oh. 1 da 0 selects hunted ah ah, gun battles rang out across care of as rush and force his clothes in on you, cranes, capital and residents try to escape ukraine's present law. demy zalinski says he and his family are there to talk targets. but pushes for talks with russia. russia's president offers negotiations in the capital of but a roost. shortly after urging ukraine's military to seize power from its government . you say, oh,

hello, i mary, i'm noisy. in london, you're watching al jazeera with continuing coverage of the rush. you crying crisis, we must start the route to do more nato deploying its response force and sending more weapons to ukraine, which says it's been left to defend itself alone. the you agreed to freeze the assets of present regime, of putin on his foreign minister, sergey laval. and russia about british allies from landing at its add ports and says it will impose more italy tree sanctions on the west. ah, brushing forces at closing in on ukraine's capital key of on the 2nd day of an invasion. it's killed at least a $137.00 ukrainians, driven thousands from their homes and shocked the world. the ukrainian military

says russian spies and saboteurs are on the outskirts of care of the defense ministry has told residents to prepare molotov cocktails to defend their city. ukraine's president wrote him is a landscape says russian forces of marked him and his family as that top targets. but he's refusing to leave kev, but event. she may do the nation. the school took the president is here, our troops are here. citizens are here. all of us are here protecting the independence of our country, and it will continue to be this way, glory to our defenders, glory to crane glory to our heroes. lansky is still pushing for talks with russia offering to designate ukraine as a country aligned with neither east nor west. the kremlin is saying it will only attend talks if they happen in minsk, the capital of a roof from where thousands of russian soldiers are crossing into ukraine. in the meantime. present, right, you know, fusion has called on ukrainian soldiers to seize power from the government. pull

brennan begins out coverage. the sound of sporadic guns pulse echo across the ukrainian capital key and russian advance elements are closing in on the city. or the 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. sim, around commerce, shamela robin 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 was russia will still have to talk to us sooner or later. talk about how to enter the fighting and stop this invasion. the sooner the conversations against the smaller rushes losses will be. but satellite still,

photos show massive rushing reinforcements waiting in reserve at various staging posts just across the border from ukraine. russia has a number stacked in its favor about him. putin shows no sign of relenting in a briefing to his security council on friday. the russian president again branded the ukrainian government as neo nazis. sure, so, but once again, i appeal to the service men of the ukrainian armed forces. don't let neo nazis unbundle its use your children, your wives, and older 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 and ukrainian position on snake island in the black sea has captured the public imagination. the minutes later, the entire garrison of 13 was wiped out by russian bombardment. russia says ukrainian civilians need not be worried, but this civilian motorist would disagree. his cart run over by a russian personnel, kara, which appeared to deliberately target his vehicle. remarkably the man was pulled alive in the wreckage for those who want to escape time is running out in the caves main railway station. the platforms have been crammed with people trying to scramble on to trains and flee the city. good. what i thought, oh yes,

this 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 with crossing into romania, hungary and poland. when i left to my home, going for there was station, just a follow perhaps this supersonic messiah laura shall fly over my head. was an unmistakable, loud side sound. of such a southern just rushing close by and the it was followed by a huge explosion somewhere down town on all 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 peace summit. and in the meantime, the fighting continues. pull brennan al jazeera earlier andrew semen, spokane crane in family seeking safety,

and one of the bomb shelters in care. svetlana. i'm out a 0 english. can i ask you a just how and i'm just going to get my microphone in the better place least. i'm just how are you coping with this situation? ah, but have to cope so, 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. i got him. i putin as for hagen. i was just terrible. it's just not on the, on appropriate any sybil lost 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 breaking international laws. are you scared? ah, we're quite, you know, we, we all were to call fear during my don 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. i said again that we were where the tanks are getting closer. yeah, in the column here, we know that what you're going to do, stay here with him home safe place. at the moment. you're spending a lot of time in the shelter all year to nights in iraq. and what about your son? you must be often enough to right. how are you feeling towards this? are you hopeful? ah, well, i'm scared a new mill so hopefully that will have a bright future. oh,

it's very terrify. hang. i was hoping 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 vote for hope things progress. a positive way. anderson's reporting that sounds beat to our correspondent charles stratford is in denise pro in easton, ukraine. and i've been seeing footage of shelling and explosions in the city. what can you tell us about the situation that situation here? i am and denise pro is calm and quiet. were about an hour away from the curfew starting, but certainly a very eventful day for us. we started in mario pool that very important strategic

