will say just with my nigeria on al jazeera ah, ah. ready ready who now that we see the invasions beginning, and russia has made clear is wholesale rejection of diplomacy. ah, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time. but you accept, you have state councils as planned, meeting with russia's foreign minister over the deepening crisis in ukraine. ah, but i'm darn jordan, this is out there alive from the also coming up. yes,

president joe biden outlines tough new sanctions saying they'll cut off russia from western financing. president putin gets the go ahead from his parliament for troops to be deployed outside russia into separatist controlled areas of ukraine. and along the border, the threat of russian invasion is spitting communities with differing views among those living near the frontline ah, the u. s. is impose new sanctions on russia, cutting off 2 key financial institutions from western financing. the move comes after president vladimir putin recognized the independence of 2 separatist held areas of eastern ukraine. allan fisher reports on the white house for weeks, he's warned of sanctions. no faced with what he sees as russian aggression in ukraine. joe, biting his act, it were implementing full blocking sanctions on 2 large russian financial

institutions. v e b and our military back were implementing compress, thanks is on russian sovereign debt. that means we've cut off rushes government from western finance. it will also impose sanctions on russia. the leech and their family members, they share in the club gaze of the criminal policy and should 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 more school. and the next step by vladimir putin will dictate further u. s. 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. defending 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. they,

they need to keep, you know, part of their powder dry to see what is next move is 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 have never seen, they know more united. the more resolute standing firm is one alliance in support of ukraine's right to defend that 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 him in the past. he touted 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, allen fisher al jazeera at the white house. meanwhile, un secretary general, antonio tennis has a field for restraint, reason and de escalation. when troops of one country in 3, the 3rd, he thought he of another country without its consents, they are not impartial peacekeepers. they are not peacekeepers at all united nations in line with the relevant security council and general assembly resolutions thence fully behind the sulphur entity. politically dependence, and that it's all the integrity of ukraine within its international recognized both of those. we are continuing to support the people of ukraine, throwed humanitarian operations 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,

rosen jordan has more from you and headquarters in new york. essentially, the secretary general, eviscerated russia's arguments for moving ahead and moving forces into the don boss . and recognizing what it calls the independent republics. a little 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 u. enzyme. global mission to justify an active military invasion of eastern ukraine. they also of 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 group dash a. we've gotten

a summer early reaction from some diplomats on the un security council. and while they say that todd, they were welcomed antonio gutierrez. she has a tough stance on the situation there. all wondering what can he do to follow up this very top and very necessary rhetoric? and that's a very difficult thing. the secretary general has offered his good offices 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. one of rosen mentioned there, you are sector of state anthony blinking says very math hooton's, real views on ukraine and now claire the colds em disturbing and says he's cancelled a meeting with his russian count about so they leverage shuttle to take place later this week. president putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday and his statements today made clear of 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 were proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. what in this 1st round of sanctions, the biden administration cut off 2 small russian banks from the u. s. financial system, the b and from easy bank are state owned 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 as one of europe's largest energy suppliers. fears that the market could be constrained, so oil prices jump to almost a $100.00 a barrel on tuesday as an 8 year high global stock market a down to. but russia is the hardest hit with the mosque and exchange losing around

10 percent of its value. on monday, the conflict even has implications for food supplies. russia and ukraine together export around a quarter of the world's wheat. that'll disrupt its biggest buyers in the middle east and in asia. how to say with hot castro has more now from washington d. c. 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 more financial markets in the west and starting tomorrow. they would also target russian 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 prudent 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 invasion is the exact language that was used by president joe biden. he said this was a flagrant violation of international law. so let's take a quick look at the 2 ukranian regions. at the heart of the current turmoil, they are the self proclaimed peoples republics of the hands and don't ask then compass don bass, where separatists have been fighting against ukrainian forces since 2014 majority. bish took us there to we recognize 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 kiev, and the breakaway republics can work out their differences on the border issue. i mean, our moscow's parliament has approved a former request by president putin to allow the deployment of russian forces abroad to search bar has more. well, the russian president vladimir putin was ass at apricot press conference following

