from february 15th, until august, 15th this year, for more information go to w, w, w dot h t a dot q a slash e m. ah, ah, ah, ukraine under attack from air land and sea as russia targets military bases and major cities across the country. ah, a norton taylor, this is out there alive from london, also coming up. cash points and fuel pumps run drive as people flee towns and cities across you. craig rushes, president said he had no choice, but to order what he's calling a special operation against ukraine. whom is the aggressor tune

chose his war. and now he and his countrymen bear the consequences. western nations respond with what they say is the biggest package of sanctions russia has ever seen . ah, i know russia has invaded ukraine by air, land, and sea launching an attack. the west has been wanting about for months and chattering diplomatic efforts to stop a war unfolding on the eastern edge of europe. ukraine's government has at least 57 people, have been killed. the u. n. 's refugee agency says about a $100000.00 ukrainians have fled their homes. ukraine's president below them is let's he called the attack a declaration of war on all of europe, which harolds the full of a new on cotton. russia's president vladimir putin assist the assault was needed to

protect civilians in the east, where you creating forces have been baffling, rushing back separatists for years. meanwhile, more sanctions against russia a being announced, the u. s. is announced. export controls on high tech products. and along with the u . k is targeting russian banks and oligarchs. russia's national airline air afloat has also been banned from british as base. and they've been protest in support of ukraine across the world, including in russia or police of detained walls and $1400.00 progresses. in dozens of cities under simmons reports from care. ah, the russian invasion was lost with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. along military build up around it, cranes, borders finally unleashed fight holder of the kremlin one helicopter gunship fighter jets miss isles tanks. convoys of armored vehicles are all involved in what

russia calls a military operation. for the moment. the targets appear to be specific and strategic. they include ukraine's airfields and military bases. this video from merely to poll in southern ukraine, appears to show the destruction of the cities airfield, with shrapnel and shells are also reported to have landed in civilian areas including the capital key. if you have any real a, some of the possible until the very last moment, i didn't believe it would happen, but i thought it might just involved in ask in the hands, but i didn't ever think it would involve kiev who's got a through most likely war has now begun. everyone is leaving everywhere as shut knowledge. it's ok, you your campus. i hate the country that started this war. i speak as a mother and as a ukrainian and i call on the whole well to help us. and scott, vous, aggressor, ukraine's government declared martial law or children or women. i had

a conversation with you as president joe biden. the u. s. is starting to gather international support in today. we need you. each of you to be calm. if possible, stay at home please. we are working. the army is working last deny security in defense sector of ukraine is working in. the russian military offensive follows a carefully choreographed strategy of russia's president vladimir putin. he unilaterally recognized to separate his engines in eastern ukraine as independent of give, and then sent russian soldiers in, under the pretext of being peacekeepers. the battle for la hans and don yet skinny eastern ukraine, has been going on since 2014. with more than 14000 people killed in fighting between the russian back separatists and the ukrainian army. now,

on putin calls peacekeepers the only attack i, when the russian leader is warning ukrainian soldiers not to resist the when you put them on your shirt or whatever. 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 russian invasion began despite last ditch appeals from members of the united nations security council to ease tension ukraine's ambassador to the un demanded. his russian counterpart stepped down as chairman, co putting cola rove to stop aggression. there is no purgatory for war criminals. they go straight to hell, ambassador. ah, as news of the invasion spread in ukraine's capital, kiev main highways out of the city quickly became good lot with traffic. 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. others have been flocking to the supermarkets and frantically stalking up on his central items. this was the scene in chrome at lost in the east of ukraine as shoppers grab what they could to fill their cupboards. the ukrainian army and air force are putting up a fight and resisting the russian attack. this video from the defense ministry said to show a russian helicopter shot down by ukrainian forces near keith. but there will be no reinforcements from nato. and the olds look heavily stacked against ukraine's forces andrew simmons al jazeera give. russia had in preparing to invade ukraine

