ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, the deadly difference between the words and actions of the russian military in ukraine. russian forces continue public areas near keith and china. he, despite vowing to reduce a task, also coming up tonight, an ultimatum from potent ukrainian forces in the besieged port city of mario polt. if you want the shelley to stop lay down your weapons, more than a 150000 civilians remain trapped the city with no power or running water.

thousands have die. and germany bracy for possible shortages or even rationing of national natural gas. the government activating its early warning plan today to deal with potential disruptions in gas deliveries from rush. ah, i bring gov is good to have you with this on this wednesday, and we start with dashed hopes of what could have been a 1st step towards of semblance of peace in ukraine. bear words no lead up in attacks to day on the capital cave and the northern city of china. he now that's despite russia's pledge on tuesday to drastically reduce military activity in both places. and further south, russian forces are also intense. buying

a tax in the besieged port city of mario polt. today, russian president vladimir putin told ukrainian soldiers, the shelling will stop once you lay down your weapons. we have this report. a month of russian bombardment has reduced much of mary paul to ruins while moscow has suffered setbacks elsewhere in ukraine. its efforts to take the key port have been devastating. an unrelenting, a comparison of satellite imagery from before the invasion to images from this week revealed the almost no building has been left on damaged, ukrainian official sable than 90 percent of the city has been destroyed. many who managed to escape the destruction and of here some 200 kilometers. the northwestern's f, patricia traumatized by what they've left behind. they chain shelters 3 times in murray pl. it's insane what they would doing. said, dropping bombs. it was frightening. there is no merry pull any more than they bumped it. completely muddy will pull. it was in lima. it was probably others like

a 3 year old boy wasn't able to get out unscathed. wow. dina is crying out his father, but he can't come to deem his bedside. he was also injured and his receiving treatment elsewhere in the hospital. that's often the only ones this 11 year old girl was also wounded. as a family escaped from ru paul. just not still on the 16th of march, we succeeded in leaving mario pole. we were hitch hiking well we were getting right here and there must be in one of the villages. we pass through a rush and checkpoint, but i never look they let us through. after checking us out, but then we were met with gunfire 3 of it a day to cover her steeple. i remember fighting in a loud noise in my ears and that there, but then i will call it and my mother put me on to ground miss and started to scream for help. soldiers ran up to me and tried to stop the bleeding. get with me

and medicaid molina was fortunate to make it to the hospital. many others have been less soak. ukrainian officials say around 5000 people, including over 200 children have died in mary paul since rushes assault began. for the estimated a 160000 residence to remain in the ruins, there's little hope of reprieve. putin has made it clear that the shelling will only end when ukrainians, defending against their invasion surrender. and for the latest on the ground in ukraine, i'm joined now by our correspondent mathias berlin. he is in the capitol. keith medea's. let me ask you. the governor of the nest says that the latest attempt to evacuate civilians from the city of mario pole. as likely, failed in that convoys of civilians are not being allowed through. what more do we know about this? yeah, that's what we've heard today that they were not allowed to leave. we've had that

before. these convoys, they are tried pressure. they're set up pretty regularly to bring out people of them. are you out of them or you ought to bring in you military and goods and sometimes they make it through. but often they fail either because they cannot leave or what is even worse. they shelled on their way. there also been people dying on the way out of them. are you all so it's always a little bit of uncertainty and we hear that. 75000 people have been evacuated from the city so far. but it said that 160 thousands to remain in the city. so there is a situation there remains critical. my tears ration forces bombarded the outskirts of kiva again on wednesday today, just a day after moscow promised to scale down operations there. so what's going on tonight?

so from what we are hearing is that these like from what we can hear here, the shelling has even intensified. we've had a lot of shelling during the daytime, almost uninterrupted. interestingly, now it is calm, it stopped for an hour or so ago, but it was much more intense than before. and last night there were also several rockets shot down over here. so it's definitely we definitely do not see any signs of fighting, being reduced in any way and considering all that we're hearing and what you're telling is it has the mood changed in ukraine since yesterday? i mean, there was this cautious hope yesterday that that steps were being taken in the direction of a possible ceasefire. maybe even piece this hope was so cautious

