in so back as government has listed all corona virus restrictions for ukrainians escaping russia's attack and will open more border crossings if necessary. protest her as in australia, new zealand had joined the outrage at russia's invasion of ukraine. dozens of demonstrators and sydney demanded more government action against russia. and in 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 tech of the latest headlines on al jazeera. this, our ukraine's president is appealing for talks of russia's vladimir putin to stop. the fading hootin wants them to happen in bella. roost where his troops are hosted

. kremlin says ukraine wants them to be in nato member. poland instead that you issue us, i believe duplicated invalid. i want to appeal to the president of russia. he, all of ukraine is involved in the fighting lit 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, your everything that we've gotten, and everything that protects and defends our country. we've said i'll put in as pressing a head with his invasion, calling the ukranian leaders, a gang of drug addicts and neo nazis movie it. we can see the neo nazis are facing heavy weaponry in the central areas of big cities like key ivan carpet. they're planning to attract return fire from russian unit. they're acting as terrorists, using human shields to blame russians for the victims. okay, 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. a video

as emerge if a tank in northern kia, swerving into and running over a car. people passing by later ran to rescue the passenger who was inside once the tank had left the scene and brush and troops having circled a capital key of their forces are about 10 kilometers away residence there have been given weapons, ukrainian forces gear up for urban combat all of this happening while nato's 30 member states have agreed to deploy significantly more troops to eastern europe. it comes after the alliances eastern members raise, concerns about their security, including lithuania, which has declared a state of emergency. refugees from ukraine are arriving in slovakia by car and train slovak, as government has lifted all corona virus restrictions for ukrainians escaping brushes, attack and will open more border crossings if necessary. more on ukraine, at the top of the hour on al jazeera by, ah,

russian tanks roll into ukraine. the target, the capital kip ukraine's president says the response from the west is not good enough. so what are the options? can ukraine defend itself? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim, jim rushes, invasion of ukraine is intensifying with air and ground assaults. russian troops have taken several towns and cities, and also the chernobyl nuclear disaster site. now they're attacking the capital

kiff ah, explosions and gunfire have forced hundreds of thousands of people to escape to subway stations and make shift bomb shelters. russian tanks have arrived over the border from belarus, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says russia is targeting civilian areas. he is calling for stronger sanctions against moscow, adding his country is being forced to fight alone. golly boom boom, badly together when bombs fall on key if it happens in europe, not just in ukraine. when missiles kill all people, it's the death of europeans. i demand greater security for europe, greater protection for ukraine as part of a democratic weld. the u. s. australia and japan are among those countries who have now imposed more sanctions against russia. european union leaders agreed to target russia's financial system,

state owned companies and business people. but the measures stopped short blocking russia from the swift global payment system. the kremlin promised retaliatory sanctions. russia's foreign minister says moscow will only whole talks with care when you cranes, army surrendered. nato salvation general yellowstone berg speaking in brussels right now lexus in, in, in decades. i invited the natal, so closed partners, finan, sweden under european union to our summit. the call, so this sir, crisis effect, those all russia has sir, shattered the peace in europe. the people of ukraine are fight thing for their freedom in the face of russia's unprovoked invasion. we deplore the tragic and also life enormous human suffering and destruction.

our thoughts are with those killed, injured and displaced. we call on her shot to stop this senseless war. immediately sees it's assaults, withdraw all its forces from ukraine, and turn back through the path of dialogue and turn away from aggression. the curb meanings. the criminal objectives are not limited to ukraine. russia has demanded legally binding agreements to announce sir further nato enlargement and through mood, troops and infrastructure from allies that joined off to 9 to 9 to 7. we are facing

a new normal in european security where russia openly contests the european secret daughter and uses force to pursue its objectives. the world will hold russia ambler us accountable for directions. russia asked the aggressor, feller us as the enabler. present curtain. so the fission to pursue his aggression against ukraine is a terrible strategic mistake for which russia would pay a severe price for years to come. nato allies on the european union have all of the introduced significant sanctions. a manual partners around the globe have joined us. we must stand ready to do more

