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hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. world leaders have condemned the growing evidence of war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. authorities are still trying to identify hundreds of victims of atrocities in the town of boucher outside the capital key up and the mayor of maria poll says more than 5000 civilians have been killed there. as russia continues to lay siege to the port city . this is what's left of my real poll. most of the residential buildings have been destroyed. russian bomb being in shelling has been relentless forcing some residence to live in basements for weeks. still, many a reluctant to leave. one must have out of my job. my husband says we will not leave maria, pull it up, we will stay until the end. whatever happens if he likes living here, he's

a fish man. he will not abandon where you pull those one to lee face a dangerous flight. the fragile ceasefire means those trying to reach civilians in the besieged city are also at risk. 14 tried days and nights for 5 days to reach murder on their extremely difficult secret conditions. but we had to bus check warrants, we it was b, a knife operation. and relent as the we tried to reach out, but unfortunately we'd not my last to reach by you because of the city secret conditions. but the team did manage to drive civilians to safety more than 200 kilometers away. all in the private, if we decided to go with our child at the side of family, let us go with t as in their eyes. this is a long and dangerous johnny said it is of the nightmare of maria pull

is over for these families, but the civilians are still trapped. there are correspond. nick connelly is in the ukrainian capital, kia nick, can you tell us why humanitarian convoys have not been allowed into mario poll? why, it's hard to really understand how that can even be possible. we've heard in recent days from ukraine's present believe mr. lenny can an interview to a turkish or media house. he suggested that the russian side just didn't have an interest in letting outsiders get close to my uncle to see those images of humanitarian catastrophe of huge civilian casualties of total destruction of residential areas. that was his take on this, but this a fortune has been the picture all the way through this war. am all those attempts to create magic cardoso most the time failing a lots of finger pointing lots of attempts,

scratch and presses funds and then when it's meant to happen, the shelling starts again of what she that is not also not only restricted to miracle is something we've seen across the country a basically civilians often cut off from supplies while the fighting goes on. i went to small town not far from cave in recent days, or where people had been busy cut off from the outside world for the best part of a month without power, without food, without a mobile phone at work. for the most part, let's have a look at what life was the like for the people in which if this is be give a small town, it's just emerging from a month and a russian occupation month in which it was on the front lines between russian and ukrainian forces, toys was sometimes just the woods people were children, is as much as many residents of this ukrainian town could think of. a plea to the russian troops to leave them and their families alone, as they hid in their homes, the youth. let's have him new people in this village spent 27 days without water on

the 27 days without bread. we grew up. when you, i thought was a demon his wife held out for 3 weeks until the shelling became too much to bear. and they were finally able to leave for a neighbouring village of them up when they got back of the cranium. military had re taken the town, their home had been ransacked by retreating, russian troops, applesauce, and they've got it. everything carried everything out. all that's laughter, the walls and the sofa, a sucker. he and then you get taken all the electronics. i don't even know where they put it all over the months they were here, the russians really changed for the worse than i'm just disgusted at the thought that they were moving around and eating in my house. at least they didn't sleep here with the full doesn't look dollars to put the liberal goodness while they just destroyed things for the sake of it, him that he'll never believe in it. but the impact on this community goes far

beyond looted homes, locals to this, they were kidnapped and detained in sellers for days on end, accused by the russians of helping the ukrainian military. several residents still missing fit killed. a priest arrived lynette, bring village with supplies for those who have lost almost everything. yeah. but it's not food or money that the locals are asking for us. who am i and what was a local, put the people here need tranquilizers over. many of them have lost everything with that they spent a lifetime saving for wallace. with this, with their houses, sought their cars. it's all gone into separate from what you both shows is the damp seller when she her husband and her neighbors spent some of the coldest nights in the year. no tools done yet. and i agree with linda. we weren't just hearing the shelling, we could feel it. everything was shaking the looming. all we could do is pray that it wouldn't hit us. we just kept praying. supplies like these kept above and has

been going during the weeks. andrew occupation for the shop stayed shut and leaving home would have meant running a gauntlet or was it that he has got us by the time you'd be knocking down these steps a few times, you lose the well to do anything else. they both tells us she and every one she knows is exhausted. her what you can always waiting for something they can't quite define unable to ever let go watch them. he said, we didn't use to understand what it was that people and on boss have been going through all these years stuck in their salary. the last month has taught us what war is his name certificate. for now, the russian army has been pushed back more than a 100 kilometers, but the fear they might return suddenly, as they appeared, was never far away. nick, russian forces a bell pulled back from those areas around kia where you were and are increasing pressure on the don boss region in the east. the ukrainian government is now urging civilians to leave that part of the country or the heaving that coal.

