whoa, sanctions on present employment, it will be comparable to severing ties with russia. and the story builds we want to find out more about how offers have been taken from the wild insult. with exclusive interviews and in depth reports, al jazeera has teens on the ground. there hasn't been a train running by for almost 2 decades to bring you more award winning documentaries and live knees ah, at 1700 hours g m t that 7 p. m in ukraine, where ukrainian tanks on soldiers are taking up positions on the empty streets of kiev in preparation for a russian assault. ah, welcome to our continuing coverage of the russian attack on ukraine. i'm debbie and

abigail, ukraine's president has appealed for talks with vladimir putin to end the fighting . the russian president's proposed talks and bella roosts, where as troops are stationed, though the kremlin says ukraine wants them to take place and nato member, poland. instead movie it. we can see the new nazis are pacing heavy weaponry in essential areas of big cities by key ivan clark, even though they're planning to attract return fire from russian units. they're acting as terrorists using human shields to blame russians for the victims. ok, this is happening from the advice of foreign governments, particularly the americans. i appeal to the soldiers of the ukrainian armed forces do not let the nationalists use your wives and parents as human shields. but i'll start off on burnett's matters. joining us from moscow 1st on the offer of talks, vernon, what more are we learning about this? during the kremlin is telling us that the talks, the idea talks move forward at the suggestion of the ukrainians and valley. mir

putin was interested in talks because their understanding was that ukraine was ready to discuss its neutrality. and so the credit has been preparations were made to have talks are in minsk, but then a ukraine wanted out the talks in warsaw instead and then says the kremlin communications were cut off. but we don't know is the terms the kremlin might have laid down for those talks. but though we do know that vladimir putin has also said to day, he's called on the ukrainian army, essentially to overthrow the government of ukraine. he said it going to be easier for us if you take power. that was an address to the russian military and survey, love ra russians, rushes foreign minister. he says that the ukrainians must lay down their arms. and he's also said that we want the ukrainians to be independent and have the possibility to freely ad dead define their destiny. he says he sees no possibility

of recognizing the current ukrainian government as democratic worth pointing out that the ukrainian president was elected in 2019 with a 73 percent share of the vote. the problem it seems that moscow has is where that flood emir zalinski. although it seemed there is an avenue for talks, but we don't know as i say, or where they're at and what those conditions are. okay, guarded and bernard, what do we, what more do we know about why russia has announced a year or so, restriction off access to facebook that this has come out in the last half hour or so from the russian telecoms regulator. and it says is limiting, partially limiting access to facebook. it says i because it's contributing to limiting basic rights and freedoms now is left. but people have puzzled as to what

reasoning there is to limit access to facebook. but there were protests on thursday night in moscow and many, many, and many other russian cities spontaneous protests against the war and a lot of celebrities and personalities and some opposition. people have been posting on facebook, their opposition to the war. so that the suggestion here that this is an attempt to slow down perhaps access to facebook or make it harder for people to access facebook. and because there is this growing, a sentiment is growing leaking of information that there is opposition to this war . in russia, i thank you so much, bernard smith, reporting from moscow all the spite moscow pressing forward with the invasion, ukraine's precedence, as he been hearing his appealing for talks with ludovic putin. at. you ensures, i'm glad you took his interest. i want to appeal to the president of russia. he, all of ukraine is involved in fighting. let's sit down and talk to stop people from

dying with us. and now i want to appeal to the armed forces of ukraine. a stay strong, you're everything that we've gotten and everything that protects and offends our country. we've said that also the name has more on the days developments. ah, a 2nd dawn to vladimir putin's war on ukraine. a haze. roger, i little bit scared to bob. my family and above my concrete. i don't want to go away from my land or my contrary will stay here. i will fight here for my freedom, for my and abandoned, for my nation. devastation in the heart of the capital, kill ukrainian air defenses. shut down a russian jet over night. air raid sirens continue to pierce the sky. russian tanks are reported to be on their way to the seat of power, even if our enemy ah will come here. i will stay. the kremlin has launched a multi pronged attack by air land and sea military is hitting major cities across