for months. nearly $200000.00 soldiers were deployed around the country, including near the revel held areas of new hampshire and dynette skinny east. and in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, russia attacked the capital kiev, and the major cities of khaki, merciful and ne pro, and it's met. she immediately targeted ukraine's ad defenses. as well as caves main airport and air bases and several other cities. russian military vehicles have been deployed from crimea and batteries where russian troops were taking part in joint military drills. and in the east, the ukrainian military says it's killed 50 troops in new hunt, screeching and down 6 rush, warplanes. when you crane says russian forces took the engine off international airport at hoster mo, but there are conflicting reports as to whether it's been regained russian military as also taken nature novel nuclear plant. this video from inside the zone appears

to confirm that control is the site of the world worth nuclear disaster allies just a 130 kilometers from the capitol. the exploded reactor is covered by a protective shelter to prevent radiation leak and the entire plant has been decommissioned. present lensky says, attacking it is a declaration of war, gets the whole of europe. when 1400 people have been arrested at anti war protests across russia. that's called as the o v d info monitoring group ha, thousands turned out an anti war protests in at least 50 cities, including it getting burg, never sybil. and since petersburg, elliot and corinthian president has address and address russians 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 though, they to have been quickly detained or moved on others. the funny ways to protest

without demonstrating, including these women on the st. petersburg subway with no war stitched onto their backs was glossy but his smith in moscow to stop bending with what they're saying, they're in russia about how the, the invasion is going so far on. we heard earlier about the a sanctions the united states is going to impose on russia and the european union and the united kingdom are doing similar. but the kremlin has been expecting this. and a come in spokesman said earlier this evening though, they have enough safety tools to survive. market volatility, demitra pascall, he's the kremlin spokesman. he said, what he called the emotional reaction to the russian evasion invasion of ukraine would eventually even out. and he said it will be impossible to set shut off russia behind an iron curtain. and the foreign ministry also saying that this war between

russia and ukraine, between ukraine and east and ukraine has been going on for 8 years now. they say it's ending from just a few hours after launching the biggest invasion of a european countries in the 2nd world war. it looked like business as usual at the kremlin. pakistan's prime minister was the guest. but my vladimir putin's mind have been elsewhere. as the 2 men talked, rushes military was advancing in ukraine. these trucks were headed from crimea to the ukrainian border, part of an army that had surrounded a country of 40000000 people. a country that rushes president has said he doesn't think should exist in an address to russians on ukrainians. putin said his aim was to demilitarize ukraine, and he made clear his antipathy for the government in kiev doors and about it's equal. i have to also address the ukrainian military. dear comrade,

your father's grandfather's great grandfather is fought against the nazis defending our coleman motherland. she's not for today's neo nazi to take power and keith. you took the oath of allegiance to the cranium. people not the john to robin ukraine and bowling its own. people, do not follow its criminal orders. i urge you to immediately lay down your weapons and go home. russia's defense ministry says it met all its targets for thursday, destroying 83 ground facilities of the ukrainian military. and it insists they're not targeting civilian areas solution. a lot of them are the high precision weapons, or the russian armed forces on destroy the military infrastructure. these are objects of fair defense, military airfields, evasion of the armed forces of ukraine. dr. stage to video of human with mass casualties were among the civilian population, was filmed in ukrainian cities. the have been some attempts in russia to protest against the invasion. several 100 turned out in moscow. the shouting

no, to war, judging the russian public reactions difficult because it's almost impossible to protest freely here. but vladimir putin approval rating was at 69 percent in the build up to the wall. russia plans to take over the entirety of your grade. not just a don boss, not just give all over the country because you can't ensure demilitarization demilitarization means a total destruction of the ukrainian military. it's fair personnel should go home with weapons should be cashed during the strike. and the country as it is, will not be any more flooding. a putin's day ended with a meeting of businessmen if they're worried about sanctions. no one mentioned russia central bank says it's got $631000000000.00 in cash reserves to cushion the economy. if it's closed off from the global financial system. and when you are using laura, one of the objectives,

the russian military says it's achieved in its 1st day of assault on this invasion of ukraine is em, blocking a canal that supplies water to crimea. this canal was blocked after russia, or was blocked by the ukrainians after russia annexed crimea, creating a severe water shortage in her in the crimea. now that canal has been unblocked. the water is not flowing yet to crimea, but a significant step. and one of the major objectives the russians had a while, they say they've achieved all their objectives for thursday. this is only the beginning of what many people now are expecting is a full on invasion right to the center of ukraine and the ukrainian capital law. that is me. thank you very much indeed. me as president joe biden says, madam, he putin will become a pariah. on the international stage. he's joined the u. k. in sanctioning rushes major banks and members of president prisons in a circle. the ear is making to finalize its measures at the china so far,

