basement calling or, or shall 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 a dialogue country. we have a defensive presence in east or we are, are increasing our 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 gentle ice and our commitment to the core message, the core task will nato one for all one, an attack on one, i will be to goddess attack on all. then no allies will be attacked and that would prevent the conflict. oh, and up to surface for now. dollars and for $1000000000.00 people. and,

and that's the reason why we communicate so clearly. and that's the reason why we are deploy more troops. these done part alliance to make sure that there is no possibility to make the understand i our in this to protect and defend all ours. and again, this is to preserve peace to prevent an attack. and to prevent that, the war which is going on in ukraine, i'm spillover to end in a dollar country unda and us dot dot also message from natalee this to day. and that was also the, the message on i met with men of them in the g 7 yesterday. and that is, of course, a message. oh, when we speak to kohls partners, financing, and european union articles, who all are concerned. and nurse also attack on ukraine is more than an attack on ukraine as it is a devastating horrendous attack on an innocent us people in ukraine,

but is also an attack on the wholesale you to pin seekers order. and that's the reason why we take it so extremely seriously and dutch oven. thank you, alex and a half on and i to the secretary general one question on on the queen's requester for turkey to the, to close at the both for us to, for russian warships. is that be and was that discussed today? and one follow up on the question, just ask we heard or to day from the littering in foreign minister, seeing that when we lose ukraine today will, will be fighting for ne to later. would you say that the statement is exaggerated? thank you. as on, on the bus for us, that was not an issue on our, on my, on online, or the potential attack, or any potential attack on their dollar contract. well, awesome, that has been messaged throughout the whole day. doubtless, the message from the nato leaders in the summer to day is that is that is that we

are there to protect on the final ours. nate was the strongest military alliance in the world. i make no mistake, we are there to protect and defend all ours and every inch natal territory. and we conway that message again and again, both in words, but also in deeds. ah, and that's the way to prevent the war that's when to pro rent and attach to preserve peace and we are done so for more than 70 years. and we continue dudes also the light of the the attack on ok. thank you very much. this concludes his best that's young, stolen burn the nato. she's holding a press conference right now in brussels, in which he said that nato is deploying elements of our nato response forces. in other words, what that means is that nato has now activated defense plans. and that is in response to the russian invasion off ukraine. he also added that allies are

committed to continuing to provide support to ukraine and we must be able, we must be prepared rather to defend every inch off nato's territory. he didn't means his words either. when he said that russia's aim is to change the government in kiev, and he did call on russia to stop this senseless war. we will cross to arb diplomatic editor james bay's, who was in that press conference in fact and did pose a question to install burg. we'll cross back to him, we'll cross over to him. that is in just a few moments, but 1st let's run through the latest headlines. ah, this is al jazeera, i'm danny, you navigate. this is our continuing coverage of russia's invasion of ukraine. ukrainian tanks and soldiers are taking up positions on empty streets across the city center. that's in preparation for a russian assault. take a look at the live shot of ukraine's capital. after another day of aerial

bombardment, russian forces are about 10 kilometers away. that's as fighting rages on in key ebs outskirts. meanwhile, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski, his appeal for talks with the russian president to stop the fighting. vladimir putin proposed to host those talks and bella roost, where his troops are stationed. the kremlin says ukraine wants them to be hosted in nato member, poland instead. well, putin is pressing ahead with his invasion, calling the ukrainian leaders, a gang of drug addicts on neo nazis live it. we can see the neo nazis are pacing heavy weaponry in the center areas of big cities like kia and khaki themselves. they're planning to attract return fire from russian units. they're acting as terrorists using human cios to blame russians for the victims. a key 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. for all

the latest updates will bring him bernard smith, his genius from moscow, and burner before we get into this offer of talks. and what the kremlin is saying about that. i gotta just ask you about the press conference that are, we just heard nato a chief, really calling on russia to stop this senseless war and saying that russia is openly contesting european security order. or what can we expect the response from moscow to be will moscow will already said that it views a nate where it says that nato is expanding. eastwood is says, nato is expanding eastward. and it says, nate, so is willing to consider ukraine's membership in nature. this is long been brought in a putin's argument on one of his excuses for launching his invasion of ukraine. so their response to water nato has said to day will be the same. you have to promise of letting me putin's response will be. you have to promise not to expand eastward,