the country, including carcass, maro, pole, and ne bro. if you look at the numbers, if you look at the equipment and the will, i think it's pretty, pretty obvious that the russian forces will prevail at some point. what he wants to do is to, to impose the terms he wants probably to have a regime that he could. but i think to, to he's a twisted vision of this great russia. ukraine has banned all men between the ages of 18 and 6 from leaving the country. they're being told to stay and fighting. many are desperate to leave. after weeks of threats, people here simply didn't believe it could happen the whole country. beautiful people were absolutely absolutely modern and sinking society here and for us. and for me especially this is this,

this is innovation. absolutely. unbelievable. now on day 2 of the onslaught, there are fears that the arrival of russian soldiers in the heart of the capital is imminent. natasha good name al jazeera. well, let's get you up today to what else has been happening on the ground. so russian forces pro rated prisoners of war and ukraine's eastern the region. fears fighting has raised on for a 2nd day across ukraine. that video right there that you're seeing on your screen has emerge and it shows a tank in northern swerving into and running over a car. people passing by had to later rescue the passenger inside. once the tank had left the scene, and russian forces are about 10 kilometers from the capitol. they've encircled kiev weapons have been distributed to residence, ready to take up arms. rockets have had residential buildings for a 2nd day. families have been hiding and make shift based and shelters subway

stations as well as parking lot. the u. s. refugee agency says the violence has displaced a 100000 ukranian with more families streaming to the polish border. andrew simmons isn't here, that's where he's been talking to where ukrainian families seeking safety in one of the bomb shelters svetlana. i'm out a 0 english. can i ask you a just how no, just can i get my microphone in the better place least. i'm just how are you coping with this situation? i have to cope too, but the really we are struggling by getting stuck in here. that's the thing that we can kind of cape at the moment. we're just trapped to be honest. and what do you think about the, the whole invasion of the, the way, look, sir, starting my putin is behaving as just terrible. it's just not on the unappropriate, any sybil last or whatever. and, and what

a body of use towards vladimir putin in the sort of things that he's doing and saying, i said again, what about vladimir putin? what do you think about what he's doing and saying just most aligned to the russians. invading just regular international laws. are you scared? like right, you know we, we all were to call fear during my daughter into o 12 and yeah, just, it's unpredictable. that's the thing. that's why we will this carrier. what is the tank? so only 1215 kilometers away. on site. again, we were where the tanks are getting closer. yeah. in the column here. we know that yeah. what are you going to do? stay here with him home, safe place at the moment. you spending a lot of time in the shelter here to nights and are all. what about your son?

you must be often enough to lunch. how are you feeling towards this? are you hope pool? ah, well, i'm scared a new model so hopeful that will have a bright future. oh, it's very terrifying. the um, we're coping and i'm sure that in about a few days. it should be fine. now. it should says little bit. very optimistic, articulate young member, a good luck to both. i hope things progress in a positive way. let sir cross over to washington and speak to hi nor quank. he is a national security analyst and former director of us army international affairs of the pentagon. thanks for joining us, mr. clink on al jazeera. so how likely is it that the russians will actually reach the center of care of the capital in the next couple of hours or the next couple of days? well,

thank you very much for having me. it's apparent that the center of gravity where the russian military operation is back key, the political power center ukraine. i would imagine that the russians do not want to spite house to house engage in urban operations. so they will seek to isolate surround key than they've been largest successful and much like a book stricter. slowly squeeze eve while maintaining other axes of the pack in north the west and the south will be praying in order to force the political leadership that you like. yeah, you say that there are 3 separate axes, if attack taking place right now, the northwest and the south. what is behind that strategy? i think it is meant to ensure that the trainee ends are forced to dividing their forces to contend with rush that pass across the

geography of the country. my understanding is that the russians have just launched an ambiguous assault against mario paul as well. and given the overwhelming advantage in numbers that the russian forces have the craniums are, are now having to spread themselves even thinner. how would you gauge the way that the ukrainians have fought back or pushed back so far? of based on the public uh, information that i have seen, the radians have bought back up quite frankly very well and perhaps have evens rise of the russians in some instances in, in, in the amount of resistance that they have uh put up and that the russian advances and certain parts have been slowed and in some places actually reversed as well.

