bear with me up and you are every day there is death. there's destruction.

figure them. so to be there is very scary, especially with small children. that's why we left a week in brooklyn. you more. we 1st went to odessa and he stayed there for one night. but there are air raid sirens every day. destruction shots fired the whole package with the red cross has set up tents to welcome the ukrainians. but these tense and this town are just another transit point for those arriving. their journey is far from over. for to turn our attention now to some of the other stories we are following for you at this hour. a saudi lead. a coalition has launched overnight, airstrikes on the yemen at capital seneca and the red sea city of who died at killing at least 7 people. the attack came a day after iranian back to the rebels, staged a daring attack on an oil depot in the saudi city of jetta. ahead of today's formula,

one race in the kingdom. ha. a volcano has roughed it near a scenic lake in the philippines. authorities raised the alert level in the region and urged residents to evacuate. there have been volcanic earthquakes and concerns that further eruptions may occur. experts are warning of possible fast moving gas and a soon army in the lake. and a taylor hawkins, the drummer of celebrated rock band, the who fighters has died while on tour with the band in columbia. the 50 year olds joined the group formed by ex nirvana, musician a dave girl in 1997 and a statement the band called his death a tragic and untimely loss. you're watching dw news before we go. let's get a recap of our main stories at this hour. 3 powerful explosions have been heard in the western ukrainian city of black smoke was also seen rising above the city.

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