you have to rec, sprout promise not to accept the ukraine as a member and nato will repeat again. it's not up to them to decide it's up to individual countries to decide. but we all know that the prospect of nato ukraine's membership of nato has been kicked well into the long grass. and it's very, very far off the horizon of many people. see what vladimir putin is saying is just an excuse for him to invade ukraine and try him, force it back into russia's all, and the president of ukraine. mila has appealed for talks with a vladimir putin, where things stand on that front. oh is a got a couple of angles on this. first of all, we understand that vladimir zalinski appealed, called, wanting talks with moscow. but a mere putin apparently was interested in the idea because it seemed that ukraine was willing to discuss demilitarization plans. the kremlin says,

were made up talks in minsk, but ukraine then i said no, we want other talks in warsaw and then moscow says, communications between the 2 sides have been cut or they're not been able to hear back from the ukranian since then. and we're also hearing from these railey broadcasting our corporation that the vladimir of lemay zalinski actually asked israeli prime minister naphtali bennett, to mediate, to talk to the russians about the possibility of talked. although we've had no official confirmation from the israelis about lat. but while on the one hand foot in suggests he might be open to talks, as we've heard him say, he's called on the ukrainian military to essentially overthrow the government of la vladimir zalinski. and so gay lover of russians, foreign minister, he has said that the u. cranes must lay down their arms and he's also said he wants ukrainians to be independent and have the possibility to freely define their destiny. but he says it is no possibility of recognizing the current ukrainian

government as democratic. this is the ukrainian government headed by vladimir zalinski, who won a 73 percent share of the vote in elections in 2019 the cram lynn's problem. let him have putin's problem is specifically with zalinski, how they get around that for talks. we don't know. all right, thank you so much, bernard smith, reporting from moscow. let's cross over to ukraine and the ukranian city and denise pro, specifically, trial stratford is joining us from their trials. what do you see on the ground where you are? alright, i do apologize. charles charles, if you can hear me, we're, we're having some difficulty hearing what you have to say. we'll try and bring charles in again in just a moment. but 1st, let's tell you about despite moscow pressing forward with that invasion ukraine's president, as you've been hearing, is appealing for talks with one reputed. that you sure i'm going to use the present,

but i want to appeal to the president of russia. all of ukraine is involved in fighting. let's sit down and talk to some people from dying. and now i want to appeal to the armed forces of ukraine at the stay strong, you're everything that we've got and everything that protects the end of things. our country life said pub run and reports on more. the days developments. the sound of sporadic guns pulse echo across the ukrainian capital key and russian advance elements are closing in on the city. although western intelligence assessments indicate the bulk of the russian force is still around 50 kilometers away from them. as landscape latest video address was bleak. but defiant, tim, around commerce, sham. unless with rama this morning, we are defending our state alone. as we did yesterday. the world's most powerful forces are watching from afar. did yesterday. sanctions convince russia we here in our sky and see on our earth. this is not enough for in troops are still trying to

become more active in our territory. russia will still have to talk to us sooner or later. talk about how to end the fighting and stop this invasion. the sooner the conversations against the smaller rushes losses will be. but satellite still, photos show massive russian reinforcements, waiting and reserve at various staging posts just across the border from ukraine. russia has the number stacked in its favor and vladimir putin shows no sign of relenting in a briefing to his security council on friday. the russian president, again, brenda, the ukrainian government, as neo nazis. you sure so, but i shares once again, i appeal to the service men of the ukrainian armed forces. don't let neo nazis unbundle it's use your children, your wives, and old people. as human shields take power into your own hands. it seems that it will be easier for us to come to terms with you than this gang of drug addicts and

neo nazis who settled in kiev and took all the ukrainian people hostage. ukraine's army is putting up a fight. this russian artillery convoy near the southern city of hessen, was wiped out as it traveled along the highway from crimea. and the defiance of the soldiers, ukrainian position on snake island in the black sea has captured the public imagination. the minutes later, the anti garrison of 13 was wiped out by russian bombardment. russia says ukrainian civilians need not be worried, but this civilian motorist would disagree. his car run over by a russian personnel carrier which appeared to deliberately target his vehicle.

