ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight trying to wipe a ukrainian city off the face of the earth. that is how the mayor of mario pole describes what russian forces are doing to his city. he's also accusing the russian military of genesis. also coming up tonight, the derby transfer olaf shulte says yes, the eve membership talks with albania and north macedonia. to prevent russian interference in the balkans and crisis. talk to the european union over how to

accommodate the nearly $4000000.00 ukrainians who had been forced to flee the country, plus and on stage slap stuns the audience at the oscars actor will smith hits chris rock in the face on live television? will tell you why. oh, lou. i bring. gov is good to have you with us on this monday to night, the mayor of mario paul in southern ukraine says that the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, and that the city must be completely evacuated as soon as possible. or you poll has endured relentless bombardment from russian forces in recent weeks. may are valuable. jenko says that nearly 5000 people have died in some 160000 civilians remain trapped in the city without power. there is growing concerned that the city

could soon fall under russian control. meanwhile, ukraine's defense ministry says there is no evidence that russia is planning to abandon its effort to capture the ukrainian capital. keith russian forces are also stepping up their attacks in eastern decree. ah, for just a few brief moments, musicians provided those inside this hot heave metro station and bomb shelter with a brief respite from the war. if the music is a ray of light that helps our soul survive, it brightens our lives stops us panicking and keeps away the darkness, gloom and bitterness of this war. i think lately that the voice with him give you, we'll need support like never before. show him if we classical musicians can

provide support to the people by playing our instruments. by doing what we can do best, we will do it anywhere faster than what. what would that would fit with wiki but across ukraine and with each day that passes the death toll increases. this watch belong to one of the wars victims of his son, victor witnessed his death. i yeah, i the russian soldiers just started firing gal. looked up, my dad looked into the car will the hood, he was already choking on his own blood. well, i saw a ford direct hits to the windshield. shanella was to call but there is a faint glimmer of hope. the piece will return here and keith, the president, offered to moscow a compromise on the don boss. this is peace talks between russia and ukraine. are set to resume on tuesday in turkey. yup. when you must awesome. oh, yeah, boy, i understand. it's impossible to make russia give up the territory completely line

yet that would lead to world war 3. and i understand completely, i am aware of that. and that's why i'm saying this is a compromise. but let's try to resolve the question of the don boss. the complex question of the don thus slowly la, la, but in moscow, there appears to be no shift in russia's demands my business. dillard books. we have to make sure that ukraine stops assimilating itself with the westward, with nato, when the military sense were you, with threats to the russian federation, physical military threats to the russian federation, where you, little girls notice you, if you get on to death and destruction in ukraine here and live eve, the funeral of a soldier. another day that a family has been touched by the war and in the green city of levine is our correspondent amin s. if force tonight is good to see you ami,

and so we are in week 5 of this war. what is the situation there in western ukraine? and i'm actually speaking to you from the basement of the building that i'm saying, and which serves as a bombshell through the been air raid sirens going off the 2nd time today. so the 2nd time i had to go down to the bomb shelter, there was a strike for more than 48 hours ago. and this oil reserves from russian missiles lunch all way from crimea. so it has people started here, but there haven't been any mr. tech in for over 48 hours, but there were reports of attack, just 150 kilometers. you probably think your kids playing around right now. people are trying to make the best of it because this happened daily. it's not more than once a day. that's when the sirens go to go there. but look,

a lot of this is a symbolic, striking the rest of the military because the real fighting is happening. the real suffering is happening in eastern ukraine. the dumbass to you are you pull and even a lot more in kiev than it is here in western ukraine brand. yeah, you know, i'm hearing those children knowing that they're sharing the same space with you in a bomb shelter and that we're talking about war and peace. you know, it just speaks to the brutal reality of this conflict. and what about a possible ceasefire? we know that there is at least one new idea that is being floated from the ukrainian perspective. what can you tell us about that? i signal i can hear you press any or you know ok. ok. past the fire has become

