ah, ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, germany, you turns on sending heavy weapons to ukraine. following heavy criticism. berlin says it will deliver heavy anti aircraft systems to the ukranian military to help in its fights against oppression. invasion with more support on the way. also on the program. americans defense secretary host senior defense and military leaders from dozens of countries here in germany, declaring that they are moving, having to help keep un secretary general antonio. good cherish host talks in moscow with the russian president. vladimir putin says he's open to un involvement,

in fact, waiting civilians from audio. i'm the head of the u. s. atomic energy watchdog. it describes rushes recent occupation up to novel nuclear scientist. very, very big. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. germany now says it will for the 1st time send heavy anti aircraft weapon systems to you crate to help fight off rushes invasion. the decision follows weeks of criticism at home and from you crate. defense minister christina lambert made the announcement at the u. s. like meeting of defense and military leaders. ramstein air base here in june. the u. s. air base in ramstein, germany. this is where the united states and its allies pledged new packages of

ever heavier weapons for ukraine during meeting on tuesday. that was hosted by us defense secretary, lloyd austin. we don't have any time to waste the briefings left today, laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be so crucial for ukraine. so we got to move at the speed of war. and i know that all the leaders leave to day more resolve than ever to support ukraine in its fight against russian aggression. the day kicked off with a surprise in a notable policy shift. germany, which had been criticized for refusing to send heavy weapons to ukraine, announced it would now send capehart anti aircraft systems the ambient, i don't think we've made the decision that it's now important to support. and he, i craft, offends us that can be done with a good parts and is exactly what's on the list of what ukraine needs. and that is

what we coordinated with others are now making possible. we'll continue doing this slide for not everyone in berlin. well come to decision, since the missing creed by the problematic germany doesn't even have enough military equipment for itself in the case of protein totally losing control, loiter. i think it's important. i also think that what the german government is doing is good. but i'm also not sure if offering weapons is actually going to stop the war. and i didn't like the degree of hesitancy in the end, i would actually be for aggressive weapons. so heavy machinery ok people are from other shrews because i in his closing remarks often said the gathering between the us and its allies will not be the last. once a month they'll me to discuss ukraine's defense needs to help them fight the russian invasion. get more from d, w 's or political a triple, where editor to kinda go from welcome mckayla. so what is behind this german, utah?

what prompted it, an internal struggle within the governing coalition, which lasted for weeks and in the end, so tans the salts and his social democrats. still not wanting to deliver those heavy weapons to ukraine, while the free democrats and the greens i had already been calling for exactly that at the same time. they all said that they're on the same page, but they clearly want and here we now see what is the 2nd small turn around really because internally here and early, this is seen as a paradigm shift, the delivery of heavy weapons into a war zone. that is a fuss and it crosses what previously was seen as a red line here in germany, externally picky. when you look at those eastern partners, it's germany. find the being in sync with the rest of west it out was what pushed them or bridge. it really was the internal pressure as well that the free democrats,

the greens, wanted to see their chance sir. it's strike not just a different tone, but actually, so that with action. and at the same time, we're seeing external pressure. the americans calling this meeting on german, so at a u. s. military base. if you wanted to be part of the west, really, this was the moment to change it and change direction here. and those are heard in the report. this research is to become a regular event. yes, and i think there is a very profound message in this and we've had a lot of debates in the past over who is the west? well, it was the west sitting down, run around the table and right later, not. well, that's important thing. it was exactly not nato countries. it was, it's a much broader set of countries. it is the west, it's liberal democracies standing together, standing up for ukraine. nato still wants to and vows to stay out of this being a clearly just a defensive union. and here,

these are that willing states the states willing to stand up for ukraine, but making this monthly just manifest the impression we're getting increasingly this will last not just months, but potentially is right. and how damaging has a chance of a show is perceived foot, dragging b for germany standing while he started off pretty fast 3 days after the ukraine was invaded by russia, it was the german chancellor who declared that site and vendor a new era. and then he was not just perceived to be dragging his heels. he was not willing to go down that avenue of heavy weapons. now germany seem to do exactly what it vowed not to do once again in this mounting conflict. and it does raise some question marks over who really needs in europe, who is the true leader and, and at the same time, it is actually done quite a bit of damage to the trust that eastern states as eastern countries the baltics