remarkably, the man was pulled alive from the wreckage. for those who want to escape, time is running out and a keeps main railway station. the platforms have been crammed with people trying to scramble on to trains and flee the c. o. the exodus is regularly interrupted by error rates are sent anyone out in the open scurrying for the safety of the nearby metro station. more than a $100000.00 ukranian civilians have already fled to neighboring countries. a steady flow of people crossing into romania, hungary and poland. when i left her my home going for the earlier station, just have her, perhaps a supersonic messiah or a shell flying over my head. was an unmistakable outside the sound of south south and just rushing close by. and it was followed by a huge explosion. somewhere down town home on the outskirts of the city, there is a glimmer of hope with the possibility of negotiations. precedents zalinski says he's open to discussing ukrainian neutrality, but neither side have yet agreed on

a venue for such a piece summit. and in the meantime, the fighting continues. pull brennan, al jazeera. what they tell us 30 member states have agreed to deploy significantly more troops to eastern europe. it comes after the alliances easter members raised concerns about their security, including lithuania, which is declared a state of emergency. the deployment includes nato's response force, which is a highly trained and technologically advanced contingent of soldiers from on this. here is our diplomatic editor, janesville. he's joining us from russell, so talk us through more of what yan stolberg had to say. well, the nato secor general announcing, but yet more troops and resources are going to be sent into the area. they're going to the eastern part, the eastern front of nato, to those countries that are close to the russian board up. none, of course,

i must say, going to ukraine itself. no. forces, no troops, no assets will actually be sent to ukraine and to fight. but they are there in a defensive posture. we've seen literally thousands of forces deployed in recent weeks about the total number of us forces is much greater than that was a figure i'm looking for my figure. i think it's 900000 to figure now. stone to us and there are more coming the nato response force. ready is about $40000.00 tricks and not sending all of that at this stage, but they're certainly sending elements always, including something that they set up after the invasion of crimea in 2014, which is called a very high readiness joint task force. that's a brigade about $5000.00 soldiers that's currently run by the french, and it's a joint brigade with the germans that is being deployed. we're also taught by the nato secretary general, that they have about

a 100 jets currently on high alert in 30 different locations at a 120 ships. so you got to see ground forces ready. and the idea, or the message they're sending to my to be put in is do not try and come anywhere near nato. nato is fully defended and fully protected. and i think they're trying to send a message. this. one of the things you didn't want was an expansion of nato will look what's happened in response to your actions. nato is pushing its forces. i'm coming closer to russia during the news conference which ended about 15 minutes ago . we also lost the nato secretary general about the situation on the ground. how long can keep last, how long before the government falls? and what is nato going to do? if it does fall, is it then going to supply forces to some sort of resistance or insurgency by the ukrainians? and this was his answer to my question. 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 you saw the buildup around ukraine with air and sea and land and forces. the main message coming from nato though is the same message that we heard all along, which is to putin. you must stop your. ready assaults, you must stop. what he said is the new normal now of relations between the u. s. and nato and russia on the other side, which is a contested relationship. he said it's time for diplomacy. again, it's very clear from the actions on the ground. it's very clear from the actions that president putin has taken in the last 48 hours that he's not listening. all right, james. thank you so much, james. this is our diplomatic editor reporting from brussels. let's continue this conversation with ambassador douglas loot is the chair of the b g r a group. that's