his meeting with the president of azerbaijan, earlier on tuesday. and he said that he has not ordered any troops to go in at the moment for now at, but we know that the ab, russia rushes upper house of parliament approved unanimously a request from the president for him to be able to deploy troops anywhere at any time and to carry out any tasks that he see fit, of course is the commander in chief in this country. so he really now has the final approval officially from all levels of government government to do as he c fed. but according to president putin, there are no deployments of any russian troops at the moment officially in those newly declared independence states in eastern ukraine. this, of course, comes at a time when everybody's watching what is happening alongside the border between russia and ukraine. there's a lot of concern that the heavy military presence is just making the situation much

more complicated and dangerous. vladimir putin says the demilitarization of ukraine is the only way conflict can be prevented. but it's much reports. pre dawn on tuesday, the russian military appeared on the streets of denette sky. 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, preston 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 the leaders different countries which promised us that the sanctions will be stopped of the day and think that the paper invasion,

the 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. much i must show him or the believe that by taking this decision, the russian federation creates a legal basis for quite a military, aggression against ukraine, for violating all bilateral and multilateral agreements. but guess 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. this is an historic day, just like 7 years ago when crimea returned to the fault and became part of the russian federation. today now and forever, there will be 2 new sovereign states on the world political map that then ask and the guns 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, was up to sell of cheddar. we find agreements with both the done yes. going to hand people's republics that contain article saying we provide helga including military stuff as far as there's conflict going on there, we're making it clear we will fulfill our obligation. the mac, the currently says, recognizing as independent, the to break away ukrainian regions will help restore, come, adding that it remains open to diplomacy with a u. s. and other countries. russia also dismisses allegations that extend its forces into eastern ukraine. the kremlin says whether it does or not, depends on how the situation develops. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow, on the regions and east and ukraine recognized by the kremlin as independent, extend, far beyond areas under rebel control. and that's creating more uncertainty for those living near the front line of a countries long running separatist conflict,

or dr. hamid has returned to one town she reported from last month where the threat of invasion is now exposing. social divides. uncertainty is hanging over at the fca, one of the front lane downs in eastern ukraine. when we met chaplain no lena, 3 weeks ago, she brushed away the prospect of war. now she's worried and feels uncomfortable being on the streets. some of her neighbors are openly hostile to her pork. they're both in my grandmother mike, me? yeah. yeah, the mon, you or you the butchering you had though i knew what they think ukraine is guilty party when it comes to this shelling they don't believe russia could act like this . my life is at risk in this kind of society. anything can happen, especially now. listen, the kilometer away at the front line. soldiers on alert. recently the shelling has intensified evidence still fresh of the latest rocket attack. the frontline here

has been moved ever since the mince agreement was signed with leader sides making tutorial gains or losses. but now the recognition by russia of the 2 says, proclaim republics of don, yes and logan's puts into question. where do new lines are going to be drawn? the agreement set a full 120 kilometers demarcation line, giving the russian back separatist only a 3rd of what they see as their historical land. now, with official support from moscow, they could try again to expand their control. i seen that, i think it will be border old for the nascar, hans derision as they are, was at the bus not on with this era that already have brought further. and i think that is the reason of most dangerous situation here. basically, we understand that there we are, are on the way of them do ukrainian army is in

a difficult situation. many civilians in this area don't support it. they welcome to separate his back in 2014 and continued to support russia. now others, like victor, blamed a current situation under government in give us one quarter. they fighting for who they fighting for here. i don't see any sense on that. if it's for me or my family, there's no need. what are they doing here? if you're shelling the separatist all the time, russia can't leave them on the right. if our president had negotiated with them, then things could have been different with the minsk agreement. now in tatters, ukraine has declared at vive can other towns and villages along the frontline, restricted areas. but for the soldiers, the most difficult battle could be winning over the support of the people would have their hamid al jazeera at viva, in eastern ukraine. tougher shall break here now to sierra when we come back,

