with, ah ah, this is it every news life from berlin, an urgent plea from ukraine's foreign minister. either you help us now and i'm speaking about days, not weeks, or you help will come to late as eastern ukraine. braces for a new russian offensive cave asks the west for more weapons to fend off the assault . all this as more evidence of the devastation left behind by russian troops after that were drawn from northern ukraine. the small town vicky 1st saw intense

fighting between russian and ukrainian forces. d. w. a nick collie spoke to residence about their harrowing experience, living under russian occupation, and a bombed hospital and medical ukraine on world healthy and appeal from the united nations to stop attacks on health facilities. ah. and while all right, thank you so much for joining us. we begin our broadcast with the race to arm ukraine to combat a fresh russian assault in the countries east. nato allies meeting in brussels have agreed to send more military 8 to keith after an urgent plea from ukraine's foreign minister. and you know, chief in stockton, berks, at the alliance is widening its support for keith. take a listen. i've been doing

a lot and are determined to do more now on for the medium and the longer term to help the brave ukrainians defend their homes on their country. on pushback, the invading forces are also supporting. i'm stepping or permanent aid on financial support. we discussed what more we will do, including cyber security assistance and provide the equipment to help you crane protect against the chemical and biological effects. and there was natives, the secretary general speaking just moments ago and i'd like to take you now to nato to r. terry schultz who is covering the foreign m a foreign ministers meeting their terry ukraine has been pressing nato, a for more weapons, our nato allies prepared to deliver arms to ukraine. secretary

generals dolton burg says they are. he said that in these meetings, they assured a foreign minister to me to a kula from ukraine that they would be providing more support as you know when he arrived at this meeting, he asked for more heavy weaponry warplanes, which as of now have not been delivered despite being promised, so he is looking looking for heavy equipment to replace what's been taken out by rushes on slot on his country. and the secretary general steinberg would not give details, nor did minister clear about what exactly would be coming. simply reassuring ukraine that more would be on its way. now ukraine, foreign minister, dmitri calais, bob said he was cautiously optimistic after today's meeting. let's take a listen to what he said moments ago. either you help us now and i'm speaking about days, not weeks. or you help will come to late an

sir many people will die. many civilians will lose their homes. many villages will be destroyed. exactly because this help came too late. there at the yo ukrainian foreign minister with a very clear message, terry. that's right, and he did say he was cautiously optimistic, but i would say listening to that there that he is more cautious than optimistic. he warned allies that they could no longer sit around discussing what may be on its way. he said there is no more time you have just seen what happened in boucher. we know what's happening in other ukrainian cities and you are too late to save those people. he said. but unless you send us more heavy equipment now, and unless you put tougher sanctions on moscow at this very moment, it's already so late. he said, so many more lives are going to be lost, as you heard him say there. and is certain that nato allies in his,

his counterpart sitting around the table, took this to heart. and the secretary general sultan burg said they understood the urgency of the situation. they understood the urgency, but i'd like you to elaborate on that because this obviously, this meeting comes just days after the horrific atrocities that the world has witnessed. the image is coming out of boucher and the battle as we speak for don bass is raging. how is that influencing nato's calculations? these events? well, secretary general stolberg has not minced words about this. he said that when russia promised to withdraw its troops, instead, they just went to reinforce and re supply themselves as they headed into what he has called a major offensive coming in don bus. he also said that he expected there to be many more lives lost in don bass. and this is something that really, nato needs to acknowledge. it has not done anything to prevent and it cannot do anything to prevent when it comes down to it. and this is uncomfortable,

i'm certain for them to remind the ukrainian foreign minister, the job of nato is to defend nato allies. and so what nato is really talking about while it wants to prevent escalation of the conflict is to prevent spill over into nato countries. and so the real effort here is to, is to shore up the eastern flank of the alliance, so that if, if the war were to spread, it is not coming into nato territory. and that's really, really a harsh message to deliver to the ukrainian foreign minister as, as he sits here in person pleading for more weapons to help defend his country. but that's what it comes down to in the end as much as the alliance would like to deter russia from escalating their inside ukraine as well. terry shows reporting from nato headquarters and brussels. thank you so much for your continued coverage. our world leaders has condemned the apparent war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. evidence is mounting or civilian killings, rape and torture. authorities are still trying to identify hundreds of victims of

atrocities in the town of boucher on the outskirts of the capital. keith, while, as russian troops were drawn from the north of the country, locals are coming out of hiding and taking stock after nearly a month under russian occupation did. over his nicoli visit the small town of b keith, which found itself in the middle of intense fighting between russian and ukrainian forces from late february. and he spoke to residence, struggling to make sense of what just happened. this is, we give a small town that's just emerging from a month and a russian occupation month in which it was on the front lines. she, russian and ukrainian forces. toys was sometimes just the woods. people were children. it's 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,