have in the germans. thank you for that. i did of history political, it is a mikaela so what sort of difference will delivery of these german gephardt anti aircraft tanks make to ukrainian forces? i asked that won't fall to fight thing that he's a former brigadier general in the austrian army, is not president of the vienna based think tank the center for strategic analysis. i don't want to expect an immediate effect on the ground on the battle ground by delivering heavy victims from germany back in the long run and been as a long run and think about the fuel month. for example, you can have a strong impact on the capacities of the ukranian armed forces because the danger from the are coming from russian fighters and tech helicopters is very intensive. so having some bit pins against that will make the change. and that the, the climate from ukraine for, for, for an air defenses, from, from nato countries,

that seems to have come down. or does that mean that they've given up on that? because nato has said no to it. now, it is still on place. i would say, and it is of highest importance for the survival of the tank forces, for example, from the ukrainian side, because the angel from b is so high. so they needed to really, very importantly. and so how well equipped, let's talk about that. the ukranian side and how well equipped or is ukrainian ukraine's army 2 months into this war? i think its equation did never can. nobody can answer really exactly. but what we see is the effect of the ground ukrainian forces us the labor to stop russian assaults, assaults, and they are still able to maneuver in a certain extent in the area. so they are standing, are very high level, i would say. and that is a huge advantage of that,

the lever and says he already because they got a lot of entered tank, but from san antonio weapons. and that makes a difference because now they are able to defend the on our higher level. and they are not running out of veterans and immigration. so this is a battle that, that seems to have exposed russia as a, something of a phantom superpower, as it were, because the expectation was that they would obliterate you crate. and clearly, we presume that there are many more russian forces in reserve. so what's going on here is russia choosing not to throw everything at this conflict, or is russia actually doing that and still come out? not as well as we expect is seen. many analysts see russia is throwing a lot of, of troops that they have available towards ra towards you cream. so it is not the

size, it would say it is more they capacity on the ground to act and to act in a very coordinated way. so many people say already that the force in the strength of russian forces was over estimated. and i agree to a certain extent and he's meeting with the un secretary, a general today, a russian foreign minister sag oliver offset. he had complained about the west effectively trying to establish an alternative organization to the un. now we hear that the united states is convening a monthly meeting of defense and military leaders from 40 odd countries to coordinate at weapons supplies and strategy. a mr lover of seems to have appoint disney i would say it is a change of argumentation from the russian side, because from the very 1st moment the neglected to call it the war, they call it a military operation, then say they will focus on the dom bus only, and they take care of the capitol and so on and so forth. so i would say it is

a very adaptive argumentation from the russian side according to the situation on the ground. ok, good talking to that sir. very clear. thank you so much for joining us. volter a 15. thank you. lynn ukraine itself. volunteers are working to evacuate thousands of civilians in the east and living with the daily and nightly russian artillery shall at the hiding out in basements and shelters. many without electricity, gas, or water. oh. this man is being evacuated from his home and hockey's trapped in his sled. it is a miracle he survived. no on a new enormous. they've been bombarding us all day and all night. now sheila blew in the beginning. it was quieter at night, spoke on the bombing only happen during the day on will over. but later they begun

bombing at night too. oh, nice pool of cook boulevard, missouri hit here in the yard, but i really feel who would look hard. keith has endured a barrier of russian attacks. cons than shelling has reduced much of the city to ashes. now, some 50 residents have been evacuated from brun frontline neighbourhood. they have been taken to shelters where they hope to be safe. about 400 kilometer south safety is still a distant dream. russian forces continue to pummel the other style. steel factory the last pocket of resistance and merrier pole. the port city has been under siege for weeks now. most of it has been wiped out by russian bombardment. the dire fate of mary poll has been a warning to other ukrainian cities to protect them. ukraine's president vladimir

zalinski has asked alice for more support few, every one in the world, even those who openly did not support us here, now agrees that the fate of europe, the fate of global security and the fate of the democratic wisdom is being decided in ukraine with them, and it seems like his calls for greater diplomatic efforts are being hurt with dozens of nations willing to support ukraine in a war that had simply cannot win on its own. un secretary general antonio terror says, use talks in moscow with russian president vladimir putin, to repeat his call for a cease fire. after the meeting was to get her of said, he had an agreement in principle to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of mario. all president polluted, told the secretary general that he had hopes of a diplomatic solution to the conflict. i think that peace talks with ukraine. we're continuing virtually earlier in the day mister cherish held what he described as

a very frank discussion with the russian foreign minister. rushes foreign minister sergey leverett welcomed a special guest to moscow on wednesday. un secretary general, antonia garish that you and chief said he'd come as a messenger. he's but he was seemingly unsuccessful. after their meeting lever of accused the west and especially the u. s. of using ukraine to harm russia to we're do new school. we either resign ourselves to having a single country and it's satellites control all of humanity, literature or humanity lives together on the basis of the united nations. nobody wants a war, heaven forbid will brazil pushy. but that is one thing that is true and obvious and that no arguments can change. we have not ukrainian troops in the territory of the russian federation,