refused to refer to the attack as an invasion. a bach has more than 100. you would mean as missiles fell on ukrainian cities. so international condemnation rained down on vladimir putin and 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, and dying of fear for their lives. we condemned this barbaric attack for you from national capitals leader off to leader promised a coordinated and unprecedented sanction to responsive aim at president putin, the, the russian elite and the source isn't havens of russian wealth, hoping against hope that they will make a difference. we will limit russia's ability to do business in dollars, euros, pounds, and yet to be part of the global economy. will limiter bill?

did you do that? we're going to start the ability of to finance and grow, rushed the russian military. we're going to impose major and we're going to pair their ability to compete in high tech, 21st century economy. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. earlier, the british prime minister also announced us a salvo of sanctions with banning russian companies from its markets. and rushes national airline from british airports. the measures include asset freezes against major russians, state banks, and individuals, and a holton high tech exports. those responsible for propping up putin. he said we'll have nowhere to hide. this includes all the major manufacturers that support hooton's war machine describing the russian president and an address to the nation 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 that passionate

belief of their country should be free. world leaders have however, fallen short of banning russia from the swift international payment system through which moscow receives foreign currency. some european countries pay a billions of dollars of russian debt won't be repaid to european creditors if moscow's forced out of the scheme. ukraine's urged western leaders to reconsider while determine 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 t. evan fight. we have it. we don't have any plans, an intentional deploy. nate don't choose to ukraine or what we have a fair is that we had pulled an increase or we, or increasing the presence of nato troops in the east part of the ice on april territory. that will not be a factor in putin's plans. for now, a neighboring come,

please have other problems to consider. the polish governments as 9 reception points will be opened along ukraine's border to receive an expected wave of refugees. a country that in recent months has used cause to repair refugees from the middle east, must now brace for ukrainians, fleeing war in the thousands. they've borkam al jazeera and fisher joins his line that from the white house says so it may need mentioned that in passing the swift system. and it seems that button isn't yet prepared to push russia out of swifter. it took us through what sanctions he hasn't decided on and why not know which one a well from my understanding it's not the joe biden is against implementing sanctions on swift. it's that there is objections from other members of the d. 7, notably, germany and italy who aren't ready to commit to that just yet. it's important to know that swift isn't a payment system. a lot of people making that mistake is actually a messaging system, and then the bags make the payment. joe biden says the route russia needs to pay

the price for invading ukraine. and that is why he is introduced selective sanctions, his targeting the financial sector. he's also making sure that it's much more difficult for the russian military to gain access to western technology. he's also targeting banks and financial institutions and belarus for supporting at russia in the invasion, and that is essentially joe biden and the western alliance, sending a message to others. please do not help russia with this, or else you too will face. but there sanctions as also question as well, why vladimir putin himself wasn't sanctioned. we didn't get an entirely clear answer from joe biden when he spoke in the last hour or so. the suggestion clearly is though, that this is the 1st of what joe biden and the white house believes is if pretty stringent set of sanctions that can cause real havoc a with the russian economy. and there will be more to come if that this isn't

enough to start to repel those russian forces. no, it seems that even with the threat of sanctions vladimir putin was willing to push forward. the threat of more sanctions might not be enough to force him to start pulling troops back. and in the meantime, an attempt to perhaps set guess what might come next from from booting with this sir. decision to send more trips to, to germany, to bolster and some of the nato allies with lee krench is not in a nato alive that to other areas. other countries around there aren't they? it's about sending a message. it's a and everyone keeps using the word that these are defensive operations. but setting sending 7000 troops to other neighboring unit or countries is showing that at that they don't want russia to cross the borders into little countries. it's interesting that joe biden was asked if they do, if they go into any 2 countries. and then he said, well, then the united states would be involved and there would be american troops