that the most mood has not changed. everybody. i talked to said, well, it's good news, but i don't believe it's that's main. mainly what people have said here. i've talked to several, it's just that at trust in russia as words is very low in ukraine. and that we have also seen several times in the run up to this war. and then during this war, that all these announcements, especially announcements about withdrawal or sci fi, is, are often the, the prelude to something was, if you remember when this war started, just before 24th of february, russia said they would withdraw their troops from the border. and we saw some movement people, observers were saying, well this is not really withdrawal, but we're seeing some movement and then the attack happened. so there was never much hope that this would last correspond mathias burger with the latest from the ground in keep to night. but he has thank you

and for more now i'm gonna, i'm joined by frank led village lead, which he's a former u. k military intelligence officer. he also advise the u. k. government on foreign policy and is now a senior lecturer strategy in law at the university of portsmouth. do we have our guest? are there there he is yet to take. the technology is a little tricky with us tonight, frank. we appreciate you joining us. you know, many have said vladimir putin is aiming to divide ukraine, like the korean peninsula is divided today you are, you wrote though, that ukraine is turning into pollutants bleeding. all sir, why do you say that the reference to play the hell? so actually comes from couple 100 years ago when the pony was trying to fight the spanish portuguese. and he put 600000 people into area about 80000 and came out

with his bleeding. also, what many of us think is going to tell you what i think may well happen over the next. over the next phase, it is putting into a war that he not only cannot win, but he can't really extract himself from. and it will be a 2nd to which it will pull money and material for, for as long as you kind of fight. and that's going to be a long time. do you think that vitamin knows exactly what is going on on the ground in ukraine, in terms of the performance of his military? it's very difficult to say that it's, this is a closed information system and even in the west and when we saw this, for example, in afghanistan with western generals not receiving very good information and certainly not passing it up. there are politicians, of course, you don't want to hear that news and put in maybe one of those. what we can be sure of though, is that the reports he's got, or that the system is generated will be fairly accurate from the f s b across to

the military intelligence. whether it's percolating up with those you just into that very different question. and i want to know, i want to be frank, how good is our intelligence? but you consider the rapid collapse of the afghan army after the u. s. withdrawal last year. the inability of russia to quickly take key. i mean, we're in week 5 now of this invasion on both of these accounts. western intelligence got it wrong. western intelligence i would assess actually is being very, very good by and large with respect to you cry. and it's one element of the world, not surprisingly, particular the western contribution to it's really not been talked about as we speak. there are western intelligence gathering aircraft in the, at the west and north of ukraine. sucking up all the signals, intelligence they can paring into the, into the, into the fog of war. that not only that, of course,

but we've got other kinds of assets and we have an ally, brother. yes, and all right, excellent. you kind of military intelligence service. so overall strategic assessments, i think have been quite good. it's very difficult as you've had to, to get some ground truth, particularly because the, because both sides of pumping out information that might sometimes be categorized both sides as propaganda. yeah, that's a very good point to make and that leads me then to the situation we're in tonight . you know, 24 hours ago there was talk, the deputy russian defense minister saying that there was going to be a dramatic reduction in military activity around the, the capital key. and last night there were air raid sirens across the city. there been more tags today. be the words and the deeds when it comes to the russian military, they just don't match. well, that certainly appears to be the case. what may be happening is that there's what's called a fighting with role going on with drawing income. but it's

a very difficult military activity to carry out. i suspect that the artillery barrage is that matters was referring to earlier. and that we've heard about before, maybe covering something of a re deployment driven by military realities. and certainly at least one battalion group which is about a 1000 people happen re deployed out of the country. as far as we know, not likely to continue as the russians go on to the defensive in the north. which as i said before, that's a military reality that's essentially been fought off. frank ludwig with the university of portsmouth, frank, we appreciate your time and your valuable analysis tonight. thank you. my pleasure . art now to germany and fears of a shortage of natural gas. today, russian president vladimir putin back peddled somewhat on his demand, their countries pay for russian gas in rubles only in a phone call with the german chancellor today potent said that payments may still