who disagree with the same new people in this village spent 27 days without water on the 27 days without bread, we grew up when you had 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 neighboring village of them up when they got back of the cranium military had retaken the town, their home would be ransacked by retreating russian troops with they've got it. everything carried everything out. all that's laughter, the walls and the sofa soccer. he and then, you know, they've 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. and this is just disgusted at the thought that they were moving around and eating in my house. at least he didn't sleep here. with the full doesn't look dilute, relo to put in the book with witness while they just destroy things. for the sake

of it, him on the road, he'll never even at the but the impact on this community goes far beyond looted homes, only local since they were kidnapped and detained in sellers for days on end. accused by the russians of helping the ukrainian military. several residents are still missing. fear killed. a priest arrives, lynn, a bring village when supplies for those who have lost almost everything. but it's not food or money that the locals are asking for us. who am i and what was a willing to put the people here need tranquilizers were many of them have lost everything with me that they spent a lifetime saving for wallace with, with their houses sought their cars. it's all gone into several con, what you both shows is the damp seller where she, her husband and her neighbors spent some of the coldest nights of the year. no truth gone yet. and i agree with linda. we weren't just hearing the shelling, we could feel it. everything was shaking really. all we could do is pray that it

wouldn't hit us. we just kept praying supplies like these people above and has been going during the week. sandra occupation or the shops did shut, leaving home would have meant running a gauntlet or was it that yes, go got us. why the time you've been up and 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 washington, always waiting for something. they can't quite define unable to ever let go much 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 sellers. last month has taught us what war is his name. so super k. 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. and i understand that we can actually take you now to ukraine to my colleague. did people responded nick, a collie who is joining us from the capital achieve. nick, um we talked in the past couple of days,

you've been to several town surrounding keith in the week of the russian withdrawal . i also understand you spoke to a lot of survivors, residents of these areas that were under russian occupation. talked a little bit about your experiences. well, i mean, the overriding impression you get from this people is of chaos and fear. the russian army seemingly in total disarray, not expecting the kind of resistance that they found, the ukrainian only providing them. and just under deep shock. you just hear everyone saying that the russian army divisions in towns like butcher bruce, other towns i've been to, didn't know what of the road regiments, whatever visions with their didn't know who was meant to be in charge were badly supplied, were often not supplied with the food they needed to sellers, they had to ask the locals for food if they didn't break into shops and steel for themselves. and we heard tales of soldiers of very young, seemingly so frightened by the experience of their 1st 2 days in ukraine that they

basically assumed any civilian out on the streets was a legitimate target because they potentially could be someone helping the ukrainian me, someone they would be fearful of one man put it like this. he said that every time you left the house, you knew that you were being watched through the site of the russian rifle. and that was basically the reality they lived with for a month in butcher. most people seem to have been killed that way on the streets, a shot, often with, without so much as an exchange of any words with the people attacking them. and then, in most cases left for days or weeks on those same streets only in some cases then being collected by other locals who created those mass graves in an attempt to somehow provide some dignity to people who lost their lives, who then collected their passports. if they had anything, any idea on them in the hope of now after the cranial me returning to butcher, then getting in contact with the relatives and basically holding on to what happened to these people at nick you. um, we understand that russian forces have now retreated completely from the areas

around keith. and well, what we're seeing right now is probably the battle for don bass, the ukrainian government urging civilians to leave that part of the country. are they heating the government's call? some are in the definitely lots of trains heading west. i mean it's pretty extraordinary how the train network has held up despite several attacks on the tracks on the network. several, the train staff have lost their lives so far. over the last few weeks, people are leaving, especially people who got out of mario pulled by row to then get to the big city of patricia, which is one of the big centers in southeastern ukraine. and then heading west from there, but i think in the, for the main part, people are staying put. they are not heating this in the numbers that the ukrainian government would want them to. i think the, the kind of bitter reality is that until people can hear the shelling near their homes. they're not really willing to believe that it is going to affect them. we saw that in the weeks, months leading up to this war,

when you had basically all the west, it doesn't services warning about flooding. putin's real intention to actually make good on these threats and to invade. and we were there, we were on the ground, we were asking people who are living within a matter of kilometers of that russian border that isn't very well defended for most of its length. and they were saying this is all bluff. putin doesn't mean it. this is just a diplomatic game. we're not going to make any preparations because the issues that really affect us are our jobs. fact the local shop goes down and all that that's far away from us. so that was really the of the reality in ukraine rash, by the fact that ukraine's already been at war with russia since 2014. and now it seems that people aren't really budging in large numbers, like only reporting from keith ukraine. thank you very much for your important reporting. was as invading ukraine. russian forces have attacked more than 100 medical facilities. the world health organization says more hospitals and health care facilities have been attacked around the globe this year than ever recorded on world health day. the human body is calling on combatants to avoid

