a lydia unspeakable crime on al jazeera. ah, now that we see the invasions beginning in russia has may clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy. ah, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time. the u. s. has top diplomat cancels a high level meeting with his washing counterpart over the escalating crisis in ukraine. ah, hello, i'm adrian fit again. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. the u. s. response president biden outlines a string of tough new sanctions on russia, saying that, but to be a push in this building his case to invade ukraine. the un chief antonio pathetic calls for com, saying that any military conflict between russia and ukraine would be catastrophic

. and president putin gets the go ahead from parliament troops, an old ised for deployment outside of russia, into separatist controlled areas of ukraine. ah, the u. s. is imposed new sanctions on russia, cutting off 2 key financial institutions for western financing. the move comes off to president, vladimir putin recognized the independence of 2 separatist held areas of eastern ukraine, but it was only one move on a day that sort dramatic action on all sides. i'm 0 is alan fish begins are coverage from the white house for weeks. he's warned of sanctions, no feast with what he sees as russian aggression in ukraine. job biting his act. it were implementing full blocking sanctions on 2 large russian financial institutions . b, e,

b and our military back reprimand compromises sanctions on russia's sovereign debt . that means we've cut off russia government from western finance. it will last post sanctions on russia's leech and their family members. they share in the club gaze of the criminal policy and to share the pain as well. the president has spent a lot of time with his national security team over the last 48 hours. they insist they've covered all possible moves for moscow. and the next step by vladimir putin will dictate further us reaction bite and still hopes for a diplomatic solution. but there was a wanting to the american public and extended crisis might hit them in the pocket. the funding freedom will have cost for us as well. and here at home, we need to be honest about that. one expert says it makes sense. the biden hasn't thrown everything at russia. they sadly leaving a diplomatic off ramp thing. they need to keep part of their powder dry. to see

what his next move is wrong, this, this gross violation the go further violation of ukrainian territorial integrity. there has to be a cost for that. i. the euclidean foreign minister has been in washington part of the international medical round of top level talks. he's been meeting defense, secretary lloyd austin at the pentagon. he says the russians have tried to split the west with their actions. something that has failed, and i've never seen, they know more united. the more resolute standing firm is one alliance in support of ukraine's right to the friend at sovereign territory. it's 2 years since then, candidate biden tweeted out that vladimir putin would be reluctant to take any aggressive action if he was president. because he's gone, taught to tour with them in the past, he toted his foreign policy experience. he's going to need all that experience. if he's to reach a diplomatic solution to what is a growing military crisis. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house,

un secretary general, antonio garage has appealed for restraint. reason and d escalation. when troops of one country entered the 3rd, he thought he of another country without its consents. they are not impartial peacekeepers. they have not peacekeepers at all united nations in line with the relevant security goslin general assembly resolutions thence fully behind the sulphur entity political dependence. and that it's all the integrity of ukraine within each international recognized both of those. we are continuing to support the people of ukraine, throwed many federal potations, and human rights efforts. at this critical moments, i called for an immediate cease fire, and the establishment of little of law. we need restraint and reason. we need the escalation. now, escalade out of you and headquarters in new york out as he was rosalind jordan, is that tell us more about what the secretary general have to say. rules.

essentially, the secretary general eviscerated russia's arguments for moving ahead and moving of forces into the don boss. and recognizing what it calls the independent republics of lou hans and don yeske, the secretary general was incredibly critical of a russia's use of a language such as i, the deployment of peacekeepers, which is of course a, something that is essential to the un. so global mission to justify an active military invasion of eastern ukraine. they also wanna basically accused russia of violating its agreement, ban violating its promise to it. here by the un charter. he said that member states can't just pick and choose which of the rules of the charter they're going to follow and which ones they're going to ignore. it was a very, very tough, a comment by the secretary general antonio gutierrez. we've gotten

