of russia's many audi galks vladimir putin, the russian president is in that chamber as well. yes. there we are. of course, since 2018. the reason he's talking to them, i guess, is that since 2018, several russian oligarchs. and these people are not just wealthy. they are, i watering the wealthy, they would make them king solomon's miners blush. they are so wealthy, but their companies have been hit by us sanctions. it was under a thing, an umbrella piece of legislation, international legislation. it is called the country america's adversaries, through sanctions act, because they support directly, financially, politically, as well, the russian government and i quote, from the act of the russian government malign activities around the globe. all the men in that chamber that mister putin, the mailing m is addressing and talking to and i guess bolstering and saying to them, look, it's going to be ok, look, the economy is going to be ok. this talk of shocking us out of the swift inter banking system around the world is not gonna happen because we are insulated. we

have written the wave of sanctions now for 4 years and look, the economy is basically sound cuz all those guys, they may, they started making big law amounts of money when the soviet union fell to bits. 19899291990. when the berlin wall came down as well, when you remember mister gorbachev famously at the time said to eric han occur, the east german premier. leave the wall open and that was the beginning of the end of the u. s. s. r. so those are the latest pictures coming to us from moscow. our white house correspondent, kimberly how could tracking events for us up and down, or the political halls of power there at the white house. so kimberly, or what we've got an hour and a half to go until we hear from mr biden. and i guess he's going to come out fighting with that 2nd more impactful, lily pad of sanctions. we expect that the u. s. president, when he addresses the american public,

will make good on that promise that if russia invades, ignores the 1st rounds of sanctions that were put in place by the u. s. and european leaders to trying to turn invasion that the result or consequences would be even more punishing. so we expect the us president to outline what that will look like. we believe it will be some sort of a series of sanctions designed to cat russia off completely from the global financial system and also, and europe's dependence permanently on russian oil. so that is where we're watching, we're very carefully, but also what we're watching for carefully is what is going to say to the american people. because already this is that an administration that has been innovated, there will be a cost to the american public, whether it is in the form of potential cyber attacks to american businesses, or even the rise in the price of gasoline for their automobiles to get to and from work so the you are present expect to talk about some of those costs,

but why he feels it's important. he believes that this is about not just a standing up for what is right. in fact, the g 7 leaders as they broke up from that meeting, that virtual meeting he participated in earlier, said that what they're doing is not only can demi rushes actions, but also expressing solidarity for ukraine of the u. s. present is going to make the case of this is about defending democracy and american values to get the feeling. kimberly, because you and i year ago had lots and lots of conversations on this program when it was candidate bitin. and it was interesting because as a democratic presidential candidate, he was kind of on the same page as donald trump in one regard. and it was this, it was, i'm not going to get sucked into big, foreign crises, thousands of miles away for no good reason. and he, we all, he's getting sucked into it, whether he likes it or not. he's, he's the guy that people go to because they need to know what he's thinking, what he's planning. this is a problem for

a president that is already struggling in the polls. he was largely elected for reasons that are domestic to get control of the coven pandemic that has left the american economy sputtering and still millions of americans struggling to find the kind of work that they would like. and we've also seen as a result of that, the rise in inflation as merrick is try to get their economy going again. so his poll numbers are already struggling, and this is not going to help them much. in fact, the latest poll shows that in fact, only 26 percent of americans believe that the united states should be involved in any way and defending ukraine from a russian invasion. and so the u. s. president has a tough case to make that not only is there the obligation, but i, he may also have to explain something that's going to get a lot more uncomfortable. he has promised a war weary american public that has seen

a generation of war in iraq and afghanistan, that there will be no american boots on the ground in ukraine. here's the problem for mr. biden. though. if that conflict spills over into lat fair or any other neighboring nato country, there is going to be an obligation of the united states to get involved because that would invoke article 5 that an attack on one is an attack on all when it comes to the nato alliance, and so a, well, the u. s. president has made this promise to the american public. he may now have to explain that if this goes further than ukraine, americans will be seeing conflict again. one that many people don't want to and you're right, the u. s. president really shied away from on the campaign trail. kimberly thank you so much. i will talk to a little later, mr. biden, to, to talk to the will talk to the nation and what 50. 5 minutes. she'll bring it to us live. i'm sure. thank you very much. kimberly. how could that? okay. it is 11351136. about the time in new york. let's show you what the dow jones