but we have russian troops in the territory of ukrainian federation. later, good cherish held long awaited talks with president putin referring specifically to the kremlin invasion of ukraine as a war terminology that's banned in russia. p w. so moscow bureau chief unit, russia has been covering this meeting is currently racing rig because d, w is banned in russia at welcome your re or what else are we hearing from the protein you cherish liter. otherwise, so far, no joint press conference between vladimir putin and her antonio terrace. but i believe that the meeting with russia's foreign minister love through his live to day earlier was a for a taste of the meeting with letting me put in considering fill that love rock on the transmitter, put in swill in foreign parts. of course, it was good there to both put in and a garage spoke to each other, especially considering that target harish very clearly condemned to the war in ukraine and blamed it on, put in previously had of this meeting at nevertheless,

only time will tell whether this meeting really brought anything because looking bet back to a similar event in history. remember the surprise visit of then the secretary general bunkie morn to put in 2014 after getting sation of crimea ban spoke of very constructive talks, which as we know now war of nor use at all. right. and the secretary general also racks are the russian foreign minister, sir gay, at lover of so and as you hinted, bear on the same line coming out of both meetings or at least one diplomatic goal has been achieved. a garage was hurts. i want to point to the fact ah, that he spoke out very clearly about the war during the press conference today in moscow of word or war. there to no rational in person is in rush is allowed to sid you to the russian law to the so called fake news about the russian armed forces. i

think that russia is conceding, at least partially by setting up a joint contact group under the leadership of the grant for the evacuation of the population. as this can also be interpreted as a positive sign because it's office is russians, a kind of firm? yeah. exit strategy from their failures in ukraine. russian state propaganda might see this as a generous gesture of good will by letting me put in. but at the end of the day, doesn't matter if it ultimately leads ah, to the setting of her human lives. and to this is exactly what to go to rush wanted to achieve as a peacemaker. i'm just slight change of subject or your it but, but, but news reaching hostetter rushes gas from is halting, a gas supplies to poland. barbara your mouth pipeline. what did we make of her? well, it gasp room is going to completely suspend to gas supplies to pollen from april 27th or so polished companies received a letter from gasper on the about the complete suspension of supplies under the sky

mile contract jamal contract. previously, poland refused to pay for russian gas supplies with mandatory conversation into rubles. this of course is a bad sign, not only for poland because gas, brown forest, not only poland, but all western countries to pay for gas in roubles. as far as we know, germany was able to supposedly agree on payment in euro's as, as t melissa related to an, in the contract. as for poland, it was stated that this was a break of contract by gas prom. and so no matter how the situation develops further, phil, this is of course, a clear threat to other western countries that star dw re rochette. so speaking to me earlier, and since we spoke, bo gary of energy ministry has now revealed that gas problem says that their gas delivers will cease on wednesday. at the head of the ones that nuclear watchdog has visited chernobyl on the 35th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that i. e. a

chief raphael man enough, mariano grossi said that russia's recent occupation have been very dangerous. is that radiation levels went up during the takeover, but now back to normal. the w's mathias pulling. it reports the world's most dangerous route, sealed under giant concrete hood, the chernobyl disaster site is once again the focus of attention. now that russian occupation troops have withdrawn the head of the international atomic energy authority can assess its condition. the 1st ready must go to the operators. will these people here because they carried on their work, in spite of all the difficulties, despite of the stress, in spite of the fact that they could not be working normally, they continue working as if nothing had happened. so they get his he, jason stable. so to speak, and these, in this sense the worst at was of course about the

1st task is replacing equipment that was destroyed or stolen. just the 1st one you will have to push america, convert started his games cousin wasn't my vehicle, they weren't admitted to the critical parts of the structure meal it but they left a lot of chaos and they stole equipment from us. our computers as just unusual log ebony, if any of actually us 36 years ago, this nuclear block behind me exploded. it was the worst nuclear accident in human history. now, 36 years later, the war has brought back the nuclear threat. the russians took over the sides on the 1st day of the war. paula was cut several times, putting the cooling system at risk. and ukraine says the russians, dark trenches in highly contaminated forests, releasing radiation from contaminated, so b l door. lisa willard little from an eye on the edges of the forest. we

