[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the european commission pushes the ban on russian oil commission. president also funder line, says the you should phase out in ports by the end of the year. but critics say that's not fast enough. also coming up, russia strikes ukraine in the west, and east bombs destroy power stations in the city of levine and russian forces continue their assault on the southern city of mario pole where ukrainians are

still fighting for their lives. ah, i'm gabels as welcome to the program, european commission president, also our funder lion has called on the you to ban oil imports from russia. she proposed a phase out that would end payments to moscow by the end of the year. the $27.00 members states would have to support such a ban unanimously. support that may be hard to come by. several you countries get most of their oil from russia. but those who back the embargo say anything less would help fund you rushes war on ukraine. stepping up, the pressure and russia was laugh, underline chose to european parliament, either lawmakers who represent the east citizens to drop out her bank announcement

. we call to day we will propose to ban all russian oil from europe. this will be a complete import ban on all russian oil seaborne and pipeline crude and refined. we will make sure that we phase out russian oil in an orderly fashion. the plan is to face out oil buddy, end of 2020 to hungary and slovakia, which are very dependent on russian oil will be granted longer transition periods. and besides the oil band funder line also presented other sanctions in her 6th package of the internet. the european commission now wants to take off spare bank rushes, largest bank from the swift financial transaction system. and the plans also to target military officials in warped in the atrocities in mario pole. and in boucher and 3 russian media outlets will be banned from european airwaves for spreading misinformation. in addition to sputnik and russia today, it is with the ban on energy, however,

that the ear is hoping to hit the russian economy the hardest. but only facing out oil is far from enough for many lawmakers damage. they want boulder steps. finally, we have for oil even when it will, takes still 6 to 9 months or to implement it. i and i'm, are also a waiting for a been on, on gas because sir, or what we are paying to the war machine of put in is mainly what we are paying for russian. gus, the ears ban on russian oil could cause even higher price spikes for energy and fuel in europe. putting a burden on european citizens apprise the you has to pay to show solidarity with its neighbors. ukraine, after to many, your makers think we have to understand that $1.00 price to fight this bloody war will be on this oil and gas embargo in the end. yes. and we have to make

sure this is socially, are compensated for those people for those hotels who could not pay the higher price. here, countries must still agree on the sanctions package before it enters into force. but that is likely to happen. in the next few days. the russian army has renewed its assault on the other of steel plant in the city of mario bold cities. may it says contact with those remaining of the facility has been lost, making it impossible to assess their condition. humanitarian workers have evacuated over a 100 civilians from the plants and sunday for some it was the 1st time they had seen daylight and weeks safe. at last, after weeks under constant attack, these people have escaped the as of south steel plant, ukraine's last stronghold in the besieged city of mario, paul. many arriving

t as recounting stories of horror. when you might be good, you can't imagine how scary it is when you sit in the shelter in a wet and damp a basement which is bouncing, shaking. when we were able to go outside, i saw the sun for the 2nd time in 2 months. but while doesn't have made it to safety, thousands remain in danger or fight even march with bizarre, a few at the moment while we are here, as of style is being stormed out, mario poll is still under siege and people could not leave today when you were you quickly, but you know, there are tens of thousands of such people who were tens of thousands of women and the elderly remaining mario pole. they booking all of you. russian shelling continued through the day in mar, you poll. soon after the evacuation was completed. those who remain are in despair

. spanish watches you wake up in the morning and you cry, you cry in the evening. i don't know where to go at own yet not to stop this. i am not alone. imagine everything is destroyed, everything is broken. where should the people go? now? relatives of the soldiers is still fighting in the as of style plant had rallies in cave on tuesday, demanding baby evacuated to the soldiers are part of the controversial far right as of regiment. while ukrainian authorities promised to continue the operation, they say international intervention will be crucial. with me. earlier i spoke to matilda booker from the united nations human rights monitoring mission in ukraine. she told us about the scale of civilian casualties. her team has documented. yes,

we have been publishing civilian casualty reports every day we have more than $6600.00 civilian casualties, which includes more than $3200.00 civilian dates. the other civilians have been injured. but clearly these numbers are lower than the actual numbers, because these are the cases that we've been able to individually verify. and in places such as medical, we have not been able to verify most of the casualties that have happened there. and we estimate that there have been thousands of casualties there. so overall the numbers will actually be larger, but it will take time to be able to fully verify them. now they've been many reports about russian troops deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in ukraine. was that the case from the very beginning, or is that something that you've only seen later when it became clear that ukrainian resistance was strong and the russian invasion stalled? right. in the beginning, we didn't see that as, as