coastal city naval port on the as of see in the south east, there was heavy sharing there to the east of the city. we understand tanks being used there, mario pool mer, offering people the chance to get out of the city to be evacuated, him describing their being saboteurs there, as well as situation. very worrying in the south east. we moved west towards another port. city bare dance. we had heard earlier a couple of days earlier that the naval base there, the personnel from the naval base had actually flayed and indeed when we arrived. that was indeed the case. there was no naval personnel on the base. one security guard saying that they had all left confirmed that we spoke to our source and said, he told us that said the reason had gone was because the russian forces were threatening to shell, the bass, and indeed the city, if they didn't leave,

we left per dance can continued heading west towards the town of military pole where they had been reports of heavy fighting. indeed, video started appearing of heavy fighting in that city. as we approached the road got increasingly quiet. we passed a number of ukrainian military vehicles, still smoking from what we understand could will it be just precision attacks? possibly using drones. we have no way of confirming that. but as the road got quieter, we stopped off at a village and spoke to a family in this village. they were getting ready to go. they'd been in contact with people in a village, further up the oh, between us and melissa people. and they said that there was a convoy of russian tanks heading our way. so we started crossing country and pulsing mall, burnt out ukrainian military vehicles eventually running into columns of ukrainian

soldiers. some of them withdrawing from mila to a polk, at which stage they told us that the city had fallen, all the town had fallen to russian hands. and they, you were most insistent that we keep heading as quickly as we could north. on the way we passed cruise missiles tanks, many infantrymen, very, very nervous, big groups of, of ukraine and infantry getting ready to, to defend the city of as a parishioner. interestingly, in the last few minutes, we're getting reports all the authorities there potentially am trying to set up some sort of evacuation from as a parishioner. and indeed, in the last few hours, we've seen pictures of that tank column moving through some of the towns that we passed through in an around bare dance. the military that we spoke to said that they expected bare dance to possibly fall into russian hands in the next few hours . meanwhile, in the east of the country and back around places like donnette,

sk between donates. good mary. hopeful we're hearing reports from villages there that we visit in the last few days. they're saying that the shelling is ongoing. people been hiding and bunkers in shelters, absolutely terrified. one woman telling us that so she was pleading for zelinski to negotiate with putin to try and stop this onslaught. so yeah, i'm a harrowing day thought millions of ukrainians. i was, i say it is quiet in the curfew is about to begin, but a lot of people going to be deceiving, very nervous as is crisis continues and cows. it's very broad attack on the pantry . 3 main france with the russians advancing from ukraine and on board with battle roost across the eastern frontier. and then the south with the crimea you are in didn't eat pro, can you just help us understand where that says he stands?

and in all of this will denise prob that the, one of the reasons why we're here in denise pro is because we wanted to cross get out and cross the river into, into basically west of the river denito. that is a fusion, a strategic importance. we even heard reports the beginnings of whisperings that the ukrainians may be forced to actually destroying some of the bridges across this river. again, we cannot confirm that. so this city is, is hugely significant. hugely important, if you looked at denise pro in relation to crimea, crimea is further west. we heard also something i meant to mention. in the 1st answer, we heard reports of heavy fighting in around all the town of care song. we'd heard the bridge should be blown up the bridge that sir basely would take you from crimea into, into care. so on, on to the ukrainian mainland we saw video of

a lot of russian forces. there are heading as i say, norse towards an into care song. and also, as i say heading us, heading east, and these are some of the forces that we would have seen today had we have continued along that road and had not to have obviously headed north to avoid them . so you've got russian forces heading from the crimea, heading east towards mary. awful. you have russian forces heading down from car cave, russian forces surrounding you cry, the ukrainian capital keith. and of course, these ongoing battles on the eastern side of the country around don bass. the separatist controlled area. so disney pro, if you like, sits, it's still in the east of this country, but it sits a little bit higher up and it's about an hour hour and a half drive to this town's operational that we came through the saving. and that's where we're hearing reports of a potential evacuation there and where we saw all those are all those ukrainian

forces gathering to try and defend that city. thank you very much. charles stratford reporting to us from the city of denise pro. thank you, charles. well, in all the developments, nato is sending thousands of troops backed by land, air, and sea to protect allies near russia and ukraine. such a journal yen st oldenburg, has called the crisis a new normal in european security mate as pledge of support came out after ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, criticized both western nations and the alliance for not coming to his country's aid home to pulse this, it is a fool emotion of ukraine. um there are moving towards sher kia on that the state. the goal is to change the government of ukraine. ah, it is a very unpredictable situation, therefore, not research speculate, but the old pay my respects to the ukraine and armed forces are,

