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the u. s. president unveils a new wave of sanctions targeting russia. the latest attempts to punish, let him have hooted, a looming refugee crisis in the making ukrainians, fleets and neighboring countries to escape violence. protests in solidarity with ukraine across the world. but by comb, police crank down on demonstrators across russia. ah, the u. s. and the european union of announced saw the sweeping economic sanctions on moscow on the day that russian forces launched a multi pronged invasion of ukraine. it follows a wave of international condemnation, e. u. leaders met in brussels to finalize what they're calling severe sanctions targeting financial energy. and the transport sector's washington is announced to export controls on high tech products. and along with the u. k is targeting washing

banks and oligarchs. it's all in response to russia's land sea and air attack on ukraine, which has been announced by world leaders as barbaric key f says that 137 soldiers and civilians have been killed. the un estimate that around $100000.00 ukrainians, fled their homes. ukraine's president followed him as landscape called the attack, a declaration of war on all of europe, warning of a new iron curtain. he signed a decree to mobilize all able bodied men of fighting age to join in defending the country. russia's president vladimir putin says the assault aims to demilitarize ukraine and to protect civilians in the east where ukrainian forces have been battling washing back separatists for years. meanwhile, they've been protest in support of ukraine across the world. clothing in russia, where police have detained more than 1700 demonstrators, in dozens of cities,

will speaking late on thursday nights, ukraine's president followed him as lensky details how intelligence his government have russian forces have russian forces as marked both him and his family of high value targets he went on to pay tribute to those who died since the russian assault began early on thursday. and as i lifted out though they wouldn't, sadly today we lost $137.00 heroes, our citizens. 10 of them were officers, 316 people had been wounded, but defending as many islands all are bought, a gods died a heroic death, but they have not surrendered me. they will all be ordered posthumously. the title of the hero of ukraine. let those who gave their lives for ukraine be remembered for ever. your officials have held an emergency late my summer to discuss the unfolding crisis in ukraine. president of the commission us live on the lion, outlined the strategy they'll take to confront russia. bombs, not falling on innocent women, men and children,

they fearful that life and many are dying. and all of this happens in 2022, in the very powerful to president chose to bring back war to europe. this is a full fledged invasion in ukraine fund that mentally puts into question our piece order. but today i also say you can you and you know that you like that. tonight, european leaders were fully aligned in condemning the truncation and unprovoked attack. now we have to meet the moments we will hold the credit accountable. i'll 0 sandra sentenced personnel from ukraine's capital cares. ah, the russian invasion was launched with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country.

along military build up around the cranes borders. finally unleashed fight holder of the kremlin alone 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 in the policy until the very last moment, i didn't believe it would happen now. i thought it might just involved in it's in the hands, but i didn't ever think it would involve kiev huskily through. most likely war has now begun. every one is leaving everywhere. shut nobody to call you jak off. 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 stuff. this 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 pu. he unilaterally recognized 2 separatist regions in eastern ukraine as independent of give, and then sent russian soldiers in, under the pretext of being peacekeepers. the battle from the hands and done yet

skin the 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, war putin calls peacekeepers the only attack and the russian leader is warning ukrainian soldiers not to resist the when you put them up 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 to spite 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 called putting cola rove to stop aggression. there is no purgatory for war criminals. they go straight to hell,

ambassador aah! as news of the invasion spread in ukraine's capital, kiev main highways out of the city quickly became good lot with traffic in the 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 olds look heavily stacked against ukraine's forces. andrew simmons al jazeera give. russia has been preparing to invade ukraine for months. daily, $200000.00 soldiers were deployed around the country, including near the rebel held areas of low hands and, and yet in the east and in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. russia is attacked the capital key of the major cities of car cave, maria pull and been a probe at its military, immediately targeted ukraine's air defenses as well as caves main airport and air bases and several other cities. russian military vehicles have been deployed from crimea and bella roost, where russian troops were taking part in joint military drills. and in the east, the ukrainian military says it's killed, 50 troops, civil hand screeching,

and down 6 russian warplanes will. ukraine says that russian forces have taken each unable nuclear plant. this video from inside the zone appears to confirm that it's the sight of the world's worst nuclear disaster and lies just 130 kilometers from the capitol. they exploded. reactor is covered by a protective shelter to prevent radio radio rashed radiation. i'm sorry, leaking in tom plant has been decommissioned. u. s. president joe biden wants sanctions that he's just on vale to impede russia's ability to do business on white house. correspondent, kimberly, how could reports after consulting with his national security council in the white house situation room and a virtual meeting with g 7 leaders, us president joe biden made good on his promise to inflict massive costs on russian president vladimir putin for invading ukraine. who is the aggressor who chose this war?