even if it means we have to pay a price, because we are in this for the long whole. at the same time, the russian people must know that criminals war on ukraine will not make russia more secured. it will not make russia more respect that in the world, it will not lead to that the future for your children in response to rush us massive military build up over the past months. we have all that is strengthened all the turns on the fence yesterday. ne darlise activated our the fence plants and as a result, we are deploying elements of the nato response force online

at sea and endeared to further strength now poster and to respond quickly to any contingency. do not that states canada and european allies have deployed thousands of more troops to the eastern part of the lines. we have over 100 jets, at high lurch operating in over 30 different locations on over 120 ships from the high north to the mediterranean. including thie strike carrier groups, there must be no space for miscalculation or misunderstanding. we will do what it takes to protect and defend every ally and every inch of natal

territory. leaders to day also made clear that we must continue our support to ukraine. the claimant is trying to make nato and the either provide less support to our partners. sorry, collect the answer, must be more support to countries like georgia, moldova, and boston. as above enough to help them succeed with the democratic reforms and pursue the path that they have freely chosen. more than ever, this crisis demonstrates the importance of north america and europe standing together in natal. there is no security in europe without

a strong trans atlantic ball without. i'm ready to take your questions. okay, we'll go to the address here. james, phase al jazeera. how fearful are you about the possible fall of keys? how long in your estimate, in your estimation, can the government of ukraine last? and if we move to a resistance inch, insurgency type situation, what support can nato then give? so what we see now is a full fledged invasion of ukraine from multiple directions with air c and long capabilities. and this is actually in line with walter, our intelligence services predicted over long periods of time because is sold to build up around ukraine with air and sea and land and forces are we see of course, of them moving towards a key of a. we also see other rhetoric,

the messages are which is strongly indicating that the aim is to change government to change and remove the democratically elected government in key of we are in close contact with the government of ukraine. and we are, of course, moment voting the situation that it closely as it is still it fluid situation. what we have seen is that tongue, ukrainian forces are fighting bravely and are actually able to inflict damage on the invading russian forces. ah, but again, it is a very fluid and the anglo an evolving situation. ne dollars expressed at them. some it today after they

provide support to ukraine. they are ready to continue to broad support ukraine, military support, financial support to monitoring support. and then i think we will have to judge how things evolves. but the message from nate for leaders, and also from, from, from finance reason you is that we are there to support ukraine. we have support came from in years and we continued to broad support. local to the national press agency frame of mrs. coconut on such as your 2 grand secret angel in the current situation, which we observe now in ukraine. does nato of preserve. it's designed to assist ukraine. we as a defensive equipment in particular, or can we expect that natal, we'll provide the grain with so badly needed a crafter equipment. thank you so much. so nate, all has continued to provide the support to craig and was actually at the meeting. and today at the nato summit with you on finance,

written alice announced on also informed old allies about the type of weapons of type of support on some of that also includes air defense systems. so so natal eyes have and continued to provide support military, but also different types of equipment for to ukraine. then we all realize that the force in this, that it evolving and on the, on the difficult situation, it's hard to predict what will be the, what, what, what, what, what, what are the possibilities in the future. but allies are providing support are very committed to continue to prod, support. okay, we'll go to nbc, just remind the cameras. thank you mister secretary general. there is concern that nato could get pulled into this conflict if russia were to shut down electricity or other services in ukraine that could spill over into poland or romania. can you say

explicitly whether a russian cyber attack of that nature would trigger an article 5 collective defense? so we are sending a very clear message to, to russia that we can provide support to our partner, ukraine, alesco, i the men, the different types of support nato help ukraine also with cyber defenses. up, but then for nato alice, we provide the absolute security guarantees under to washington d t. article 5, an attack on long will be to got us and talk on all of you are clear on this distinction because it is important to make sure that i am oh, we don't have an even bigger crisis in europe where russia challenge or is toughening or attacking any natal allied country and that's the reason why we

are so clearly send the message that we are there to protect all ours and every inch or natal territory when it comes to cyber attacks. on the risk of, for instance, accidents and inferences in, in the back see we are pursuing a mechanism. so d conviction to prevent that from happening. ah, we have $9.00 sufficient that the states have done that for instance ensued over long periods of time on we of course are a very focus. i spoke with soccer, the and 8, the supreme commander on that. the issue recently on he's very focused on the need to d conflict to make sure that we don't have instant accidents that can't and spotted on and get out of control and create that a dangerous situation on cyber. while we have stated that them, cyber attacks can trigger article 5, but we have never gone into a position where we give it a potential adversary. the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger article