a bipartisan consulting firm, and he's also a former us ambassador to nato. he's joining us from arlington in virginia. welcome to al jazeera and so i suppose you are pleased with what you've just heard from vienna thornburg the, the, in a to achieve saying that the alliance is deploying parts of its combat ready response for us. and it would also continue to send weapons to ukraine, including air defenses. what do you make of what he had to say? i think there's several important messages coming out of today's meeting among the 30 leaders national leaders of nato. one is that they held the meeting, it all looks nato summit are normally very a choreograph, find the scripted prepared months in advance. and clearly in the face of the crisis in ukraine, allies have come together in a very agile format to consult and i think that's good news. first of all, they operated at 32nd of all, they invited treaty partners to join the 30 allies leaders. so the leaders of

sweden and finland and the leadership of the european union. that's important because it demonstrates that nato on the military front is acting and i think in synchronization with the european union far on the political and economic truck. so that's very important. and then of course, they took these military steps, both the activation of a plan which otherwise would just sit on the shelf as a contingency plan. the defensive plan was actually activated for elements of the alliance. and in order to fulfill that plan, that actually activated natal forces to, to come to a higher readiness standard and to begin movement. so this is quite an eventful day . alright headquarters, right, so clearly there are sending native members and their partners are sending a collective message to the russian president letter of who's and how do you think this is all going to go down with the kremlin?

well, i think the message to the kremlin should be crystal clear, and that is that the words of nato are now aligned very well with the deeds of nato . and that article 5 of the washington treaty, as the secretary general was fitted in this press conference, actually mean what they say on attack on any part of nato will be considered by all 30 members as an attack on all right, so is this going to deter president putin at all. how do you think he is looking into this situation? well, this, i think will have almost no deterrent effect with regard to president putin's objectives in ukraine. because of course, these nato actions do not involve ukraine itself. i think however, by contrast, they're very clear message with regard to nato territory. and i think president putin is aware of that. but the steps taken today by nato, alongside the you is a strong reminder. the president of that nato is prepared to defend itself with

russia preparing itself for confrontation with us and perhaps nato. i don't think president wishes or confrontation with nato. i think he understands that that would be 1st of all catastrophic in terms of risk and casualties. but also replace rush at a disadvantage. he doesn't want to pick a fight with nato. however, more broadly, if he can find ways to divide middle politically, he would take advantage of that. and that's why again this, this demonstration is very obvious. demonstration of solidarity of the coherence of the alliance is so critical because it defies. it denies president any openings that he might take advantage of. alliances together not divide it. and when you look at what's happening on the ground in ukraine, what do you think is going to unfold in the next few hours, or perhaps even to the next few days?

i mean, the, the foreign secretary of russia circuit lover of earlier said that russia does not want to occupy ukraine. so what is russia and k? well, i think the russian objectives is now increasingly clear, and that is region change. they want to overthrow the zalinski regime, the duly elected or democratically elected regime and keith and replace it with the russian puppet regime. now i take for mr. law graphs position or understand his position that they don't wish in the process of that regime change to occupy the country. but here there is a disconnect because as the ukrainian military fights and is your korean people fight, they will defy russian control of ukraine. so much as america have learned over the last 20 years, that it is one thing to topple of regime. but yet another thing to control the country,

i'm concerned that president putin and his leadership are about to learn the same lesson. ok, thank you so much. former us ambassador to nathan douglas. we thank you for speaking to us on al jazeera. now let's just get you up to date with what else has been happening on the ground so far in russian forces paraded prisoners before ukraine's eastern lou hands region shares fighting has raged on for a 2nd day across ukraine. also, a video has emerge if a tank northern kiev, swerving into and running over a car, people passing by later ran to rescue the passenger inside. once the tank had left the scene, russian forces are about 10 kilometers in the capital and they've been circled. kiev weapons have been distributed to residents ready to take up arms. rockets have hit residential buildings for a 2nd day. families have been hiding and makes a basement shelter a subway stations and parking lots. the un refugee agency says the violence has displaced a 100000 ukrainians with more families streaming to the polish border. like

pictures right now, where you can see hundreds of people protesting in russia's st. petersburg against the countries invasion of ukraine. it's the 2nd day of demonstrations in the city. dozens of people were arrested by russian police on thursday, after protests were held across the country. let's bring in charles stratford once again, he's joining us from the ukrainian city of denay pro charles, talk us through where you are and the significance yes weren't any pro. am arrived here after a very eventful day. the situation in the city here is calm things, a quiet. we're about an hour and a half away from the curfew starting. but it's what we've seen throughout the day. vermont departure for mary opal that has been so interesting. mary. up all the very important port city in the southeast, on the as off see with her as

