which was condemning russia's invasion of ukraine or russia voted against that. russia also has the presidency of the security council just held vaseline. nin g r, who's the russian representative to be voted. nations also holds the presidency of the security council. earlier on. he had a laid out a significant list of criticisms and condemnations of ukraine, particularly, but also nato forces and western forces. with regard to their interpretation of russia's invasion, russia's move in to ukraine. we subsequently heard from searcy kill lead caea, who's the ukraine representative to the united nations. now we understand the antonio terrace. the 2nd general of the united nations is about to speak. he is at the podium. let's listen to what he has to say in response to all those comments.

was born out of war 2 and wash to they that the objective was not the chief miss. we must never give ups. we must give peace another chance. soldiers need to return to their barracks, leave those little 10 to the best of dialogue and peace to day in ukraine. despite growing operational challenges, the you any scaling up the delivery of life saving support, including in the eastern part of the country on both sides of the line of control, humanitarian needs on multiplying and spreading badly. our civilians are lying, at least one under the thousands ukrainians have already reportedly fled that homes with many crossing into neighboring countries and the lighting,

the regional nature of his growing crisis. those threats of our response. i'm announcing to they that i appointed. i mean, i was as the when cries is called the night that for the ukraine. i mean, what if closely with me for the decades in you and hcr, you really the correlation of all our efforts, including audrey with that in response on both sides of the conflict line. all come sunday, these conflicts must respect international re meant that in law and get and he the safety and feed them of movements of you and stuff. and that he, man italians especially in a moment like these. it is important to remember that you wear and he's not just the chemba. behind me, it is tens of thousands of women and man around the world. feeling the hungry vaccine, 18 children promoting developments, but affecting civilians in peacekeeping operations, mediating conflicts,

supporting refugees and my guidance. advancing human rights, sending, delivering, extending the lifeline of hope. united nations chart that has been challenging the busts. but he, there stood firm on the side, the piece, security development, justice, international law, and human rights. time after time, when the international community has rallied together in solidarity, those values f, b, violence. they will prevail independently of what happens to day. we must do everything in our power so that they prevail in ukraine, but they prevail for all humanity. thank you. thank you very much. as i said, until you return the secretary general of the united nations following the discussion that was being held at the united nations security council, a very heated discussion that was held there. i want to go straight to she hubbard

tansy, who's at the united nations for us in new york in all the years that we have been covering meetings at the united nations security council. this has to rank as one of the most intense and in many ways, belligerent that we have seen between several of the main countries who are taking part there. right, no shoes or slapped on any tables. but yes, i've included these were rather and passions impassioned speeches and the ukranian ambassador clearly hazard as of deerbrook, the turn of phrase that he likes to employ, which, which can be very, very affecting. having said that, though, no, the question is always, well, so what we, where does this go from here, sir? having failed to get the resolution it was seeking at the security council. the u. s. ambassador suggested that she would, would be that asking for an emergency session of the un general assembly. there is

a mechanism specifically for when the a, the, the security counsellors deadlock because a permanent member at is, is vetoing a resolution so that we expect to be asked for something a few hours ago that had been no official to of if a request from anyone on the security council general assembly for an emergency meeting, but now that we have it's official that that they were unable to reach an agreement at the security council, we would expect an emergency general assembly meeting to consider consider a resolution very similar on the lines of the one that we saw introduce the security council, which by the way, now has over 80 co sponsors across the united nations or the united nations 193 members. i think so that's good. it's a, it's certainly not, not, not a majority yet. certainly but, but they're getting that's been rising, rising very slowly of over the last few hours, i guess as always there, we have to look at the word and remember, this was almost actually a bit of a disaster for the us because the original resolution was far more forceful at

invoking, invite writing, invoking chapter 7, which would have been much will coercive at, in his demands of russia. in the, in the end though, we think it, we believe that the resolution was more of a quote more of a call for dialogue. and for that resolution of conflict, and that's where we are now without it because it didn't pass anyway. so now that moves to the un general assembly, we think it's at the us with us on baset of the security council suggested she had i did. in fact, i understand that the u. s. ambassador and to the united nations lindy thomas wingfield is about to speak. we're going to be listening and thank you for as staying here this evening. i will now read a joint statement behalf of approximately 43 and on behalf of dozens of allies and partners gathered here with me today. this