however, we have to remember that the russians have a preponderance of military forces that they can array against ukraine, and that much of their force still has not even entered. so said we'd not the surprise by the fact that according to report so far, no population centers have been taken so far. as far as we are left. i would imagine that the russians are going to try to bypass major population centers, particularly they can neutralize in the cranium, the fence of threat that that might be posed from those population centers because they do not want to get bogged down again. urban operations, which is very time consuming and very cost in terms of material people and vehicles and the like. so it would not be, i would not come as a surprise doctrinally from

a military perspective to bypass some of those populations. so let's say that they do make it to the capital key of and i believe that's what you were saying. you believe will likely happen. they might be able to take the russians. that is, but can they actually hold on to it? so it all depends on, quite frankly, ukrainian will the fight. i believe that the unfortunate military truth is that the russians will prevail against the ukrainian military forces. and if they force the political leadership, either again, capitulate resign, or as because this may sound in 2022, they kill the political leadership. it will depend on then, howard premium forces prepared to continue the fight without

a central political command control. and what does the ukrainian people themselves do? they have been plenty of examples, route history in the ukraine, in particular of resistance where there was resistance to not the occupiers were 2 or resistance to soviet occupiers before and afterwards. so the grainy people have a history fighting or their home. yeah, and here's the thing, just one more for you. while i have you with us. i mean, we have seen video in fact, of weapons and particularly a k 40 sevens being handed out to citizens in kiev. what do you make of that? i think that that's the demonstrable example of the ukraine government wanting to be able to provide their cities be with a means defend themselves. and i think it's also meant as a not so subtle message to the russian invaders that ukrainians will stand and

fight. and we have to remember that the russians have experience the same places like chechnya in places like georgia and afghanistan as well. okay, we'll leave it there. we thank you so much. hi, i'm calling for joining us from the us. thank you. now, ne toes 30 member states are holding a meeting in brussels right now, and they're discussing how to respond to russia's attack on ukraine. the alliances, eastern members are concerned about their security, including lithuania, which has declared a state of emergency. nato is likely to decide whether to deploy its response for us to eastern european countries as a result. once we have warned, against 4 months house home to pulse, despite all our efforts to find the diplomatic solution, moscow bears sole responsibility for the deliberate,

cold blooded and long planned invasion. we condemn russia's aggressions in the strongest possible terms on call on russia to immediately cease its military action or a diplomatic character. james base has more from brussels. this is the nato council, the main governing body that makes the decisions for nato meeting at summit level. all of them leaders, 30 leaders from the nato nations, secure video conference, most of them aren't here in brussels. the nato secretary general is here, the prime minister of hungary, victor or. ready band because he was here from last night from the meeting, most of the other european leaders have gone back to the capitals. interesting that, that being joined by the e. u. i think they're trying to show coordination with the you to show. i think not just the military aspects, but the punishment aspects on russia, of those sanctions, 2 sets of sanctions in place and other one being discussed right now. also

interesting that the others that join the meeting, who are nato members of finland and sweden, they are joining this meeting, which i think would would be something that russians would not be pleased about that they are getting closer to nato. they also will not be pleased about the vast number. ready of trips that have been flooding into europe, many from the united states, but also trips being move within europe towards the russian border. the one thing that black putin said he didn't want was nato and moral nato troops, nor his border. the result of his action is more have been deployed. we now have a total of $90000.00 us troops stationed in europe just $15000.00 of those. in the recent weeks have been moved here and more military assets, including helicopters and planes announced in the last 24 hours. still ahead on al jazeera when this protests are held around the world in support of the people of ukraine.

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connecting the connecting future juanita cutters, gateway to world trade. lou ah, hello again. the top floor is on al jazeera, this, our ukraine's president is appealing for talk to russian president vladimir putin to stop the fighting. who's in one span to happen in belarus, where his troops are hosted. the kremlin says ukraine wants them to be and nato member, poland. instead. a video has a marizza for tank in northern to have swerving into and running over a car. people passing by leader ran to rescue the passenger who was inside. once

the tank had left the scene, russian troops have encircled the cap to keep their forces about 10 kilometers away residence there have been given weapons as ukrainian forces d rock for urban combat. so european union leaders may have agreed to impose sanctions on russia, but those measures stop sort of blocking russia from the belgium based swift global payment system. banks worldwide use it to make secure across border payments. britain is pushing to block russia, but the u. s. and you are so far opting not to you as president joe biden says, the decision could be reconsider its talking again is in berlin for us. and he says there are various factors playing on the minds of those in charge of bringing in sanctions. the body that will own the see the implementation of sanctions is the european central bank and we know that on friday, christine lag out of the president of the e. c. b has said we will oversee it. we will implement whatever sanctions are