a large naval base there. there was some heavy shelling in the morning to the east of the city. we understand and being led by pro russia separatists. and we had a statement by the mare that was given in that city saying that tanks were being used. describing am what he, what he said was saboteurs or people trying to stir up trouble in the city and offering residents evacuation buses if they needed to leave m for mary awful. we headed west along the coast towards the equally important em naval city of bare dance. now we've gone there because we'd heard from naval sources that the naval base. i had, the navy personnel had left it the day before. am having be given a warning by the russians that if they didn't leave than the naval base would be sheltered, possibly the city we arrived and confirmed that there was

a couple of security guards who sang yes, everybody has gone from bare dance. we continued west now this is heading to was basically northern crimea, towards the city of marius or paul, where we'd heard that there was ongoing heavy fighting. indeed, video appeared of that fighting as we were on our way. but the road got increasingly quiet. the closer we got the closer west we got, we saw burnt out. ukrainian military vehicles that seem to have been hit with very precise hits. precision targeted one would sink possibly by the use of drones. but we cannot confirm that as we continued. and the road got quieter, we stopped off at a village and met a family in the village that had been in contact with people further up the road. they were very nervous. they were getting ready to leave. and they told us that it was literally just a few kilometers further west in the direction that we were traveling. where in

fact, there was a yeah, convoy of russian tanks, heading in our direction. so we headed north, heading towards where we are now. disney pro, coming across the country, effectually down very small exposed country roads, again, more ukrainian vehicles that we saw that had been hit again with very precise m strikes. and eventually we began to see a ukrainian military m withdrawing. once we had another main road, a row coming out of medical men is opal. the ukrainian military there withdrawing from eligible ukrainian soldiers very nervous indeed, a lot of heavy weaponry with them. the further north we travelled, they were setting up positions along that road using m. morters. we saw surface to where missiles that were being were being transported as well. a lot of tanks. they refused to really speak to her. so at any length, but they did confirm that mary topple was then already in russian hands. and it was

round about that time that we saw video of tanks passing through some of the towns that we had been through on their worship, on their way to bare dance. the military saying that they expected bernacki that naval port city that i mentioned to be in russian hands, possibly as soon as tomorrow writes. meanwhile, if in the east, we've also been speaking to people in some of the villages north of mario top, mary apple, they're saying that heavy shelling has been ongoing there as throughout the day, one woman that we met earlier in the week is saying that she was pleading leading sicilian ski to negotiate with vladimir putin, an indication of just how desperate some of the thousands of civilians at the getting the bronze of this attack are. as i say. com here at the moment, but many, many thousands. hundreds of thousands of people. very afraid across ukraine tonight . thank you so much. great reporting from char stratford, any products and ukraine. thank you. still ahead on al jazeera oh

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ah, hello again. here are the top stories on al jazeera, this hour and ukraine's president is appealing for talk to the russian president vladimir putin to stop the fighting. put him want them to happen in bella roofs, where his troops are hosted. the kremlin says ukraine wants them to be a nato member, poland. instead, this video has emerged of a tank and northern kiev, swerving into and running over a car, people passing by later brown to rescue the passenger inside. once that tank had left, the scene, russian troops of encircled the capital key of their forces are about 10 kilometers away residence there have been given weapons as ukrainian forces gear up for urban combat. nato's 30 member states have agreed to deploy significantly more troops to

eastern europe. it comes off to the alliances eastern members raised concerns about their security, including lithuania, which has declared a state of emergency. let's turn to the u. s. where a white house correspondent, kimberly how kit is joining us from. so what is the u. s. is position this our what more can you tell us? oh, well, what i can tell you is that we've just learned that the u. s. president, in the last hour or so, just wrapped up a telephone call with the ukranian leaders, the lensky. we know that this phone call lasted about 40 minutes, and that this call comes on the heels, of course, of his appeal to the west for it to do more, to help defend ukraine and for his call to the citizens of ukraine to resist. so we're watching very carefully to see what more we might learn in terms of a read out. because again, all we know right now is that the call took place,