afternoon, the security council voted on a resolution to whole russia accountable for its aggression against ukraine to protect civilians including children, and call for the facilitation of rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian assistance to those in need. the resolution was vital and it was straightforward. fundamentally, it was about whether the countries on the security council charge with maintaining international peace and security believe and upholding the un charter. the un charter was written with the express purpose of preventing a war, like the one president putin just started. the war has brought in just in injustice 1st days. devastating losses of life and russia alone is accountable. president pohden chose to violate ukraine sovereignty. president putin

chose to violate international law. and president putin chose to violate the un charter president putin chose to drop bombs on cave, to force families to stuffed their lives into backpacks and shelter in subway stations. president putin is the aggressor here. there is no middle ground. we believe we have a particular responsibility to stand up to the violations of the un charter because russia is a permanent member of the security council. who was culpable. those of us standing here to day continue to believe in the security council's solemn duty and highest purpose, to prevent conflict and avert the scourge of war. russia has abuses power

to day, to veto our strong resolution, but russia cannot veto our words. and as i said in the council, russia cannot veto the ukrainian people. russia cannot be told their own people protesting this war in the streets and russia cannot veto the un charter. russia cannot and will not veto accountability. we thank the members states who sign as co sponsors of this resolution for standing with ukraine and for the un charter. today, we will be taking this matter to the general assembly where the russian veto does not apply. and the nations of the world will continue to whole russia accountable. thank you very much and thank you to all of our colleagues thinking again, we're covering the united nations following that security council meeting with

regards to the are the decision that was taken on the move that was put forward to a hold russia accountable to for its invasion of ukraine. i want to come back to a she harbor tentzer's correspondent there. and we heard there from ambassador linda thomas greenfield, the u. s. ambassador to the united nations, again reiterating that the blame for all of this sits firmly as far as the u. s. is concerned with vladimir putin. we have heard some very strong words that she said earlier that she criticized b. what had been said by the united, by the, the, the russian ambassador and to the united nations, calling it atrocious lies and propaganda. we heard searcy and kill it, said cia, it's use me the, i'm returning ambassador to that. i did, nation's calling what the russian ambassador had said, a letter of application for an upscale seat in hell. no. given the point that you

were making earlier, she had that these are essentially words that the, that actions are very different. nevertheless, the tone is definitely suggesting that as far as diplomacy is concerned, has grown to a halt. we're now just effectively we're in a war situation and talking isn't really going to get us out of it. whether the ukrainians did say that they were so committed to negotiations. and obviously, there is a great deal of focus now on whether some form of negotiation might take place on potentially neutrality for ukraine's. there was a lot of talk all day today between zalinski, the between present landscape president putin, about the possibility of talks. whether it be in, in min score or in warsaw or else somewhere else competing ernest on bowl i think it was being floated as well. so that the diplomacy is still being talked about. and of course, we know russia is making it very clear. now what that goal is, it is a demilitarized neutral ukraine, and there were indications that at the very least,

this is lensky was prepared to discuss. some of those, some of those points, although you had the ukrainian ambassador that sang don't put words, no mouth as to what we are willing to discuss. but at least that was that glimmer of hope in the end. and what else is that? and that was also a confirmation from the us ambassador that they will be referring this now to the secretary general to can be an emergency meeting of the general assembly that could happen as soon as tomorrow could happen next week. perhaps because that will be a non binding non binding resolution that would be voted upon by the members of the security above. that was the general assembly rather and but, but it would certainly be another another moment to show isolation for russia. however, having said that though, the yeah to was very interesting when the u. s. t refer something to the general assembly because usually the u. s. is in a big fan of the general assembly. the un general assembly is pretty critical of u. s. policy as well, and we know that the u. s. doesn't like referring things from the security council to the general assembly cuz it could lead to a precedent that might bite van back. given the u. s. is own foreign policy and

it's alleged violations of the un charter and so on. but it is a serious enough telly for, for the us to refer to the general assembly. so we'll see when that meeting takes place. she had thank you very much indeed that she had the chance to bring this up to date from the united nations in new york. well, let's take you back to you train itself now in the sounds of explosions in air read signs of been tackling across here. as russian suits and sanks crawled closer towards the city center, the grains president says he expects russian forces to storm the capital over night and in a fresh plea as called in the public to defend it. and who simmons brings us the latest from here? ah, the sound of sporadic gun battles echo across the ukrainian capital give russian invasion forces are closing in on the city. the president vladimir zalinski made a bleak but defiant video address him the rebate. good evening everyone. our troops are here. well, our citizens are here. all of us are here,

