make up your own mind. ah, the w made for mines. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from the land 8 workers in ukraine say they're stocked and staffed, but can't get help where it's needed. and the devastated city of maria paul several thousands make it out. of the red cross was forced to turn back. authorities are pushing for more humanitarian corridors. this weekend. also coming up with scenes from

a 2018 film about a russian invasion and war in ukraine. the director sergey lawson. it says the west was asleep while the new rochelle was forming. and the consequences being felt now . ah, monica jones, welcome to the program, ukraine's deputy prime minister says 7 monitoring corridors are planned for besieged cities today including murray, you, paul, for weeks. the port city has been under siege by russian forces estimate, say more than 170000. people are trapped in desperate circumstances and exposed to constant bombings. ukraine, president of a lot of mister lensky said on friday, some people did manage to escape against the odds. arriving to relative safety. after weeks of shelling over 3000 were able to escape by reopen on

friday. oh, but it's a journey full of risks. to perhaps one woman recounts her fears as she crossed a russian checkpoint. whose is that you get the big but it was very difficult. she said, you can't, i was afraid they would take my son away here. they made him to his phone on the ground and trample on it because he had american music. an attempt by the red cross to deliver aden, evacuate civilians, ended in failure. the organization said the lives of thousands depended on evacuations. ah, we haven't heard anything from all a people are in real life for more than one week. are there? is there a steel all that stop working in many? well, last we have there are steel and 612 years working and even when a do not know anything about the destiny, then i,

we know that they have difficulties because they do not have her mom while they have problems with transport escrow scars when are she damaged our office was partially damaged. so that's the situation. been able to wait for the flight, the bombs and cars with the white cloth assigned them me no harm. as many as 870000 muscle trapped in the city. but been devastated by wal this former often edge. no, a makeshift bomb shelter for those who can't escape. we came here to the basement. she said, if we stay here because we don't what happens to our apartment? we run he with what we heart would kill really clog with to bizarre live. the red cross said they will attempt once again to reach the city on saturday in a bit to rescue the innocent. from what is left of maria hall

ali were asked to d. w, a correspondent, nick connelly and keith. what more he can tell us about a day's rescue attempts to bring people safely out of maria pull. it's all really difficult to work out. what's exactly happening on the ground, and we've had news in the last hour of refugees reaching levine in the west. the country by train having initially got out by car and by bus am on the ground. they're closer to mary paul. there been lots of confusion. lots of disagreement between ukrainian or russian forces about how this exactly going to work. and you remember that in the past few weeks they've been several failed attempts to get people out, or people ending up under fire, where temporary ceasefire were not respected by the russian side. at least as the crane side of the story, i've spoken to people who got out of my apple in recent days and they say at that far from being a well organized slick operation, it's all pretty chaotic on the ground. people are passing checkpoints and then basically passing through no man's land,

seemingly for 100 kilometers for they reach the next check point either birth control by the russians or the ukrainians. and then there's the big question of where they're actually gonna get to. so it seemed like, for a long time, the russians were trying to get people out, marable into further russian control territory. lots of from our pl won't get back to ukrainian government control. so will, even if they get out of medical, will these people be allowed for the west towards areas still controlled by their own ukraine government? that is the big question for now, it's unclear, but it does seem like this is now such a big store internationally. so much attention on this that there is a whole lot of pressure on the russians to make this possible and to allow the remaining $100000.00 to so people that we believe is to left a miracle to give them a chance to get out in safety. yeah, hope hopefully that works out and we're also hearing that crane and troops are beginning control in areas around keith and in the southern region of care. so on at what more can you tell us? well, exactly near where i'm here and keep it does seem like the craning army is taking back a lot of churchy,

not least because the russians are pulling up because they've suffered significant losses here in the capital region in someplace that they are digging in in the south, near mich, alive and have so where they've been lot of fighting in recent weeks. it does seem like the trends there are on defensive. once again, i had a chance to speak to a local who wants to be known as james. the ukranian has been in fits on his hometown since the beginning of the war and the scene at what life is like under rushed occupation. let's have a listen to what he has to say. i've heard of the explosion and then couple of minutes later, my friend called me up. he told me the door is on the nothing's been delivered either nor embarrassing. so it's do you, you walk or take a bicycle for a trade in search of money, food and medicaid,

and most of the office ups. so no potatoes, cabbage instead of marshmallows and gave me the 1st it was quite overwhelming. the premium express emotions that they felt about the invasion by looking to the eyes of the russian soldiers. they kept doing this every day for the 1st 3 weeks. yeah, you've seen them some point, did the news to pushing back to russian lloyd and understanding. we received a report from russia that the general for the police forces interest to surprise demonstrations demonstration movement.