fighting because of course, of article 5 of the neat or i'd articles which says an attack on one is an attack on all that has been invoked just once before that was after the attacks in 911 and 2001, and saw the u. s. as aware that at calling that into to action means that other nations immediately rally to their side, they're hoping that won't be used throughout this entire crisis. we've also heard from the national security team at the white house that they're aware of the options available for vladimir putin if he does x, than they will do, why they have predicted many times correctly, that he will do x, y and zed in this occasion. and they have been proven right, something that joe biden had talked about during his address just in the last hour . and so the us seems to be prepared for what might come next. although speaking to one rush, an expert in the last 24 hours, just judging what vladimir putin is doing and what he intends to do next. they've

been watching russia for a very long time, and they're not entirely sure what comes next. anesthesia thank you very much. lecture general antonio, the terrorist says the u. n is scaling up, it's unitarian efforts in ukraine, and that the protection of civilians must be the top priority. he also repeated his call for russia to pull its troops back immediately. the decisions of the coming days will shape or world and died. italy affect the lives of millions upon millions of people in line with a chart that it's not too late to save these generation from the scourge of water. we need peace on to commit together to james base his live in brussels and james i within the last few minutes it seems that the leaders of agreed on what i just copied. massive sanctions and tell us what they are. yeah,

there's a statement just come out from the 27 leaders who have been meeting here in the summit meeting very quick. actually. they are only meeting for an hour or so, as you say, lauren, they say that they are going to impose what they call massive and severe consequences on russia. these sanctions cover the financial sector, the energy in transport sectors, jewel use goods, as well as export control, export financing, visa policy, additional listings of russian individuals, a new listing criteria. and now they also say that they are also preparing sanctions, not just on russia, but also on by the roost. because clearly that the russian involvement in this feller russian troops, we think have been involved. and certainly it's been a base for russian troops to cross the border into cranes. so that's something coming forward from the u as in late today. clearly around the table of the you, the very different views. i think they all united in opposition to what lot of

a person has done, they say this causes a line, it breaks the un charter, it's a breach of international law. but in terms of the response, i think some of the countries have a different view on this amount of the things you were talking about about it a short time ago is the swift banking network. and some really wanted that to be included. others, i think germany and italy was a keen on that idea. at this stage, i wanted to leave something and reserve the people who are unhappy about that, of course, of the gradients and the ukrainian foreign minister earlier untreated. those that didn't exclude russia from swift would also have blood on their hands. so what he himself to be true, co labor described as an on diplomatic message i think is being heard here in brussels. that's not a step that taking this time. but they still say that the sanctions that putting on russia are precedent it and you would have been talking to people as they go into

the meeting was the impression of, of how serious this is and how, how, and how about how extended this conflict could, could get i think there's real concerns about how long this could take it. what could be the consequences, particularly here in the you? because you've seen the stream of people just in the 1st few hours of this who would be leaving from cave and from other parts of ukraine and trying to get the way across the border. the roads were told jammed, i've seen from senior un sources, an estimate of potentially 3 to 5000000 refugees. so major humanitarian disaster, the u. n. is coming up with funding for this. you're going to have to come up with funding for this. and it's certainly something that's going to is going to concentrate mines in the coming days. how to deal with potentially such a large amount of people on the 10th day. thank you very much. indeed.

rory fin is an associate professor of ukrainian studies at the university of cambridge. he joins his live by skype. and just before we start the interview, just seeing some lines dropping on the was ukraine's military says, the russian plan is clear. the main purpose of the operation is to block keith, create a land corridor to the crime in peninsula and break away region in moldova. and they also say that the criminal is preparing you where wave of air attacks, including ass strikes from what you've seen so far, is that your impression is one of what the plot of the russian fan is from what i can tell lower. and that's correct. one thing that we've forgotten about, and we've failed to pay attention to since 2014, is the annexation of crimea, and the lack of secure water supply that the russians never, never won when they annexed the peninsula. so these natural resources are important for them. they're pushing in further creating that land court or that you said,

walking out, keep that seems to be their strategy right now. and you have friends who are there, what are they telling you about what they're going to do? next, well, they all have different plans. there's a host of different emotions that they're feeling at the moment. as you might imagine. no one could really envision the russian military, raining down rockets on ukrainian cities, an autocratic war, criminal who spent the day bombing innocent. you're going to civilians and rating a liberal democracy that just happens to be the largest country with it in the european continent. so everyone's trying to react in ways that keep their family safe. we hear in the west need to react with a full throated clear moral response to this terrible infringement on the, the rights of innocent people in a sovereign democracy. when you say full throated i wouldn't for you've heard so far of the sanctions announced by the u. s on banks and exposing,

