for starts march 30 d w ah ah, this is d w. news alive that from berlin drama at the oscars act. so will smith, unexpectedly take to the stage at the academy awards in a late to strike comedian chris rock after a joke goes wrong? also coming up for letting me soleski signals, he's willing to consider mutual status for ukraine. but the russian invasion in its 2nd month ukraine's president says negotiators are carefully studying the issue, which is central to russia's security demands.

ah, i'm all i was like a warm welcome to the show. the 2022 oscars have just wrapped up in los angeles with best picture award going to coda, a death family drama, from streaming service apple tv plus. but the whole ceremony was overshadowed by this unexpected moment. take a look. ah, oh wow. wow. well, smith got on stage as you saw this slumping chris rock in the face after he made a joke about his wife jade up and get smith reacted and went on to win his 1st oscar best actor for his performance as richard williams in king richard. wow. do it was a let's go to allay now and talk to journalist k. j matthews. always

a pleasure to see you kj. i think we were all a bit speechless after about show. tell us what happened between chris rock and roll smith. you know, i've been saying this like the last hour i covered hollywood for nearly 2 decades and can you believe finally, it took this long for me to be shot? i'm still shocked. i really don't know who i'm still processing. what i saw at the oscars initially, i thought they're both great actors. maybe this is a bit. i know that the ratings have been pretty low for the oscars over the years. so they thought there was spice it up, but then i was hearing no, this is absolutely real and a lot of people inside at the inter now were telling me during the commercial break, there was a lot of people coming over to will smith to talk to him and that this incident was very real. so i'm, i'm still very shocked by it. i mean, the internet's of course exploded social media after that punch. what has the reaction been over all? oh, you know, people are talking about his acceptance speech. you know, of course,

chris rock made a joke at the expense of a j to pink. it's mit talking about her bald head. well, i don't know if a lot of people know, but get a peek at smith revealed years ago that she suffers from a hair loss condition caught ah alopecia. so that's the reason why she wears her head, her hair the way she wears it, which is his ball i. he made a joke saying that he thought she was going to be in the next g i jane, which he's not. so, you know, obviously will smith took offense to that. got up, walked on stage hunch chris rock was and then as he's on his way back to his seat, he said keep my wife's name out of your bleeping mouth twice or so after that everything kind of just shut down and we were really very, very shock moments later will smith would on to win. ah, the best actor trophy, offer his portrayal of the father of venus. and serena williams in the film king richard and during his acceptance speech, she cried

a lot. and he talked about the parallels between their father and him and how sometimes when you're a celebrity, you know, you have to listen to people and you, you take a lot of crazy behavior and abuse from people because i think they can talk to you that way. i would all you want to do is provide for your family and it is very tough. he also said that, you know, di and he was referring to dental washington came up to him like during the commercial break and basically a quote. he said, you know, be very careful what your hires moment. this is when the devil comes for you. so he was just really over over taken over shadow by emotion and, and obviously he polish eyes at the end. but interestingly enough, he did not apologize for hitting chris rock. he apologized to the oscar nominees and to the academy, but not chris rock. right. okay, this is definitely gonna be the moment that everyone is talking about after this awards ceremony. but let's talk about the other windows starting with base picnic going to coda. i filled with mostly def, oh, this is

a 1st. yes. and you know what? i wasn't? am i being a part? i actually thought the power of the dog was going to win. best picture. so what do i know? i, i lost on that one, but yes, great night for coda. you know, troy cancer, he won for best supporting actor. he's the 1st death actor to win an academy award, so wonderful to see him win for his role in kodak, and also quote, a one for our best adapted screenplay. so that's best picture best active adapted screenplay and also best supporting actor for choice. so a really good night for coda, and also this is the 1st time that a streaming service has one for best picture at the oscars. so apple tv is very, very, very happy tonight, or when that best picture trophy could not for apple. of course, any other moments that stood out for you for doing this, the ceremony. i, you know, i really love seeing a one to sites amy humor and regina hall on stage and doing their thing,

making people laugh, trying to keep a show going. i thought they did a pretty decent job. i didn't think it was bad. i think they had some funny moments . i'm not all of it was funny, but i think they get a pretty, pretty good job. and i really like seeing 3 women up there, hosting the oscars. i will say this though, they took out 8 categories. and they did those an hour before the oscars came on to kind of cut down time. but guess what? it didn't work. i looked in by my counting the oscars tonight, 3 hours and 40 minutes. so almost 4 hours. i don't think it matters. if you cut out a categories, it really doesn't. or i k j. matthews. great talking to you as always. thank you very much. thank you. turning to the war in ukraine now, where president volume is zalinski says he's open to negotiating a potential neutral status for his country. in an interview with several

independent russian news organizations to lensky said his team was carefully studying russia's demand for ukrainian neutrality. and that the issue would have to be put to a referendum. now, meanwhile, ukraine's military intelligence service has warned that moscow is trying to split the country into as the attempt to take the capital key of hast old. after more than a month of fighting key remains in ukrainian hands, though, increasingly scarred by war. but even those whose homes have been destroyed, believe that victory as possible with enough help were those issues of the war. everything depends on how our western friends help us. with the we will win if we get lots of help and we will win soon as it struggles to make advances on the ground. russia has ramped up its bombardments much of har. keith, just 50 kilometers from the russian border, already lies in ruins. it was ukraine's 2nd largest city. now half of its residents

