what might be put in place instead of a government, if it comes to that? yeah, well, this was the stated, you know, part of his mission as he announced that this morning, demo demilitarization and denot cation of the ukrainian government did not have a cation implies that the current government, even though the president of ukraine is it is jewish, is somehow in nazi and so yeah, this would mean that they would go and try to decapitate the great in government. my jude governmental buildings are going to my right. it's probably like a 10 minute walk and very likely that that, that is the scenario that will unfold in the next day, or 2 or 3. some of the names we heard for potential replacement for this going to puppet regime are pretty toxic as far as the ukranian sort of political establishment they've been known to be pro russian toxic,

not very popular politicians. if that is the case, once again, everyone is asking what is good and good because it is hard to conceive of someone that unlikable, someone with bad little popular support. there's been little support for, for pro russian politicians integrate right now. how are they going to be able to maintain order and give you legitimacy to this president their, their pocket and all the proper person that they're trying to put in place or would be trying to put in place? it feels like they're, they're try, they're considering going the bellows rout. bella was essentially over the last few months, we've seen us turned into that protectorate under permanent russian occupation and is now launching missiles ukraine bellows. and i think that was important. has his mind for ukraine, he may go, wouldn't further an invisible dover. and in the baltic states, maybe in his cross here. i mean all, and i think this will be hard combined just now he's aware of that. he's probably

thinking that the west cannot hold down ukraine. they have to draw the line at ukraine in order to protect the politics and the rest of natal. i mean, that's just what it sounded like to me. pictures on my a. thank you very much indeed. her analysis and we wish you good luck with your decisions in the next few hours. thank you. i russia's president says he had no option but to order what he's calling a special operation against ukraine. and close to your stable and you think you should have to be too much we, we're not given any other chance to act otherwise. in the security area, we can react any other way. all or tries came to no result and we didn't move any further. not even an inch when we had to do it because the risks were very serious for the whole existence of our country. secondly, we totally understand which world we're living in, which and we're ready for what's about to happen with sanctions and was limited pushed back in russia despite a heavy presence by the authorities in the areas where protests were planned,

women 1400 people have been arrested according to the d info monitoring group. ha ha ha. hundreds turned out an anti war demonstration in more than 50 cities, including capturing bug bisk and st. petersburg, ukrainian president, his address rushing directly saying people needed to know the truth. and asking if russia citizens wanted the war some activists have turned to solo picketing. instead of trying to organize protests, they, they, to been quickly detained or moved on. while others are finding ways to protest without demonstrating like these women on nascent petersburg subway with no was to show that bags as collaborative bennie smith in moscow. so we had a little bit about some of the people who are protesting that broadly what you impression of the level of support or otherwise for this ukraine invasion by russia . laura,

it's very difficult to the people to protest openly and freely in russia. so it's very difficult to really gauge a genuine public opinion. yes. more than 1500 arrests in protests in over 50 city. so it takes a particular type of bravery and russia to go out under the streets and protest, you risk being violently arrested and beaten up. but we should also say that in the run up to the war to the invasion, vladimir putin approval rating with russians was actually ticking up for about 61 percent as troops started massing along the borders to around 69 percent. so rather, male putin until today, has maintained and increased our popular support here. and in terms of the justification, talk us through what he's been saying and, and what implications are so he's

been playing at business as usual to day to begin where the earlier on he was meeting the pakistani prime minister emron connor, the kremlin. there the kremlin just said they talked about issues of mutual concern and issues in south asia. no talk about a ukraine there. and later on this evening, he did speak to his last appearance this evening was or with a group of businessman there, he was explaining his justifications. he was left with no other option or concern of all of those business men is the risk of sanctions. and we heard earlier on about the sanctions of the united states is imposing on russia and the european union that the united kingdom doing similar. but actually these are sent no more than the russians were expecting no more than the kremlin was expecting particularly. and they've managed to build up stops of more than $631000000000.00 of cash. just for such an eventuality. as this only 16 percent of that money is in

us dollars. the rest of it is in chinese remnant. b is in euro and eating gold because the russians are trying to d dollar eyes their economy just for the event you ality that we're seeing today, that when sanctions are imposed, russia has a cushion. so that is economy can for a period of time, not indefinitely for sure, but his economy can, for a period of time, or withstand, or international sanctions, as it also quickly out there. russia's military says, gets achieved its objectives by thursday says it's disabled, 83 ground facilities of the ukrainian military. and the russians insist they're not targeting civilian areas, accusing the ukrainian security services of staging attacks on civilian areas. bennie smith, thank you very much indeed. well, leaders widely condemned russia's aggression against ukraine. a china so far refused to refer to the attack as an invasion. and as we heard from president biden

