that will be completed, that this part of the country will be completely cut off. so you do have people who are starting to think about where to go or not my, where we can make now can show you a little bit more this street. i mean, there you go. this with, this is a city of a 150000 people. we've been here before all of this started. you would have people walking around, especially at this time of the day. it's 12 o'clock here. well, there is barely anyone, really, it is quite a last night. the electricity of the city was cut off on the streets, not in the houses. and today we were told to be close to the shelters. people here were told to be close to the shelters and may be to expect that they will be some shelling. so certainly a lot of apprehension this call is actually worrying people more than it actually. something that happened because know everybody keeps asking. what do you think will

happen? what do you think will happen? ukraine has asked turkey to shut off the bathrooms and daughter mails to block russian warships. turkey can close the c route between the mediterranean and the black sea. if it feels threatened, russia has already moved a fleet of warships and tank lending vessels from bases in northern russia to attack crane from the black sea and the sea. as off, other russian warships have been spotted off the coast of syria in the eastern mediterranean turkish earth, the black sea, with russia and ukraine. and it does have a good relationship with both of them. turkey has yet to respond to ukraine's request to shock russian access to the black season. him, cassandra has more on that from his turnbull because turkey has a strong relations with both countries, ukraine and russia. everything is critical at the say, at the stage for encore and the turkish government, that's why they have been trying to take very cautious step in their official statements written or oral statements. and, ah, this is what present ardon said

a week ago. he said, tricky can neither you up on the ukraine, nor on russia because a turkey has strong economic ties with those 2 countries. so this is a critical stage and turkey has some strategic cooperation with russia, a complicated relationship in syria and libya despite at turkey. it is a prominent nato ally, however, this international treaty that was signed 1936. the monster convention gales trickier. right to shut down. it's a straight or da, da da nails and a boss for straits a to the war ships entering in black c a. but for this to be enact intact, tricky must be defining the incident as war. so what is going on between ukraine and a russia must be defined as war a by the turkish authorities. and on the way back from kazakhstan, turkish, a foreign minister made with cho, shoulder, told reporters that a,

the experts at the foreign ministry are now evaluating the situation. so what is going on between russia and ukraine? is it an invasion? is it a war, or is it a military intervention, or an annexation? the me you're watching out to 0 with our continuing coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. the fighting there this are intensifying as russian troops are closing in on the capital are off as russia wants to encircle, p, f. gunfire and explosions have been heard in the district of oberon in the northern sector of the city that sent people running for cover that hasn't been ordered to stay indoors. it comes after overnight strikes own key of residence. i've been evacuated to rockets, it residential buildings. the printing army says russia fight on civilian areas, but it's at the fence systems repelled the effects. moscow is denied carrying

a missile strikes own. a demon refugee agency says around 100000 craniums have now already been displaced. thousands of fleeing to nearby you states, russia has closed their space to aircraft flying in from the u. k. now that comes off to london band aero flop. from landing in the u. k. the kremlin says it will retaliate against western sanctions. germany has sent 3 fighter planes to romania to support the native mission. there it follows several other deployments of troops to remain earlier. the u. s. and the u. k. all sent jets military vehicles to romania to for the bolster. the alliances, eastern flank, dominant cane joyce is live now from the bureau in berlin. dom hi there. how significant is this? well, it's one more sign of the dissemination, the resolve of the german government to be a central part of nato, wherever possible. and given that nato is dispatching its forces to bolster to

buttress the eastern flank as it has been put by an stratton bag and others. then this is what germany can do. it is not the only thing that the german government is doing. we know also that to naval vessels are going to be on station one in the mediterranean, and one is being sent to the baltic sea. clearly as a visible sign for the baltic states, u r e u member states, but also nay. so member states that germany takes as far as it can, its responsibility, the nato as seriously as possible. remember, there would be those potentially, he would say that germany is coming late to this because for many years now, germany has failed to meet its obligations under the whale summers. the nato summit in 2014, when they agreed to raise. when all nato member states agrees to spend 2 percent of their budget on defense, germans aren't getting there quite yet,

