the al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 6 year running. ah, me separatist leaders and danielle and lou hands could plead for russian assistance to repel what they call ukrainian aggression. ah, hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up. ukraine's government imposes a state of emergency and calls up army reservists to bolster troops. numbers along the border with russia. the 1st wave of european sanctions against russia, members of law, house of parliament, a targeted president vladimir putin,

is left alone for now is clear that president putin will not stop by himself. and ukraine's appeal for strong international support as the united nations meets to discuss the crisis. ah, we start them with the latest developments on the crisis between russia and ukraine . the kremlin says that rebel leaders in easton, ukraine of formerly sent a request to russia for military help to fend off what they're calling ukrainian aggression. ukraine's foreign minister has asked for an immediate meeting at the un security council. military reservists have also been called up in ukraine or the state of emergency declared. there's also been intense shelling of the line of contact in the east of the country. and with hope of diplomacy fading, europe and the u. s. have begun to roll out economic sanctions to pressure moscow to back down al jazeera hot abdul. hamid begins are coverage from trauma talk in

eastern ukraine is don't yet screeching. it's only in terms of deep crisis that the country impose is a 30 day state of emergency. and that's what president vladimir zalinski asked parliament for wednesday. after sharing a meeting of his security council. zelinski also whole cities, polish, and the through indian counterparts. the 3 signing a joint declaration of support and solidarity ponies, president andres, do they're described russia's actions as a threat, not just to ukraine, but did the whole eel zelinski said it is russia that should be providing security guarantees. not the other way around. impact can sure not surely stability. the fact is that today there are 150000 russian soldiers at our border. those territories are temporarily occupied. i believe that russia should be among those

countries when the provide clear security guarantees is not a secret that i have many times suggested that the president of russia sit down at the negotiating table and speak already in the west intense shuttle diplomacy continues. frances foreign minister has been in berlin for talks and tougher sanctions are looking inevitable. who i know for you varina. we accept economic consequences for free sovereign and democratic ukraine in peace and freedom in europe. have no price tag. ukraine welcomed the long awaited sanctions even though it's foreign minister. the me throw caliber asked for more, posting on social media action. so if you hit more and hit hardly 3 and hip now in the dumbass. the situation along to demarkation line is becoming more tense by day. shelling is reported by both sides in easton, ukraine, the leader of one of the rebel regions now recognized by russia,

said he wants to peacefully settle its borders. however, den is put. chillin added that he may, needs rushes hel, office for prospect. at the moment. there is no presence of any russian troops on our soil. as for the future presence, that is likely when it's needed. if we are not able to do with our own resources, then we may seek support from the russians. ah, his words were received as a warning to people living in the nets and new hands, regions taken by the separatists at the beginning of the war. but now under ukrainian control, i know that, oh, that is the worry among people living even far away from the context, lied that fighting will return to their hometown or that that i me as you see my

doors in your brain, several ukrainian government websites have gone offline due to a cyber attack, a senior minister says with hackers, targets at the foreign ministry and states security service. on the several banks, ukraine has suffered a string of cyber attacks which kiff has blamed on russia. the un general assembly has been told that the conflict of ukraine is the most serious threat to world security. in years, the ukrainian foreign minister urged members to stop what he called russia's aggressive plans. but most cuz i'm back to the accused care of causing the crisis. i want to serious, rosalind jordan reports from the un the un general assembly convening a meeting on russian actions in ukraine. nearly 90 countries signed up, most of them overwhelmingly on cave saw with them rather a lower level russian diplomat watch like him as the ukrainian foreign minister by baghdad gets to protect both his country. and the u. s. core principle is one of

your governments and your people will face painful consequences together with our government and our people. this is why we need to use this last chance for action and stop russia. where it is. it is clear that president fulton will not stop by himself for the 2nd time in 2 days. secretary general antonio good dash spoke out against moscow's behavior in eastern ukraine. negotiation is to say when sink is cleared, the decision of the russian federation to recognize the so called independence of with ornette scott blue and screeches and the follow up our violations of the territory integrity in soviet entity of ukraine. and inconsistent with the principles of the charter of united nations before russian ambassador of a ceiling, a benzo dismissed the calls on his country to change course,