a summer early reaction from some diplomats on the un security council. and while they say that child, they were welcomed antonio gutierrez. shes a tough stance on the situation there. all wondering what can he do to follow up this very tough and very necessary rhetoric? and that's a very difficult thing. the secretary general has offered his good offices a many times to try to help resolve this crisis. but it's really going to being what can be done behind the scenes to try to resolve this crisis without many people losing their lives in eastern ukraine and rose wearing your, your main hat state department correspond warble. can you tell us about the cancellation of the am steep lincoln's meeting with his russian counterpart this week? well, this is something that the state department has always telegraphed in the past week or so. there was a some thought that todd,

the momentum was still behind diplomacy. that taught things would not progress as much as they had. and that to us, certainly, even though there was this sense that vladimir putin was going to make this announcement about recognizing the 2 were in dependent republics that tub, there could be a way to talk things through. and so there was this tentative plan for antony blank and, and sergey love rob the russian foreign minister to meet in geneva. later this week . i believe on thursday. but well, what we have now heard, not just from the secretary of state, but from other u. s. administration officials, so far all as far as they're concerned, sergey la rob has been engaging, not in good faith and engaging in what, tell one a lower level official called propaganda activities. and so the u. s. has said, we're not going to be a party to that. and so that's really where things stand in terms of trying to

engage at antony blank and did leave the door open as it were. but he said the bar is going to be very high for moscow to show that it wants to find a peaceful resolution. the u. s. simply isn't going to sit down just for the sake of another photo op al jazeera walsall and jordan reporting live there from the u. n. in new york. rosemary, thanks indeed. well, as sir ross, what you're saying, you're a secretary of state and sleep. lincoln says it's not a mere prudence, real views on ukraine anal clear. he calls them disturbing. and as we heard so, so these canceled his meeting with his russian count about survey law for off shuttle to take place later in the week. president putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday and his statements today made clear the world how he views ukraine, not as a sovereign nation with the right to territorial integrity and independence, but rather as a creation of russia and therefore subordinate to russia. it's a completely false assertion that ignores history international law and the 10s of

millions of patriotic ukrainians who are proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. esco live that a washington dc al jazeera. so how did your castro has said that for us at president biden? i spoke earlier saying that this is the beginning of a russian invasion. he announced a, the 1st tranche of sanctions against russia. what all they tell us more. yeah, and they're expect ally is similar to what they you announced earlier and that they don't go all the way, but they are designed to hurt, at least according to the white house. so the sanctions mainly target to major russian financial institutions. there is the bank called the v e b, which has been described by white house officials as a crumb ones. piggy bank and there's also the russian military bank. so this would block all transactions involving those 2 institutions. these sanctions also cut off the russian government from a financial markets in the west and starting tomorrow. they would also target

russian and leads and their families. now what these sanctions do not do is they do not reach to fight to larger russian banks. they do not touch on the energy sector and they do not name of a lot of mere putin himself the russian president as a target of the sanctions. but the white house has said that all of those are still on the table in the event that russia proceeds further with its military invasion of ukraine. and you're right. invasion is the exact language that was used by president joe biden. he said this was a flagrant violation of international law and he has ordered some u. s. troop members who are ready in europe now to deploy to the baltic states i 2 and this includes 800, some infringe inventory personnel, as well as fighter jets and helicopters. but the u. s. president again emphasized that these movements are purely defensive, and he vowed that u. s. and his allies would defend what he says,

every last inge of nato territory. and he gave a lot of emphasis to that nato there. adrian, which is tally. of course, ukraine is not a member of nato and, and the president has already ruled out it's any, any u, as troops to confront russian troops face to face in ukraine itself. zeros. how does your customer reported rover for washington? heidi body function due to, as hardy, was showing in this 1st wrote of sections, the viper booster portion cutoff, small russian banks from the u. s. financial system, the b and promise he bank state own financial institutions with ties to the defense industry. western sanctions are designed to punish and deter russia, but there are implications for the global economy to russia is one of europe's largest energy suppliers. fears that the market could be constraints or oil prices jumped warmest $100.00 a barrel on tuesday. that's an 8 year high global stock markets, a down, but russia's is the hardest hit with the moscow exchange,