is doing is doing bad stuff is done. 1.7 percent was down of a 2 percent 2 point one percent this time an hour ago, extending of 32560 stopped markets around the world have been falling because of what's been going on in ukraine. the price of oil is up over $100.00 a barrel. the cost of energy, of course, around the world has been going up anyway. gable is under, is following that for if he's there in new york on the stock exchange. flor gabe. how bad is it going to be? i mean, it has come back from where it was an hour ago and the hour before that as well. i guess it has come back a little bit. you're right there. it is a little after 1130 here in new york. markets have been open here for a little over 2 hours now. and the dow is hovering around between $5.70 points down . that's about 1.5 to 2.5 percent drop. that's kind of where it's been hovering. so it's not totally gone off the cliff if you will, but it's certainly is

a very ugly day here on wall street after sell offs in the markets in europe and asia as well. it's no longer by analysts fields. no longer a matter of, if the market continues to drop, it's a matter of how far will it drop. and how long will this go on? the consensus here on wall street is that this invasion by russia, ukraine will be drawn out. and that means the economic effects globally will be drawn out as well. you talk about commodities will it's 1st go to energy. as you mentioned, oil reaching over $100.00 a barrel analyst think that will continue to stay high for a very long time. natural gas as well, prices of european natural gas, mostly supplied by russia sword by more than 50 percent. if you look at commodities as well, aluminum jumped by more than 5 percent to a record high. wheat prices. their highest level in a decade, russia, ukraine,

big producers of wheat. so you're seeing all sort of fluctuations all over the place here. as a couple, analysts were saying they said the markets are reacting like this is a shock. and other analysts said, this is worse than our baseline expectations when angel is saying that he expects between 5 and 6 percent drop in the markets. here in the medium term, big picture here peter, the global economy was unsettled, even before russia invaded due to trying to recover from 2 years of this. pandemic, inflation, slower growth, and now we have war. as one person said, this is now the perfect storm of the trade as i'm the stock markets around the world, not just where you gave, i guess the reality is a cliche, but cliche is a true the markets need want enjoy stability. we are not going to get stability for a considerably long time, i guess. yeah, that's right. there you headed. i mean,

stability is what the market's want. traders here in an analyst here in east coast . united states went to bed last night saying, look, it looks like there's an evasion. we have no stability. now, woke up this morning, came into the office, went on the trading floor and said, this looks like there will not be stability. geopolitical and economic stability for a long time now. and that is really how the markets are reacting. this is not going to be a quick fix here for the global markets. this is going to drag on for quite a while, and that's why you see so many people running to the exits right now. not necessarily panic, but a real sense that the worst case scenario for the global economy is now very much upon us. ok, stay close cable talk to later. i'm sure it's been of course, astonishing what 48 hours now since we had those very, very clear signals from the russian leader that he was planning something. and so

it came to pass before dawn local time in kiev. let's just run you through some of the best pictures of the past 24 hours. these pictures proport to show destroyed russian tanks. near hakim that's an eastern ukraine, where there are reports of ongoing heavy fighting. now here you'll see a missile. what happens when a missile hits? what appears to be a warehouse in odessa? it looks like a target. ec strike on that one particular building. what was the target inside the building? nobody knows. the ukrainian defense ministry says a russian helicopter was shot down close to the capital kiev. and says, russian troops attacks an airfield near the city and at least 3 of their helicopters were destroyed. these are apparently brushing helicopters near curve firing flares. ah,

they are believed to be near the airport. it's called the hoster mel airports is on the outskirts of kiev. this is across her coming to us and we are wrapping them up with a very big, fat kind of health warning if you will, because we don't know the provenance of them. we are telling you we are separating out our to our day to day. now we are separating at what we know, as fact, our eyes and ears on the ground. our correspondence, the news agencies that we trust, the sources of information that we trust from. we call it u g. c. user generated content, people with their cell phones, people with their mobile phones compelling tabloid, the front page headline grabbing pictures of course. but we cannot guarantee a 100 percent, the province of those pictures just to make you aware of, of what goes on around our decisions. i guess to broadcast those pictures. well, earlier we spoke to vladimir chris coke. he is, you know, a former world heavyweight boxing champion. his brother is the mayor of kiev. this

is the, all the city with his through of 1005. i'm a years and as the capital, the country, if you have the capital, you pre might probably have the country i would say so. and i am more than sure. gabrielle as well is, is the target not just the, the east of the country. and it's unfortunate because this is a said 1st time since 2nd world war we in europe have such terrible events as war. no one would have thought that something like that could happen because we are the most peaceful nation will never attack any one. we're always provided services and we're good at it, but will never provided any aggression and is just so unfortunate that something is happening to us by our neighbor and not acceptable. this is the war in europe. and if we don't stop with collectively is going to spread further.