which was no benzine accused kid of posing a grave threat to international peace and security and gives them up to human, these unusual, i knew you, which it is precisely because of caves, unwillingness to consider the interests of a broad swathe of its population. when that since 2014, when crane has been at war with its own citizens, lawson who do not agree with my van valleys and the current policy of the authorities to predictably number u. s. sam baset or linda thomas greenfield, called moscow's argument indefensible. and this is president putin's war of choice . if he chooses to escalate further, russia and russia alone will bear full responsibility for what is to come. the challenge for the diplomat, how to resolve this crisis. this suggestion from the ukrainian foreign minister. my message is simple that do not wait too long. you have to act now. literally, every day, decisions have to be adopted. more sanctions have to be imposed. more weapons have

to be supplied. more diplomatic efforts have to be undertaken calling on countries to use their powers to try to prevent a full blown war. rosalyn, jordan, elders, era at the united nations. the ear opinion has agreed to impose further sanctions on russia. they're expected to target defense minister. so again, chicago and top military commanders, as well as banks on that finance the armed forces. the block will also impose sanctions on hundreds of members of russia's parliament, which voted to recognize ukraine's break await regions. will president vladimir putin has criticized the west for refusing to respond to his security demands, as russia multinational holiday honoring those who died in past wars? the president also vowed to strengthen the military and was as who as dorsal jibari reports from moscow. ah,

a solemn reminder of the dark days of rushes past. the commander in chief of the armed forces commemorating defender of the fatherland day, which honors war, veterans, and all russians who lost their lives, defending their country. prior to the reef playing ceremony by the tomb of the unknown soldiers near the kremlin president vladimir putin released the video message to the nation. but with a clear warning for the world. no mr. you repeat russia's interests and the security of our people, an indisputable priority. so we will continue to threaten and modernize our, i'm in the navy, striving to increase their effectiveness for their faded out with the most cut in h equipment. ah, an independent pulling group says the majority of russians believe their presidents over 50 percent of people surveyed at the start of the ukraine crisis back in december. believe the united states and nato countries are responsible for increasing tensions. events like this to honor fallen soldiers are taking place

across the country. but this years events are particularly poignant as the threat of war and ukraine overshadows a day that's dedicated to remembering the human cost of war. most your say the thought of war is simply unimaginable. i wouldn't like the war to start. i'd like all political powers to make campus to avoid war. and we really hope there will be no war. and it looks like at the end of the day, there will be no law. why not? when you go, i think there will be no war. nobody needs war. neither ukraine nor russia, as a rule is, are politicians who start wars. they are the only ones who need wars. i think that we are all slavic people, ukrainians and russians. do you need war? i don't need it. why would young guys die? people, children, parents, mothers, fathers, i think that common sense will prevail. says russia is always open for direct and on the dialogue that has full confidence in the military and military that will

likely include a new generation of russians who have never ventured far from home, but must now prepared themselves for the possibility that they could one day be back here, just not as visitors, paying their respects to unknown soldiers. at dark and sobering thought on a day meant to remind the country of the senselessness of war. doors to jabari al jazeera, moscow. and sir, take a moment to look at how the military strength of russia and ukraine compare ukraine has about 209000 active military personnel. russia has about 4 times that number with all the 900000 active service members. when it comes to that reserves, ukraine has another 900000 people, trained to a military standard. russia has around 2000000 rushes. clearly a superior force in terms of equipment with more tanks, armored vehicles at artillery than ukraine. the same goes for air power. russia has