which are really proving the bravery and the, the courage by fighting under standing up against her, the much larger invading russian force and diplomatic editor james bay's joins us live now from brussels and cause james, a ukraine is not a member of nato, but is there a genuine concern there that the russian military could cross nato borders? i think that's the reason that the acting a, one of the reasons acting in the way the acting, which is sending more resources to those countries on the east in front of nato. those are the closest to russia and we're seeing thousands more of troops. we've already seen many go in the last few weeks and 15000 u. s. trips in recent weeks and total number of us troops now in your 90000. but that's just all they have. they just, ex general, making clear they have

a 100 jets now on high alert, 120 ships in position in the region ready to respond. it is, as you say, to protect those nations, those member states of nato, the other closest to ukraine. they do not intend will not, they say, deploy any of these assets where they are troops or assets or any of the weapons to ukraine itself. but there is another reason for this, and i think it's to make present putin feel because one of the things repeatedly that he said he didn't like was nato having in hands presence close to russia and rushes doorstep. that's exactly, they say what he's getting as a result of his actions. so there's a risk then with an a t o b thing up defense is on its isa flank because it has been doing for many weeks that it will just antagonize the russians even more. yes, and then some of the other actions that have been taken because this is something

that's taking place, not just with nato, this great deal of coordination. i think between these efforts, the native sector general was sitting in on the g 7 meeting which took place 24 hours ago. the e u commission president was sitting in on the nato meeting and civil heinously, the foreign ministers of taking another step. the 3rd round of sanctions in just 3 days and this time personally, they're going to sanction the assets of president putin and of his foreign minister . so gay love for off. certainly everyone here feels that this is a new position. the sake, the secretary general himself said it was a new normal one. nato officials said to me, a real step change. perhaps you can look at the end of the berlin wall, is one key moment. another key moment, perhaps 911. but we're in another key defining moment i think, and that so anyhow, it's been described to me of the west relationship with russia. thank you very much

. diplomatic added to james base reporting from brussels. well, that's the reaction from nato. i want to turn to the you now because european union is adding russian president, idea, persian, and his farm, and to certain levels to the blog sanctioned less because of the ukraine invasion. use form foreign policy. g says they've also expanded the blacklist include all members of the duma who supported military aggression, who will join to on the wildly to sanction by the you series, bashar and i said, and barry says, alexander lucas shanker. meanwhile, russia has responded bombing, the british airlines from landing at its airports in crossing its s base. moscow says the move is in response to a to an unfriendly decision by u. k. a v ation authorities on thursday person said russia is national airline. our fault would no longer be allowed to land in the u. k. van, as part of the series of sanctions following rushes. recent to foreigners,

recent developments in the ukraine. actually, i think we want to catch up on events in washington now. algebra is alan fisher is following developments that president biden has been speaking has been delivering remarks on a number of other issues. but what is the said about ukraine allen? what we know that is that a conversation with president leslie in the last a couple of hours that lasted for 40 minutes, it was on a secure line. of course, there are questions on thursday about the whereabouts of presidents, the last name. we know from gen saki, that the press secretary, that they are in contact with him. they are aware of his movements and they are talking to him about security arrangements. clearly, he sees himself as the number one target. he said that himself on thursday night, if the russians were to take over keith and saw the americans and many others,

want to make sure that he is safe and he is secure. as far as continuing, the operation of sanctions is concerned. we know that joe biden has been speaking to a number of allies. one of the big concerns, of course, is the use of the swift banking system, which is a messaging system you since the 1970s to communicate financial transactions around the world. it has been stopped for one country in the past. that was iran, lot of pressure on them to do that, to russia. know that the united states would be keen on the idea. but they keep talking about how sanctions need to be sustainable and coordinated. which means that every country has to be comfortable with what they're doing. and they're aware that there was a level of opposition from the germans. although given what the finance minister has said in the last couple of hours, that seems to be easing. and he knows that the italians aren't concerned, but there's still pressure coming from the white house to make that move. that there's also some conversations going on it in washington about how joe biden needs

to do more. but one thing that the white house is seeing is let luke you've got to make sure there is an element of gradation. any sanctions that are imposed, so these can be made much worse, very quickly targeting sergei alive rove and vladimir putin, for example. or that can be dial back if the see there is some movement from at the russian. so they're still very much on the idea of making sure that sanctions are the main weapon. while continuing to reinforce nato forces by sending an extra $7000.00 men to germany in the last 24 hours, that nato countries feel secure and not under threat from any possible russian aggression. all right, thank you very much. allan fisher reporting tests from washington. well, let's go live to ukraine. now. joining is maria of the of the who is research director, european expert association. she is actually in the city of car keys, a strategically important city that has been targeted by the russian military