losing around 10 percent of its value. on monday, the conflict even has implications for food supplies. russia and ukraine together exports around a quarter of the world's wheat. that will disrupt it's biggest buyers in the middle east and asia. robert scott is senior international economist and director of trade in manufacturing policy research at the economic policy institute. he joins us now by skype from rockville, maryland. good to have you with us, sir. to little too late, like hitting putin with a feather duster. as i one commentator described, the you case contribution reputation to this 1st chance of sanctions is putting got to lose a lot of sleep over them. now in the short run, open is secure in his bunker. he has plenty of cash to make himself comfortable. and frankly, he has shown himself to be insulated from any impacts this might have on his own. people are certainly on the economies of the western europe in united states,

from the rest of the world. all right, so what i thought sanctions were introduced, barring russia from the swift banking payment system, for instance, how much pain would that cause and to whom it would cause a significant pain, not just to the average russian citizen, but to the all, the gar, to control much of the economy and ultimately to put in himself that would cut off his access to cash. his ability to use is his reserves to purchase the resources as a most importantly to pay members of the army for them to be able to care for their families. and ultimately, the greatest threat i think is it's going to result in instability within russia and could undermine his own position as the president of the country. to what extent the sanctions go both ways. will the west be hurting itself financially, sanctioning russia? what are the consequences for the economies of countries that are implementing the

sanctions? there's no question the sanctions are going to hurt and the tougher the sanctions are, the more they're going to hurt. especially western europe, which is heavily dependent on gas exports, natural gas from brush and makes up about 40 percent of all the gas they consume. about a quarter of all the oil era consumes. the united states was less vulnerable. we are in that energy export, especially crude oil and natural gas. now. so again, the impact is going to fall much more heavily in europe. but they still are going to grow. they were expected to grow 3.3 percent this year that will fall by about a full percentage point to $2.00, but still positive. on the other hand, this makes it less likely that central banks and both countries are going to raise interest rate sharply or within the next year. so there already are measures being taken. i think that to damp and the impact of the sanctions or i could countries like katha and australia replace the gas that is being supplied by russia to

europe. i think there are some potential for that. there are producers or potential producers in the mediterranean there that may be able to bring some supplies on mind. but that takes time. it's time to drill gas wells into, to produce pipelines, grease and israel to buy me grease and, and israel to countries that have discovered gas reserves, but the translation from reserves to gas deliveries as many years in the making. so now i think is the answer in a short term cut our day for example, and an oil only, but it's not a one quarter of the, the crude oil that russia exports to on world markets really get talk to so many thanks to robert scott that in rockville, maryland. so come here on al jazeera, putting politics aside, pakistan allows india transport much needed aid for afghanistan through its

territory. at argentina, battles to contain wildfires that have been devastating rich agricultural land. ah hell i once again we have some violence storms on the way across parts of the u. s . we got snow just around the northern plains over towards the mid west. and we are looking at some very lively showers, longest spells of right as we go on through the next couple of days. reason for this is we got a big tab which contrasts towards the north. we are looking at temperatures are going to get to minus $22.00 in winnipeg. they see at around 18 celsius, just want to highlight dallas at around 23 degrees for tuesday afternoon. take a look wednesday afternoon down around 3 degrees celsius. that will be some ice coming in after of a warm start to the week where to weather pushing up across the mississippi valley,

up towards the ohio valley. some live the showers longest spell to find some snow on the northern flank of that, and it will become more expansive as we go on through thursday. northern plains, mid west, seen some very wintry weather. and we will see that a wet weather just easing over towards the appellation temperatures right down to around the eastern seaboard right down to our tools west coast as well. say in the mid teens, here for the south is take a look at some pleasant weather, shall we? while she finds roy across the caribbean, lots of settled weather, lots of sunshine, wanted to shout was a bit towards eastern olives, but not too much to speak of. more in the west sunshine than showers. ah ah, the shake hum odd award for translation and international understanding is accepting nominations for the year 2022 from february 15th until august,