brought in, but she's also said that the e c. b has the responsibility to ensure stability inside the euro's own. and she pointed out that energy prices have been rising very considerably and that has caused consternation in many european capital saying that the price of gas has risen $6.00 times over the course of the past 12 months or so. and that the price of oil is 44 percent higher than some time ago. so all those factors are playing out in the minds of the ministers and officials at e u level whose responsibility it will be to oversee and to implement whatever sanctions do emerge. remembering that's one thing that has been widely reported so far is that the e u is very actively considering bringing in personalized sanctions against foreign minister. love rav and president putin, which would mean freezing their assets or russia as a tax on ukraine. pose

a challenge for china. the chinese government has refused to condemn them military action. and while the west imposed sanctions, china is boosting the russian economy by importing wheat. katrina, you reports from beijing. 40 less than a month after chinese president. she didn't ping met vladimir putin. russia's liter launched 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 he showed shit, hack. 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 peace a chance. look, eager to see what 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

. china feels very strongly that the u. s. is trying to circle it and contain it. ah, russia feels the same way. ah, the combined pressure on both of them have to push 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 russia's attack on ukraine. it also has good ties with kill and relies on strong trade with europe. aging must balance its friendship with moscow while maintaining relations with the west for the sake of its long term economic and strategic interests. which i literally support moscow in terms of

trade and economic sense in ideology, but won't actually, you know, kind of violate western sanctions o d, 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 did tie ones add to fed cern. some analysts have drawn comparisons between ukraine and the self ruled island claimed by china. a link chinese officials deny katrina you out a 0 paging. while ukraine has asked turkey to shut the boss for us and garden owl to block russian worships turkey can close the sea route between the mediterranean on the black sea. if it feels threatened, russia has already moved a fleet of worships on tank landing vessels from bases and northern russia to attack ukraine from the black sea and see of as of other russian warships have been spotted off the coast of syria and the eastern mediterranean turkey. shares the

black sea with russia and ukraine, and has a good relationship with both will. turkey has yet to respond to ukraine's request to shut russian access to the black sea. so no, because of all glue has more from istanbul or turkey, it has been a tough task while having strong bilateral relations with either side have a strong economic relations being dependent on russian energy exports. so now yesterday, the ukranian officials made a, made an official request from tricky to shut down its waterways as turkey is a gate keeper of the black sea and the agency a as one of the black sea countries. but turkey has been trying to be very careful about the situation. the 1936 a month convention, the international treaty used to work of this right. however, it through turkey straits like behind may stumble, boss for a straight, nearly

a more than 80000 vessels across every year in 2020 to one more than 821000 vessels crossed through stumbled boss for straight. and the da da now straight. just at through with stumbled muscular streets more than $4.00 to $1.00 a 1000 vessels course. so it is of a challenge for tricky because while the convention gives strict q the authority, the right to shut down as waterways, it also says a tricky a. have to decide if it can needs to define the process as state of force or if turkey besides that, what's going on between ukraine and russia is a state of war truck. again, shut down it's waterways. crucial officials have been saying that turkey is not aside at this conflict then. turkey is trying to defend the sovereignty and a territorial ukraine, but also has very strong relations with russia. while the un protect up to 5000000

people could flee the fading into surrounding countries. the children's agency eunice offers boosting its response to support those and 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 in the hans crowd blast and have started in damascus. 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, and poland as a 1st call. and then obviously i'm hungry and slovenia as well. roughly

geez, from ukraine, are arriving in slovakia by car on by train. slovak as government has lifted all corona virus restrictions for ukrainians escaping rushes attack. and will open more border crossings if necessary. protest her is in australia, new zealand have joined the outrage at russia's invasion of ukraine. dozens of demonstrators and sydney demanded more government action against russia. and the new zealand protest her as picketed the russian embassy in the capital, wellington, demanding the kremlin ends the war. hundreds of californians in san francisco denounced russia for invading ukraine, and similar protests were held in other u. s. cities including denver, houston, and washington. ah, here's a truck of the latest headlines on al jazeera,

the sour ukraine's president is appealing for talks with russia's vladimir putin to stop the fighting hootin wants them to happen in bella roost where his troops are host.