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. cash points and fuel pumps. ron dry as people flee towns and cities across ukraine, while others head on the ground seeking safety in some way stations rushes president said he had no choice, but to order what he's calling a special operation against ukraine. a police arrest more than 1400 people, an anti war protest taking place in 50 cities around russia. pohden is the aggressor poon chose his war. and now he and his coach will burger consequential, western nations announce what they are calling the biggest package of sanctions. russia has ever seen. ah,

me! russia has invaded ukraine by air, land, and sea launching an attack. the west has been warning about for months and shattering diplomatic efforts to solve a war unfolding on the eastern edge of europe. ukraine's government says 57 people have been killed, and the ones refugee agency says around 100000 ukrainians have fled their homes. ukraine's president modem is the landscape called the attack a declaration of war on all of europe, which are also foolish and new iron curtain. marshes, prizes lie, didn't push, and insist the assault was needed to protect civilians in the east where ukrainian forces have been battling rushing back separatists for years. meanwhile, more sanctions have also been announced. the u. s. is stopping russia from importing high tech products, and along with the u. k is targeting russian banks and only galks rushes national airline. arrow floor has also been banned from british space. and there have also

been protest taking place against the invasion around the world, including in russia itself, where police have detained more than $1400.00 protest is in dozens of cities. we begin our coverage with this reports from algiers. there is andrew simmons who is in care of ah, the russian invasion was lost with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. a long military build up around it. cranes borders finally unleashed fivefold roof, the kremlin 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 they needed a letter to hold up until the very last moment, i didn't believe it would happen. now. i thought it might just involved and it's 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. shut nobody to call you your car. 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, vis aggressor rein, ukraine's government declared martial law or children. when 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 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 guy in the russian leader is warning ukrainian soldiers not to resist the. when you put those, 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 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 gridlocked with traffic. is 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 essential items. this was the scene in cremmit, also 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 odds look heavily stacked against ukraine's forces. andrew simmons al jazeera give, ukraine's military says it believes russia, hispanics, a block key of and create a land car doors, the crime in peninsula and break way of a region in moldova. and as senior us defense official is told reuters the russian

forces making advances on the cranium capital marcia's invasion comes often months of preparation. nearly $200000.00 soldiers were deployed around the country, including the rebel held areas of hands can done yet in the east. and in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. russia is attacked the capital kiev, and the major cities of car keys, mario paul, and any pro. and it's military immediately targeted ukraine's air defenses as well as caves main, add ports and add bases in several other cities. russian military vehicles have been deployed from crimea and better roost where russian troops were taking part in joint military drills. and in the east, the ukrainian military says it killed 50 troops in the la hon. squeezen and down to 6 russian war plains. ukraine is saying the russian forces have taken the chernobyl nuclear plant. there is this video from inside the zone, and it does appear to confirm that it is the site of the walls, was a nuclear disaster, and lives just 130 kilometers from the capitol. the exploded reactor is covered by

a protective shelter to prevent radiation leaking. the entire plant has been decommissioned when all the developments more than 1400 people have been arrested at anti war protest across russia. now thousands have turned out it these protests and at least $5050.00. includes moscow. you've got eating berg. it was the bears and st. petersburg idea, the cranium present, address russians directly. thank people needed to know the truth. and if russia citizens wanted war well funded, smith joins us live now from russian capital. moscow. tell us about the response that threat of sanctions. oh, marian frances promised spectacular sanctions against russia to compromise those imposed by the nighted states and the united kingdom. but the fact is that russia

has been preparing itself for sanctions and the kremlin spokesman today, he said that they had enough safety tools to survive. market volatility in the immediate past copies the spokesman. he said, the emotional reaction to the russian invasion of ukraine would even out. eventually, he said it would be impossible to shut russia off behind an iron curtain and rushes . foreign ministry has also said that this war had been going on 8 years now. its ending for just a few hours after launching the biggest invasion of a european country since 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, russia's military was advancing in ukraine. these trucks were headed from crimea to the cranium 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 key f. those unable to keep the 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 should not for today's neo nazi to take bow and keith. you took the oath of allegiance to the cranium. people not the john to robin ukraine and bowling its own people. you do not follow its criminal orders. i urge you to immediately lay down your weapons and go home. russia's defense ministry says it's met all its targets for thursday, destroying 83 ground facilities of the ukrainian military. and it insists they're not targeting civilian areas. so some of them are the high precision weapons, or the russian armed forces on to destroy the military infrastructure. all of them