but we do not have any idea of what was discussed now to that. and we should point out that earlier in the day, you as president did take part in that nato virtual summit that was called on the heels of the implementation of those sanctions that were put to place as a result of vladimir putin invading ukraine. we've had that read out released and there is once again, a condemnation of that invasion, a call for russia to see since assault. and once again, an agreement by those nato leaders that russia should pay a severe price. but well, to that end, many have argued that the sanctions that the united states put in place were simply not going far enough because what they did is not disrupt the energy exports of russia, which the united states had initially promised. and so the united states has been getting some criticism. this white house has been doing a bit of cleanup on that issue. arguing that they want to have the maneuverability with those sanctions. that if there is still room for diplomacy to try and bring

this and escal atory nature of this conflict down that there needs to be that leverage as well. they want to be able to wrap things up, should things get worse? and also there's this concern about the cost of energy inside the united states right now, given the fact that we're already dealing with high inflation in the u. s. and high energy prices. and that could not bode well for the u. s. president who's already pulling low in terms of his u. s. involvement and support for ukraine, and whether or not the united states should have any rule at all in this conflict. so the u. s. president getting some pushback, standing firm in the support of ukraine. and again, we're watching carefully to see what more we can learn from this phone call that we've just learned. took place between the u. s. president and the ukranian leader . thank you so much. that is the view from washington, and that's kimberly how cut well over in florida. u. s. republicans are meeting there at the sears conservative political action conference on top of that agenda

is as you've been hearing president biden's handling of the russia ukraine conflict, let's find out more from the conference john henderson joining us from orlando. so what's being said about ukraine and the president's handling of the situation during the one thing that we hear from the podium here and from the people i'm talking to here in the hallways, is that if donald trump for president, they all say this would not have happened, they say that trump had a good relationship with vladimir putin, and that, that would have allowed him to have persuaded hooton's not to have invaded ukraine as the one thing that we can get in common from people. but what's interesting is it, this is a conference of a die hard conservatives in the past since they were founded in 1974, it was general. he go with an interventionist u. s. foreign policy perspective. that changed the course with president trump, who had this close relationship with fulton and a non interventional is international policy. so we haven't heard

a lot of call for the us to just out. right. take some kind of action. but what we have heard is people like marco ruby of senator from florida saying that he believes that the craniums are inspirational because they were people in their seventies picking up arms and taking on russia. it reminded him of the american revolution. we will hear a little more about the perspective of the former president when he speaks a day from now about 7 pm local time. donald trump will be here and he is expected to address the ukraine situation. what we know so far is that he said that trump was savvy, that he was a genius for the way he is acted here. he also echoed the voices of many people here saying that had he been present at this time, this simply would not have happened for right, john, thank you so much on hendrick reporting from orlando all ukraine's defense ministry says its forces have killed so called russians. saboteur as dressed as ukrainian

troops. this footage shows the moment ukrainian soldiers fire on a vehicle believed to be captured by russian forces. the men were heading towards kiya, followed by a convoy of russian trucks, who cranes, deputy defense minister ascent, and the russian army denies. ukraine's claims that suffered heavy casualties taking over an airport near care of the kremlin chief defense postman, as warned, had this warning rather for ukrainians. but especially when we're shipping, there are no casualties in the russian armed forces. i'm going to shoot, i am addressing the ukrainian citizens, your nationalist leadership uses the same methods. the terrorists, do they wish to use you as a human shield? the russian armed forces will not carry out any strikes against the residential areas of the ukrainian capital. here opinion and leaders may have agreed to impose sanctions on russia, but those missouri stopped sword blocking russia from the belgian bay. swift global financial messaging system banks worldwide use it to make secure across the board