hasn't. it's maria, and it has actually been subjected to missile strikes and reports of explosions. first of all, can you tell me what it's like right now? yeah, it's the 7 today started at 11 am and the continued during the day. and then the most part in the afternoon and people are report in bed and they, they miss rush and miss tyler section. they got into the street inside the seat. and the after that the, the explosion crap. and on the places where they munition is stored the military amunition. so now they said it is all dark or lights are, or for people to find some safe places in base mines or us underground as a shelter. i myself just so when they're on the checker and they're they, they're crime and there was little children and that's so hard breaking to say, no, it's really great and tied in from russian. were mashing massage,

rush and show them over there. and tell us how they are coping. you say that of course there are civilians in the city. that means children that means families. how are they dealing with this? well, everyone is very, very frightened. i mean those who cannot take care of the family themselves like women and children. and we also have reports that they meet ties and rush and rockets credit and have a kindergarten nursery, schools and costs and hospitals here in the seat and the fight goes on. now on the outskirts of car, key of our or a military and they, they fight backfires. and also there is now the general, my bill is ation in ukraine and of course in the region and the territorial defense units. us everyone who is capable of carrying rep on to com and then was,

was one another and fight back so that we will not give russian soldiers a chance. so enter the seizure. and what about the people that, you know, friends, colleagues, acquaintances of a responding to that call and they, they acquiring weapons. yes they do, and we have center there, for example, in key over reported by the ukraine on monday. some 17000. that fonts have been given to the hands of citizens who are ready to fight with pants in their hands. and the same situation is a hard give. so, oh, everyone who, who, who so we feel that we are in, on our lens and we are being on the attack. when it was threatened, anyone, ukraine, on what was wanted to be in peace was all contrast ends with russia as well. so we now been attacked was now there was no reason and that gives you great noun people, the courage and the determination to stand here to the very end because no one is

going to leave our own homes and our, our land so far. because that is where we were born and where we believe so belong . do you think that president ski should negotiate with right in prison? president landscape have said that he is ready for any kind of diplomatic talk, so that will bring peace to your grand because what he wanted, then what he has always been speaking about is that whether it's and what you grand wants is a piece we want to be in don't boss and we now one can all over you, craig. so the regret is ready for that. but what the, the demand that is for us who sent about didn't the 60 cation and demilitarization of ukraine. that's completely some kind of nonsense without any reason. for it on the ground because there are no metrics in ukraine, ukraine as

a peaceful states, but don't even have right when part is in the, in the parliament, the president himself is a, you know, he's known that this are in ukrainian government. so they know he's demand based west, and that means that he is, i mean, put in is going to attack the ukraine as well as for as long as she can. but what she's now sees is that you can now fight them back with that determination that russia was not content at. so probably that will move which and to think twice. and probably at the moment they will decide seeing the ukrainian unity of their support from all other countries, the sanctions that are now being put into russia, probably he will decide and move his troops back. thank you. may as you have there for joining us there, do pre, i do appreciate you taking the time from city of car keys. thank you. dozens of

people have attended an anti war protest in the russian city of saint petersburg. ah, scuffles broke out when police appeared to try and break up the rally and detain one of the protesters on thursday. hundreds of people taking part in similar rallies across russia were arrested. and russia says it's partially limiting the countries access to facebook. choosing the i social media giant of censoring rush and media, moscow communications regulators as facebook as ignored it, demands to left restrictions on for russian media outlets. as go live to out there is sap and it's myth he's been reporting to us from moscow and apps. one of the objectives with these restrictions on facebook, or why the question is of whether or not it will affect the ability to try and organize and, and mobilize protests. well,

virtual facebook has said in response, urge to the decision by the russian telecoms communicator to slow down acts as, as facebook, instagram, what's up and messenger facebook says that what happened was, it was ordered by the russians to stop it independent fact checking and labeling of content on for state owned media websites is includes a rub, main russian news agency, and the defense ministries channel. so what are the russians of done in retaliation is slow down access to facebook owned sites. but it is also true that in the last 2448 hours, facebook has become increasingly a platform for personalities in russia to post anti war messages. yes, there were those protests in st. petersburg earlier. it's been quiet in moscow this evening as far as we know, although very heavy police presence particularly around the kremlin. but other ways of poster prose pro.