15th this year. for more information go to w, w w dot h t a dot q a slash e n. ah, lou. oh, hello again. this is l 0. let's remind you of the main nears the south. the u. s. is imposed new sanctions on russia, cutting 2 key financial institutions all from western financing. the move comes a day after president vladimir putin recognized the independence of 2 separatist child areas of eastern ukraine. the u. s. secretary of state is canceled this week's plan meeting with his washing counterpart. so gay lover off until the

blinking said that it made no sense to hold the talk since russia had started an invasion of ukraine. and un secretary general, i'm totally garage, has appealed for restraint. reason, a d escalation. he said, the military conflict between russia and ukraine would be catastrophic. moscow's parliament has approved a formal request by president putin to allow the deployments of russian forces abroad. the decision by the upper house of parliament takes effect immediately later says that it's yet another sign that russia is planning a full scale attack on ukraine. will. these are the 2 ukranian regions of the heart of the current turmoil will hands and on the exc. then compass dawn bass were separatists, have been fighting against ukrainian forces since 2014. not sure to pitchbook a 3rd. ah, we have recognized the expanded version of the 2 ukranian breakaway regions, including their constituents. their boarders were stated in their constitutions when they were part of ukraine,

and we hope to keep in the breakaway republics can work out their differences on the border issue. i just like a president, putin says the demilitarization of ukraine is the only way the conflict can be prevented out as they responded. smith reports not from moscow. pre dawn on tuesday, the russian military appeared on the streets of de next. it was just hours after vladimir putin had recognized 2 new republics which are in easton, ukrainian territory. but ukraine is a country the russian president thinks shouldn't exist a country. this soldier died defending hooton's decree, recognizing the nets and le ganske as 2 independent states is according to cares, defense minister an attack on its territorial dignity. i hold it leaders different companies, which promised us that the sanctions will be of the day.

i think that paper invasion, a lot of ukraine's president says he doesn't believe russia will launch all out war against his country. but he wants the international community to react decisively against what he calls a new act of russian aggression mazama shaw sim. alisium really believe that by taking this decision, the russian federation creates a legal basis for clever military aggression against ukraine. violating all bilateral and multilateral agreements. he would give that that's not how russia's parliament sees it. here vladimir putin's decision is welcomed as the writing of an historical wrong, just by the annexation of crimea. done. no, this is an historic day just like 7 years ago when crimea returned to the fault. and became part of the russian federation to day, now and forever. there will be 2 new sovereign states on the world. political map that an esque and lo, ganske people's republics. but separatists internet scan,

la ganske only control about a 3rd of the territory. they claim whether we're celebrating on tuesday, the other 2 thirds is held by ukrainian forces, who now find themselves on land. russia recognizes as to new republics, which up to sell. it shows her that we find agreements with both the done yet can who hands peoples republics that contain article saying will provide help us, including militarily such as far as conflict going on there. we're making it clear we will fulfill our obligations because of its it's and that is the crown is as recognizing as independent the to break away ukraine in regions will help restore. com, adding that it remains open to diplomacy with the u. s. and other countries, russia also dismisses allegations that it sent its forces into east of ukraine. the kremlin says whether it does or not, depends on how the situation develops. bernard smith out his era, moscow. the crisis in ukraine has been discussed on the sidelines of a meeting of gas suppliers in casa iran,

con reports the door declaration at the end of the gas exports. his summit was very clear on several points mentioning the need for uninterrupted energy supply, pushing the idea, the gas is a cleaner, much more sustainable energy, talking about the environment. and talking about making sure that the people who need gas are able to get it from the people who are able to export it. however, the one big elephant in the room that really wasn't, wasn't publicly at all, was the crisis in europe and the ukraine. however, backstage behind closed doors, it was a big talking point amongst all of the gas exporters. now it wasn't really about the politics they weren't really discussing. our what the situation in ukraine might lead to was about if gas supplies are interrupted into western europe. how does the gases exporters deal with that?