and now he and his country will bear the consequences. the new sanctions target major russian bags and russian elite and in coordination with allies, representing more than half the global economy, are designed to cut off russia from the world financial system. russian assets in the us are also now frozen. we will limit russia's ability to do business in dollars euro's pounds and yet export controls to curtail russian high tech imports are also being opposed to cripple russia's military and high tech capabilities. the moves are backed by top, congressional democrats, like senate leader, chuck sure, who condemned russia's invasion and pledge support for ukraine. ukrainians are tough and resilient. i know they will not give up their country. they will fight fiercely for it. but senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is blaming biden for the crisis. i think the precipitous withdrawal from afghanistan and august was

a signal couldn't and movie the chinese president she as well. that america was and retreated across america, demonstrators protested hooton's invasion after a generation of fighting in iraq and afghanistan. most americans are war weary. in a recent poll just 26 percent of americans support the u. s. playing a major role in the russian ukraine conflict biden has promised us troops won't be said to ukraine, but if the conflict spreads to a nato country, us soldiers, already station europe would be obliged to fight on thursday, fight and reaffirm that commitment to collective nato defense the united states will defend every inch of nato territory with the full force of american power. president biden has announced the nato summit will be convened on friday. the

purpose to affirm support for ukraine and map out the next steps necessary to strengthen the nato alliance. kimberly how kit al jazeera, the white house. lincoln mitchell is a political analyst and scholar at the saltzman institute of warm peace studies of columbia university, georgia style. live from new york. good to have you with us, sir. how will president biden's handling of this crisis play out domestically? well, is going to play out one of 2 ways. either there will be some kind of a rally around the flag effect on the american people would get behind biden. and get behind this effort to push a russia out of ukraine, or it will like so many things in american politics. push people back into their partisan camps. and you already seeing that where democrats are rallying behind biden. and republicans are crafting this unusual message, which is on the one hand,

put in is really all that bad. and on the other hand, it trump were present. this wouldn't have happened anyway. so this could become a rally around the fly, but my more likely it will reinforce partisan divisions. what if anything, can the u. s. do about how russians view their own president should it be using the washing playbook can be using social media, the internet. i'm sort of thing to, to present a view of putin that they don't and can't get from domestic media. well, there's no question that russian doesn't have a free media environment, so it is difficult to get that information. there also is no question that the us not only could and should, but probably already is doing that just because it's not public doesn't mean it's not. it's not happening. however, the, the best messenger here is putting himself what he is doing in ukraine. he is not supported by the russian people, 1700 people were detained in russia today. 1700, not reform for protesting against this war. that number will grow when these

sanctions couldn't, is betting that the sanctions will rally the russian people behind him. because they'll say, look, the west is out to get us, but it's more likely to look around and say, look what you've done to us. now we can't even get the products winnie now, which we can't even go abroad the way we want to. and, and when russia begins taking casualties, that will also be bad for russia. and that's when the u. s. kind of information campaign needs to kick in and really show the russian people just how bad this war is for them. what do you think putins and game is he, his en game cannot be to occupy ukraine because that will be a long conflict that will slowly drain resources from russia and slowly cost russian lives. the smarter and game would be to go in badly damaged ukraine quickly and get out. so you really destabilize the country. so if we can the country and

then get out. but that's gonna be tough to, because we're putin has done here, is he's, is he's strengthened ukrainian resolve across the board against spoon. so he's created a problem for himself. i'm not sure he's thought this thing through as much. she should have renika stoves herself many thanks. deb lincoln, mitchell that and the you more coverage of ukraine coming up shortly. also had white people in georgia watching the russia invasion of ukraine in horror. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by capital airways. hey there, here's your weather update for asia, and once again it's a quiet pattern across india. we do have some showers though, toward the northeast, and that's pushing into bunk dash, but elsewhere, plenty of sun to be found. let's talk about sure longer. right now,