wife. we are focused on strengthening our cyber defenses. we are very much aware of that. that's a risk. ah, on the, on the therefore we are stepping up both the protection of ours sovereign at 1st, but also for the support ukraine. and we are very focused on the need for deconstruction. okay, we'll get to an end piazza challenges. thank you. terry shalt swiss and kelly, i want to know more about the deployment of the n, r n r f forces please, and how many will be sent, where from where and how long will it take to get there? thinking about military mobility is always on and also i'm a, what is changed in your calculation about the threat to nato territory that has led allies to make the decision to deploy this for the 1st time in history for the purposes of collected defense. thank you. both has changed over lost her days is of course as a full fledged invasion of a partner, a country,

the borders of several, they've gone up countries on the this is them most serious security crisis we have faced in europe for, for decades on therefore, we have to hire redness force, we have the nice response force on the that's the reason why we're deploying it. to again prevent any miscalculation, any misunderstanding that the we are not ready to protect from the found the all hours on. and of course, this is something all alice have agreed to do a thorough dallas agreed. ah, but of course, especially those in eastern potted lines are extremely concerned. they are close to this some of the fighting in, in ukraine. and they also border russia. and i've seen that not only them if i build off on the, on to the ongoing war in ukraine, but also seen the very 1st thing rhetoric, because this goes far beyond ukraine. this is about how russia is actually challenging contesting core values for security. and them all know that natal

should draw old forces on infrastructure from almost half war members. and then said that if you don't do that, if he don't meet the demands, they will be at what they call, meditative technical consequences. so we have to take this seriously, and that's exactly why we are now deploying the nato response force for the 1st time in the collect the defense a, although a context on them. and we speak about thousands of troops, or we speak about air and maritime. and capabilities, and they are all the actually porto de standing naval groups. we have many planes are operating in east on portal. the alliance and then several analysts have a port there already assigned

a troops and forces to to the nato response force. we have the lead elements which are led by, by, by france. we have um, we have of the united states, which has as on assigned thousands of troops to the nato response force on this wall. be deployed to different places in east on pot lines. while they are part of the coming from united states but, but these are also very much you to pin troops of for instance, the lead element plus the v j. if the high redness john calls force is now led by a by francois is a strong german component there an older allison of portland associated press loan cook associated press just to follow up on that secretary general d the a v j t f can only go to one place and you have 8 allies that are extremely nervous. i mean, where, when might you send it, have you identified

a particular weakness on that eastern flank? but i think that understanding that we have many elements of components or the nato response force, we have increased therein. this alternator is on source, and then i don't speak only about that lead elemental to v j theft of a high resonance drawn pulse course about that, but, but we speak about the ah more elements and just that one second we have allies, sir, and united states but also not kingdom, all the allies that have increased readiness or forces that are assigned to nate on the nato response force. so of course, these are additional forces that we can deploy as part of the broader deployment of the nato response force. i'm not saying not to add to point the whole force or the size of the nato response force has been tripled since 2014, to roughly 40000 troops or i'm not him had to point the whole thing. i'm gonna go

to point elements. elements will deleda, household them, if you to death and elemental the bristol, the nato response force and the, and then it is for soccer to make find decisions exactly where the different elements are deployed. but we activate the defense vans yesterday and the on. and now all the elements over these force will be deployed or e o esteem is being deployed. k will go to the to making light lading. i can thank fair. ellen fest allegra d the key in norway. i'll just follow up on a p and about terry. from a and p r said there, how quick can these 3rd chips and the forest we deployed. but some of these forces are all the operating because we have c and the air forces, which also older part of a denise to maritime forces, operating from the bouncy down to the mediterranean. some our air forces, sir,

or the component older nato response force. and then some of the land forces are, are also trying to come move within a few days. and because they are part of either the lead element or which house, although the high redness or the all the elements dot has been put on high redness . so that we speak about face and some are already operating. ah no because we have increased our presence already. ok, we'll try to take a couple of questions on line and we'll go 1st to thank with algamite it's item at thomas, which thanks martini good afternoon. secretary at sent her in the statement that has just been released and it is said that her russian actions are flagrant rejection of the principles enshrined in the nato, russia pounding act. and then it continues. it is russia that has walked away from