imposing the export controls, sanctioning on dogs the u. k. doing that as well. and the, you know, last few minutes announcing that what they called massive sanctions. is that full fresh enough? do you think in my view it's not the sanctions are extremely aggressive. they need to be powerful, but how many ukrainians need to die? while we make money in an economic system? it is, it is simply not right. the swift expulsion should have been secured today. i don't know what more we need, how many more ukrainian have to die for us to understand that this is going to be your prolonged con conflict. ukrainians will be defending their country one way. the other. the russian military may take cities, they may take strategic assets, but ukrainians over time will fight for them back. so we will have a prolong bloody war. and then as you mentioned in your previous segment, millions of refugees which are also part of the strategy to destabilize europe and

you in particular. so we need to be aggressive. now we can't keep our powder dry. this is the moment to be decisive. be strong. and i completely agree with the ukrainian foreign minister. what would the non line that's just dropping actually from the ukranian pharmacy says ukraine holds ground. we need the world to help us . and i know that they asked earlier for, for more systems, for example, to kind of in fact help for jamming the space. and so on this stage, is it a bit late to be starting to put something in? i think it's, it's incredibly urgent. there's plenty we could have done for over 8 years since the initial assault and invasions of ukraine in 2014. we absolutely need to provide as much technical, military assistance to ukraine as we can. ukraine military is prepared to fight and defend their country. but we need to provide the proper equipment. it's

a very professional, are me quite different from the army that encountered russian troops and on boston and crime in 2014 and since so providing that kind of technical assistance whenever it comes is going to be extremely important. like i said, this is going to be a prolong on conflict. we should be under no illusions that this is going to be a very long struggle and we in the west need to be ready for making the kinds of everyday sacrifices in defense of liberal democracy here. because otherwise, our entire legal order, our entire global security architecture, may falter, and that's exactly the purpose of the criminals maneuvers here. do you expect russia to go further than other countries in the region potentially in his sites? what the kremlin seems to want to do here, and if we take the kremlin at their word, if we list into of redeemer lima, putin's aggressive, chauvinistic

a historical speeches about ukraine, his primary occupation is destroying nuclear. any in state in its current form. now, in this, in this process, there are always worries for a moment, a maneuver, a shot in which suddenly this war between why i should say this attack on ukraine by the russian federation spills into something else. and we need to be very aware that it's very easy for this to happen. regional wars do not begin interregional contacts. the often begin in the local one and things expand from there. so all of us viewers, citizens need to be contacting our political representative if so, let them know that we understand the stakes of what's going on here, or if and thank you very much indeed to fiances. thank you. thank you. i was more still to come this hour including stocks plunge and the oil price, rockets, rushes invasion of ukraine, shakes the global economy. oh,

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the surreal atmosphere really because people seem to be just stunned that even though so much warning had been given about this was almost a level of complacency. and the people were just absolutely not with it initially after that very early morning barrage of, of, of, of, of fire and bombing. and so then we actually started seeing people running for their cars. this was just before daylight. and the next thing was that every auto roots out of the city in a westwood direction towards poland was actually the blocked and jammed. so people were stuck for ages. what were the others doing? well, in hoc heave, which came under very fierce attack by the russians, there was a lot of civilian deaths there at children, at least 4 children killed. and there was a ques, really long queues with people who wanted to volunteer and wanted to donate blood. because the medical services were up against it in every,

virtually every city in the country, completely up up against it. and then we have other civilians who are just really looking for cover because they felt it was too dangerous to travel in the vehicles that they were taking anywhere. we were with a large group in an underground car park at one stage when the local and local authorities. and we've got to get take cover because there was a, there was a series of strikes in the area. then an answer to all of that. the metro stations for metro stations now a converted into into makeshift bomb shelters. stocks of plunged rushes currency here to record low and oil prices. a soaring as the repercussions of the attack on ukraine. ripple across the global economy. oil brick passed a $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time in 8 years. russia supplies 10 percent of the world's oil, and a 3rd of europe's gas. the markets are being hammered. european stocks tumbled more than 3 percent. and wall street opened 2 and a half percent lower, didn't recover