more weird because of the comment from the cranium. presidents basically what he said is that he's willing to talk is willing to give you cranium neutrality. so he has hinted before that this would be on the table, but it sounds and his remark that this further he's gone and said that a neutrality would be an option. of course he said he would have to put it up to a referendum in the country and just speaking to the people here on the ground, i don't know how many people would vote for anything that would give russia any kind of advantage here or give them any ground now the don bass is a different question. basically what you said was that instead of demanding that all russian to leave the country, he would says basically february 23rd before the russian, russian invasion of the country. and then decide the question of the dom that after that they went back to that being the only disputed territory. but then russian

troops to be out of the rest of the country. like, for example, me, let me just ask you before you run out of time, the ukrainian government, we understand investigating possible torture of russian soldiers by its troops. what are the allegations? this is an interesting case, brandon saw centurylink. interesting to see how the ukrainian government reacted. there were video circulating yesterday, mostly pro russian accounts on social media, showing gruesome video watch this myself. i don't recommend watching it. it is. it is truly torture. if it is real. showing videos of soldiers shooting the crane photo shooting russians in the leg as soon as they got to the truck, breaking their bones, beating them into almost so that their unrecognizable. now the government for it said that this was fake videos that this was russian disinformation, but then they said that if it were true they're going to investigate. ready they will punish anybody who is involved if it turns out to be true because they said,

recreating army as a european army and they follow international standards. and this indeed, if it was true, would be a crime and needs to be punished or corresponded amin s if in the western ukrainian city of levine tonight army and thank you. military drones are an important weapon for both ukraine and russia, the unmanned aircraft. they come to variety sizes and they do everything from aerial surveillance to launching missiles. the u. s. is now sending altro light drones known as switch blades to ukraine. they are small enough to fit inside the backpack. they are able to strike targets with high precision. and i in the sky with a deadly payload. this is a promotional video by the maker of the switchblade loitering munition. it hangs out in the air and images back for humans to figure out targets. then it becomes a missile. switch blades are advertised online. they way just

a few kilograms and can be launched from a small tube, requiring little set up or training. but if the weapon system, whose name cannot be spoken, at least by us officials, i can't confirm a particular systems that president did speak over. we did speak of tactical unmanned aerial systems. we provided and are providing a 100 of those systems, but i'm not in position to, to speak to all the specific systems i may be included in that package. ukraine has already been using so called loitering munitions to strike russian forces. turkish made drones carried lightweight laser guided bombs. this footage purportedly shows the result of their strikes on russian targets. meanwhile, the russian military has been using drones, both big and small as part of its arsenal against ukraine. this video shows the

aftermath of an alleged drone missiles strike on the science institute in cave. and a small drone recovered at the scene. will the switch blades be a game changer? some analysts say the u. s. is sending too few of them a supply that will only last a couple of days. but as ukraine battles against the superior firepower of its invader, ukrainians can use all the help they can get in here. some of the other stories now that we're following for you this, our russia has added this broadcaster deutsche of ella to a list of media organizations. that it has classified as foreign agents. now that designation requires all of our content to be labeled with a disclaimer, a russian delegation has arrived. it is stem bull ahead of planned peace talks with ukrainian negotiators. tuesday's meeting remarked the 2nd time that turkey has hosted in person discussions between the 2 sides,

but the kremlin have said that it expects no significant breakthroughs. the european union wants member states to end what is known as the golden passport sky, which has allowed wealthy people to buy their way to citizenship. and in the e. u. the wharton ukraine has shown a light on previous beneficiaries with close links to the kremlin, including several prominent oligarchs. the russian independent newspaper, nevada gesenta, has suspended publication. it says the suspension is necessary to prevent the kremlin from shutting it down completely because of its reporting of the war in ukraine. a newspaper guarded international attention last year when its chief editor, dimitri myrtle won the nobel peace. prox churches are all what shoulds as called for e u ascension talks for albania in north macedonia, to begin as soon as possible. and that has everything to do with ukraine. schultz

making the comments after meeting today with sweden's prime minister, magdalena anderson here in berlin. he says that it's important that the e, you speed up talks with these 2 balkan nations to prevent them from being pulled into rushes. a sphere of influence sholtes and anderson also discussed the question of swedish nor tragedy. as the country considers nato membership. anderson says that it's membership se in the european union, and that sweden is no longer a neutral country, then it's fine. here's german transfer all of shields to magdalena and myself. agree that we want to strengthen the even make it my resilient as well. the turning point on history is something that means we must achieve real progress within union . i guess we talked to that the fact that the time has come to pass the albanian