are, these are objects of fair defense, military airfields, of ation of the armed forces of your grain. dr. stage to video of human with mass casualties were amanda civilian population was filmed in ukrainian cities. that have been some attempt 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. a rush of plans to take over the entirety of you gray. 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 and weapons should be cash or darn to stride. 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 it. 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 present an annual mat cron has again spoke, enter that as an attrition. what more do we know about my am emanuel micron is the western leader who's invested the most personal capital in time in before ahead of the invasion, trying to persuade vladimir putin to reach some sort of diplomatic solution to this crisis. micron has not unfortunately been successful. this time there was a phone call to the kremlin. the kremlin says was instigated by the french microns office. the elisa palace says that he spoke to putin after speaking to the ukrainian president and matt cron said he. x in insisted or demanded that russia

sees its military operations in ukraine and the retinue booted exposed himself to massive sanctions. the kremlin, as described a serious and frank exchange of views on the situation around ukraine and vladimir putin explaining the co comprehensively, the reasons and circumstances for the decision to invade ukraine. the 2 sides agreed to stay in touch, mary. thank you very much. bernard smith, reporting from russian capital moscow will, as you're here in western countries, a hitting russia hard with more economic sanctions. you as president joe biden is blocking the assets of 4 large russian banks, sanctioning oligarchs and hammering rushes access to high tech goods like computers, semiconductors, an aircraft parts. it's also sanctioning banks and the defense ministry that a ruin which supports russia. canada has canceled all export permits, worth around $500000000.00. it's targeted 60 to individuals and entities,

including banks and members of rushes out for rich elite. the u. k. is freezing the assets of major banks including a 2nd largest and russia v t b. it's also stopping some companies from raising money in the u. k. and restricting the financial access of many wealthy russians, including cushions for my son in law. and the ear has promised to strike at the heart of russia's economy, freezing russian assets in all 2070 nations, stopping banks from accessing european financial markets, and restricting rushes at trade, energy and transport industries. needs barker has worn out from london. 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 undying

a fear for their lives. we condemned this barbaric attack for you from national capitals, leader of the leader promised a coordinated and unprecedented sanctioned responsive aim at. and president putin in 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. euro's pounds, and yet to be part of the global economy will limit their ability to do that. we're going to stop 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 and high tech, 21st century economy. we're taking new powers to target russian finance. earlier, the british prime minister also announced to salvo of sanctions with banning russian companies from its markets and rushes national airline from british airports. the measures include asset freezes against major russian state banks and

individuals and a whole ton 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 putins, one machine to the 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 him 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, although any plans an intentional deploy nato church to ukraine. or what we have a fair is that we have all the, the increased army or increasing the present. so little troops in the eastern part of the ice on april territory. that will not be a factor in putin's plans. for now, a neighboring countries have other problems to consider. the polish government says 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 their thousands nave. barker al, jazeera and efficient joins us live now from washington. and alan, what did the president say about other measures that could be taken? for example, cutting osher or friend the payment system?

this was the system he would like to push ahead with that. the problem is, god is a number of european allies and i'm told is particularly germany and italy don't want to go that route at the moment. so over the next 24 hours or so, given the appeals that have come from ukraine as well. in the last 24 hours, joe biden will be putting pressure on both born and room to make sure that the, the block russia from the swift system. now the swift system has been around for a very long time. it's how international banks talk to one another. it's essentially a messaging system that replace telexes for those of us old enough to remember those. and then the banks consent international payments. so as long as banks are locked into this system, they can exchange cash. if you take one country out, that it makes it much more difficult to do business that you're buying was to make sure that it's hard for russia to, to do any business at all. that's why sanctioning at the banks. he's also essentially a number of individuals and essentially seeing at to large parts of the russian

technology sector. you cannot get access to anything that we have that could possibly help you. that is also wanting to, to those who might help russia, because they've also targeted a number of banks and a number of individuals in belarus. the intention there is clearly to send a message. look, if you're helping russia, then you're not helping ukraine. therefore, you will be punished as well. joe biden hasn't gone through a lot with the sanctions. for example, he hasn't personally sanctioned vladimir putin himself. he was asked about that at a news conference in the last couple of hours. we didn't get a complete answer on that, but it seems that they want to see if these sanctions will work 1st before they start cranking up even more. they want to have some in reserve know there are some republicans are saying that the sanctions aren't working. it's too early to judge that at the moment, and certainly when you look at the russian stock market dropping by 50 percent in the 1st hours of treating that are those in the white house and elsewhere who will