not just in europe, who mostly in the world go from being there are, there are a lot of challenges that he's and, and team, and the city and, and all the people that live in the capitol. some of the people fleeing some of the people are taking weapons to defend because we, we chose how we want to leave. if someone is telling you, you will not warn you don't exist. get out of here. this is something that is impossible. and of course, this is terrifying and challenging events in history of city of give an ukraine the whole ukraine not to forget that flood me a crisco talking to us a little earlier. we'll popple falcon howard is a military analyst and columnist at the in the via gazette. explains president putin's views on the invasion. this is a full blown invasion,

and the president put to nashua a couple of days before outlined in his speech. what he wants to get from ukraine watching ukraine should do, and that included therefore a total demilitarization of the country. and now he announced that in today's address, that was actually a record of the pan plea a couple of days before that, that, that is the main objective of this offensive. why believe the russia one still either expel under the threat of prosecution or put behind bars or want will anyway to remove the presence ukrainian poet that go who eat out of the country and sell that ukraine? not only will be right now defeated, but we'll never ever arise to become a national state. so russian believes that moscow believes fujen believes that the national ukrainian state is wrong, that they will always be anti russian and it should be wiped out for a once

a and for all. so ukrainians will have to either accept that or resist. somehow though russia has the we have the military initiative and has more heavy weaponry to and the well trained, well prepared standing that you are army. ok andre. cuz men co is the ambassador of ukraine takata, he joined us in the studio earlier. he said he expects a strong and swift response from the international community. let's have the measurements at best for us is cut for the russian fleets that the international airports and international airspace is closed for the russian jets be swift. system and banking system of russia is deprive the banking system of friendship is deprived of swift and any possible international sources. this

is we expected, but more we expect that any kind of assistance, especially for the be both the majority of people or is a pro ukrainian or just neutral. and the driving force over these invasion from the very beginning. the special forces of russia, russia, propaganda, and russia unit which actually prevail, us from the successful completion of the anti terroristic or operation in the year 2015. yes, direct participation of the russian troops in the bud. so in ill, a vice, this was the reason these mop it resumes, these terroristic and cleaves and organization steel, till now that was the ukrainian ambassador to cussin, as is the way with such a big global news events as the russian invasion of eastern ukraine. there is

always a drip drip drip of a reaction from different organizations, different politicians, precedents, different, different age groups around the world. so let's just have a look at some of the strongest pictures that we've had here at to 0 over the past 24 hours. and as we remind ourselves about what's been going on, i'll just take you through some of the main developments. the cleaning facet to the u. s. is called on international organizations to consider excluding russia. that's the latest on the diplomatic political demand aspect of what's going on there. the ukraine, and i'm bassett, a to the u. s, saying a russian platoon from russia. 74th motor rifles brigade has now surrendered. that would mirror with what lot of me as a lensky was saying, when we carried him talking to the world, he was saying they had some russian prisoners of war. the head of the russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs tells mister putin,

we need to ensure predictability of large scale investment products. i suspect the 2nd tranche of sanctions that we're just about to get from job in the us president may put paid to that. and that's being mirrored as well. the print and i'm faceted to the us says the 74th motor rifle brigade has surrendered. those are some of the latest top lines from around the world. what's the reaction to what's going on in eastern ukraine? well vladimir saadenee cough is a russian foreign affairs analyst. he is down playing the size of the military operation by russia. this is not a big operation. and i think that this operation, special operation was it was for the go by russia. i will be limited to only to use them republics independent republic shop for don barza, no guns, and they will do as a i think there will be no any movement to watch. so the capital offer you train

and also there will be just a, some surgical strikes against the nazis and terrorist organizations, which are actually present, which are destroying or trying to destroy the people off off are done that scandal, guns. so this is a short operation. ultimately saying, and i think that it will be soon close up. peter zamiah's, his executive director of the razor democracy initiative and a contributor to the odessa review. he has more for us now on what he makes of the latest developments. a most analyst sitting here in ukraine would tell you that he would start with a shock in all campaign in the east of ukraine for now and not very many could have predicted that he would be striking at so many multiple targets at once. you know,

he wouldn't have said that he's only going in the military installations and not going to target population centers directly. it seems like what they were seeing and i tried to poke the west in the i could put this isn't a rush of responding to but the bombing of the native binding of yugoslavia in 1999 . and you know, it was eric and i wouldn't, they wouldn't, it wouldn't work. i wouldn't take it to the bank and when he says he's not, does not have occupation of ukraine. and mine is only just a bullet military. well, you know, we'll see what happens. but maybe he's just softening up, be what? there is a massive land invasion. there's already in the information of troops. it was a desk and heart game, you know. and then he's also there's another on the very don't respond regarding ukraine leaders that, that is going to take them to court for the military crimes against the net. that