around 15 times, the number of fighter jets ukraine's air force was built during the cold war. russia's anti aircraft system. the s 400 is said to be one of the strongest defense systems in the world, while ukraine's own anti aircraft system is largely outdated. the country has received a significant amount of anti aircraft missiles, though from latvia and lithuania. david rush is a professor and see the military fellow at the national defense university. he previously served as nato operations director in the office of the secretary of defense. he joins us now via skype from washington, d. c. david, good to have you with us at what would a military escalation look like? would it involve troops on the ground or a shock and aust style air campaign against strategic targets in ukraine? it be, i think that rush would prefer shock, and ox is casualty adverse. he felt that his rule was threatened in 2014 during the

previous. the 1st stage of the ongoing invasion of ukraine when widows of soldiers killed were protesting and moscow. so i think what you will try to do is not just air power, but cyber air missiles and artillery in order to nullify the ability of the ukrainian state, basically wants to paralyze you creating state, impose a puppet leader, and then you sort of, you know, leave a holding force behind which i don't think he wants to have on armor documentation of ukrainian cities. so russia, evidently more powerful militarily. what sort of resistance would ukraine's forces be able to mount? good question. so the normal rule of thumb is you have to have at least 3 times the attackers against the defenders that goes up in cities. sometimes you have to have 10 times the amount of attackers, unless you're willing to stand back at

a distance, it destroyed the city. i don't think russia is willing to do that in the ukraine, and i don't think they want to fight in the city. because the casualties will be too high. so i think, you know, ukraine does have the ability to flex significant costs on the russian army. russia could win a tactical victory, but would be faced with what would look to be a very drawn out insurgencies that might ultimately be a strategic defeat, but it would exactly huge cost on the ukrainian nation. so if russia, as you say, as aiming for regime change in kiev and in sort of puppet government there, or perhaps even split the country into separately governed regions. you talked about this holding force. how would it do that? what sort of armed resistance would that holding force face? yeah, good question. so there it would be an asymmetrical are resistance. so you can see like that the javelin missile, which is there, i tank missile. you know,

those are dismounted infringement who would be firing the missile. ready is very effective against so the russian tanks would be at risk in all, but the most open terrain where their speed would be an advantage and nobody could get close enough to fire them. what they would try to do would be to have local forces operating as local police to keep, you know, whomever, you know, whether whether they occupy just a little less, whether they are pretty cranes north of the never river so that they're able to control the pipelines or whether they try to take all of ukraine, they would try to get russian forces out as quickly as possible and install local sympathizers in order to mitigate their exposure. and try to portray this as an internal cranium dispute that they just, you know, are trying to resolve. really good to talk to david many thanks to being with us. david rush that in washington. thanks still to come here on al jazeera,

inspired by channels as truckers, drivers of the u. s. a staging the own protest against corona virus restrictions and the desperate search for justice and one of america's most controversial police killings. ah oh it's been a weather roller. coaster temperature is up and down across north america. hello everyone. so we're on the downward trend right now. so new york, you were of what 20 degrees the other day. now just 3. and we've got some snow for the mid west, rain south of that. so we'll pick up the story there. the potential this see some pretty heavy bursts of rain natural rate through to little rock. i don't think we'll see thunderstorms here. certainly the potential of it. and temperature is dropping in texas along that border with mexico are about 40 degrees the other day in also see the cooler air rushing across southern portions of california,

san diego, just 16 degrees. and same goes for western canada temperatures below average, vancouver, 4, we've got extreme cold weather alerts across the canadian prairies of her central america. i think our best shot i've seen those showers will be along that caribbean coast, as certainly some of the caribbean islands as well. but by large, many will be into that sunshine verse of rain through the amazon basin overcast, stay for bogota and lima. what are these storms around now and brazilian wall? but i think we've got some rock and storms in the forecast of for central portions of argentina roll and rate across the river plate region. and this will clip eastern portions of paraguay. so certainly something we need to be on the look out for. be careful out there. we'll see again soon. take care. ah, oh, once cc'd wireless now posted to villages. oh

follows the personal journeys of women teachers. their daily struggles with isolation and battles with physical hardship. sacrificing their family lives for the education of future generations. women in the weight on al jazeera ah ah, hello again, this is l 0. let's remind you of the main news. the south kremlin says that separate his leaders in eastern ukraine, a formerly asked for military help, defend or for their calling ukrainian aggression. shelley has intensified on the front line between pro russian rebels and ukrainian forces. the european union has