see the sanction and already having an impact and i suppose there might be those checking within the president's own party that might say, and might be questioning whether existing sanctions match the gravity of the threat that biden himself described earlier. saying that a patient has much larger ambitions beyond ukraine, and that he wants to re establish the soviet union. but the reality is, the united states and others and nieto realized that they're not going to go to war over over ukraine. russia is a nuclear power. so the intention, including the moving of 7000 troops, ordered by the defense secretary in the last couple of hours to germany is all about showing up near to allies. because then, if the russians do cross the border of nato allies, those most at risk would be seen to be poland and romania, the 2 closest to the russian border. but even the baltic states as well. if there

were to be any action, then you're into an article 5 situation, which of course as article 5 of the lethal constitution, which says an attack on one is an attack on all that has been invoked once since nature was established that was back after the $911.00 attacks when it was stood with the united states, and so joe biden would feel an obligation to stand with any other nation. and that is why they're putting troops into that area to try to tear any farther action by the, the russians. but of course, that the whole target at the moment is to make sure that sanctions work, because we know vladimir putin nose as well as the americans and nieto aren't going to commit any soldiers to protecting ukraine. thank you very much. alan fisher and washington. well, you leaders have been meeting to discuss the invasion of ukraine. now, diplomatic edits james basis following that in brussels. what is the view there of how europe should respond?

well, europe has now come out the $27.00 leaders of european union with a joint statement. that statement says that they're going to have these new very severe sanctions on russia. and i think it's pretty much as we expected. they are, according to the european commission president. the tar tough is sanctions the us ever issued in its history. but as you heard, alan say, there is still a difference of opinion among the europe, ian allies. some italy in germany, not keen on those sanctions on the swift banking system, and that's certainly got a response from the cranium. foreign minister, demitra calais, but he says he's not going to be diplomatic. in a tweet that he issued. he says everyone now doubts whether russia should be banned from swift. has to understand the blood of innocent ukrainian men, women, and children will be on their hands too. so

a strong response and the ukranian foreign minister to what's not in the sanctions, but they still are going to be tough sanctions on russia. tough sanctions, i think for the european countries as well. because there's clearly an impact on the european nations who are imposing the sanctions. it will affect their economy to the big question, i think is how long will these sanctions take to bite on the kremlin and let them in, put in and compare that timeline with the timeline of the military operation which is preceded proceeding as we speak on the ground in ukraine, and james has been this unanimity among european countries. but if fis, if we see a protracted conflict and the need for harsher sanctions, could that starter? could that start to show some cracks? i think there already are some cracks there. i think there already are some

differences, but you're always going to get that. it's so much easier for the united states where there's one administration and one president makes one decision than the european union. and it's, it's quite remarkable really, that they can come here after something that has happened only 24 hours ago and already have a unified position of $27.00 countries of the, the european union has to work in and, you know, by negotiation and to, to get together and decide on consensus, what they're going to go with. some of the nations believe anyway that you should keep something in reserve for another phase of i'm not sure that whether the president putin got that memo about that being another phase. i think he thinks he's in the final phase of this, the phase of taking total control of ukraine. but perhaps it's not care is point what price your opinions are prepared to pay to defend ukraine.

well, we know we know that the, the basic point and the basic red line of the us of the e u, of nato. and that's, they're not going to get involved in terms of sending their troops or any military involvement. that's because they do not want to put, i think the lives of that troops at risk for a country that is not currently a member of the european union, all nato, but also it's the realities of the country. we're dealing with it. we're dealing with russia. russia is the country which has the 2nd largest amount of nuclear weapons in the world. i think they're very keen to try and support ukraine anyway. they can, and i think they'll be interested in discussions of the nato meeting, which is happening here in brussels on friday of what can be done to help ukraine even though the invasion has happened is there is there all the weapons, are there other sorts of support military or military support,

another support that you give to you, cried all of all of that needs to be discussed by nato, but there's no suggestion that they're going to be sending any troops or mel there'll be any military direct, military involvement. thank you very much. and have matching edits james base in brussels. well, it's actually general of the icon nations. and having a terrorist says that the un is scaling armpits, humanitarian efforts, and ukraine, and the protection of civilians must be the top priority. he'll say repeated his call from russia to and needs and pilots tramps back the decisions of the coming days. we'll shape our wells and directly affect the lives of millions upon millions of people in line with the charter. it's not too late to save these generation from the scourge of what we need. peace,