be made in euro's, but then they will be converted to roubles by russia's gas prom bank. the german chancellor has not agreed to this and has asked putin for further written clarification. russian gas is still flowing to germany, but the government wants to be prepared in case the taps are suddenly switched off . it triggered an early warning status for gas supplies. it's the 1st of 3 steps in a gas emergency plan for germany. economy minister call about tobacco announced that a crisis team will now closely monitor supplies. so that further steps can be taken if necessary. presidency. so hot supplies are secure, all contracts are being fulfilled and gas and oil are arriving in germany as planned. so this is a preventive will precautionary step. so i know prevents yawns or falls organ charging. there is concerned that russia could cut gas deliveries to europe unless

they are paid foreign roubles, which germany and other g 7 countries refuse to do. but germany is heavily dependent on russian gas importing up to 55 percent of its total supply from their . how big is also calling on every one in germany to reduce their own consumption? either i'm to spot every kilowatt hour of energy saved, helps. and that's why i would like to combine the triggering of this early warning for gas supplies, with the appeal for companies and private consumers to help you are helping germany . you're helping ukraine. when you produce your use of gas or energy in general, i'm spawn. germany's industry wouldn't be disrupted if the gas lowered a stop. lawmakers are working on a plan to support the sector. some industries you can just turn it off and on. then the whole production line is broken, so it's really important that we keep,

and that we keep things running and therefore we're working really hard in the background on some measures that will help small, medium, but also all the large companies in germany. and through these rough and tough times, so far, germany's gas supplies are not directly under threat, but the country wants to set up all possible precautions if indeed supplies were suddenly cut. every morning i'm joined by ingrid nestle. she's a member of the german parliament with the green. she's also spokesperson for the committee on climate action and energy of the german parliament miss. this is good to have you with it. so let me ask you tonight, how close is germany to a disruption of natural gas imports or even maybe rationing of national natural gas? well, it might happen any day, really, that gas going up flow from russia,

the way is to. and this is when i mean direct travel in the summer because most of our gas is used for heating and yeah, he doesn't really work during the summer, but we have this huge treasure. we have the summer to prepare. and yes, we will have big difficulties if we do not prepare very well. and then gas is cut sometimes during the summer, which means we can get the storage filled out or even in austin because in the field stories, it's not easy to go through the winter and what happens gas? what happens then if we do get to all them in winter, we need to turn on the heat and there's not enough natural gas the channel is that you cannot really read use gas consumption in the building sector, which means more than any other sector. we can on to call on people to heat last or to have a better way of opening the windows, you know,

just open them short time in not having them a little bit open all day long because we have no technical possibility to reduce gas delivery to the hassles, we can only kind of complete it, which we don't want to do or deliver. which means that every, the gas that is missing will mainly be missing from industry. as you said before, 55 percent has come from russia. so far we could probably by 20 percent from somewhere else would be 5 percent, needs to be substitute in the entire gas consumption drone industry. and so apart that only gas industry, if we save it somewhere else, and this is mainly calling on people to do it and some people switch. and is it possible to save that money should be 30 percent it? i mean, that's a lot. it's a lot any way we can say we can, there's a new boat that has some warn you there for the next winter. we can have

efficiency measures and then really just saving, you know, reducing the temperature. we can say all by driving our car less and then we can use some more oil in the sector and less gas. and we can use more oil and gas tricity sector and said gas there. some industry can use that as a variety of options, but none of them i see it remain a challenging challenge. and let me just ask you as a, as a law maker, a member of the green party b, how does it feel knowing that the russian president has bright, now, has the leverage over over germany. and he can demand payment in roubles for example. and if he doesn't get that, he can turn the, the pipes off a b, germany at this stage. it's really at the mercy of a man named potent i was very happy to hear that the g 7 were very

clear to refuse to pay for all. and so with we have a clear and clean the right word that we have a very clear way of acting there. and yes and want to get away from this. yeah, i think we should now delete everything to speed every new, less to speed up with. yes, to same energy, and this is the moment to transfer this necessity to save energy and do all these things into the entire society. and actually i think it will be easier to get along if it putting cost the gas off because then society will stand together. i think we can together really do big things. it's more difficult if we say, oh, we want to cut it off and we call on, you know, reduce the temperature and not use and to dry your laundry. no, no, just try and so on. yeah. it's like the saying no pain, no gain. we'll,