certainly some are and there are lots of activation trains heading west from base like separate asia, big cities that are the kind of place that most people can ad marapoo. so for example, we'll get to by road. but the experience of the last few weeks are the parts of ukraine shows that most people do, for the most part, try and stay in their homes as long as they can. and that often has tragic consequences often means that evacuation is a lot more risky than it needs to be. and if you just look back even to generate every before this war started, where the whole world's media, we're looking at ukraine looking at russian forces built up when you cranes bought old as warnings coming out of the white house and other western capitals and people here didn't want to believe it, they didn't want to believe that this was a real threat that this was anything else, but some diplomatic, fostering a kind of game brinkmann ship by russia's leadership. so i fear, even though we are now in the 2nd month, the war here, that unfortunately there will be hundreds if not more thousands of people who stay

in their homes until it's too late, until it's too late for them to get out. and they will be, and unfortunately most likely stuck in the midst of a war zone. after people have been here and keep in recent weeks. nick, thank you very much. are are corresponded there in kia nick conway. made her ministers a meeting in brussels to day to consider the western alliances response to the war in ukraine, amid worries that the war could drag on ukrainian foreign minister demitra calais by his attending that meeting just a moment ago. he and nato chief un stoughton bag address reporters. it is an urgent need her to further support ukraine and a half hour meeting later on with the nato foreign ministers. i'm certain that we will address the need for her more air defense systems. so on to thank weapons cert lighter, but those are heavier or weapons on many different types of support to ukraine. my

agenda is very simple. it has only 3 items on it, it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. we are confident that the best way to help you cray now is to provide it was all necessary to contain put in and to defeat russian army in ukraine for the spring in our dw corresponded jack park in brussels, jack ukraine, once weapons, yen stalked back, says he expects nato will deliver. so all the 2 sides on the same page. well, the, some of the nato members are on the same page. to be honest with you, terry. there are countries that have been delivering, especially at defense systems to ukraine, which is what they are demanding, but to meet labor, there is really so they're saying he needs much, much more. that's what the ukrainians are demanding from the nato military alliance nato. as an alliance and some of the members are

a little bit concerned about how far they should go in sort of weapons deliveries and also labor. interestingly, sort of cooled out germany, specifically in that press conference saying that he really blames germany for the blocking of what some weapons going in. and and alina babel, the german foreign minister, who arrived just shortly after attending those meetings, said that she understood it. she talked about sort of feelings around the war and being on the ground and how difficult that must be, but relatively avoided making any sort of promises or any confirmations relating to what the ukrainian foreign minister had said. now nato secretary general says we should be prepared for the long haul in ukraine. is that not an admission jack? that nato is hands or effectively tied here? well, it's a, it's a, it's a difficult position to nato. they want to show as much support as they can for ukraine, but also a very aware that they don't want to make

a step that could bring the alliance into direct conflict with russia themselves because that would obviously have extremely serious consequences. so what they've been doing is picking up the military presence in the eastern members, but stays specifically lithuania and poland and other countries that are on the east and flank of nato. but as you say, this is now a question to be raised for his youngest oldenburg, has sort of consistently started to say, now this, this idea of the long haul, the new normal. and so nature is going to have to, i think kind of thing. what we're going to see is part of these meetings today, the 4 minutes meeting. we also had the, the summit just a couple weeks ago that they're going to start thinking about what this really means in a permanent perspective. are these troops that are being stationed, all of these increased spending on military? are these going to be the permanent moves that nato's nature is going to stick with? because from, from the, from that sold most point of view as we say this,

this is not moving. this is the current situation. there's mounting evidence that war crimes were committed by russian forces in places like boucher, a lot of evidence coming out of there now. is that creating a greater sense of urgency jack among nato and leaders there in brussels? well, i think we've seen the statements from pretty much across the board of the western powers within nato, and the european union to try and do something about this. and it's been mentioned at the nato meetings. we also today, we know the european union ambassadors here in brussels are going to be continuing that meetings from yesterday related to the sanctions. the 5th round of sanctions that the european commission president and i just earlier this week, we know that they had some pretty difficult discussions on there, including the, a total ban on imports of coal from russia. but they had a little bit of a problem that she and i said without consulting them, we now understand. so the ambassador is back in those meetings to see if they can

push the sanctions over the line and get them get them into force. as soon as possible today. jack, thank you so much as always our correspondent jack, correct. they're in brussels. it's get smother, updates on the war in ukraine. the us president joe biden has accused russia of brutality and in humanity and announced new sanctions in the wake of the atrocities . biting has also spoken of more crimes. the latest measures drawn up by washington target russian banks and individuals including the daughters of russia's president . let him of. why do you spell? your leaders meanwhile, are pushing to cut all russian coal, as jack mentioned, and considering imposing embargo on oil and gas. the blog is preparing to implement . a 5th round of sanctions against britain is also drawing up a time table and it's russian energy imports. we you are watching

t w news from berlin, just reminder of our top story. officials or warning civilians to leave eastern parts of ukraine before an expected russian defense bosco's thought to be preparing fresh assaults on hockey. and the dawn vast region after pulling troops from around the camp watching d w. those business is next with stephen beardsley. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching with with how long does it last for an eternity time. it can be measured precisely. and yet everyone experiences it differently

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