argentina battles to contain wildfire within devastating rich agricultural land. more than that status ah, hell i once again we have some violent 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 days. reason for this is we got a big tab, which contrast was the north. we are looking at temperatures struggling to get to minus 22 in winnipeg, they see at around 18 celsius is just want to highlight dallas around 23 degrees for tuesday afternoon. take a look wednesday afternoon, down around 3 degrees celsius. there will be some ice coming in after of a warm start to the week wet 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, since some very winfrey weather. and we will see that the weather, weather just easing over towards the appellation temperatures right down to around the eastern seaboard are right down to over towards the west coast as well. say in the mid teens here, farther south is take a look at some pleasant weather, shall we, la sci fi to dry. across the kara bare lots of settled weather, lots of sunshine, wanted to shout, was able to wars, eastern islas, but not too much to speak of more in the west, sunshine and shameless ah, this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by markson is my get out to is, is not even just mots against the people around like got to when i'm telling the

story about my life and it's going to take 50 future to do a don't so bad with the can you let you deep oh ward, with your documentary, wait for now to sierra. ah ah, welcome back. a quick reminder about top stories here. this out, the u. s. is impose new sanctions on russia, cutting 2 key financial institutions off from western financing. a move comes a day after president putin to recognize the independence of 2 separate, just held errors of eastern credit on the u. s. equity of state has canceled this week's plan meeting with his russian counterpart survey, lovegrove. i'm to me,

blink. i'm sorry, it made no sense to home talks comes, russia had started an invasion of ukraine, and the un secretary general has appeal for restraint. reason undie escalation, antonio tennessee says, conflict between russia and ukraine would be catastrophic and germany has put the nord stream pipeline on ice burn and announced its suspending certification of the project which is designed to pump russian gas, the german customers. the $11000000000.00 scheme bypasses ukraine by going under the baltic sea to transport twice as much gas from western side barrett to germany . dominic came as more now from berlin. germany is acting now because it is as it were, making goods on the promises it had made to the rest of the international community . and indeed to the russians. up until now, it had always been the german government case that they didn't want to tip their hand as it were. they didn't want to say every specific diplomatic weapon or economic weapon they wanted to use. they wanted to keep as it were,

a trump card that is nord stream to. so whenever mister schultz went to international meetings with other heads of state heads of government, he wouldn't use that phrase the old stream to. well, now he has because he says the actions of the russian government have made him do so. this is how he referred to this decision to pause nordstrom to have it as a bonus for treatment. as durham, hard to get bitten, i've asked the federal ministry of economics to withdraw the report on security of supply with our federal networks agency. it's the 1st step to make sure the pipeline cannot be certified at this point without certification, the nordstrom to can't operate. so we will reassess the situation that has evolved over the past few days. it's important to launch new sanctions now to prevent an escalation and disaster. there is a cost to sanctions. the german government ministers have referred to it before saying that prepared to pay a heavy price in order to put sanctions targeted sanctions on the putin government

. but that cost could be very high indeed, not just for germany, because to so much russian natural gas comes to europe through germany. and otherwise, there are some governments lucidly, the italian government to a particularly wary of some as it was sanctioned, might really pare down the amount of russian natural gas that comes to europe. so there's lots of different issues to be ironed out as it were. but the german government has acted unilaterally where it can now it wants to be part of multi lateral sanctions against russia. and britain as imposed sanctions on 5 russian banks and 3 billionaires and is threatening further measures to come, that in barb and london has more for, as johnson has been saying that the west now needs to get ready for a protracted crisis over ukraine. he says the presence of armored personnel, carriers and tanks, russian armored personnel, carriers and tanks in the east of ukraine. now constitutes what he called