much more still ahead. omen. use out stalks plunge on rebound while oil prices rocket brushes, invasion of ukraine, shake the global economy will bring you to that side of the story. where i'm protest around the world in support of the people of ukraine. ah hey, there is some good news. the white and windy weather. finally coming to an end for the islands of ireland and britain. we'll talk more about that in a sec. but we do have a few spits of rain, pretty much stretching from germany rate into france. now, here's the next 3 days for london. look at this. soak up the sun. we've got 3 days of it. we're going to lock your temperature in around 10 degrees, which is pretty well where you should be for this time the year. quite a feller, stretch of weather ok off to iberia. we're seeing that rain infiltrate further

parts of central iberia. heavier pulses of rain to be expected though, toward the south and for the other side of the mediterranean. that disturbance is moving eastward across turkey. some heavy rain for the black sea region. and same goes for the labatte coast, where it will be windy central europe, some snow to be expected through the alpine region, and some showers for the eastern shore of the adria to exceed self are going to be windy for northern egypt. this includes kyra with the hiv 17 degrees and then what's left of what was our tropical cyclone and 90 dipping further toward the south. but we still have a lot of rain coming out of for madagascar antenna revoke has a high of 25 degrees and still some showers for that eastern portion of south africa in the forecast on friday. that sure weather update. see soon the americans are recently saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps

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ah, ah, welcome back. i'll main story this our rusher is invaded ukraine by at land and sea targeting major cities and military base is across the country. grains government says at least 57 people have been killed. president lansky called the attack a declaration of war on all of europe. meanwhile, thousands of people have fled their homes in towns and cities around ukraine. the un says around a $100000.00 ukrainians have already been displaced. others have crammed into subway stations, which are become improvised. bomb shelters. and western countries are hitting russia with more sanctions. the u. s is blocking the assets of russian banks,

sanctioning oligarchs and restricting rushes access to high tech goods. and the e. u is freezing russian assets on restricting rushes, trade, energy and transport industries. adam m smith is a lawyer and for me as treasury, department official has an expert on international sanctions, joins us live from washington by skype. how, how severe are they? the current package of sanctions on val, by the us in the you will. thank you for having me. i mean, they're actually quite robust, certainly more so than they were at the beginning of the week where i think many people were concerned that they were not strong enough. the initial trough this tron, she has a financial component which including black listing of some major institutions, the limiting of transactions of the largest institutions. burbank. it also has some restrictions on huge numbers of export controls, which i actually think could be at the end of the day, the most effective and most impactful of these measures. limiting the ability for president good indicated, modernize economy is military because is unable to get the technology needs to do

that, help us understand the, the consequences of russia being blocked from the payment system. why is the crowning president brought him? is lensky furious at that? this has that russia has not been brought from the international payment system. but i think what is referring to is the move to potentially move russia off the swift payment system, which is the principle telecommunications system that banks use globally to communicate but to one another about transaction flows. iran was removed during the height of the sanctions on iran. no other jurisdiction has ever been removed. and i do think i've been many people who are concerned about removing banks from essentially utility like this in, in a way that might not make sense for policy perspective. i think his view, and i think it certainly have legitimate view, is that this should be a privilege of those to that deserve to be part of the national financial system. and russia has seated that role by its activities in ukraine. and so i think is upset that russia has not received that additional punishment as

a policy matter. i'm not entirely sure or convinced that it would make much of a difference with respect to both the ability to engage with russia, nor, of course president burton's engagements in ukraine. but i certainly understand his emotional response as to why we're moving a marker of so being part of the general financial community away from russia would seem to be just in this, in these concepts as a consequence of their actions at where is the economical, financial vulnerability for russia, how much further could punitive measures go? yeah, i mean, they could keep going. i mean, so none of these measures are going to impact necessarily russia tomorrow. but certainly the export control ones which will limit the ability to get high tech goods from the united states and its allies good throughout europe and asia will over time. really. i think great degrade the russian economy. and the russians have high tech sector. certain entities were not listed so spare back. that big bank i mentioned earlier that was late. that's really been restricted on certain ways,

