i was born in berlin stuart's march 30th on the w. ah ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin. a grim warning from mario pulled. the city's mayor accuses moscow of trying to wipe the city of the face of the earth and says, the russian military is committing genocide or a mountain concerns the city could soon fall into russian hands. also coming up german, chancellor, will. charlotte says the you should begin membership talks with albania and north macedonia, to prevent russian interference in the balkans and an on stage slot, stomach,

the audience that the actor will smith hits, chris rock in the face of the comedian makes a joke about smith's wife. ah, i menu mckennan. thanks so much for joining us. the mayor of mario pole in southern ukraine says the sissy is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe and must be completely evacuated as soon as possible. marapoo has endured relentless bombardment from russian forces in recent weeks and mer vadim by jenko says that around 160000 civilians remain in the city without power. there is growing concern that the city could soon fall under russian control . meanwhile, ahead of ceasefire talks between russia and ukraine in turkey on tuesday,

ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has signaled a potential diplomatic opening, saying his team was carefully studying moscow's demand for ukrainian neutrality. guarantees of security guarantees, and he trotty non nuclear, a 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 actually. and so the latest where join now from the ukrainian capital heaves by d. w correspondent mathias bellinger mathias. tell us what might a possible compromise for a ceasefire looked like from ukrainian perspective. while a compromise will be not where the ukraine, where you crazy is the likely outcome. otherwise it wouldn't be a compromise. and i wouldn't think too much about the outcome of any of these talks right now. for now. i think this is decided on the battlefield and the any

compromise will be reached when one of the sides feels the need to back down. and this is not what we're seeing right now. we have seen some um readiness to talk by russia that was in the beginning saying that they were the basically just sitting the demands zaleski said they were basically setting an ultimatum. um and see some things that says the desk has brought in this neutrality issue. but i also here i wouldn't see too much of a, of a position to give in your ear said he would be ready to discuss this. but that also this had to be confirmed in a referendum. so he would not take the responsibility for this, usually unpopular a comp for comp compromise. that would be so usually unpopular. i don't see that these talks um are serving in at anything beyond keeping the channels open,

trying to feel the positions. i don't think they're going to was any result at the moment, so it does make sense to talk about outcomes yet. give us a sense of the situation on the ground and teeth where you are with this new round of negotiations about to start. yeah, and kia for the situation is unchanged. what we're hearing is that around the city in the north east and in the north west and in the east her, yesterday there was his writing. we could hear it here in the city that they're sharing was more intense than otherwise. and it's so quite calm. now we've heard that ukrainian forces have regained some territory there. otherwise, life is going on here. the cities has been surrounded for from about one hates a 180 degrees over half of the ring of the city is closed. since almost since the beginning of the war, so there are not so many changes and these negotiations,

of course, people are following after them. and what's more important for their life now is what's going on in the fighting zones and what's going on in the places where the refugees come from. this is what people look at. not so much of these negotiations that having correspondent mathias bellinger reporting frankie, thank you. the german chancellor will have charlotte says called fit you, accession talks for albania and north macedonia. to begin as soon as possible. charlotte's made the comments after a meeting with sweden's prime minister, magdalena anderson here in berlin. he said it was important that you sped up, talks with the 2 balkan nations to prevent them being pulled into russia's sphere of influence. shots and anderson also discussed the question of swedish neutrality as the country considers nato membership. anderson said it's you membership ment, sweden was no longer a neutral country. now his german chancellor will actually magdalena and myself

agree that we want to strengthen the make it more resilient as well. the turning point in history is something that means we must achieve real progress within the urban union. thus, we talked about the fact that the time has come to pass the albanian and macedonian accession. we'll talk soon, begin as soon as possible. otherwise these in about to as well can, states will be vulnerable russian inferencing. and we need to strengthen our passages in terms in a number of different ways until he spoke to the swedish prime minister magdalena anderson. after that press conference. we asked her about votes as comments about b, e, accession talks with albania, and north macedonia. and here's what she had to say. what i mean, countries should be able to join european union when they are ready for it. and i think it's important that all countries can have a process coming closer to a european and membership and, and from a swedish perspective,

we have been supporting countries, for instance, ukraine ad to help build their institutions to become. so they could come closer to becoming members of european union attacking ukraine was not only an attack winery crane, but also european security order, which means that every country can make their desist in themselves. so of course we don't, we have the right to do with the decision that we think is right for our country. but of course one the do do that. we have to eh, away all the different risks with the different options that we have. the situation in ronda baltic sea has change after russia, sir. invasion of ukraine. we've had the deteriorating a security situation round the baltic for a long time, but this was really a shift would we have done from a swedish perspective during the last years is to increase our defense spending. and we, we also follow germany to go up to 2 percent of g d p, but also increased our a bilateral, multilateral corporation. like being a part to nate. so with