but this is something they can do right now. so 3 euro fighters to romania, clearly there will be of no assistance in the ukraine crisis. but this is more to be seen as something visible, tangible as it were, a way of saying to romania and in terms of the naval vessels being dispatched to the baltic and to the mediterranean. a way of saying to a member states a, we take this seriously, this is what we can do straight away, and we can thing can talk about further such gestures as it were. as the need arises, gum you'll keep us posted, i'm sure. but in the meantime, thank you so much. dominant came there are berlin correspondent will staying with the nato posture. in all of this, the u. s. is reinforcing native forces across europe with $7000.00 additional soldiers, alto, 0 patty co. haine has more of that angle from the pentagon. senior defense officials here at the pentagon are increasingly talking about a concern that ukraine isn't the end of it that they could advance towards nato

countries. that's why you repeatedly hear officials here at the white house say that they will enforce the native trees, which basically says an attack on one is treated like an attack on all to that. and they are sending an additional $70000.00 soldiers to germany. they're part of an armored brigade combat team. they're coming out of colorado and they said from germany, they could be moved to other places within europe. this is on top of other soldiers that they've sent in the weeks leading up to this. or now there's a total of $14000.00 additional troops. ah, they are not to mention the 10s of thousands that are apparently stationed there. and they've also sent equipment. we know that they announced today that for each of these countries to f $35.00 fighter jets, i have landed in romania lithuania and estonia. attack helicopters are on the way and they're not ruling out the possibility that they're going to send even more forces. even more equipment to reassure the allies, but also they say, to send a message to russia when they say the back, they back the nato treaty. they mean it. ok,

let's get more for you. let's drill down into the sanctions and how they're going to work. more kind of him, frankly, will have you leaders agreeing to impose sanctions that target 70 percent of the russian banking market, as well as the major state owned companies. close coordination with the white house came about yesterday. they're being submitted for approval at a meeting juice be held in brussels to day. however, the sanctions do stop short of blocking russia from the swift global payment system at ones based in belgium. us sanctions are also targeting rushes financial system, b u. s. president job yesterday saying he wants to impede russia's ability to do business. kimberly hallett with moral mat from the white house. 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 in august was a signal couldn't and maybe the chinese frozen 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. 2 troops won't be said to ukraine, but if the conflict spreads to a nato country, us soldiers already states europe would be obliged to fight on thursday, fight and reaffirm that commitment to collective native defense. united states will defend every inch of nato territory with the full force of american power.

president biden has announced a nato summit will be convened on friday. the purpose to a firm support for ukraine and map out the next steps necessary to strengthen the nato alliance. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house, china has yet to condemn russia's military action while the west imposing sanctions bay jane is boosting the russian economy by importing wheat. katrina, you reports now from bitching. less than a month after chinese president, she didn't ping met vladimir putin. russia's leader lodged the most aggressive attack in europe. for decades. the china's leaders have refused to condemn the invasion or use the word invasion at all or now and his shield shit hat. the ukrainian issue has other very complicated historical backgrounds. today, it may not be what any of us want. so we hope that all parties will work together

to give pace a chance. look in the key way. china is criticizing birth, united states for exacerbating tensions and nato for ignoring what it says or rushes legitimate security concerns. china also says sanctions are ineffective and orderly harm. the general population of china feels very strongly that the u. s. trying to circle it and contain it. ah, russia feels the same way. ah, the combined pressure on both of them has pushed them together and there's no question about that. so at this juncture, they feel that they are up against the us. and its allies. paging has repeated its claims of non interference, the affairs of other countries. it would provide moscow with military support, but it has been bolstering trade, such as increasing imports of russian wheat. you don't go and throw a lifeline to russia in the middle of a period when they're inviting another country that is simply unacceptable. but

this doesn't mean china condones rushes attack on ukraine. it also has good ties with kill and relies on strong trade with europe. aging must balance it's friendship with moscow while maintaining relations with the west for the sake of its long term economic and strategic interests. where china clearly supports moscow in terms of trade and economic sense in ideology, but won't actually, you know, kind of violate western sanctions. ah, the you know, to, to, to, to physically help, i think that situation will remain and that's what must go expects. on same day, russian forces invaded ukraine, 9 chinese fighter jets and to tie one's air defense zone. some analysts have joint comparisons between ukraine and the self. rhode island claimed by china, a link chinese officials deny katrina you out a 0 paging. ok, let's bring in durham a dual. he's a political and economic risk consultants. he joins us from london, dera, welcome back to al jazeera. now forgive me for the simplicity of this question.