might mean they will try to go in to actually arrest those people. so anything is possible, you know, the situation is developing very, very quickly and, you know, obviously this is very scary, but ukrainian founding resolve there. they're there. now we've heard from you create an official and they're willing to fight. you know, we'll see what really, you know, developed ok, these are the latest pictures we've just done a take turn on them for you. is russian police in moscow running up and trying to get rid of and at the same time arresting, i guess, maybe detaining catalyst some anti war protests on the streets of moscow. were to spread of an organization or the organizing of protests on the streets of moscow. and that chimes with won't let me as lensky was saying, in that address to the nation that we carried in the last hour when he was calling on the ukrainians. around the world he, specifically,

by name mentioned muslims and petersburg. there's a big printing diaspora in st. petersburg to get out on the streets and show their support for back home for the people of ukraine. and she left is the director of the security program at the cranium prism that's an international think tank. she's a resident of odessa in the south west of ukraine. she told us what she has experienced so far. we woke up around 5 am also from the sounds of the shelling bought it to look to that were the strike work or our forces because he attempted to be situation that been reported by some media was not confirmed later. so as now we see the city quite a column where were the cds on the hiler to? because there were several options from the navy, i mean from the maritime to mean the saw the ration from there. the 2nd thing in

case anything you successful from the russia side from, from near. we definitely need the next one in the life. but don't forget that we also have the russian forces on i will west into nice area and other unrelated my staff to read that the russian situation support and be said to belong to my job are to talk to you, frank. and i'm, you know, just to be attacked on 3 sides. we have, they have which of navy and several other bases around here. so we hope for quite a serious defense. i have a big amount of police and should me give they've been waiting because the activities are happening. there are people in harkey, you would consider the same because harkey was definitely not threatening glue gun . but also, if you follow the information where the current military actually happening betty's at the ukraine, them controls that territory. not where the military base is like thing. it's a shot. yeah, it is a completely peaceful town. the been liberated in 2014,

but for the last few days, being on the heavy shelling. ok before we and this of world news on less on alex's here, let's recap the dramatic events of the day with andrew simmons. the one from build up of russian troops on the border with ukraine has turned into an invasion ukraine under attack military bases, airports and aircraft have been targeted and bombed the skies over multiple cities, including the capital key of lit up waking up residence in the early hours of thursday, as russian artillery advanced, not very many could have predicted that he would be striking at so many multiple argued. the civilian casualties are unknown, though russia says it will only attack military posts. as a response, ukraine has declared martial law more children. i had

a conversation with you as president joe biden. the u. s. is starting to gather international support. today we need you, each of you to be calm. if possible, stay at home please. we are working. the army is working. the tie, security in defense sector of ukraine is working. these attacks come after russian president vladimir putin declared to separatist areas in the don bass region in east new crane as independent and said, russian civilians who live there need protection. when the, when the battle, the law handsome and done yet in eastern ukraine has been going on since 2014, with more than 14000 people killed in fighting between russian back separatists and the ukrainian army. now putin has demanded ukrainian forces, retreat. the, when you put dell, said, when you shake however, we try to stop us and further create threats to our country to our people should

know that russia's response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history. we are ready for any outcome. the operation began despite last ditch appeals from members of the un security council to ease tension ukraine's ambassador to the un demanded. his russian counterpart stepped down as chairman called putting call of rove to stop aggression. there is no purgatory for war criminals. they go straight to hell, ambassador in a statement, us president joe biden warned of a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. there's a mood of desperation developing now. many people just jumping into their cars, getting their families together, and heading on the road, trying to get to poland. but the main auto roots are all jammed. there are so many people trying to do the same thing. others are going on the ground taking shelter.

the missiles are getting close and now emergency meetings have been called to reach an agreement. while the shelling of build up of military troops on both sides continues. this is ukraine's darkest day. andrew simmons al jazeera kiff. if you're just joining us here on al jazeera, let's just wrap up for you where we are so far to day the end of a period, i guess we're coming towards the end of a period of 24 hours. has it changed europe forever? no. as it changed europe for the immediate foreseeable future, perhaps vladimir putin, the russian president wanting that moscow's response will be. and i could instance, if anyone tries to take on russia. the u. k. prime minister boris johnston sang, russia has an i quit again on least a tidal wave of violence. he had a very, very strong speech delivered to the nation at 3 p. m. our local time talking about

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al jazeera, when ever you oh, i hello and welcome. it's 17 hours g, m, t 7 pm in kiev, and the lights of uncertainty and terror on the day that russia invades ukraine. i'm pete adobe without continuing coverage. ah, ukraine is under attack from land and sea major cities and military bases are on the fire. what's unfolding is the biggest attack by.