a renewed invasion. and he said that vladimir putin was getting ready for a full scale offensive because of that, he announced term, some new sanctions there limited, but let's just listen to what he's announced. the u. k. sanctioning the following 5 russian banks. rossier. i asked bank jim, but general bank approved the us bank and the black sea bank and we are sanctioning 3 very high net worth in de vigils. any assets they hold in the u. k. will be frozen. the individuals concerned will be banned from travelling here. and we hold further sanctions at readiness to be deployed alongside united states and the european union if the situation escalates still further at the beginning of. busy his address, he said the following. we will hold further sanctions at readiness to be deployed alongside the united states and the european union. if the situation escalate still

further. but then he was pressed and asked if the russian troops were just limited to entering no self declared republics would further steps still be brought in. he hinted that they would, he said it's inevitable that will be coming forward. if a, with a much bigger package of sanctions, given the activities of russian forces on the ukrainian border and inside ukrainian territory. i'm a crisis in ukraine has been discussed on the sidelines, the meeting of gas supply as in cat, r, m, and con. as more the door declaration at the end of the gas exports is some, it 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 talked about 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? singapore has recorded more than 26000 daily cove at 19 infections is highest

number to date. around 294000 people have tested positive in the past month. health authorities say most of experience, mild or no symptoms at all, easing the burden on medical facilities or the 90 percent of the population has vaccinated against virus and hong kong, as announced, it's tough. his cobit 19 measures, yet as cases skyrocket and hospitals continue to buckle under the pressure starting mid march, then top population will have to be tested any one with a positive result, including those with no symptoms will have to isolate in all alan's government as approved plans to remove almost all coven 19 restrictions from monday, due to falling cases, people will be allowed to use their own judgment on whether to wear face masks except in the health care settings. there'll be compulsory. the fiscal distancing rule is being scrapped and testing and tracing will be scaled back. fires, fill by an unprecedented drought. are ravaging hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in northeastern argentina. 15 separate blazes of destroyed farms,

pastures and wild life, and they continue to spread theresa by reports now from santa termite and the buddha, brazil. the wildfires are rapidly moving from one place to another and consuming almost everything in this area. in the argentine province of korean, this and fire fighters are also moving fast, trying to burn a control line that will slow down the advance of the flames. and i said it got a lot of on, well, what they are doing is burning a line that will force the parts slow down but, and then they will attack it with water. there's already group working inside them, which we have to stop it before it reaches the road because if it passes there, there are thousands of heck to the pine trees and it will get even worse. so he's over 800000 hector, have already been destroyed. and with it, life, stock grains and wild life. this is an area that generally sees abundant rainfall, but strong winds. lack of humanity and drought are making it easy for fire like

this one to spread all across the province on an average of our own. 30000 hector's of land are burning every day. also at risk, i $12000.00 hector's of marshlands in e without. be area is a natural reserve where caymans, amphibians, another $300.00 species of birds, are being affected. fire fighters from brazil and other parts of the country leguinn aside, is have come here in an effort to prevent the fires from causing even more damage. no, no, no one would only damage, but it is in charge of the fire fighters that have come from when a site is only gonna cause a lot of address. and the only thing we can control is nature. so you need to control everything else. korean, this is lacking resources, they don't have the equipment, they need, they have great people, but they're not prepared for any pickup trucks, fire fighting kids uniforms, among other things. so it was thrown young, have yet

a store of these desperate. he says he has lost almost everything he owns. most of his land was burned by the fire, and like many others is currently in debt. so sometimes i don't want to continue, but i have to because what am i going to tell my family? i've a family of 60 people, 19 work with me. where's my family going to work? there's no work here. aside from this rain is crucial at this point to prevent the fires from spreading to other provinces. but heavy rainfall is not expected until march. a long wait for those involved in the daily fight against the flames. that he said, well, i'll the cedar korean this argentina. ah, i've a quick check on the headlines here now to see where the u. s. is impose new sanctions on russia, cutting 2 key financial institutions off from western financing. it follows

russia's recognition of 2 separate hist held arrows of eastern ukraine.