dora, just take me through an idiots guide neary to start here. when it comes to the swift into banking system, briefly give me 5 sentences on how it does what it does. well, essentially swift is basically a messaging system for banks. its way that banks communicate across international lines are to describe different transactions of their gauging in and to, to make payments in this way. it's not even transferring my, essentially, it's a way that, that banks talk to each other and give each other m. okay. but the impact of that on russia, if the u. s. slash the, you decided to, i guess eject or, or block rushes presence within that system. the impact of that would be huge. so if you want to impose sanctions on moscow, that would be a good idea. would it not, but they stop short of doing that?

well, there's a couple of things to unpack. there, it would be extremely important and it would have a very big economic impact on 1st wanting back into to, to why they haven't taken the step at this point. it's important to member remember that swift isn't a government agency. it's a cooperative society. belgian one that operates under you law. it's not that the, like a, you know, us leaders or even even leaders. can somebody tell it to, to stop facilitating the transactions. they do that with a ran previous sanctions and swift is implied with that. but markie, it's slightly legally murky area, whether compelled to do the 2nd point on this is that even if you do cut russia off from swift and you know you're not stopping, you're not making it impossible to do business with russian banks. you're not stopping all forms of communication with those banks. you're just stopping communication through this mechanism. swift. and that's important because swift is

the mechanism that's the standard across the banking industry. it's also the most secure one. if russian banks are forced to use other mechanisms, they're less secure. and a lot of western banks, or a lot of banks all over the world, may simply say, actually, you know, we don't want to do business through these mechanisms and it will increase the cost and the friction of doing that. what's more important from a financial and economic perspective is some of the blocking sanctions. we've already seen us introduce against russian banks like spot bank and the bar, which prevents them from interacting with the dollar economy. but one way, you know, if you think of you're talking to your friends through whatsapp, if you suddenly have a restriction saying, hey, you can't communicate with this person to what's up, you can still communicate with them through other means. what the usaa saying, the blocking sanctions is you can't communicate with them at all. so that's the kind of difference here it's, it's a matter of, you know, the difficulty of setting up alternative systems or security. what that will

instead, except it is. but in terms of greater impact, what we seen from us sanctions in the u. sanction so far is bit more impact on that . it rules out any communication or any interaction with his banks entirely when we're talking. however, dora about, for example, we just had a conversation with another analyst here on the show talking about how mister putin as a very soft fiscal pillow, worth one trillion dollars, which he has access to. so that's his installation. but would this come down to an acts of fiscal self harm? because what you're talking about there, that into connectivity and flexibility. if you're a fan of swift, seems to suggest it's a very good mechanism to be a part of. but if you change the go to kind of targeted thing that you want to use it for, which is getting rid of russia or rushes presence within the system that then becomes self harming. because you basically have to eradicate the entire system and go back to a much more expensive way of doing things and that would have a knock on effect at a time when currencies

a dipping. and inflation is going to go up anyway. well, you don't necessarily need to get rid of the switch system entirely. in fact, i don't think you would when you're just saying is that if you want to do business with russia, you'll have to use these alternative more difficult. i do think it's important to know that any effective sanctions against russia are going to have knock on effects on western economy and are going to impose costs here, particularly as we're coming out of the pandemic. and i've already, you know, injured quite a bit of economic damage is result of that. russia is a major energy export. it's a major ex, border of agricultural output. grain is a major ex, border of p minerals like aluminum, nickel, cop, copper and cobalt. any measures to restrict their ability to trade in and to export those commodities in order to, to, to punish the russian economy or to, to, to infer cost on it is going to make them more expensive on global markets. it's

going to drive up inflation. it's going to have to have, it's going to have a cost. and you know, the calculation for european us leaders as they decide how to, how to what sections to implement is how they can do this in a way that they can maintain political support on the home front for this that they don't get into a situation where the economic blow back is so severe that their own voters, their own electric. i'm simply say actually you don't want to do this. we don't care about this. we care about our own pocket book. i'm at the next electoral cycle . that's always the way of isn't to understand perhaps, or thank you so much. i'm a do well talking to us out of london that now the u. n. is protecting up to 5000000 people, could trying to get away from the fighting in and around ukraine into surrounding countries. the children's agency. unicef is boosting its response to support those in need. clearly in the last few days, the needs of children and families are escalating in line with the conflict. as