cross some lines. we've made some russian officials where we hear the explosions become hotter louder. and yesterday night i've seen my heading door vibrate, like i've never seen it vibrate before. the radiance i'm getting closer to town. we want our army to liberate us, but we don't know what happens afterwards when we are very much afraid of what is happening to the city of the army and the russians remain. let me just stop selling the city. nobody knows. but until now they've been shooting every city they could, if it's not in their hands. fascinating. first i

had to count there from the situation in cash. one of the last few weeks did obviously connelly for us in key. if nick, president lensky made a statement on what he expects, russia will do next. what were his main points? what his main focus was on that expectation that has been mirrored by western intelligence, that the russians will now focus on the east of the country. the city of had killed ukrainian 2nd biggest knows the dumbass region where we'll see that russian back separatist campaign has been going on for the past 8 years. they control certain areas of danielle callahan's grievance. and now seeming the russian focus to take those regions in their entirety, russia has recognized the independence of their self proclaimed republics in the borders, the entire mr. regions. so basically, what was the situation pre the war a, those russian back separate is controlled about a 3rd of the area of those respects, regions, and slightly more than the majority of their population. so a lot of

a focus now and an intensification of fighting in those parts of the country. but the cranial me, again, they're holding up pretty well because these are areas that they've been defending for 8 years, where they have the trenches, where they have the, the quick kits in the infrastructure in place to fight this battle. am so that is the expectation. now, but i don't think it means that key of is somehow now off the hook. life is coming back to the streets key of now and you see a whole lot more people back, people coming back to care. but there is definitely a feeling of vulnerability at the knowledge that russian rockets can hit anywhere in this country at any time with very little notice. and still a russian attempt to try and take the whole of ukraine's lexi coastline, cutting ukraine off from its crucial ports unable to export its main em products, unable to basically import energy from other countries. so that definitely still seems to be a russian party. but for now, the main focus is now. yep. in the east looking to those cities, mary paul had give and others that are under a great deal of russian pressure. denija dw chris bond and nick care connelly in

kia. thank you so much for your reporting from ukraine, mixed a safe let's get you up to speed on some other global headlines. hope frances came the closest he has yet to criticizing president vladimir putin over russia's invasion of ukraine during a speech and walter, the pontiff said, a ruler was starting aunt conflicts to serve nationalist interests. the pope has already condemned russia's invasion, calling it an unjustified aggression. sri lanka has imposed a nationwide curfew to stop protest against the government. the new restrictions will be in place till monday morning. earlier this week, demonstrators clashed with police during protests, over shortages of basic supplies, like food, fuel, and mixing. the actor will smith has resigned from the academy of motion picture art and science members of the academy vote and ask award nominations in the statements miss said she would accept any further punishment decided by the academy

. smith is facing disciplinary action after slapping comedian chris rock for making jokes on stage about smith's wife. during the ceremony. on sunday night said again last night, sar is one of ukraine's best known and most controversial film directors for years with his features and documentaries. he has been warning that russia was planning a war against his country. now his fiction has become ukraine's reality. i am civilians running from bombing in ukraine. this isn't yesterday's news, but a film from 2018 2nd on bass, eastern ukraine, where russian forces are supporting pro putin separatists a yet they had on monday the civilians are actors staging a fake news massacre for russian tv. the quote propaganda to justify the military incursion with the ukraine director, sergey lost. nita shows how for years russia planned it's war of aggression against

ukraine. but the westward wasn't paying attention. b. e o issues could they had a little bit of worse hopes, western little democracies were asleep when the new russia was forming. this one was attacking in cross tobacco, that again, when it was attacking georgia, crimea, don bass in ukraine. and so what we're witnessing now is in a way, the consequences of this little of this lack of counter action on the part of the west. carefully amy, it is a dot that there was not in his 2014 documentary, my don on april west uprising last, nita used only long takes to capture what he says was the truth of the historic mo, e. but feel a broker. so even the style of my film is in a way opposed to this method of propaganda. that like the russian propaganda newsreel, which presented a very different picture of what was happening in ukraine operate. but wasn't it that is also controversial in ukraine?

in part because his documentary, barbara, yar context about a nazi massacre outs, i keep in 1941 included scenes showing locals celebrating the arrival of the nazis and standing by as they round up the jews. but also because even after the russian invasion, glinetta refuses to support a full boycott of russian cinema in which was ukrainian film academy kicked him out for those, i'm absolutely against the proposed total boy caught of russian cultural figures. and russian filmmakers like we've actually been opposing the rain, but should have been condemning the war because we do that if we caught them as well as everyone else in a way what will be betraying. but the weight estimates less. nixa says he's no profit and he's no politician. his films don't speak for ukraine, but tried to depict the world and the war as he sees it.

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