moscow now, face is another round of sanctions from western allies. ne parker has more from london. would mean, as missiles fell on ukrainian cities, so international condemnation rained down on vladimir putin of the russian attack. early this morning, russian troops invaded ukraine, a free and sovereign country. and once again, in the center of europe, innocent women, men and children are dying of fear for their lives. we condemned this barbaric attack. later on thursday you leaders will meet to discuss developments that they'd hoped against hope would not happen at the scale of which now none could entirely have foreseen from national capitals leader after leader promised a coordinated and unprecedented sanctions response aimed at president putin. the russian elite and the sources and havens of russian wealth,

hoping against hope again that they will make a difference. you as president joe biden joined a virtual meeting of g 7 leaders, a club to which booted warmth belonged. he said, russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring freedom. the british prime minister boards, johnson set diplomatic niceties aside, right? describing vladimir putin as a dictator for all his bombs and tanks and missiles. i don't believe that the russian dictator will ever subdue the national feeling of ukrainians and their passionate belief of their country should be free. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. later johnson announced a salvo of sanctions with weak planning russian companies from its markets. and rushes national airline from british airports us all the measures also include asset freezes against major russian state banks and individuals and halt on high tech exports. those responsible for propping up putin, he said,

will have no where to hide. this includes all the major manufacturers that support hooton's war machine, while determined efforts continue by a number of countries to supply ukraine with lethal and defensive weapons. no one's offering to stand shoulder to shoulder with here and fight. we have it, we don't have any plans, an intentional deploy nato troops to ukraine. or what we have a fair is that we have pulled an increase and we are increasing the presence of nickel troops in the eastern part of the ice on april territory. that will not be a factor in putin's plans for now. and neighboring countries have other problems to consider. the polish governments as 9 reception points will be open along ukraine's border to receive an expected wave of refugees. a country that in recent months has used course to repair refugees from the middle east. must now brace for ukrainians,

fleeing war in their thousands nave barker al jazeera. when i did, mattie enter, james basie live in brussels and has been in a unit meeting for his upstate with what had i been discussing you, you leaders meeting the european council? that's the summit meeting of all the 27 nations of the you got on the way about 30 minutes ago. we heard from some of those going in and clearly they go to discuss over the coming hours. exactly what's going to be in these sanctions. we certainly heard from some of the leaders slovenia, that the way the belgium, estonia, they certainly think that this 2nd package of sanctions because there was sanctions 24 hours ago. these need to be the final and main ones that show putin where europe stand. there are others though that want to leave some things in reserve to try to, to put in and his further actions. so there is

a disagreement. i think that one of the key issues is on banking in the swift banking network and whether to cut russia off that global system, which plenty would have a big effect on russian businesses that still under discussion. but it's not certainly likely at this stage that that is going to be one of the things that you need is decide at the end of that meeting. and certainly we've heard some very strong comments from the ukranian foreign minister to meet you. caliber all not with issue. he's been on twitter, he said, i will not be diplomatic on this. everyone who now doubts where the russia should be banned from swift, has to understand the blood of innocent ukrainian when men, women, and children will be on their hands to the very strong comments from the ukrainian foreign minister. as these leaders sit around the table to try and hammer out

exactly what's going to be in the e u. part of the sanctions. we've already heard from the president of europe in commission. this is going to be in, have you the toughest set of sanctions that you has ever the idea to show. glad to be put in what the you thinks of his action. and it's worth binding you, that the, you nato, the us, all of them really sanctions of the new weapons they have. because if you go beyond the sanctions, you have to think about military options. and you heard president biden the last half hour. he's not changed his position and not have any of his allies. there isn't a military option of sending data troops to ukraine. that is not going to be considered james bond. thank you very much. indeed. ukraine's key port city of mario pole in the southeast has come under heavy fire with hundreds of explosions reported the charles stratford sent us this earlier from the edge of mario pole where he witnessed a convoy of tanks, some flying ukrainian flags. i'm close to

a checkpoint on the outskirts all my real military vehicles behind me heading down the road, heading west. nobody can see quite yet. on the other side of the road. there was a convoy of chunks appearing. we've heard the distinctive thought of what sound to bay grad marseilles being used. these are these missiles that they like to take and see the coming out heading to marry off all across the field here. there are you quite a bit of reflecting that we on the side we're here earlier, billowing smoke coming problem other come

with yeah, also increasingly seeing more more people leaving chrome. this checkpoint is checkpoint, the road going down towards the west tools. cities like very dense. only as op c, as well as the neat frog in the north north west. but interested me, we have been speaking to a source in the navy around paradox. he says that earlier today, naval force is off the coast of the coach. the presidents came under fire from russia, labor russian naval vessels and forcing them back to base. and we're also getting reports to the game that we cannot verify the russian forces may be planning an attack from the north of crimea in towards cities like care song and merely a topple. which as i say, our west