but has not been blacklisted. that could be added to the blacklist the u. s. blacklist, which would be significantly more impactful than the measures that are imposed thus far. president putin, of course, was not listed either. in fact, even though certain oligarchs were listed, interestingly, not truly senior government members that have been listed yet. and that's certainly a possibility as well. and then of course, the final extreme step, which i think is highly unlikely is to basically create of russia as the new iran, or from the u. s. perspective, the new cuba. basically it's a full embargo on the state. think that's highly, highly unlikely, but that certainly would sort of be the end state of beyond which nothing else can be done, but until we get there is a whole host of other sort of esc latoria measures that i'm sure the u. s. is thinking through when they're gonna post them. thank you very much. adam and smith said johnny as that international sanctions x, but in washington, in terms of the reaction we seen on global financial market stocks have plunged russia carnes. he had a rack or low,

and oil prices are soaring as the repercussions of the attack on ukraine. ripple across the global economy. oil brought past $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time in 8 years. worship which supplies 10 percent to the wild oil and a 3rd of europe's gas markets have been swinging sharply all day. european stalks tumble more than 3 percent. but on wall street, yes. and p $500.00 finally ended up one and a half percent higher. after opening more than 2 percent, loa and rushes ruble fell to $89.00 against the dollar vis an old time low before recovering a bit. and moscow stock exchange had to briefly suspend trading after falling by reco, 45 percent at one point. meanwhile, ukraine was forced to suspend trading in its currency when its bones crashed. vest is wanting, it could default again as it did after russia annex crimea. in 2014 food supplies are also under threat. russia and ukraine supply more than a quarter of the world. wheat and prices for wheat and corn of already serge 5 percent is could have vulnerable countries like yemen, lebanon,

and bangladesh. they depend heavily on wheat from ukraine. oh, gabriel is on those monitoring the economic impact of all of this joins us live out from the stock exchange. and i suppose it thing that really stands out here gapers the, the shop rise in european gas prices and crude oil prices because of this because of the uncertainty over supply. now. yeah, there definitely is a supply issue and it is a lot with the oil. and gas, as you mentioned, and analysts here in on wall street think that these energy prices will remain high for the foreseeable future. you know, just prices for european natural gas, for example, most of which is supplied by russia sword, more than 50 percent. we're also seeing it with the commodities as well. aluminum, much of it's supplied by russia high ret broke, went to a record high. wheat corn price is also jumped to its highest level in

a decade. so we're seeing where there potentially could be. shortages are scarcity, and of course of the wheat and corn, a lot of that is produced in russia and ukraine. we're seeing where these scarcity could hit because of this conflict. now the price is jumping, that's to be expected, but we're seeing a jump very sharply now on wall street. the markets did a pretty remarkable turnaround on thursday. the nasdaq, which was down at one point negative 3.5 percent finished positive 3.7 percent. the s and p 500. the benchmark of course was down to point 5 percent finished up 1.5 percent in the 30 stock. dow was down at a session low at $859.00 points and finished pretty much flat. but in the green, 92 point. so as a remarkable turnaround, the big picture here on the global economic stage though, is this, is that this is all transpiring as the global economy was on shaky footing as it's

still trying to recover from the economic effects. from the pandemic, we're talking about supply chain issues. continuing, we're talking about our rising inflation and slower economic growth. now, a war, so in many sense, we're still facing a perfect storm. geo political uncertainty will continue, and that means that as long as that continues, there will be you can amik uncertainty in the global markets as well. as you say, one of the effects of the pandemic was inflation, which is already high, not just in the last, but in many countries around the world. now that russia is invaded ukraine, that creates even more uncertainty over food in energy prices. what does that mean for consumers in the last well, not only in the u. s, but in many parts around the world, places around the world. the simple hanser is. prices are going to be going up and

not down. i mean, just to fill up your car with petrol prices are probably going to be going up and not down just the food supply issues with wheat, with corn, ah, you know, with things like aluminum and what have you. this is going to get more expensive because of this because of scarcity, and that is going to be felt way outside of the region where this conflict is happening right now is going to be felt all over the world. it's just a matter of how much the prices will go up and for how long they will remain elevated. the longer this conflict continues and the longer that there could be supply issues. all right, thank you very much. gabriel is under reporting to us on the, the global financial impacts of that recent developments. well, now that you kinds keep for city of my, i'll pull in the southeast, which has faced heavy fire with hundreds of explosions are posted that al jazeera