its commitments under the yet death. and that mean that nato now considers the nato russia founding egg as obsolete or do ne to man the states still, aren't they still bound to? they still feel bound. i of this document national nate, the leaders decided to day a statement, very clearly states or the fact that russia has walked away. they need the russia funding act is based on some core principles and shine in the found that found in act. and that is the respect for a total integrity uncertainty of all countries, including of course, ukraine on this has been violated, not once but twice. and i to actually constant divided while it that since 2014, with the illegal annexation overcome young on the continued presence of russian

forces and russian backed separate this in easton, ukrainian don balls on this is further violated with the full fledged invasion of ukraine. i've seen over the last couple days, i saw a so, so what we have, what we see is that russia shout no respect before the nato russia founding act. and of course, if you have a founding act between 2 partners, natal and russia on one part doesn't respect that agreement. that the agreement doesn't work. it doesn't function. it doesn't it? how foster to improve our relationship with the, with the, with russia. because even if the founding act has good positions, sanda, and good intentions, if these are intentions and the provisions sandra and the founding act is not respected, it doesn't work. so that's the reality. and they to, for nato russia funding act doesn't work. because once either russia has valez,

it's over many years. but now is, yeah, an extremely a blatant sa, on slager into figuring out why they tional to finding out with the invasion of ukraine will take the next question on line or so from my great packet, from my folks. thank you. one of mr. secretary general. i 2 quick questions, one about war, one about peace. do you agree with some reports of intelligence officials that key it could fall within the next st day or 2 in despite the bravery of the fighting that you have cited of my ukrainian soldiers, do you see a defeat inevitable if war goes on and a quick question about peace erased discussion of president soleski offering to discuss with russia an approach to peace that might include neutrality for ukraine. would you agree to supply that?

thank you. the 1st all know the situation on the wrong. oh, it is a full invasion of ukraine and there are who moving towards a key of on that the state. the goal is to a change to government of ukraine. ah, it is a very unpredictable situation of therefore, not rous speculate, but i will pay my respects to the ukrainian on forces. huh. which are really proving their bravery and the their courage by fighting on the standing up against the, the, a much larger invading russian force. oh, on a potential, a talks between a, the government of ukraine presents as lensky and the on the russia. my main message

is that this is for prison, savanski and the government of over ukraine to decide or what we, what we need to see now is that russia stop the attack against the king that we draw their forces and cease all the attacks on ukraine. that's the, the easiest that have fastest, and the best way to peace. so if there wants her own piece done, it's just stop to attack ukraine. whenever we call on russia to do exactly that. they will go to intervene. this ornament from n tv secretary janelle, through short question 1st, you are a statistician and so far with regard to risk, you have already evaluate that the risk and the threat against natal coming from russia, particularly you, you foresee the playbook off russia. and so my 1st question is,

what is the risk that this conflict spread, or where and what might be the end goal of russia? and my 2nd question is you have at the top of your, the people, your fingers, the security of 1000000000 citizen in the trans atlantic area. so you met with on vtc all the leaders. can you reassure the public opinion the, if there is a genuine threat coming from? because the rhetoric, the aggressive rhetoric of russia it's behavior is unacceptable that all members state are committed to defend and protect every single centimeter of needle. thank you. in the meeting today with natural leaders, ah, it was a very strong message of unity, a very strong message over soul that we need to stand together. not only in words for those in these. so we agree there strong statement calling rochelle to stop the

attacks on ukraine to withdraw its forces. but also, ah, we agreed to continue to provide support to ukraine. and also continued to strengthen our presence in east on part alliance to prevent any attack on in, in a twilight country. we have a defensive presence in east, and we are an, an increasing presence not to provoke a conflict, but to prevent the conflict. and as long as there is no doubt about naples, readiness to protect from the federal eyes and our commitment to the core message, a core task on 8 or one for all one an attack on one i will be to goddess and tackle all then no allies will be attacked and that would prevent the conflict ah, and that repressor piece for now dollars and for $1000000000.00 people.