and macedonian invest, accession will top city begin as soon as possible. otherwise, these in baptists malkin states will be vulnerable russian inferencing, and we need to strengthen as a consequence, equal to in terms in a number of different ways. well, the w spoke to the swedish prime minister after that press conference, and we asked her about the german chancellor's comments about albania and north macedonia, joining the european union. here's what she had to say. what i mean, countries should be able to join european union when they are ready for it. then i think it's important that all countries can have a process coming closer to a era peon and then the ship and. and from a swedish perspective, we have been supporting countries, for instance, ukraine add to help build that during the to ship to become so they could come closer to becoming that members of the european union. attacking ukraine was not only an attack line ukraine, but also european security order,

which means that every country can make their desist in themselves. so of course, we know we have the right to do with the decision that we think is right for our country. but of course, when they do do that, we have to away all the different risks with the different options that we have. the situation in the around the baltic sea has changed after rushes, the invasion of ukraine. we've had the deteriorating a security situation round the baltic for a long time, but this was really a shift. what 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. o 2 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 part is in parliament to analyze the situation and see

what that means for and how it will act in the future. there was the swedish prime minister there magdalena anderson speaking with us earlier european union interior ministers met today in brussels, to talk about a solution on how to deal with the millions of refugees. you are fleeing the finding in new crates. they discussed the distribution of refugees across all member states of the european union, as well as financial support to help make that possible. the ministers agreed on the creation of an e. you platform to register those seeking temporary protection here. poland alone is taken in more than 2000000 people from neighboring ukraine. since the start of the russian invasion dw corresponded christine what she is covering, today's meeting force in brussels. good evening to you, christie, did i mean it has been a decision? or has a decision i should say been reached in brussels to day on how refugees from ukraine

should be distributed across the entire e. u. brent, going into this meeting. poland and germany wrote a letter to the european commission asking for the commission to play a more active role in distributing ukraine. refugees across e u. member states. the commission declined to do that. instead, it is insisting on a voluntary based system where member states step up and take the initiative. however, as we've seen thus far more, maybe states are bearing more of a load than others. what the commission will now do is it's a little compiler index. when it will assess e u, member states that will accessed their existing burden, it will assess their capacity, publish that and, and hope that each member states will step up and do their bit. now part of this is also about incentivizing an e u member states or rather, incentivizing and refugees, ukraine, refugees. why in poland to come to the states or the u commission as encourage

member states to do that because for a lot of the craner refugees they prefer to be in poland. right now it's closer to home. the assimilation is much easier because the languages are closer and very most chances are that people do know somebody in poland. so part of that is also going to be having a human mistake. actively go out and, and reach out to ukrainian refugees and give them some incentives to, to come to their territories as well. the european union is also going to be working with it's with 3rd countries. we're talking about the u. s. which on about the united kingdom, we're talking about canada. so as to share the load at the peak of this migration flow, we had about 202250000 people a day, leaving ukraine and coming into the european union. those numbers are down considerably. we're looking at about 40000 a day as we speak. whether or not this is just a temporary law and those numbers will pick up again at remains to be seen. but what we can confirm is at the european unit, has still struggled in terms of reaching a common migration policy. they reject the idea of quotas. it's still up to member

states to take the initiative. and, but it's not even europe's our biggest wold crisis digit crisis installed, war 2 that can bring that solution together. it's something that member states just cannot agree upon it using to tell us more about this of this platform to register the ukrainians who are seeking temporary protection here in the this is right. so the idea behind this is serena consolidates the data because right now member states are collecting their own data and putting it into their own and databases. what the european union wants to do is to, to gape over size of that. so it's going to build it, it's an i t platform essentially way it's going to collect all the data that's been collected by the different member states and put it on a single a platform. part of the reason is also the security of people, even ukraine. there are, for example, unaccompanied miners and, and, and, and, you know, venerable people who could go missing and it was slipped through the cracks. i