is child stratford santas this at iran from the edge of my alpa, where he witnessed a convoy tanks some flying ukrainian flags. i'm close to a check point on the outskirts all my real, the military vehicles behind me. heading down a road, heading west. nobody can see. quite yet on the other side of the road. there was a convoy of tanks appearing. we've heard the distinct, she thought, of what sound to bay grad miss. isles being used. these are these missiles that all do that so you can see the target coming out heading to my re awful across the field here. they're all you parted with that we on the side where earlier billowing smoke

coming from all the go with yeah. also increasingly we're seeing more more people leaving crow. this check for this check for the road going down towards the west towards cities like very dense. only as old c, as well as the ne, prague in the north, north west. but interested me, we have been speaking to a source in the navy around paradox and says that earlier today, labor force is off the coast of the coach. the burdens came on the fire from russia, labor, russian naval vessels and forcing them back to base and were all so getting report. so again that we cannot verify that sir, russian forces may be planning an attack from the north of crimea into awards.

cities like care song and melia topple, which as i say, are west of russia's military operation. ukraine is force people to quickly stuck up on basic supplies on their annual honey reports. now from a supermarket, no town of crime, a tourist in east in 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 call that has been going on for 8 years. nothing has been resolved, both chem and the as separate as leaders have not been able to find any kind of solution to 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 escalator. 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 there have seen war. this city had been going between the hands of the russian back, separate is and the ukrainian army. does the scene fierce battle the next door cities of yards, which is only a 10 minute drive? was the epi center really of the base, a do the for the russian back separate this has spread all the way there as set up a base there. and 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 quite 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. but a near at your malenko is at chief editor of the ukraine world and enjoys is now by skype from that ukrainian capital key. as there were predictions of russian invasion for many weeks. were you expecting a multi pronged attack of this nature though? we expecting something to happen on this scale. yes,

this was part of these scenarios which were described by international press, which would describe the things to information from the intelligence american diligence. but frankly, until the last moment i personally into to didn't, i didn't really believe that such madness can happen. but unfortunately it happens . and what have people been telling you, they must be scared right now. and there must be fears that we have not seen the worst of this well, we, we, of course, are expecting the today just marked a absolute, the new reality. so we are, you know, absolutely different worlds because ukraine is a normal country people, despite all this war, which is for 8 years, of course, which, which is a big wound in our, in our, in our aborting political body. but generally ukraine is a very normal country,

leave people willing to live normal lives, to raise the kids to go to school universities, etc. and from today, the, the, the, this all just changed. so we are expecting to leave in a world in which we don't know what will happen next day. and of course, we understand that russia put in russia just hates ukraine hades, because ukraine is a open and liberal democratic alternative in eastern slavic glance to this, to russia. so we can expect everything bugs ukrainian army strong. it's showing that russian russian dreams of a blitzkrieg, they're not really not really implemented and the resistance is quite from western intelligence officials have warned that there isn't much time until rush air overwhelms that, the capital key as how our residents at responding at we have in getting

information about people rushing in bomb shelters and the subway system for to take shelter. of course, if you, if you hear the syrian and if you hear the, the information that there is air possible air strike, people go to the shelters, but people don't just go to the shelters just because of the panic. so people go for there for reason. then how many people are living the c 2 key, which is understandable because again, they're not more people living to live than normal, normal life, full of happiness and good moments, but it doesn't mean that there is no resistance because ukrainian army strong to tutorial defense is there and for example, the today's news when russians captured the airport in horse stall, which is the military airport,

30 kilometers from key of but then you korean army captured it back. it's very important because such airport is, can be a very important base for russians to make a sole landing and attack you. as you say, there is a sense of defiance in the country. people want to defend themselves, a real determination on the part of people that bought and must also be many people . i don't know if you've managed to have conversations of friends and colleagues today who are perhaps looking elsewhere that to and now they might feel as their their future lies outside of ukraine. oh, difficult to say. i think that there is a big level of patriotism. what surprised me in these days is that you train of football players who are never political. you know, they were never pronouncing political statements. and they were mostly russian speakers by the way. and because their ordinary trainings and many ukrainian or russian speakers and some of them are even in russia championship and this,

they started just sharing, you know, the, the, the, the statements, how the support ukraine. so we'll see how it's changing the patriot to the, the consolidation of the nation is very strong. but another question is, of course, people don't want to suffer and a normal reaction if you got kids children and you get religious in the western crane. normal reaction for many of people is just to leave because for, for form, for now, it doesn't mean that will leave forever. but if you have mrs over your head, which is basically happened today in many places, including in my town, suburb dunwoody, near q. well you, you don't have much of the alternative. how do you personally hail about their response from western palace from the international community? i expected much more. we are we,