a very close close corporation to woulda finland but also with the joint expeditionary force with, with other countries. and we will continue in this direction. but you also have a discussion with the other parties in parliament to analyze the situation and see what that means. for or how we will act in the future. you interior ministers have been talking brussels about how to deal with the millions of refugees fleeing the facing in ukraine. they discussed a range of issues including the distribution of refugees across member states, as well as financial support. ministers agreed on the creation of an e platform to register those seeking temporary protection. poland alone has taken in more than 2000000 people from neighboring ukraine. since the start of the russian invasion and dw correspondent christine manuel is covering today's meeting in brussels, christine, has a decision now been reached in brussels on how it refugees from ukraine should be

distributed in the you in the future. and yet the distribution of ukrainian refugees across the united states was one of the main talking points in today's meeting. and we know that they've not agreed on anything in the sort of a quota system. so to say am, and it is still up to the member states to, to step up and voluntarily take up more migrants. what the commission has said, it will do is it would set up an index that it says i will measure a member states's or an existing burden. for example, poland. having taken in the majority of wreckage, i read refugees already as well as capacity and on the basis of that perhaps encourage a member states to do more at to alleviate the burden on others. they've also talked about this, distributing the refugees across each member states and, and incentivizing refugees at to leave poland as you know, poland is of course closer to home for a lot of that ukranian women and children that have fled from a language perspective. it's much easier to assimilate in poland. they know people

there the, the commissions message was to member states to do more, to incentivize refugees, ukraine, refugees, to come over to their territories. they've also discussed involving 3rd countries as the united kingdom be united states and canada. at to help alleviate the burden on the european union as well. i, we have to point out here that, that the flow of arrivals has reduced dramatically at, at the peak of the migration flows. about 250000 migrants. we're coming into the european union every day that numbers down to about 40000. but from the commission perspective, because of the unpredictable nature of what's going on in ukraine. these plans are now in place as so that if things deteriorate, the blocks ready to do even more. and even just briefly, can you tell us any more about sanctions further sanctions was that discussed today? that's right. am when it pertains to sanctions. this has to do with the bill of russian and russian nationals who are now sanctioned by the european union who are

blacklisted because of the war and ukraine and the commissions member message to member states. there is that those of individuals who are on that list as should have their citizenship and, and, and our perhaps permanent residents also revoked and to be alive. because sanctions . all right, did have your correspondent christine one was reporting from but brussels. thanks so much time now to have a look at some of the other stories that were following for you at this hour. russia has added this broadcast, di traveler to a list of media organizations. it labels as foreign agents. that designation means we are required to label anything. we publish with a disclaimer. the term carries negative soviet era connotations and russia suggestive of spying. and the european union wants member states to end the so called golden passport scheme, which is allowed wealthy people to buy their way to you citizenship. the war. and ukraine has shown allies on previous beneficiaries with close links to the kremlin,

including several prominent oligarchs. at the feel good family film, coda was named best picture at the oscar ceremony in a surprise when making it the 1st streamed film to pick up the prize. but the most memorable moments of the ceremony was an outburst of violence from one of hollywood biggest stars. axa will smith got up on stage and slaps comedian chris rock in the face. it was the year's biggest night in hollywood with a star studded line up the academy awards honoring the film industry's best movies at the oscars ceremony. but the night was overshadowed by an incident on stage. comedian chris rock made a joke about, act at will smith's wife j to pincus. smith, who suffer strong alopecia. it didn't go down to well, taylor logger, g r j into can't wait to see you. ah

oh oh, wow. wow, do it was a g i g angel he mark boy. oh yeah. a jor dropping moment for viewers around the world. smith and then went on to win best actor for his performance in king richard. a movie about the father of tennis . does venus and serena williams and he apologized in his acceptance speech, your part imitates life. i looked like the crazy father was like, busy alert, crazy father just about you or your own but labile make you do crazy things. the lapd says it won't take things further. as chris rock declined to file a police report, oscars organizes tweeted that it does not condone violence. the academy also tried

to show off its diversity compared to previous years. appletv coda took the spotlight starring death actors in leading roles. it won best picture mocking the 1st time a streaming service took home the film award to do with the power of the dog, which lead 12 nominations picked up on jane canyons directing when jessica chastine landed best actress for her role in the eyes of tammy faye logo and best international film was awarded to japan's drive my car while the oscars was hoping to have a boosted ratings to see as physical confrontation between 2 superstars certainly dominated the headlines. in watching d w news coming up next in d. w. news asia,

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