it protecting the independence of our country. and it will continue to be this way . the glory to our defenders. glory to ukraine, gloria to heroes. but satellite images show massive russian reinforcements, waiting in reserve at various staging posts just across the borders from ukraine. russia has the numbers stacked in its favor and vladimir putin shows no sign of relenting ye. sure. of the pressure. once again, i appeal to the service men of the ukrainian armed forces. don't let neo nazis unbundle nights use your children, your wives, and old people as human shields. take power into your own hands. let. it seems that it will be easier for us to come to terms with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo nazi miss coleman, who settled in kiev and took all ukrainian people hostage. ukraine's army is putting up a fight. this russian artillery convoy near the southern city of her son was wiped

out as it traveled along the highway from crimea. and the defiance of the soldiers in a ukrainian position on snake island in the black sea has captured the public imagination . wherever you build it, minutes lights of the entire garrison of 13 was wiped out by a 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 out alive from the wreckage. in contrast to the situation elsewhere in denise pro, a city with a population of a 1000000 people,

it's relatively quiet. but even here, there's no escaping the sense of foreboding and tension. i don't want to go away from my land or my counter. i will stay here. i will fight here for my, for enough, for my dependent for my nation, for us. and for me especially this is, this is innovation. i absolutely and unbelievable were in the center of the capital of ukraine in a war that's costing so much in lives, money and faith. yet there's an eerie silence here. no want to be seen around this area. the streets over there, pretty deserted. those that are around are invariably in palm shelters have to cope so, but really as a struggling by getting stuck in here that the thing that we can kind of cape at the moment. her son, voice some optimism, is very terrifying. the um,

we're closing and i'm sure that in about a few days it should be fine. now it should says little bit to those who want to escape. time is running out, and the kids main railway station, the plant rooms have been crammed with people trying to get on to trains and flee the city. oh, this exodus is regularly interrupted by air raid sirens, which send any one out to the open, scurrying for the safety of the nearest metro station. more than 100000 ukrainian civilians have already fled to neighboring countries. a steady flow of people crossing into romania, hungary and poland in the country they've left behind cases full of weapons are being handed to any one who wants them all men aged between 18 and 60

a band from leaving the country. now, their president is telling his soldiers, you are all we have. this is turning into a bloody war. this country believes the fighters for ukraine's very existence as an independent state. andrew simmons al jazeera keith, while in the ukrainian capital kia residents are being urged to take up arms against to russian forces, who are just a few kilometers outside the city center. moscow says that troops have captured a key strategic airport in hoster mail and landed paratroopers in the area. this has not been confirmed by ukrainian authorities. meanwhile, russian tanks have been spotted in the northern district of ukraine's capital authorities, a tele residence to stay off the streets because of fighting. now this is just north of the presidential palace in the heart of the capital. ukraine's president of la demille zelinski says, russian forces have marked him and his family as their top targets. in the past,

our president zalinski is released a message saying russian forces intend to take here over night. miss ding. to do that. this night will be more difficult than the last one. the cell to be in key in the south. the attention is on keith. we must not lose the capital. i would like to talk to our defenders. we need to pull together all the forces to defend our country. all of us have to understand what to expect. we must withstand the destiny of ukraine, will be decided to not only on native sending thousands of troops by land, air, and sea to protect allies near russia and ukraine. secretary generals in stoughton burgers called the crisis our new normal in european security. it has pledged comes after ukrainian president blood in his zalinski, criticize the alliance for not coming to his country's aid. our diplomatic editor james bay's reports from brussels. troops, tanks and weapons are on the move across europe. as nato continues to reinforce its

eastern front, it's member states who are closest to russia. now the alliance is activated elements of its response force. thousands of extra troops over a 100 jets are on high alert. 120 warships are in position. nato leaders met by secure video conference for the 1st time. since the start of the russian invasion, as fears grow that the ukrainian capital could be taken soon. how fearful are you about the possible fall of key? and if we move to a resistance, insurgency type situation, what support can nato then give? what we have seen is that turn the cranial forces are fighting bravely and are actually able to inflict damage on the invading russian forces. ah, but again, it is a very fluid under an loan or an evolving situation. nato

allies express her at them or some it to day after they are provide support to ukraine. they are ready to continue to rise report to ukraine here at nato headquarters. the plan is to fully protect their members on the eastern front, the countries closest to russia. but at the same time, they're sending a message to president putin. you're getting exactly what you said, you didn't want an increased nato presence on your doorstep. it's par, have a coordinated asset. the european union was invited to the virtual nato meeting. at the same time, e u foreign ministers met in brussels to agree a fresh round of sanctions. the 3rd in just 3 days. this time they decided to directly sanction the personal assets of president putin and his foreign minister, sir galeb roth. james bayes al jazeera brussels. while several nations have