of payments and britain. as pushing to block russia at the u. s. and you are so far offering, not to you as president joe biden says, the decision could be reconsidered. dominic cane is in berlin for us. he says there are various factors playing on the minds of those in charge are bringing in sanctions. the body that will oversee 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 there had been calls within the u. k. to increase military aid to ukraine. me barker has more from london beyond the sanctions that it announced comprehensively yesterday. i think that's fair to say. there's a degree of soul searching amongst the political leaders here in the u. k. of course, what we're seeing on the streets of care for ordinary people arming themselves with molotov cocktails in the face of the advancing russian troops. and there have been

an increasing cora allowed or allowed a number of voices coming from ukraine asking the united kingdom and other western allies, or to help militarily as well to stand shoulder to shoulder and fight with ukrainians . but we know we've said this time and time again because of the constraints listed within the founding charter of the nato alliance oversee the united kingdom, cannot get drawn into a conflict in the country that it has no underlying treaty to protect the authorities here have insinuated that supply chains could still be open to provide things like ground to surface missiles to help bring down aircraft anti tank missiles as well. we know that military arms have been shipped to ukraine via the baltic states ahead of the full blown invasion. the suggestion being that perhaps behind the scenes, there are also supply chains open from nato countries into ukraine. although that

would have to be covert, given the potential consequences of what that could mean on the ground in meaning, you know, potential standoff between russian forces and a nato ally alliance forces them more russia attacks on ukraine pose a challenge for china. the chinese government has refused to condemn the military action. and while the western pers, a sanctions, china is boosting the russian economy by importing wheat. katrina, you reports from basing g less than a month after chinese president. she didn't ping that vladimir putin. russia's lead a lot, 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 how and he, she would, she'd have 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, looking good. he 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 hard. 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 in 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 its friendship with moscow while maintaining relations with the west for the sake of its long term economic and strategic interests. were 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 did tie one's air defense 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 or ukraine has asked turkey to shut the boss for us and our danelle to block russian warships. turkey can close the c 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 the sea of as of or other russian worships, have been spotted off the coast of syria in the eastern mediterranean turkey. it 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. set him because of all who has more from his stumble 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 in monterey convention, the international treaty used to work of this right. however, it through turkey, straits like behind may stumbled boss for a straight nearly a more than 8000 vessels across every year in 2020 to one more than 821000 vessels cross through its stumbled boss for straight. and 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 a challenge for tricky because while the convention give strike you 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 turkey decides that what's going on between ukraine and russia is a state of war truck. it can shut down its waterways. crucial officials have been

saying that turkey is not aside at this conflict enter case is trying to defend the sovereignty and the territory of the ukraine, but also has very strong relations with russia. all the un projects up to 5000000 people could flee the fighting into surrounding countries. the children's agency eunice offers boosting its response to support those needs. 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 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, or refugees from ukraine or arriving in slovakia by car and by train. slovak, as government has lifted all corona virus restrictions for ukrainians escaping brushes, attack and will open more border crossings if necessary. ah, blan is a good, but i hope rotating village ends. one to week may be coming back at home because of a lot of my building own 5. you at a certain now i loses. so what i can do for breathe, draw with her friends will come for us, and then we'll see what will happen in ukraine. nobody knows what will happen next garb one of our marine versa,

chas more from the slo voucher ukraine border. unlike yesterday evening to day, you can see any men passing the border from ukraine to slovakia, as everybody who is 18 or older have to stay and fight. they found out that they're going to be faster if they are past this border, crossing or blur, or by 4th to you can see her mothers with children and her families, 1st sing and now they're calling taxi from the slovak inside. they all say they have the same blenders to flee from ukraine from the devastating war. and they're all hoping that this is not gonna be a long term war. all in all of many of them have either relatives or friends or where they go to a many person. so spoken to said that they were waiting on this border cross singer

a couple of hours or some of them or even from 2 o'clock in the morning or on this side, you can see a slovak inquiry thus, or who is helping them. they provide them some food and snacks and the just to warm them up. but in the case there needs also some shelter or a legal advice. they're always are here to help. but for the time being slow can minister of interior said that the situation is stable. on border crossings with ukraine, protestors in australia and new zealand have joined the outrage at russell's invasion of ukraine. dozens of demonstrators and sydney demanded more government to action against russia. and in new zealand protest, her is picketed the russian embassy in the capital, wellington, demanding the kremlin ends the war. meanwhile, hundreds of californians in san francisco denounced russia for invading ukraine.