have fled. thousands of those who remain have taken refuge in underground train stations, hiding from rushes heavy shelling in the besieged city of mary. u paul. the situation is even more dire. food and water are scarce and local, say they've had to bury their dead in makeshift graves. ukraine's president is carefully considering how to best and the suffering ballade. amir zalinski said his team was studying russia's demand for ukrainian neutrality. and that the issue would have to be put to a referendum guarantee, because up wasn't security guarantees and neutrality non nuclear status of our country. we are ready to go for it. that's the most important point. it was the main point for the russian federation. that's why they started this war. the funny is evelyn, not even on sunday. ukrainian authority said an agreement had been reached with russia on a humanitarian court or out of mary

u paul giving residence the chance to try and reach safety. those who do make it out may well join the ever growing number of refugees like these. crossing into romania via ferry talks between ukrainian and russian negotiators are sent to resume in turkey. on monday i'm joined by professor michael kim. it's in washington . he is a german marshal, fan fellow, and an expert on us russian relations. welcome to the w. now we've heard president lensky earlier talk about negotiating a potential neutral status for ukraine in exchange for security guarantees. would russia be willing to give that to ukraine? if possible, but of course only one part of the asian stick. your point is what russia will do with the territory is occupied will return that territory. ukraine would ask for a car will make demands that compromise. you can search around sovereignty that i think is the much difficult more difficult for us to negotiate. on that note,

as in nancy, also talk about a compromise on the don bass region. that's the part of the senior crane that's been held by probation separatist for years. now. could this be a way out of the war? do you think potentially is of course a huge compromise as well to make and that's why i think he feels he has to go to was on population was there and them to get the authority. but certainly, if you would be willing to make that concession, i think that could move russia very much closer to the, you know, in the last few days we have heard that russia might be changing its tactics is being bog down in this war. it's not advancing where we wanted to. ukraine's military intelligence is now saying that russia might be trying to split q crane into 2. what do you think russia next move is? i think that they seem to be giving out for the kind of the city of here they do see a little bit. on the other hand, they do have to re possibilities. so i think

a partition of some kind is very plausible as a russian military strategy. before they let you go, let's talk about president joe biden speech in war. so his cool to remove, letting me put in, i mean, that was probably walked back by the white house and he's also voted by himself this evening. but do you think this has potentially damaged any prospects of diplomacy with, with the kremlin? it certainly made it more difficult. i think it, it is something of a maximum of position. it makes the credit, perhaps less willing, less able to, to compromise. on the other hand, it's only one statement at a particular moment in time. so there's real will, to compromise on the part of the russians and the gradients. they're going to move forward. it won't matter all that much of the present worse on a given day. professor michael kim. mitch, thank you very much, michael kemp from the german marshall fund. thank you so much for having me.

after a month for many have been surprised that the strength of your friends defense about the human cost of the conflict remains high with the number of both military and civilian casualties. growing by the day and amid the destruction, people are having to bury their friends and family in the most difficult circumstances. d. w correspondence. i mean as if sentence, this story on a slain soldier from a small village close to the post border. house fallen silent. he was just 20 years old, hit by russian artillery on day 3 of the war. it took weeks for his family to learn of his death and bring him home. people from all round came to demetrius funeral. to honor him with a loaf russian, quizzical, he was a true cossack at other than the phelan and he smiled a lot at the that he was funny. artistic of sir. within the within the he always wanted to help everyone. he loved his all so much. he left him killed

where he wanted to keep this family together. he considered as yet you will remember him as an amazing person, an amazing river. he noise and indignant lyn latham the vast. you too are a military family. the metro sister said their father is considered by many a hero of the don bass conflict. it seemed natural that her brother would choose the same path. demetrius schoolhouse that his teacher received the news of his death. i found her with a mixture of pain and pride with a bachelor each other for the last time on the 12th of february, and he said, okay, good bye. we'll never see each other again. and i said to him, you can't say that. i ask if his death has scared any of the young men in the village who may 1 day have to face the front lines? absolutely, you will. absolutely not. i will give them more courage. trying to maybe even make

them very angry and not to take on such a responsibility. nobody is afraid, it's no longer 2014 and she has a completely different feeling in western ukraine. we always say military services, a responsibility, a duty is a duty offices of them. but i bought, i bought a lesson instilled at a young age. here, there's is not to reason why the cemetery where dmitri was buried, his grave is visible from a distance, and it seems as if it's the very center of the town, a tragedy, but piled high with flowers. before he let you go, here's a recap of our main stories ah drama at the oscars actor will smith unexpectedly takes to the stage at the academy awards in life to strike. comedian chris rock offered joke goes wrong, ukrainian president polity. miss lensky says his team of negotiators is carefully

studying rushes demand for ukrainian neutrality. he accused russian president vladimir putin of delaying pistols. lensky made the comments in an interview with several independent russian news organizations in watching deed of news from berlin for me and the entire team. amberlynn ice watching ticket of ah, send it to 6th grade. don't need to pick up with both over mentioned home. the force i'm told most recently made that we can about a valley that the mass of dragons in this world had called to home for 2 years. people bring your books on good. how long does it last.