we'll see if that applies when we approach next winter ingrid and that's what, with the german bond this tog, ms. nestle, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you too. bye. when you are some of the other headlines related to the war in ukraine, this, our russian foreign minister say elaborate, has met with his chinese counterpart today. it's the country's 1st in person diplomatic encounter since russia's invasion of ukraine. afterwards, beijing said that the 2 countries planned to widen their cooperation. rob is in china for 2 days of talks on afghanistan. the un refugee agency says more than 4000000 people have now fled the fight in ukraine. that's nearly 10 percent of the country's pre war population. more than half of all refugees of cost from ukraine into neighboring poll. millions of people in china's largest city are now

confined to their homes. authorities have imposed a to stage, locked down in shanghai as china's largest cove at 19 outbreak. since the start of the pandemic grips the city authorities say they plan to test the cities entire population. 26000000 people in the next coming weeks are with shanghai again, a city, a 26000000, turned into a ghost town. with the eastern half of the country's most populated city in lockdown, beth little sign of life. officials are trying to keep everything under control and prevent panic. food has been delivered to millions, who cannot leave home with her good health and dental asked what she'll do if the food runs out. i'll just sleep, she said, because then i won't be hungry. but the chaos is clear. videos posted on line.

show people fighting over food, price locked down, scared. they won't have enough. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha h ruby, she has seen them on taking this video. i'm in a supermarket and everything's already sold out. yeah. gammas not only am video mccannen, some market halls are only open at night as to avoid the crowds headed by your best money's going shopping. at 11 p. m, i gently isn't shit. ha, who the hell you the, the authorities a crazy. we simple people now have to go shopping at night. let's go him. he shook the since 8. ha. since monday many millions of people can no longer lead the homes title on tuesday alone, shanghai recalled at almost 6000 new cases, hugely. for 0 covered strategy,

proven are difficult to maintain. as authorities seek to stop the army crumb wave said ha, my feeling is, is becoming more difficult to stop outbreaks than it has been in the past. partly because the virus is getting more transmissible. and partly because people are maybe a little bit tired of these measures coming in whenever there's an outbreak. this is one of the many so called corona hotels, a massive dormitory for those who tested positive, offering meals as well as medical care. however, for those who aren't allowed to lead that compound bear fears of accessing medical care guzman, they'll do if they're sick. and she say, she'll only be able to talk to the doctor on line. the authorities an out building, a bald offense to prevent travel. a reminder of the price of

a 0 cobit approach. in 2016 jamal use your i theory, ukrainian singer, shot to fame across europe by winning the eurovision song contest of a song that brought her victory was an emotional till about her grandmother who was forcibly deported from her home in crimea. during world war 2, went out, jamal is a refugee forced to flee ukraine and the words to her song, they've taken on new meaning. ah, an emotional song about her family history ah, performed on german t v. just days after she escaped keith, the fellow to post, i wrote a song about my great grandmother and what she told me, that being to portrait from crimea in 1944, a screen. her. when i seen these lines to day aleck,

come back to lazar doesn't have meaning. again, running pasta, napa, shady, jamal as song 1944 and her family's tragic story. touched millions of viewers across europe. had one who taught prize at the 2016 eurovision song contest since the 24th of february, since the start of the russian war and ukraine jamal as own life has become like that of her great grandmother budget that to her my husband worked me at 5 in the morning that in virginia to a different that brooklyn, of, as he said, the war had broken out. and russia had attacked us on social media, jamal i chronicled her flight from keith with her 2 children. oh, i don't know how it possible that they bombed it. peaceful people. hundreds of thousands were on the move. the roads were jammed

. her husband did what he could to get her and their 2 children across the border to romania that left their things behind. but got out with their lives. her husband stayed behind in ukraine as a volunteer. her sister of lena brought jamal or, and had children to her place. in istanbul, she stays in touch with her husband through video calls, move. oh is aware that each cold could be the last one lecture when night falls and i go to bed. but then i'm constantly thinking about where he is, and if he's all right, it's hard to, that's why the days are actually better for me than the nights wish that she, in spite of the stress of her own flight from ukraine, shamela never tired of spreading her message of peace for europe. you're watching.

the w news is a recap of our main story. ukraine says that russia is continuing a tags near the capital cave and the northern city of china. as despite pledges from moscow to reduce military activity around both city ukraine and the usa, that moscow is just repositioning troops that it's not withdrawing. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news followed by the day hope to see you then . ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah

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