similar protests were held and other us cities as well, including denver, houston, and washington. your with al jazeera, coming up after the break. this russian tennis start makes his feelings clear on his country's attack on ukraine details after the brain. ah

ah ah ah ah, walter was here to tell us how the world of sport is responding to says attack on ukraine. joe. during yes, thank he. the international committee is a sports organizations to relocate or cancel events planned in russia. obelia ruth,

european football, governing body is already done that with a major move, stripping russia, if the champions, the final, your most prestigious club game was due to be held in petersburg on may the 28th. but now they moved to paris. you a for thanked french president manuel macro for his commitment to have the much moved to france at a time of unparalleled crisis. a decision that's got the backing, the defending champion. chelsea. yes. clear, yes. and sadly, sadly, i think it's the best reason to change allocation, the absolutely worst reason and we feel horrible about it in general. it clouds our minds and the clouds our, our focus of course, and we can absolutely understand the decision you have is also decided russian and ukrainian club and national teams in european competitions to play home games at neutral venue. but decision is still to be made on well qualifies that faith,

its responsibility. russia reduce, play, poland and woke up play off in moscow next month with sweden and check republic also in line to possibly play in russia. pizza express his hope for a rapid cessation of hostilities and for peace in ukraine. he fell, condemns as well. the use of force by russia and ukraine, and any type of violence to resolve conflicts. mendecy nice of announced a pencil by 10 years faults to deal with russia's national airline, arrow floats. the airline had been united official carriers since 2013 and the use it's take them to european games. the deal with thought to be worth more than $53000000.00. united did not fly with airflow to spain this week for the game with athletic of a trade in the champions league. u. k. government is banned air afloat from landing

in britain for me, one is cancelled this season. russian grand prix. the races g be held on september the 25th and she but f one said it is impossible to hold the rice in the current circumstances and her trust swift and peaceful resolution to the present situation . like everyone said, you know, innocent people losing their lives in people, losing their homes and families and don't tough, safe places to, to live in it's, it's not right. but all, we can hope that everything gets resolved in the best possible outcome and way that is, that is possible. and for now, i think is the right decision by form one not to go to russia. it's so hard to predict the future what, what is going to be in few months or definitely. i'm pretty sure that all the drivers, i agree with that, that decision mean all players from ukraine's national basketball team say they concerned about family and friends back home as they wait for news in spain. they

were playing spain national team and a welcome qualifier on thursday. just often use of rushes attack broke the return like a kid had been postponed. i would love to say that there are 2 deals alive to you. i'm so tuesday samples. motorcade no m nobody neutering ronald. everybody hiding like keats who, who have to sleep like on to the grocery store. where can 2022 in the middle of to you from. are you serious? it's exhausted. the wells number 110 is player and waiting. daniel medford, i've says his mind has been focused on events back home, the russian will take over the top spot often of a chunk of h, sif suffered a surprise defeat into by in this volunteer on the stand that vanish sometimes is not that important. and i definitely a lot of feelings when i woke up the novel loss and actually before the match, i didn't even know that. so i'm going to become number one. if she loses,

no matter what, ah, so them a lot of messages and i understood that is happening more emotions while his fellow countrymen, andre rube left made his feelings. claire, following his semi final, when early a writing no war place on a camera on for his doubles partner is ukraine, we can get the high math. that is all his fault for now i'll have more free later. thank you so much, joe. and that's it. from me this hour, my intimacies with you in just a couple of minutes with our continuing coverage of the russian attack on ukraine. but before we go, we leave you with a look at the panic being felt by civilians in kiev. and you're going to take a look at the scene a little earlier on friday just outside the main train station. that's where people are seeking shelter. take a look. ah ah. busy

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