we see that there was no consensus and switched. for example, steve sanctions it's, it's not very good to see this part of new countries including germany to lee hungary, cyprus, i think who are not supporting this that's, that's very bad. that's very sad because europe should be consolidated and understand and it should not repeat the mistakes of 1988, 938 in 1939. you know, i mean about being primarily the 2nd world war. oh, thank you very much. i appreciate you taking the time from the ukrainian capital, kia, thank you very much for joining us there. low to mid yet mondanca. of course, we're telling you about protests that have been taking place in dozens of russian cities, but also in other towns and cities around the world against this invasion of ukraine, including here in london. so gaga has more

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 and most of them are not

present at the forest that i'm going to measure. it would have had 100 russia many have feel that it is too little too late. and while the rest of the maybe shut of ukraine when ukrainians living abroad in from home to some 30000 ukrainians, hundreds gathered outside the russian embassy in paris. singing all those 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, al jazeera london or russia's attack on ukraine is also having an impact on the sporting world, his andy with the latest. thanks so much ma'am. while the head of world football gianni in san siena has condemned the use of force by russia and ukraine. but the

fee for president has stopped short of suspending russia's national same russia due to pipe poland in a world cut plant in moscow next month with sweden. and the czech republic also possibly in line to play in russia. the 3 countries in our written a joint lessons of faith, the same games shouldn't be played there. the military escalation that we're observing is how serious consequences and considerably lower safety for our national football teams, we expect faith and you a for to react immediately. and to present alternative solutions regarding places where these matches could be played. an infant sina says decisions about those fixtures we made in the coming days. if condemns as well, the use of force by russia and ukraine, and any type of violence to resolve conflicts regarding the football matters in balls, ukraine and, and russia. we continue to monitor the situation and

i will communicate updates with regarding particular the upcoming fever. walk up, got that 2022 qualifiers soon. are you crane are also due to play in those world cup playoffs next month. they're set to take on scotland. the majority of the national scott do play in the countries domestic league now, that was due to resume this weekend after its winter break, but for obvious reasons, it will remain suspended. and this is an online appeal from some of the brazilian players who play in the ukranian league, checked out. daniel forward. fernando here, asking the brazilian government for help and getting the players and their families out of the country. for pools european governing bodies to hold an emergency meeting on friday. moving at this year's champions league final away from the russian city of st. petersburg will top the agenda you a for say, the aim of the meeting is to evaluate the situation and take all necessary

decisions russian estate energy company. gauss prom is a major you a for sponsor. the country also hosted games during lashes european championships up to russian. things are involved in the roper league, venice and petersburg, playing its rail buses in spain, spots and moscow have already qualified for the last 16 of this competition. the possibility of russia seems being expelled from the way for events or having to play their matches in neutral countries. will be up for discussion at that meeting . on friday, a formula ones governing body said it's monitoring the situation in russia with a growing pre said to be stated in sort she, in september the half teams, major sponsor is a russian company. and that's who drivers is the russian to keep them as the pan. it seem pulled by managing them to sign an ounce of a planned press conference earlier today for so we'll champion sebastian vessel where he races for us malta. now he says he would refuse to compete in russia.

russian satisfy andre ruby has made an appeal for peace and unity. rubies the world number 7. and he was asked about the russian attack in ukraine following his course a final victory here at the device championships. in this one with utilize the, my much is what's important. so it's not about my much how it's affect me because what's happening is much more terrible. and like i said, you realize how important is to have peace in the world and to respect each other. no matter what, and to be united, all at that same solomon of at joker, which suffered a surprise defeats, he was beaten by erie vasily of the czech republic in straight sets. and that is the last that means rushes daniel medford of replace joke, which is the world number one. the serve was given the all clear to plan to buy the spinal being vaccinated against code 9. see and is vaccination status means he's likely to miss a number of tournaments coming up this year. okay, that is

a sport is looking for now. let's get back to marry him in london. only thanks very much, and he will not raps out when he is out, but i will be back with a full bulletin for you. as our coverage of the rush, ukraine crisis continues. ah ah. and the international politics to the global pale demick and everything in between, it did not restart to poor people and your our planet promised to ensure the safety of women. what happened, the doctor, a pullback that people actually have more. why is the u. k. feel hostile to try and

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