targeting health facilities. the moment a bomb exploded in the city of mary awful and this is what was hit. c the maternity and children's hospital since the start of russia's invasion, more than 90 health facilities, including hospitals like this one in the city of it's him, have been attacked according to the world health organization, brutal bullock and for some more than once. at the start of the war, the main hospital in the town of bo, nova, was hit. days later, it was attacked again. and then again,

while dozens of civilians were hiding inside, trying to escape the shelling among them was andry key. and he in off head of the hospitals, trauma center who was there with his wife and children. the experience still haunts him. if a viewer, but it was shilling lasted about 20 to 25 minutes anchor. when we get near, you was clear and the kids just moved. it is my children and i didn't make it to the basement. we spent all this time in the corridor of the hospital after we experienced all the shilling 1st hand . i should given this beer. pavlo cove, tanya oak is ukraine's former deputy health minister. he now runs an organization

that's trying to document each and every hospital attack or color main. and primary goal is to help our content and help our national community to hold accountable those people who would do those the water cracks. and this is what to remake, or even really, really want to evaded because they feel that they are doing something very important for this war. but as the war 10 use. so to do the attacks, hopes of prosecution seem a long way off. well the w rebecca richter's is in levine in western ukraine. she spoke to the head of the world health organizations, ukraine office, about how the war is affecting the countries health system. yana homage the head of the ukraine, a w h o office. thank you very much. for speaking to d, w a,

we know that many hospitals and health care centers have been attacked in this conflict. wondering if you can tell us about the state of the health care system. and whether that the ukrainian health care system can cope with the current situation, not just the injured but also the people who just need regular health care. thank you. and the situation across your crane is different. when we looked at a cities like maria pull their situation, he's devastating good to what we see in heart give is difficult here around leave. many who have moved here are getting their health scare to what they need. so the situation from east to west varies a lot. currently, the health system is functioning when it comes to a central and westport. and that's why we are prioritizing the sport with that different medical supplies, surgical as well throw markets, but also eating that agency kits which are to treat and support those who have non communicable diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure because we need to strengthen also the primary care how much

money is being provided by the international community? and he's that money getting through when we looked double chose response and to support ukraine. we have asked for 1st 3 months, 45000000 dollars. and out of that $45000000.00, i need to thank everybody who eyes solidarity with ukraine. we have received places and actual cash for 95 percent of it. now we concentrate on next 3 months while at the same time delivering all the support is needed because one of the biggest needs is to help neat but done is, are making good on their promises of funding. yes, currently donors are supporting doublet show supporting health and supporting ukraine. now as you mentioned, there's a lot of the health system system in the west is functioning m a know that field hospitals are being set up here in and around levine. ah, ah, the needs of people at further east actually making it to the people who need innate it there. we see now more to more emergency medical teams moving actually to

the east. they are doing the assessments there. there we have also the primary health care needs. so we need to move not only the goods, but also their healthcare workers. doctors, nurses more to east. but at the same time we need to do it safely. because when we have to day 91 at fax on health, is it safe to provide health care? and we need to call that there are no attacks on house that actually doctors and nurses can practice in the safe place. white people's healthily start increasing. you also spoke of the long term needs and the psychological needs of people. what is being done to provide psychological help for the people who've witnessed these traumas. what we see eas, number of we're too old sessions have been set up because people are afraid they are at homes. we see people in shelters. so then i will talk services a lot, the volunteers waterway table as a double or chill. we continue to support mobile mental health steams water going

around. just before the war broke out, ukraine was doing key reforms on mental health in 23 all blasts. their automate mobile mental health steams, but we need to do more because this war has implications to mental health and not only now, when we look the children who are leading ukraine, these memories will stay with them for a while and for their children and their grandchildren ya to have it. thank you very much for your time. thank you. now in poland, almost $30000.00 volunteers have joined the territorial defense forces. similar to the us national guard. we met with one of the volunteers who wants to be prepared. he says adding the war has made him rethink things even if poland is a member of nato. god, he sees deep into the room. british soldiers from the nato battle group training polish volunteers. and we sweep does hurrying off on an working urban

warfare tactics in case an emergency requires the volunteers to defend that country . victor is one of the volunteers. it's his 1st day of training. the i t entrepreneur has never held a weapon, but the war in ukraine right next door drove him to act miracle of the vin on that list. it's especially the civilian deaths that you notice people. and that's what motivated a lot of people here to get involved. and there's more coverage. the participants have normal jobs, but they want to be part of a volunteer force to defend polish territory. many have signed up since russia invaded ukraine, like ivona, a school teacher. article that could interest glena as or that i want to learn about weapons and self defense. all that on there to live is a ranger. you never know what will happen. that's why we're getting ready for wolf