dearest to keep a handle on that. of course you will know they've been report, especially in germany. where you are brent about an human trafficking at burden police. at some point, it re sent a message to ukraine and refugees not to just accept rights from anybody offering it. because it is believed that some ukranian women are being targeted by 6 indicates and being looted into prosecutions. all of this is an attempt to just consolidate data and keep people safe as well as to just keep an overview of the situation across the block or right or corresponding. christina moodle with the latest light from brussels, christine, thank you. more than half of ukraine's children have been displaced by this war, that has huge implications for their development and for their education. some ukrainian teachers are trying to keep up the school routine using the internet to teach children who were scattered across europe. we met a young school girl who fled to germany, but is still attending classes run from back home in ukraine. take

a look. it's 8 o'clock in the western german city of bon. yes, no. the 1st lesson of the day is starting for nasty harbor. you. it's an online lesson. normally she would be in here at her school right now. but at the beginning of march, she had to flee ukraine together with her family because of the war. said to her little of the don't as it is quite important to stay in touch with teachers and classmates. we all need that in the situation. that way we get to see how all of us are doing it. that way everyone knows that i'm doing well said over of tampa issue, liz knowledge show shifted over here to day. oh, lena trots is giving the lesson before the war began. they could all be at school together. now most of her classmates are scattered all over europe. that's why alina teaches them digitally. she's still and keith,

it ever should say that was placed nellie out of me. it's dangerous to stay at home here. see her not to her daughter, he can, we're here, but teaching the children distracts me from the reality we live in the game when you're home. is that not for them? i would like to close my eyes and wake up in another life. but unfortunately, that is not possible with the co here from with us. nast jeff, along with her sister and mother, has been placed with a host family in germany. this gives them security for the time being, nevertheless, like thousands of ukrainian children, the kids are now missing important lessons at school. that's why they'll soon be enrolled in germany until then online lessons help them. yet i will use them if i do exercises with them. i paint with them, we carve and glue, we make all kinds of art work. i knew you'll never orca. you may have what it is. i this gives them strength. it gives them courage and also confidence land for the

future. you guys, you said that they yes. so in that 99 um now my booking sales for doing a shopping today. the close of syncs for as of next year is in germany. her classmates in poland, the check republicans, lavinia, but her teacher managers to reach them. all right, here's a look now at some of the other stories we're following for you in showing them millions of people in shanghai or in walked out and find their homes in order to control a growing outbreak of coven 19 the financial hub has become a corona by rous hotspot in recent weeks, this is china's most extensive lockdown in 2 years. canadian indigenous leaders have met with pope frances at the vatican. they want him to apologize for the catholic church. his role in the abuse of indigenous children in residential schools in canada. many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition. in what has been called a cultural janessa. you

a secretary of state entity blink in his meeting with his counterparts from israel and for arab countries to discuss reviving a 2015 deal to limit iran's nuclear program. but the start of the negative summit was overshadowed by a terror attack by so called is womach state. in the israeli city of her dear the phil good family film coda was named best picture at the oscars last night in a surprise when making it the 1st streamed film to pick up the prize. but the most memorable moment of the ceremony was an outburst of violence from one of hollywood biggest stars. will smith walked up on to the stage and slapped comedian chris rock in the face. it was the year's biggest light in hollywood, with a star studded line up in 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 jaida pink at smith, who suffer strong alopecia. it didn't go down to well, taylor lover, j jane too can't wait to see you. ah. oh ricka. oh, wow. wow. do it was a g i jane g o he mark. but oh yeah. now a jaw 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, somebody that he apologized in his acceptance speech in your heart, imitates life. i looked like the crazy father list like they say,

like crazy father. just like they said about with you or your mom, but love will 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 entered room expo the power of the dog, which led 12 nominations, picked up on jane canyons directing when jessica chastine landed best actress for her role in the eyes of tammy faye, mcgrew and best international film was awarded to japan's drive my com

while the oscars was hoping to have a boost in ratings, the sea is physical confrontation between 2 superstars, certainly dominated the headlines you want, you need to be news. i'll be back in the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you that with

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