a bit after that. and russia's ruble fell to $89.00 against the dollar an all time low before recovering. the moscow stock exchange had to be suspended briefly after falling by a record 45 percent at one point. meanwhile, ukraine was forced to suspend trading in its currency when his bonds crashed. invest as a warning, it could default again, as it did after russia next crime in 2014 food supplies that also under threat. russia and ukraine supply more than a quarter of the world's wheat, and prices for wheat and corn of already searched 5 percent of good hit vulnerable countries like yemen, lebanon and bangladesh, which depend heavily on ukrainian. wheat rose on days, monitoring the economic impact of all this at george's life from the new york stock exchange. so to get talks through how the numbers went today. well, it started very badly for the markets here in new york, but they rallied as the day progressed. at the worst point,

the dow was down about 800 points, but it's continued to draw back throughout the day, goes on, and now it is about to hit the green as i speak. so it's been an incredible rally for the dow pairing losses throughout the day. for the s and p 500 at one point it was down to point 5 percent earlier on thursday. it is now in the green. the nasdaq was also down. it is now very solid, who solely in the green as well. so it's been a day on the markets where they've sort of the bottom fell out early in the day, and then they slowly started working their way back up as investors see it as a buying opportunity, quite frankly, by low. well, and then hope the stocks go up, so that's why you're seeing it move here. that's. that's the micro level of what the stocks have been doing here in new york today. but overall though,

the picture is not good. this is all comes now as globally, the economy was on shaky footing, still trying to recover from economic downturn of the past 2 years. because of the pandemic raising interest rates, global supply chain issues, slowing growth. now a war in many ways, it's almost like a perfect economic storm that we're facing according to at least one investor. that's how they put it in terms of other things such as oil. he mentioned it reach over $100.00 a barrel. many investors see this potentially lasting these high oil prices for a while. now, the consensus here in wall street is that the market troubles will continue or uncertainty, i should say, will continue for days, weeks, and perhaps going into months as this conflict drags on in terms of some of the

commodities. as we mentioned, some of the commodities were potentially, we could see scarcity. now we're seeing those prices increase, such as wheat, something that is produced in ukraine and russia. aluminum jumped to a record high as well. russia big aluminum producer prices for european natural gas . most of which is supplied by russia sword, more than 50 percent. so we're seeing a lot of different things here on, on the economic stage. bottom line know is that investors are bracing for this to be very uncertain time in the global markets for the foreseeable future. gabriel, under thank you very much indeed. i mean, green is a director of the russians you to king's college, london and author of putin versus the people he joins us now. live, thanks very much for being with us. what's your impression so far of how far putin wants to go with this attack all this invasion of ukraine? well, i think we have to be realistic that we don't know the answer to that question. the

fact is, if we just played his cards very closely with just throughout the crisis, and he's continuing to do so to a degree, right? so he's told us that he intends to accomplish the demilitarization. and as he for the, not the cation of ukraine, it's hard to read that as meaning anything other than essentially the regime change . so we can expect him to try to, to compensate the ukrainian state. the pentagon said that what they expect him to do and, and that's certainly what he suggests. he's also saying doesn't intend to occupy, marcia, i'm not sure occupied crane. i'm not sure we should take that at face value though . we are seeing that he is, he is taking territory and maybe not as quickly as he would like but, but he does have a military career already. so this is just a question of how far, how far he can take it. i mean, we had, we had the ukraine military saying in the last few minutes that they, they think the russian plan is, is clear. they say the main purpose of the operation is to block. he has created

land corridor or at the crime in peninsula and the break way region in moldova. i suppose that was make sense from a geopolitical point of view. and i suppose it is just whether it, whether pushing things he might need more than that. well, i think you put, it will probably discover that as the war goes on, these things are unpredictable. he will be and his military planners and advisors will be as well the ukrainians and others will be reevaluating things as they, as they progress and making decision functions. i think the nature of a, of a war like this is inherently unpredictable including to everybody involved. but there are other aspects of predictability as well. right? so we'll be waiting to see now a little bit more clarity about what, what to expect in terms of sanctions. also in terms of public opinion, there are protests against the war now in cities across russia. we have close to 2000 people who've been arrested in some cases court violently. those protests will

