next they doubly correspondent and nick conway in cave or german chancellor, olaf sholtes, and turkish president reggie type o 2 on have renewed their calls for a cease fire. and the war, a chance for sholtes is on his 1st official visit to anchor. as a chancellor, the 2 men had been planning to discuss bilateral ties, but talks had been dominated by russia's invasion of ukraine. the visit comes less than a week after turkey hostile, a foreign ministers of ukraine and russia in the 1st high level negotiations. as since the crisis began with president obama close to do all he could to mediate between russia and ukraine. but in his remarks to the press, the turkish president didn't out to didn't condemn the invasion out. right. and chancellor shawls was far more forthright. president added, no one and myself are absolutely in agreement that the violent military conflict in ukraine must be condemned and that we want to see a ceasefire as soon as possible. it has to happen now. so that night so that we can save lives. they have to be safe corridors for civilians so that they can escape wha

next they w correspondent and nick conway and keith. well, german chancellor, ola sholtes, and turkish president, reggie tire bird one have repeated their calls for a cease fire in ukraine. chancellor shawl says on his 1st official visit to anchor, where the 2 men had been plotting to discuss bilateral ties. but their discussions were in fact, dominated by the russian invasion of the crate. as it comes less than a week after turkey host of the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers in the 1st high level negotiations since the crisis began for president early one pledged to do everything he could to mediate in this war. his remarks to the press stop short of condemning the russian invasion. chancellor shots, however, was much more direct. president edwin and myself are absolutely in agreement that the violent military conflict in ukraine must be condemned and that we want to see a ceasefire as soon as possible. it has to happen now, so that not so that we can save lives. they have to be safe, coders for civilians, so that they can escape

and be willing to pay a price to support your date of your correspondent nick conway. thank you so much for your reporting from keith. let's go now. it to a puzzle. fell going. how are a moscow based a military analyst? thank you so much for joining us. on the show, i want to ask you almost 2 weeks into the war and we are seeing rushes territorial gains, especially in the south and east of the country. and whereas in the north and around keep, the operation seems to not be going at full speed. can you tell us why that is? i load the russian a sensor reached a kind of crescent though it actually stopped all over the place. there's russia still has the emission there. it's trying to push in different directions in the zoom that's trying to close in from the other side to into the lance, go blast. and those are in the south. they're still offensive faction, but they are so. so kind of right now, stop the russian offensive, effectively as ran out of steam and whatever later that risk. well, that's because russia doesn't have apparently, sufficient preserves, russia threw i

next they w correspondent, and nick conway and cave. well, german chancellor, olaf shoulds says a meeting with turkish president reggie tire bird one in ankara. his 1st official visit as chancellor. the 2 men had been planning to disgust bilateral ties, but talks are likely to be dominated by russia's invasion of you crate. that the visit comes last the week after turkey host of the foreign ministers of ukraine and russia. the 1st high level negotiations since this crisis began on deed of his chief political edison. hannah curfew joined us from the turkish capital welcom mikaela. so this is chancellor. i shots, his 1st official visit to the country. what's on his agenda? well it and it wasn't for russia and ukraine, there would be a whole list of thorny issues. both would probably be talking around and about. but the overarching issue, of course is and ukraine. it is ross's war there and it is how to get one common aim, actually it to happen, which is to get vladimir putin towards something like sci fi, because that is the one thing of

next they doubly correspondent nick conway and keith. we'll take a look at some more developments in the conflict. germany's defense ministry has confirmed it's planning to buy u. s. made f 35 fighter jazz as part of a push to modernize its armed forces. following the invasion of ukraine, the new jets will replace germany, sir, aging that tornado fleet. the country is also pledged to increase defense spending to more than 2 percent of g d p surpassing nato requirements. shaft u. s. national security advisor jake sullivan, has warned china against to helping russia evade the effects of global sanctions. u . s. officials of also reported that moscow has asked beijing for support, including military equipment. though russia and china deny this police across russia have arrested more than 800 people from protesting against this war. the authorities in moscow say they detain 300 for breaching the public order police in saint petersburg of 30 other cities of also made dozens of arrest internet traffic bonuses, say the instagram social media pl

now to our correspondent conway was in capital. keith nick, good evening to you. let's start with the situation and maria pole where the cease fire hasn't broken yet again. what can you tell us? west increasingly desperate situation there for hundreds of thousands of people. this is a big city that isn't now surrounded from the north, from the east and west the sea to south. well, there's no ukraine help coming there. and there are russian forces in that sea of as of so this is desperate. this was always kind of clear from ukraine, would you that this would be the key city in that part of the country in the dumbass that this was a key ukrainian base, very close to those self proclaimed separatist areas and crucial for ukrainian morale that it be kept now with this is the 2nd attempt to try an organized circle . shantarian corridor get people out while the shelling stops and again list the ukranian side says this is down to russian shelling not allowing this to happen. this is a very old fashioned conflict. this is not a 21st century war in terms of technology bein