many of you seen, i have seen evacuations are ongoing and landscape blast and have started in dentist needs are wide ranging from hygiene products to blankets. gas burners, fuel 1st aid kits. unicef, along with the rest of the you and family, has called on all parties to protect children at all times. and to ensure that humanitarian actors can safely and quickly reach children in need, wherever they are, we will will be working with you and hcr and other un agencies in the coming days for a flash appeal for the surrounding countries that will include moldova romania and her and poland as a 1st call and then obviously i'm hungry and slovenia as well. refugees from ukraine are already arriving in slovakia by car and by trains. lucky is government has lifted all corona virus restrictions for ukrainians escaping rushes

attack and will open more border crossings if necessary. protested in australia and new zealand have joined the outrage at russia's invasion of ukraine. thousands of demonstrators and sydney demanded more government action against russia and in new zealand protest as picketed the russian embassy in wellington, demanding the kremlin ends the conflict. hundreds of californians in san francisco denounced russia for invading the frame. similar protests were held in other u. s. cities, denver, houston, and washington d. c. other protests to help in various countries around the world. one of them in london, sonya vega was that i got it from start to berlin. took me. i'm a route. 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 love the forest 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 shut 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 ukraine sonic imo al jazeera london. okay, let's give you a sense now of the panic being felt by the people of kyo. this was the scene a little earlier today outside the main railway station where people are seeking shelter. ah, well another country which knows all about russian invasion, georgia, 14 years after russian troops attacks georgia,

georgians of denounced the kremlin latest onslaught. robin for a see walker has that story from tbilisi freedom square in sibley. see tonight completely occupied by thousands of georgians and also many people from a pearl. there are many ukrainians living in sibley, see many ukrainian experts they've come out to show their disgust 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 put in the new grain, so please leave georgians and ukrainians. really consider themselves brothers and sisters in arms. that's because georgia experienced 14 years ago. what is happening now in ukraine? the south, the city 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 been and concern, of course, about what is going to now we need to rush invading ukraine, because next there will be other european country. very good, georgia and crane and other countries. they are very strong nation and we all support them the whole world and they should keep them fighting no matter what the cost for their freedom and georgians will help them in any way. anyway, we can, i, jordan feel vulnerable russian military bases the 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 no seems possible in this region. well, the biggest game in european club football is being affected by russia. his gemini sh. well, i was expect said russia has been stripped. also, european football club footballs, a showpiece event, the champions league, final european. it was governing body you wafer met today. their president, alexander saffron, called a, what's called an extraordinary meeting. i met the committee met to day, and they decided that the champ is the final, which was due to be played in the russian city of saint petersburg. on may the 28th that will now be played at the stab to france in paris. and the stadium is actually sponsored the the gal. it was due to be paid at the gas from stadium in saint petersburg. interestingly, that stadium is sponsored by the russian a stay turned energy company gas from there. and you

a for now under increasing pressure to sever their ties with that company. they sponsor the champions league among other european tournaments. and also also that was been decided in his meeting and russian and ukrainian club and national games. the home games and now going to be plays at neutral venues is, will obviously have an impact on the world cup qualifies and next months m. russia would you to play poland and in moscow in a world cup of playoff game. so that will obviously now be taking place in a neutral venue in another country. poland, sweden, tech republic will actually wrote sofa yesterday saying they one going to travel to russia. they were not going to play that game that. let's wrap up this special our for you where we started. it's those russian tanks rolling in that area, north, northeast of the ukrainian capital, kia, more on that with has some seeka and andrew simmons in kia when we come back at 12

g, i'll see you from 70 tomorrow. bye bye. ah . the latest news as it breaks, authorities tell us that brutal violence like this one in the honduran capital, or just the tip of the iceberg in a far more complex security situation. we detailed coverage. this coastal village in white is one of the worst areas here in the province of ball from around the world. things seem very normal in the city. people are still going to work or to school the restaurant. all americans are increasingly saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command it seemed like tried to covered up what's your take on why they've gotten is so wrong. that to me is political malpractice. the bottom line on

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threat international peace and security? we listen, we are focusing so much on the humanitarian crisis that we forget. the long term development we meet with global news makers and talk about the stall restock matter on al jazeera. ah, russian troops are closing in on ukraine's capital. people near kia have been ordered not to leave their homes. ah, but on has him secret. this is agitate alive from the house or coming up. moscow vows to retaliate after the european union and several countries including the u. s . imposed sanctions. ukraine's president says those sanctions are not enough.