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hello again, this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main. here's the saw ukraine's president says the 137 people have died on the 1st day of a full scale washing military invasion. laudermill zalinski has pulled up reservists across the country, the u. an estimate for around $100000.00. you premiums of flat homes. western pals are hitting washer with more sanctions. the u. s. is blocking the assets, washing banks, sanctioning oligarchs, restricting access to high tech goods. the e u is targeting the trade energy and transport sectors. the u. s. president says he'll be announcing phil the measures against moscow off for a meeting with g 7 of nato allies on friday, jo bite. and so the russian leda is trying to test western resolve the port city of mario paul is one of the cities under attack. its mass as they'll fight back musical. no, i can do for you. yes, i did. i say i want to reassure you that our military spirit is at the highest level. nobody will surrender mario poke,

we will defend our city and our land of zeros. charles stratford is just outside maria pole. on thursday morning he saw a convoy of tanks, some flying ukrainian flags. i'm close to a chick point on the outskirts all my real military vehicles behind me. heading down the road, heading west. nobody can see quite yet on the other side of the road. there was a, a convoy of tanks appearing in the last chain, 50 minutes or so. we've heard the distinct, she thought, of what sound to bay grad miss. isles being used. these are these missiles with the state that you see that coming out heading hate to marry awful. that's i say the last few minutes we've heard the distinctive sounds of grad miss.

i'll be in the middle to fall distance now across the vale there. there all, you'd probably be the installation that we on the side ways earlier, billowing smoke coming from the other. come with that tag being being towed just it may well have been hit but sir. yeah. also increasingly we see more more people leaving chrome. this checkpoint is checkpoint the road going down towards the west to cities like the dance only as of see her as well as the ne pro in the north north west.

it interested me. we have been speaking to a source in the navy around baird. us who says that earlier today, naval forces off the coast of the coast, the burdens came under fire from russia, labor, russian naval vessels and forcing them back to base. more than 1700 people are reported to have been arrested during anti war protests in russia. thousands converged on the streets of at least 50 cities after learning of their president's order to invade ukraine. algiers, bernard smith is in moscow 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, 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 russia's 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 abilities the equal. i have to also address the ukrainian military. dear comrades, your father's grandfather's great grandfathers fought against the nazis defending our common model and not for today's neo nazis to take power and key. if 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'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. these are objects

of air defense, military airfields, of ation of the armed forces of your grain stage to video of human with mass casualties. amanda civilian population was filmed in ukrainian cities. there 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 reaction is 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. this is a full blown invasion. and the president puts you, not you a couple of days before outlined in his speech. what he wants to get from you green washington grange should do, and that included therefore, a total demilitarization of the grocery. at an afternoon meeting with businessman, no one admitted to vladimir putin any worries about sanctions. 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 in a late night phone call on thursday, the french president told vladimir putin, he was exposing himself to massive sanctions. the kremlin said putin and emanuel macklin had a serious and frank exchange of views. whatever was said, it was unlikely to have been enough to stop the russian military advance until bernard smith al jazeera moscow. slovakia is preparing for a wave of refugees from ukraine. families have started across the border and cars and trains. slovakia slike is government says the global war border crossings if needed. it's lifted all corona virus restrictions for those escaping the violence. out 0 balkans reporter marion reddish each has the latest from the slovakia. ukraine border floods. premier. what

a failure they call you minister of slovakia. it would have said that all slavic should show a lot of compassion and understanding towards refugees. he says his country is ready to receive as many refugees as it takes at this border crossing. there are a lot of people with small children, parents trying to play with them, entertain them, and people with children are given priority. others have to wait several hours. they all hope this is just temporary, but the vacuum interior minister says the situation is stable for now. but it's late and cold people freeze and while they white not far from here, the already started building refugee centers. the you was ready for this after news stories warning, it could happen. vakio send about 1500 soldiers to build these roofing g shelters. we've seen lots of cars and buses. people arriving here told me they were looking at cell phones, following the situation, deciding to leave. poland will also be under pressure. the polish prime minister says his country's ready to accept a 1000000 ukrainian refugees. they all hope it's only temporary to protests against

russia's invasion of ukraine of been taking place around the world houses here a san diego reports from london from start 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 to their families back home. i was talk, 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 program so far is johnson that matches a bit. we had a 100 russia many 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 by like many others around the world, determined to show the solidarity with ukraine. funny guy, al jazeera london, one country watching the invasion anxiously as georgia, which wasa invaded in 2008 people have been rallying to denounce moscow in the

capital. i'll just say was robin terrestrial walker. freedom square intimacy tonight completely occupied by thousands of georgia 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. it is horrible. we don't need more in the 21st century. ukraine don't need to put him in ukraine. so please leave a georgians and ukrainians. really consider themselves brothers and sisters. you know, that's because george experienced 14 years ago. what is happening now in ukraine? the self was set in territory of georgia was invaded by russian forces later

recognized as a republic, although territory. and of course, it is considered international 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 suppression just in maybe ukraine because next there will be other care 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 ga feel vulnerable russian military base is a station just a few dozen.