a michael kaufman is that director of russia studies at the center for naval analyses. he joins us live from washington, d. c by skype. thanks very much for being with us. so we've heard that it's an air land and sea operation from what you've seen so far on the progress of the, the russian troops. what's your impression of what's going on here and what they're trying to achieve? so full scale invasion. and i think if you look at the situation on the ground, it's clear that russia has maximum warnings, but as they're advancing in ukraine, from the north, across the grand border with dollars try and circle kio, there is heavy fighting in the eastern part of ukraine. and there is a break out of russian forces to the south from crimea. so this is very much a russian invasion that is seeking to impose regime change in your brain and may involve holding ukrainian territory substantial parts of it are trans occupied. one of the elements that we've seen to days are you creating officials say that russian

forces are captured, the, you know, bo, nuclear power plant has. and if it can do that, why, why would that be important? especially significant except that tells you that russian forces have advanced to the normal exclusion zone on their way south to keep from dollars. so it gives you some sense of where washing forces may have made progress in the north. now the regiment she claimed it was not targeting population centers. is that, would you think that that's not true? it's hard to tell right now on the frame. there's nothing more confusing than war, especially when you're seeing the 1st hours of advance in a large military campaign. i'd say looks like the earlier strikes the russian forces conducted were focused on your defense command, the control logistics and the air bases. but they've also conducted some pretty brazen helicopter attacks and have landed airborne troops certain airports, and has been a raft of cruise missile attack. so sort of began those try campaign. we will

center that ukraine is called on the european union. it's member states to provide the defense and anti missile systems, and also asked him to use it means to jam rushing satellite signals. what's your impression? is it, would it be too late for that? would that make any difference at the stage manager? the stage is going to be very difficult to get those kind of weapons. so something to ukraine, except on the ground to the western part of the country. ukraine in recent weeks had them provide a lot of basic shoulder fire surface to air missile systems and guided empty tank muscle systems as far satellites. you know, that's highly speculated. those are advanced capabilities that the queen the members have, and it's up to them whether or not they're going to intervene in that kind of manner and those conflict. i mean, it seems at this stage it's clearly russia has an advantage in terms of man manpower and, and you know, kids and what about the kind of the reaction from the ukrainians? how much of a resistance can they put up? do you think with what they have?

well, the military scholarly fighting, or russia has a considerable advantage of qualitative and quantitative. looking at the initial fighting, at least on the 1st day, it looks like rush and force of made considerable progress in some parts. in terms of their invasion, but they're still heavy fighting in the eastern regions of ukraine, around cargo. so it's hard to say, i think it's a bit uncertain how the war was belt, but to be frank, it looks, it looks from my point of view, somewhat gram waste and the way parts of the fire developing. michael coughlin, thank you for welcoming your non to thank you. or samantha dependent is an associate fellow of the russia and you raise your program at chatham, how she joins us live from paris by skype. and tell me about the the issue of disinformation. clearly, we're struggling to verify pictures information at this stage, and not as president was up to expressions in the fog of war, but how much this information is there? in this instance, do you think?

i think this information has been paused to tunes a warfare toolkit ever since 2014. the question of verifying what's happening today is, is really not the most important one. the most important issue now is the brain washing that has been taking place in russia. how put in his brain, washing his own population, he is telling them that ukraine is and nazi state of it. he is undertaking a process of d knots if occasion, ukraine's president is jewish. half the cabinet of ministers, ukraine is do is tell me which country in the world is not the country with a jewish president, but that's not the only issue. the foreign ministry folks person to day has said, this is not a war. this is the end of war. i'm not actually quite sure what she means was this very ominous. this is a water. and what was she trying to decide the russian population that there is no wall? this is this information on a grand scale. how does that work?

in terms of the access to information in russia, i mean, you least some people can get other information there from other sources other than the official ones. absolutely. people are getting information from, from the internet, from twitter. there's a very, very live a facebook wolf. i can one right now amongst russians amongst my own russian friends who are coming out, many of them in horror and what is happening. this has allowed people to go out on the streets. i've been doing reports from st. petersburg to day of people out in the street in st. petersburg saying stop, stop, stop. when you protest in russia, it's not like protesting in the u. k. when you protest in russia, you risk imprisonment, your risk, your life is a brave people who are protesting, not as many as one could expect, considering the scale of what is happening. but there was some protest because they are managing to get access to other sources of information. sadly, not enough. there was some suspicion was there when the u. s. put out to intelligence in advance and said, you know,