agreed to put further sanctions on russia. they're expected to target the defense minister on top military commanders. the block will also impose sanctions on hundreds of members of russia's parliament. and you craves foreign minister has asked for an immediate meeting of the un security council. he urged members of the general assembly to stop what he called russia's aggressive plans, but moscow's ambassador accused key of causing the crisis with president putin has worse to sanction. prove the economy since annexing crimea into the russian federation. 8 years ago, the central bank has built up $630000000000.00 in foreign currency and gold reserves, which he can use to keep the ruble stable for some time. the budget's been cut and dead reduced with the aim of making the economy more self reliant. the focus has been on stability. over growth and foreign investment. rushes, reduce trade with western countries and pivoted towards china. it's now russia's

largest single export market. the west hasn't yet directly sanction russell, it rushes vital oil and gas exports. but other markets have been developed including the signing of a 30 year pipeline. deal with china by one bushera is al jazeera senior political analyst. he says that russia will become more unpredictable if cut off from the global banking system. clearly the russians have been prevailing since 2014 to immunize the economy in as much as they could in case of sanctions. but clearly, if massive sanctions are impose basically denying russia any axis to international banking with international economy, that's will certainly hurt. but it will hurt in such a way as to push russia into a corner, which then you could expect anything from a major power with nuclear weapons. so it's not just about hurting. it's about what

then, what after, because they could hurt in such a way. why a global power with nuclear weapons like russia, unlike iran or cuba orphans, were la quinta, react in ways that could be quite threatening, not only to europe and the west, but to global security. and i think this is something that we have not been talking about in our channel, but something has been discussed heavily in western circles. the whole point about the so called with an i zation of the dollar, meaning the continuous, persistent use of the dollar as a what as a weapon by washington, against its adversaries or nemesis or on the wall. the idea that the dollar is the, is the, is the world major currency, and that it continuously used in a destabilizing ways against america's enemies. was slowly but surely marginalized

a dollar vis a v either cars is like the euro, or perhaps like the wine in china and so on, in a way that, that will be disadvantage this advantageous, not only to the nemesis, but also for the united states economies. on the frontlines in east and ukraine, these volatile times for the people who lived there. i'm 0 is char stratford reports now from the village of right now in the or ukraine's donnette screeching across the river is an area of the ukrainian army called the grey zone. neither ukrainian soldiers nor the russian back separatists controlled area. the army say separatists shield the bridge a few days ago. ukrainian soldiers on guard the river bank. oh oh. oh boy, negligently. while they shelled it, using roughly $122.00 caliber weapons,

we were luckily sheltering under cover at the time. in the distance i can hear what sounds like heavy artillery and machine gun fire. ukrainian government has in the last hour or so declared a state of emergency. now i remember being here in april, there was a man fishing exactly the spot. the bridge was a vital connection point for people living in the grey zone who used to come to this village to shop, to buy medicine. and some of the children used to go to school here. but that's simply not possible anymore. they were here numa close by. 46 year old cartier, unload the delivery of wood. her brother and sister live across the front line in separatist control on ask certain rucker numbers the girl boiler does leave them a family should and should them of a should need them and not being cross crypted there. and thou being conscripted here. what nonsense. this is the 21st century and look at us running around with guns while we are tottering each other. despite the risk