now kat are of the record, her sources in the ministry of foreign affairs and told us that actually are appealing to western european nations are to be able to appeal to their colleagues in that context within the asian nations to try and step up that supply the category, energy minister, however, had this to say, i think, fundamentally in, you know, when you talk about the ukraine issue and, and the european issue. people have been bouncing around as copper can supply and, and replace. or, you know, the russian gas i've, i've stated this officially before, i'm in russia, i think it's 3040 percent of the supply to europe. there is no single country that can replace that kind of volume. so once again, the country energy minister that really reiterating that, it's up to the western nations to be able to source energy supplies, not just from one country brought from several countries,

but given that the ukraine wasn't mentioned publicly, however, it was talked about air throughout this forum it's difficult to say where this is going to go next. that's down to politics. this conference here was about the technical aspect that if they needed to get gas into western europe, how would they do it? like growing conflict, maybe putting china in a delicate diplomatic position. katrina, you reports from beijing. china is concerned about the worsening situation in ukraine. it's wanted citizens in the country to stay away from unstable areas and cold and all parties to exercise restraint in recent weeks. bating has accused us of hyping up threat of war and says that russia security concerns are legitimate. but the same time in china wouldn't necessarily welcome or support any invasion of ukraine. it is very close to russia, but at the same time has good ties with kev and relies on your trade. let's hear what china's ambassador to the un security council had to say earlier. well,

can i use it farther? more hands on the current situation and ukraine is a result of many complex factors. china always makes its position according to the merits of the matter itself. we believe that all countries should solve international disputes by peaceful means and in line with the purposes and principles of the un charter were soon down the phone to a young girl. china's as a sovereignty of every country must be respected, but on the other hand, it may also sympathize with russia so called historical claims to ukrainian territory. certainly that's how it views taiwan. beijing says taiwan is a breakaway mainland province. and despite it being a self ruled island for decades, sheet and being says that they will one day be unified again with the mainland and he hasn't ruled out using force in order to do this. there is no timeframe for that . but certainly, china is watching very closely to see how the international community respond to any possible russian invasion. let's take

a look at what else is happening in the world right now. pakistan has put political differences with india aside to allow large shipment of food for people in afghanistan. india is sending 50 tongues of wheat as emergency food aid. it's a red gesture between the 2 countries. elizabeth brought him was with the convoy as it left india. i had b atari while the border between india and pakistan as the 1st of the trucks carrying wheat, all 50 of them begin to depart. now this delivery has been months in the making india 1st send the proposal to pakistan in october last year. pack of found, approved it in november, but transportation had been a sticking point, loma bob wanted the weight to be transported and pakistani talks, india wanted to say it's trucks. the compromise has been to use afghan trucks with afghan drivers. now the delivery is really significant because they have been no trade or travel relations between india and pakistan. and 2 and

a half years since india suspended bilateral trade pakistan rob suspended bilateral trade with india, after new deli revoked. indeed, and minister push me is that what told me in 2019 both of them missions and delhi and islam about have been significantly downsize to with low high commission is present and either. and so the world good program has also played a part in program in this deal, which is so very important for the afghan people. the w. s p says 9000000 afghans just one step away from famine with the un saying that if the font has the highest number of people an emergency of food and emergency food need, with more than 24000000 people in humanitarian needs. a u. s. jury is determined, the 3 white men killed black jogger out over it because of his race. federal hate

crime conviction follows the men murder convictions. 3 weeks ago. father and son, greg travis, mom, michael, neighbor williams. brian already serving life sentences for the mother of the 25 year old in south georgia. the mans lawyers said that they chased operate down because they believed he's committed crimes in the neighborhood. firefighter's margin tina struggling to contain wildfires of burn more than 8000 square kilometers of land in the northern region. 15 separate places have ravaged farms and pastures wild life and they continue to spread. the region was hit by a heat wave. it was experienced drop conditions for more than a year now resilient olivia sent emergency crews to argentina to help fire fighting efforts. are desirous to raise a boat report style from the the border with brazil. this is what the province of korean 30 ne, in argentina currently looks like thousands and thousands of hector's, of land currently and verify your what you can see right now. our brazilian fire

fighters who have crossed the border into argentine are accounting tact trying to extinguish this fire that you can see right here. there is fire fighters, civil defense, local landowners, among others, all of them trying to extinguish the fire. this is ariana generally sees abundant rainfall back strong wings. lack of humidity and drug are making it easy for fires like this one to spread. this is an area where there's also a least 12000 square kilometers of wetlands of marshlands, with a wild animals among them. came and among others over $300.00 species of birds, we have spoken to our several a momento growth and they are currently concerned. they are trying to rescue several of those animals of wild animals and try to say.