this is what russia is planning to do. and there were people who are skeptical because i said, well, we know in the past intelligence we put out by government and not necessarily cannot necessarily be relied on. do you think in this instance it actually helped people to prepare? would you think people just ignored it? i think is certainly how people in ukraine to prepare what was very interesting in the way this intelligence was shared so publicly is the finally, the west decided that the time has come to control the narrative when it comes to russia. if we go back to the treaties that the so called documents that put in, sent to the united states and nato, back in december, asking for a discussion on peace in europe. bass itself was a massive piece of this information. he sees the narrative by trying to make the world believe he was interested in negotiating a peace treaty. we have been playing, we, and i mean, the west had been playing catch up with putin. by publishing this intelligence, we have finally decided to take control of what is being said about ukraine and

actually trying to get the truth out there, as opposed to putting lies, cemented abandon. thank you for your thoughts and subject. you're welcome. the stalks of plunged rushes currency to record low and oil prices. a soaring as the repercussions of the attack on ukraine. ripple across the global economy. oil broke past $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time. in 8 years, russia supplies 10 percent of the world, oil and a 3rd of europe's gas. the markets are being hammered. european stocks tumble more than 3 percent. and wall street opened 2 and a half percent lower. and russia's rouble fell to $89.00 against the dollar an old time no before recovering. the moscow stock exchange had to briefly suspend trading out falling by record 45 percent. 1 point, one ukraine was forced to suspend trading in its currency would have bonds crashed investors a warning it could default again as it did after russia. annex crime in 2014 food

supplies, also under threat, russia and ukraine supply more than a quarter of the world's wheat and prices for wheat and corn of already surged 5 percent. this could hit vulnerable countries like yemen, lebanon and bangladesh, which depend heavily on ukrainian wheat. gabriel saunders monitoring the economic impact of all this joins us live from the new york stock exchange. and so it's not just on the markets that it's, this is going to have repercussions. it, it's not, there's a whole host of things that this will have repercussions on for the economy is around the world and the global economy as a whole. first to the new york stock exchange where it has been rallying as the day progresses. here, it's a little little towards the end of the day now only about an hour. so more of trading and the nasdaq is back in the green. the benchmark s and p 500 is back in the green as well. paring down losses that at one point during the day, we're at 2.5 percent. the 30 stock dow is also pairing some bits. last is that the

worst part of the day was down about 800 points. it's now down. oh, about 20250 points or so. so there is a late rally in the markets and that's for a little bit of a, a little bit of a good news if you will. but the big picture is though, that after so often asian markets and in european markets, that is the overall sense here in new york that the markets here are going to be suffering because of the invasion by russian ukraine. and the analysts here are worried because they view this the consensus as they view this as going to be a longer term problem. it's going to extend with these geopolitical issues and this war on how it could affect the markets. as you mentioned, while the markets are go in overall going down, oil prices going up over a $100.00 a barrel at one point because of global concerns about lack of oil or

lack of that. and it's a real energy issue that we're watching, watching. now, as you mentioned, there are other issues as well. the price is for european natural gas, most of which is supplied by russia sword, by more than 50 percent, and aluminum, as you mentioned, reaching record highs and their price because russia is $1.00 of the major producers of aluminum. so what you're seeing is here is worries about what will there be shortages of moving forward, and you're seeing those prices going up. the big picture on the global stage is this, though, that this all is happening, as the global economy was already unsettled, as it was still trying to recover of the, from the economic impacts of the pandemic. you're talking about high inflation, slower growth, continued global supply chain issues, and now war in europe. and so then now you're saying that lot of analicia saying

this is really the perfect storm that we're really facing on the global economic stage. and now analysts are figuring out how do we try to get past this bottom line? no is where the markets are rallying here in new york overall. it's pretty, pretty bad day, globally. gabriel, joe, thank you very much. indeed. now the mayor of keir for the former boxing champion battalion, click go, and his brother, bloody man, also a world heavyweight boxing champion according for global action to stop rushing aggression in that country. i'm calling to old. busy international partners to observe this strategy that is happening nowadays in ukraine and this senseless war which is not going to have any winners but losers. i just want to tell you, we must, the united against this aggression against russian aggression. don't

let it happen. continue happening, and ukraine ban, let it happening in europe. and eventually in the world. united were strong support. ukraine. monday, watching our continuing coverage of events in ukraine. russia has invaded from by the air, land, and sea. we've heard within the last hour from president biden, reacting to that movement, saying that he's going to block assets of full rock, large russian banks, and impose export controls and sanction oligarchs. of a european countries also doing the same. but he also said that he would send about $7000.00 troops at to germany to reassure nato allies. but he also made it clear again that there would be no deployment of us military to ukraine. and dev will have continuing coverage of that to for me in just a moment. i'll be back with

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