didn't go. indeed, we found levels of radiation 50 times higher than the norm. well, normally cameras will discarded food packaging suggests the soldiers spend time, they're possibly becoming contaminated in the process. rescue workers and other staff remained in the town of chernobyl during the occupation, hoping the russian forces would understand the danger they were putting the world in. i'm, we got up with ocean rosler shores near rosalind. they were quite diverse and there were different groups, some understood where they were, and some did not. there were so many of them the 1st arrived and another than a 3rd and so on by some behaved reasonably. others less so, but i can't tell you what was going on in their heads anymore. homeschoolers shown you will have it with his chernobyl has escaped another disaster. now it's about securing this site for the future. or if what was far by the w correspondent i'm at

is willinger who are a nurture novel. he joins us now from the ukrainian capital. keith. oh, welcome at yes. and what's the situation a inch? annabelle, a like now. your the russian troops, they have entered the zone. this contaminated though, in this exclusion zone that is not open to the public usually. um, they have entered it. it are the 1st day of the war and they stayed there for more than a month, almost 6 weeks. and in that time, what we have been hearing is that they have oh and allies, many facilities, but that's mostly civilian facilities, homes shops, et cetera. like everywhere else, they haven't entered in the plant, but they have done a lot of damaged by digging these trenches that we just heard about. um, there are some there. the radiation is very unequally distributed. in this zone,

there are places where we went today or where you can walk around where you won't get a lot of radiation and then there are other places that are highly contaminated. and there is one particular forest that that's known for being the highest that the, the most contaminated placing this zone. and that's exactly where they dug trenches . and then this a brought up. this opened the, the, the soil where the radiation was stored and, and, and the dust and everything. so the radiation now is higher than it was before in the zone. and russian forces also occupy the active nuclear plant at the richer in southeast than ukraine. i am much bigger, was the rest there. yes, even the bigger worry because this plant is under russian control. the ukranian team that operates this plant is still on duty. they're still working there and the

ukrainians are confident that they have everything under control. but there is, of course, a constant threat there has been military equipment has been stationed, that there has been a anti aircraft or russian anti aircraft installations and so on. and of course, there's always the risk that this might be drawn back into war. it was hit by a shell, the an administrative building. there was hit by and shell when they entered this facility. and of course, this is one of the biggest, where is to the i i a a and also to the ukranian government. thank you for mrs. william in keith mcclain, a secure, is russia of trying to fuel unrest in russia, back separatist region of bol dover ukrainian. president vladimir lansky said that moscow wants to destabilize the situation in the trans mystery of region. islands has fled in the area of the last 2 days,

fueling fears they conflict in neighboring ukraine. could spill over to radio towers used to broadcast russian news, now scrap metal, the blast site, and moldova is just 5 kilometers from the ukranian border. so far, no one has claimed responsibility. i'm only dilemma red flags as though our analysis shows their attentions between various forces who are interested and destabilizing this region. it is my belief that out he'd like to your, was he blood in complex? so this is a complex and tense situation, but we will arrange vigilant, and we'll take all necessary measures to prevent escalation, to strengthen our security and to protect our citizens. seni, looking. there was we must remain calm and he will stay informed using verified sources and avoid distributing false information with the explosion of the radio towers was the 2nd unclaimed attack this week in the moldova separatist region of

trans, neater. the 1st was on the state security ministry, inter rosabelle tensions in the region have been high since russia invaded ukraine . moscow has suggested it wants to create a land corridor, a long southern ukraine between trans nestor and the russian controlled territories and eastern ukraine. it's believed russia keeps around $1500.00 troops and trans mr . and analysts say the area could be used to launch an attack on ukraine. the region remained pro russian after the collapse of the soviet union, but the international community considers it part of moldova, moldova and authorities have raised the countries terror alert to its highest level . they're worried, the war in ukraine could spill across the border into trends. nice to her, and then to the rest of the country. and one of our top stores up this, our germany says it will now deliver heavy anti aircraft systems to you,

cried the major policy shift follows intense criticism the balance taking too long to send, keep the weapons it needs against the russian invasion. and us defense secretary lloyd austin has applauded international support for ukraine and the 9 that the u. s. meets allies will meet every month to coordinate the military. us to keep for general. austin was speaking after hosting the 1st. i've been sent meetings on military leaders for more than 40 countries at ramstein and rice. well, well there's at the top i'll be out. i'll be back in just a moment to take the big stories of the day in the day with

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around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. ah. today, testing the limits of diplomacy, the un secretary general has sat down with the russian president urging him to engage in dialogue to stop the war in ukraine and talk of a different kind here in germany. we'll look at how dozens of nations have come together. they coordinate efforts to supply ukraine with heavier and better weapons, not just to stop russia, but to end the threat of a russian invasion for good. i'm feel, go in berlin and this is the day. ah .