also be looking to see, to what extent opinion at home, both among the masses and among the leads might begin to turn against what he's trying to accomplish in. and you know, you mentioned in passing the reference to his speech when he talked about the goal of demilitarization notification. you also then said also threatened those as that he who might, as he put it into fear with russia. what did you take that to mean? again, i think this is all about maintaining strategic ambiguity. i think you could read that to mean military interference, which of course was never going to happen anyway, right? whatever arm can be, supply will be supply to be very hard to get nuances. ukraine at the moment, and, and no nato ally or really anybody else would have considered putting themselves there. true aircraft, their ship in any situation where they could end up being in a firefight with, with any part of the russian military, the potential for that to escalate is, is it really to catastrophic, to contemplate bought. i think it is also meant to give some pause to

governments that are thinking about, you know, how hard to push with wish with sanctions. will there be some kind of retaliation as well for that? it's hard to imagine that brewton would refer to a military retaliation against sanctions, but he does have energy and other economic tools and cyber tools disposal if he wanted to charge, we'll them. thank you very much indeed, i'm going for you enough. thank you. thank you. i ukraine's keep what city of variable in the southeast has come under. heavy fire with hundreds of explosions reported the jail stratford sent us earlier from the edge of morocco where he witnessed a convoy of tangs some flying ukrainian flags. i'm close to a checkpoint on the outskirts all marianna military vehicles behind me

heading down the road, heading west. nobody can see quite yet on the other side of the road. there is a convoy of tanks of hearing. we've heard the distinctive thought of what sound to bay grad miss. isles being used. these are these missiles that all that i can see that coming out heading hey to mary awful. across the field here. there are you prior to military installations that we on the side where he earlier billowing smoke coming from the other come with yeah. also increasingly seeing more more people leaving crow. this checkpoint is checkpoint

the road going down towards the west tools. cities like very dense. only as i'll see, as well as denise frog in the north north west 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 presence came under fire from russia, labor russian naval vessels at forcing them back to base. and we're also getting reports to the game that we cannot verify that russian forces may be planning an attack from the north of crimea in towards cities like care song and melia topple. which as i say, are west of russia's military operation. and ukraine is force people to stock up quickly on basic supplies,

or dr. hamid reports from the supermarket in the town of cannot ask in easton ukraine. it is quite surprising to sort of see that collects how collected. they are quite orderly. no one is pushing and shoving, but that's i think is because this cold has been going on for 8 years. nothing has been resolved. both care and the as separate as leaders have not been able to find any kind of solution. the relations with give and moscow have been deteriorating very over these past 8 years. and then certainly ever since this crisis has started a few months ago, it's gotten worse and worse. so people knew that something will happen. people knew that eventually they would be an escalation. i don't think they expected it now just a few weeks ago there were brushing off the idea of an invasion and then things changed very, very quickly for them. maybe today they're following the news that at the moment

mainly, or what we're hearing is that the military installations are being targeted. there's certainly no any kind of visible army of fighting on the streets. here is all quite calm, but they know war. they have seen war, this city had been going between the hands of the russian back separate is and a ukrainian army that has the seen fierce battle. the next door, cities of yams, which is only a 10 minute drive, was the epi center really of the base. the, the for the russian back separate does have spread all the way there has set up a base there. and it took, it was a fierce fighting to get it back. so people know what it means. people know what could unravel on their street, and they're taking their precaution, but it's quite is wide. would they say surprising, admirable to see how calm and collected they are?