owners. the volunteer army dates back 5 years. it reports to the polish defense minister as a new to member state. poland can count on a basic level of security that ever since russia annexed crimea. more and more people worry that poland could also be the target of russian aggression. those worries have drastically increased since the war in ukraine started. they're the most of the best ship that us. it's better to train now and get a notion of what it is than to join the army when there's an urgent threat living and have no idea what to do with new research as a hodge. first to health jack up then a 16 day training course. after that, the volunteers will meet one week and a month for more training. it's not about the money they are and just over $100.00 euro's a month, i will transfer over for soccer. we also get critical equipment here on that is another motivation for more about it. there are now nearly $30000.00 volunteers

signed up to fight the poland. if an attack comes, our next support looks at a group of syrians given refuge here in germany after fleeing war in their own country. last summer they were helping germans who had lost everything in devastating flights while now they're helping ukrainians, whose lives have also been turned upside down by the conflict mud. as far as the i can see in july of last year, the, our valley in western germany was hit by devastating flooding in just a matter of days, a novel aide campaign was launched. the group syrian volunteers in germany, put a call out in arabic for extra support. and hundreds of syrians from across germany answered to help flood victims. young the if hong of the we have more experienced than the germans when it comes to disasters in war and us. and we've been through it all and survived the so we're better equipped to deal with it with

and many who haven't yet faced these things. and duffel kind of, i don't go home in cincy nestled in the, our valley, a group of syrians pitched in for months. they bonded with the flood victims. and now some of the helpers are moving to the valley themselves. one of them is an us allahabad. now he's helping ukrainian refugees. he and other syrian volunteers use the network they built during the floods to coordinate help for ukraine. he picked up refugees in this bus. now he's using it to move house. during the drive, he keeps getting calls to organize more a transports for ukraine on a, it's an issue. we built up this team of volunteers after the flooding. you both these a team, tanya, and now the team can take on other time as an oil hope throughout europe.

and why not? either. it's our goal to help out in ukraine. and wherever else we can hinder from when they emphasize with what the ukrainians are going through and are using the organizational skills they applied during the floods to help ukrainian refugees day by day, they check which helpers are available and when, who has a driver's license? who can drive a truck? right? i know i have dual is another syrian volunteer money now lives in cincy. the war in ukraine has upset him greatly. he lost his entire family to a chlorine gas attack in syria in for one person or mac. why is doing this or bashar al assad, or all these people waging war and syria? why are they doing this? i don't know. it was nice while we were filming,

and us told us how helping made him feel stronger and find his place in society. they hoped to lead by example, and keep pitching in wherever they're needed. humanity. earlier did, of course, one above of athos spoke with the president of the european parliament about them at sola in brussels. she explained how the you could do more to help you crane president. miss smith saw that you were the 1st top european politician to visit ukraine after the war began. how did you find president zelinski housey standing up to the enormous pressure and what was the atmosphere during your visit? it was amazing to see a parliament that was alive, full of political representatives that are fighting with a united spirit and such courage and resilience for a country that is proud. and that is really declaring and fighting and

competing to it. let's say unacceptability of this brutal invasion death was unprovoked and completely unnecessary. i was there a few hours before we saw the photos of the atrocities in butcher and, but also in the aftermath of what has happened in mario, paul, and also around careful with the last few weeks in the eyes of precedent or zalinski. i saw courage. i saw spiritedness, i saw resilience, but i also saw that the face of a leader that would like more from the european union, from low leaders. and that is why i went there in order to talk a face to face with him to see how myself as a leader of the european parliament. but also all of us as european union can continue to help. the response was we need more help, more urgently. we need more arms, we need more military help financial happen, logistical head. how can this be brought about?

if we look at the next sanctions package, for instance, it seems we catch it so more a whimper than a bang and so on that regard. it seems there's not enough unity, but with giving arms, giving money and, and giving more factual help. you think that could be done? i am in the parliament where huge amount of members, unprecedented unity of fact among the members that have pushed from day one or 2 steps that i thought this parliament would never achieved at welcoming the candidate status of ukraine as a, as a candidate country of the european union am calling for us a quicker removal of a rush from the swift system of going for the 1st and 2nd package of sanctions and financial assistance that were voted on at lightening speed. we have seen unprecedented unity also among the member states and the leaders and the european union has really come to action in terms of sending weapons in terms of locating

financial assistance. i think that we need to go much further. still i think these days are crucial. this week is crucial in order to make sure that the ukrainians continue to have the possibility to fight. they are fighting not only for their country, they are fighting for europe. and therefore, when they ask us for more equipment, we need to be ready to give them more equipment when they ask for a quicker, let's say, a possibility to access funding. we should be able to give them that. and when they ask for the strongest of political messaging that we do not want to remain dependent on russian oil a coal, but also gas that we need to be ready to say that different countries have different realities. but the one thing that brought in, we'll try to exploit is any pos, potential divisions between the member states. it do you think you're.