a conflict has increased in size and, and gone on for longer. we've seen more and more attacks which have hits in civilian objects. and certainly we are concerned that the use of weapons has been indiscriminate in some cases and the numbers of civilian objects including hospitals, including schools that have been, have been hit as strongly suggest that the international humanitarian law rules, the rules of war have not been fully complied with, and that there has been indiscriminate use of weapons. now, is there any contact at all between you and the russian forces about what's happening in the territories that they control? well, we have not been in direct touch on that yet. so that is something that we will

be doing. they are aware of our reporting. we are consent by violations in the areas where they have had control and in the places where they have since withdrawn, in particular north of key. if we have seen a wide, a wide scope of violations there, do you get a sufficient access from both you russian and ukrainian authorities to the property, investigate events on the ground. we have an agreement with the government of ukraine to give us full access to the territory. we have had access, we get access to places of detention. we have been visiting prisoners of war. we are not able to access those areas that are under severe hostilities. purely from the safety issue, it is just too insecure to go to those areas. we have not yet been able to access areas that are under,

under russian control. now how worried are you that possible evidence of human rights abuses may be removed or temple with in regions that are under russian control. in maria i'm well, i think we've already been able to collect some evidence. evidence over time. does deteriorate, is of a see a lot better to get evidence immediately after, after events have happened. but i am hopeful that over time evidence will be collected and that we will understand the full scope of what has happened. until the how does this war that is not nearly 3 months old compared to other wars that you and your team have worked on and it's always difficult to compare different conflicts. each conflict has its own no unique elements. however,

clearly there are certain aspects which, which are similar. i mean the, the indiscriminate use of weapons has happened in many other conflicts. and i used to work here on libya and certainly there we saw we were documenting also civilian casualties and the tax on on civilian objects. so this is something that we see in common. unfortunately, also we see as summary executions are we see concerns around the treatment of torture, new treatment of prisoners of war. these are things that unfortunately happen in many conflicts and are happening here. also matilda, over the head of the u. n's human rights, missouri mission in ukraine. thank you very much for time and tell them. thank you . german chancellor, olaf shaw says russian president vladimir putin made a mistake by invading ukraine. he claimed the war has only strengthened nato, and the

e. u shows was speaking after to day retreat with his cabinet outside berlin, where the discuss how best a sent moscow that message in the form of sanctions and a phasing out of russian fossil fuel imports. there was a relaxed atmosphere and miss herbert on the 2nd day of german cabinet consultations on the agenda with the war and ukraine and resulting economic and energy issues. chancellor left schoultz said vladimir putin had made a disastrous miscalculation by invading ukraine, thus have the contests and what he's getting is a stronger nato. a stronger organization of security in the eastern states of the natal region does not what he's got is a unified european union. i nigger appears on your on another central theme was the planned e, you, oil embargo you ranks 1st is the transition period is sufficiently long that we can look at all options to create alternatives to russian,

oil and germany. that's even shorter, certain dodge than of course, in this situation, we can't guarantee that it will be plain sailing your own guarantee of indecisiveness stocking. to it. germany's finance minister said he was looking to improve the enforcement of sanctions on russian oligarchs. the poor fool up, we're checking if those on the sanctions list on vince is that can be legally obliged the up to disclose their assets and germany movements. kingston, the enlarged and often sleep. after 2 days of meetings in the countryside, the 3 party leaders praised the corporation between coalition members of have a quick nod. some of the other stores making headlines around the world. the head of the united nations has paid his 1st visit to nigeria, secretary general antonia who terrace met with president's motto, bahati, and visited refugee camp in the conflict. it's bono state. he met with those

displaced by the terrible book or her rom during the insurgency, and called for more funding. police in sri lanka, have arrested protest is rallying outside parliament as the country's economic crisis deepens. basic necessities, on short supply and inflation is soaring. on wednesday, the finance minister wants reluctance that the economic hardship will last for at least 2 more years. thousands of opposition supporters of taken to the streets of the armenian capital yerevan to coal for they wrote resignation of prime minister nico pacina. they accused him of plotting to seed land to neighboring as a by john of for a 6 week war in 2020 armenia law, significant territory. and the disputed to go on a terabyte region. that's it from me for now. coming up next in d, w. 's asia, beijing, residents worry, they will face the same fight as shanghai extreme locked 1000 warehouse style

quarantine centers and taiwan moves away from a 0 cove. it policy saying it has no plans to infringe on people's rights in order to contain codes that mo, coming up with melissa john after a short break on gabrielle f, as in berlin and have an update for you at the top with