and there is no sense of, even when you look at their faces, they just there. they know it is a very serious situation, but you don't have a feeling. they're not expressing it at the moment is what is the best way i could describe it? want to space ukrainians have been crossing into neighboring poland. what's usually a rather quiet border. so a huge increase in crossings on thursday. hospitals are prepared beds for wounded ukrainians, and the ministry has been put on alert, hungary, slovakia and lithuania, also sending triple trips to their borders. with all the lost in much you're pretty closely in polio and reported a very poll getting approached on site and you know, it was always evelyn to come here at 5 o'clock or some colleagues call me

and say we're started and we was alive. the site put all the sinks in relief and come back here before that we're from re open and to be together. move to leave yesterday and today we were here. let me catch go as a former world heavyweight boxing champion and the brother of caves mer, he says that russia's attack on the city has been terrifying. this is the all the city with the history of 1005. i'm a years and as the capital the country, if you have the capital you pretty much probably have the country i would say so. and i am more than sure. gallegos well is is a target not just the east of the country. and it's so unfortunate because this is a said 1st time since 2nd world war we in europe have such a terrible advance as war. no one would have thought that something like that could happen because we are the most peaceful nation will never attacked. anyone will

always provided services and we're good at it, but we'll never provide any aggression. and it's 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 it collectively is going to spread further. not just in europe, who knows, leaving the world, go from people. 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 advanced in the history of city of key van ukraine, the whole ukraine not to forget that pushes against russia's invasion of ukraine, had been taking place around the world. auctioneer is sonia gallagher was at one of the rallies in london. well, from stock home. to berlin, tokyo, and bay root. this is the anger over russia's invasion of ukraine around the world. in london, a crowd outside the prime minister's downing street president, making its demand loud and clear calling for a complete economic isolation of russia. worry that many here have for their families back home. i was shocked. my mom called me it was 5 o'clock,

4 30 in the morning here. it was top issue was like, rational really did. we are watching minute by minute. what's happening that most of them, i don't say that i'm going to measure a bit. we've had to 100 russia many have feel that it is too little too late. and while the rest of the maybe shot of ukraine when ukrainians living abroad in from home to some 30000 ukrainians, hundreds gathered outside the russian embassy in paris. singing others shouted for an end the invasion and many more gathered elsewhere in the city or condemning the assault box like many others around the world. determined to show

the solidarity with ukraine. funny guy, eagle al jazeera london, one country watching the invasion of ukraine anxiously as georgia, which russia invaded in 2008 people have been running to denounce moscow in the capital. robin forest walker, sir. oh, freedom square in sibley. see tonight completely occupied by thousands of georgians and also many people from approve. there are many ukrainians living in sibley, see many ukrainian experts they've come out to show that discussed at the invasion that has been taking place in ukraine in the morning. i was feeling desperate. i it is horrible. we don't need more in the 21st century. ukraine done need to put him in ukraine. so please leave georgians.

ukrainians really consider themselves brothers and sisters in arms. that's because georgia experienced 14 years ago. what is happening now in ukraine? the self, the set in territory of georgia was invaded by russian forces later recognized as a republic, although territory. and of course, it is considered internationally part of georgia. so georgians are experiencing a sense of deja vu about what they have been seeing today happening in ukraine. there's a lot of fear about what's going on and concert of course, about what is going to now transpire. we need to stop russia discussed in maybe ukraine because next there will be other here. okay. can face great. it was good crane and next other country. there are very strong nation and we all support them the whole world and they should keep on fighting. no matter what the cost for their freedom and georgians will help them in any way. and the way we can

georgia feel vulnerable russian military base is a station just a few 1000 kilometers away from the capital. and they're fearful about what could happen next. because given the unprecedented invasion, anything know, seems possible in this region, michael kaufman is director of russia studies at a center for naval analyses. he says moscow is trying to force regime change in ukraine. thank you. of the situation on the ground. it's clear that russia has maximum war aims, that as they're advancing into ukraine from the north, across the grand border with dollars trying to circle kyo. there is heavy fighting in the eastern part of ukraine. and there's a breakout 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 crime and may

involve holding ukrainian territory substantial parts of it are trying to occupy the frame. there's nothing more confusing and war, especially when you're seeing the 1st hours of a bumps in a large military campaign. i'd say looks like the early strikes, the commercial forces conducted were focused on your defense command, 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 attacks, of sort of began those try campaign or the last few minutes. the u. s. defense department has said that russian forces have advanced closer to kia. that's going to be as defense. official and russia is launched more than $160.00 missiles during it's what it's called, an onslaught against ukraine. ukraine's health minister says 57 ukrainians have been killed as a result of the russian invasion. and it turns out that to put in a spoken to francis my call my phone more details of that. and course the rest of

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