27 year old michael still goes to the river to fish. he was injured in a car accident in 2013. the war started a year later and he hasn't been able to get the physiotherapy he needs since then. hoover borrowed nigger bertha when for london. we have shelling every day. you can hear it now. i've just come down to check that it hasn't scared the fish away. this is one of a number of destroyed homes in the village. i'm 70 year old svetlana whose home was damaged by shelling in december describes what some nights are like. oh, you miss cheryl mccoy, much of the sort of new the fireballs this big fly over our house is not the pass. our windows lighting the room with the explosions are so loud on the drive home. sudden and terrifying blasts hidden

ukrainian artillery, 5 shells towards separatist held territory. what do you crane? an army say is defensive action against the russian back threat just over the hills . char stratford, al jazeera greenwich, there, eastern ukraine. with some asian countries, a reporting record rises in curve at 19 cases. they've nearly doubled, for instance, in south korea to 170000. the health ministry there says the number of seriously ill patients and deaths, low around 70000 people have died from corona virus related illnesses. since the start of the pandemic in south korea, in hong kong. meanwhile, infections of had a record high of more than 8600. this is the territory launches, it's toughest restrictions since the pandemic began. people will have to show their

vaccine certificates to enter, essential, and non essential. businesses. masks will be mandatory for outdoor exercise, and compulsory nationwide testing will be enforced next month. iceland has joined a growing list of countries ending pandemic restrictions, even though large numbers of people are still testing positive. all cove at 19 measures will end on friday, including border controls. health authorities say the population has developed widespread resistance to the virus. a convoy of truck drivers has begun across country drive from california to washington. d. c. to protest against corona virus mandates. hundreds of people saw them off in the town of adelanto. the movements inspired by the demonstration north of the border in canada truck drivers there staged a sitting in the capitol ottawa for 3 weeks. rob reynolds has more from the rally in adelanto, california. there are trucks here, i have to say, hey, let's take

a look around here at to say that the actual number of big trucks, the, the big 18 wheelers that you see here is, is far less than the number of flag bedecked pickup trucks and recreational vehicles. in this crowd, the mood here is, is pretty festive, and you can see some people have brought their children even their dogs along for either for the ride or for the occasion. and the message that they're sending is one of the anti masking and anti vaccination mandates. they want, oh cobra, 19 pandemic mandates and restrictions lifted immediately. and many of the people who we talked to here that said that they believed the united states is slipping towards the top sort of totalitarian a form of government. now the organizers of this convoy a plan to make their way slowly by stages across the country to the outskirts of

washington dc. they plan to arrive there by the 5th of march, and they emphasized that their protest is going to be peaceful. they want their voices to be heard that what their opinions to be broadcast and, and seen across the country trotter's underway in the united states for one of the police officers involved in the death of pre on a tailor. the young black woman who was at home in bed, when she was shot dead by police during a botched raid nearly 2 years ago. but as gabriel, i was on that report south from taylor's home city of louisville. the trial isn't directly related to her death. she became a tragic symbol of police killings of innocent people in america. brianna taylor's death at the hands of police and louisville sparked widespread protests. taylor and aspiring nurse was asleep in her apartment in the middle of the night on march, 13th, 2020. when several plain clothes police officers used a battering ram to knock down her front door as they attempted to execute

a search warrant for drugs. officers fired 32 rounds. taylor was struck 6 times and died. no drugs were found. bred higginson is the only police officer charged with a crime in the case, but he is not standing trial for anything directly related to the killing of taylor . instead, he's charged with recklessly firing his weapon into an adjacent apartment during the raid. putting taylor's neighbors at risk, there's just no justice out here for black body profess chanel helm is part of the black lives matter movement in louisville. after 2 years of a global uprising and unrest that took place in lowville. now we're looking at an officer who is not being held responsible for the crime that he committed. he's being held for bullets that didn't kill somebody if brianna taylor hadn't been shot and killed on that night. nearly 2 years ago,

she would have celebrated her 28th birthday next month. nobody has ever been charged with their death. a kentucky grand jury brought no charges against any of the officers who shot taylor during the raid prosecutor saying they were justified in using force to protect themselves. many in louisville are skeptical taylor will ever get justice out. you can do with hope or you could do it, hope it this hope that you know, whatever they decide to do to these offices that you know, not saying that, you know, you don't have to contain them or anything like that, but just hold them accountable for what they did want to have justice because blah, force me no harm people, harm citizens kill services a lot more frequently in this country than a door in other countries. there's also skepticism that this trial will hold police truly accountable. this is not justice. i'm brianna taylor still didn't know.