announced targeted sanctions against the russian president and foreign minister in canada is the latest country to announced measures against vladimir putin. and so he loved the european union is sanctioning all the members of the parliament who back to the invasion of ukraine along with president bruton. and certainly love ralph. while the u. s. says it will freeze their assets and impose a travel band images on the following a television, a telephone conversation, a president biden held with a european commission president ursula of underline. and in alignment with the decision by our european allies, united states will join them in sanctioning president putin and foreign minister elaborate and members of the russian national security team. okay, let's get more on this from alan fisher who's in washington, dc for us. allan talk us through what we know about these sanctions. while the target, not only the president and his foreign minister members of russia's national security council, the intention has always been from the white house that any sanctions that are put

in place are coordinated among the allies and there sustainable. which means that everyone has to be comfortable with them. that should 24 hours or so since joe biden said, there was always the possibility that he could sanction vladimir putin personally. it was something that was still on the table after that conversation with the european union, he decided to go ahead and do it. this is significant because it's not often that the us take this measure only a handful of our leaders have ever been sanctioned by the united states and of course, canada know. following to take that action as well that joe biden spoke to president zalinski at for 40 minutes on friday afternoon. he reiterated again that the united states was committed to providing humanitarian, military and security support. but from the redo that we got from the white house, we don't know if joe biden talked about the piece offers that had been made by more school. what we do know as that from the state department,

those offers were dismissed. seeing that ukraine isn't going to negotiate at the battle of a gun, which is essentially what moscow is planning to do that. we know then joe biden has gone to delaware for the weekend, but he'll continue to stay in touch with his national security team. we also know that he's going to ask congress for $10000000000.00 more to help the efforts in ukraine with military support and also humanitarian back up. and he says that he has still other sanctions to put in place many more tools in the toolbox. but he's hoping that the later trend including sanctioning president putin himself, me well bring some sort of change in the russian position. so he doesn't have to go to the toolbox one more time on a thanks very much into that. adam fisher talking to us from washington d. c. okay. you had there what the international reaction is, what the u. s. is doing. well, let's take you back to ukraine itself. now. it's being attacked on all sides by russia to the north east. the south and the west. all eyes are on key f. it's being

pounded by missiles and motion forces of entered a northern suburb and of surrounded the city. fierce fighting is taking place in the regions of sumi house and ukraine's 2nd largest city cock eve. the mayor there has told all residence to hide in bomb shelters and in the port city of monte or pole, close to rebel held areas in the east. at least $35.00 residents have been injured after fighters backing pro russian separatists fired at civilian buildings. our correspondent charles stratford began his day in mario pole before heading to nipple in central ukraine. it describes what he saw while crossing through multiple conflict zones. please started in mariel pool that very important strategic coastal city naval pours 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 samples, hers 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 it 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 was threatening to shell, the bass, and indeed the city, if they didn't leave, we left burdens can continued heading west towards the town of melissa pole where there 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 the number of ukrainian military vehicles, still smoking from what we understand could well have been just precision attacks, possibly using drones. we have no way of confirming that, but as the road got quieted, 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 road between us and melissa people. and they said that there was a convoy of russian tanks heading our way. so we started crossing country, passing more burn town, ukrainian military vehicles, eventually running into columns of ukrainian soldiers, some of them withdrawing from the letter polk, of which stage they told us that the city had fall, the town had fallen to russian hands and they 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 of the authorities there potentially trying to set up some sort of evacuation from is upper region. 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, back around places like, don't it sk between donates good mary opal. we're hearing reports from villages

that we visit in the last few days. they're saying that the shelling is ongoing. people been hiding in bunkers in shelters, absolutely terrified. one woman telling us that she's just pleading for zalinski to negotiate with putin to try and stop this onslaught. so yeah, i harrowing day for millions of ukrainians. i was, i say it is quite here. the curfew is about to begin, but a lot of people going to be deceiving, very nervous as this crisis continues for many, an eastern ukraine. this is an escalation of a conflict that's been raging for 8 years in the town of hard live cur, which is controlled by russian back separatists. people say shelling from the ukranian army has hit a secondary school. according to regional prosecutors, 2 people were killed. shell fire has intensified in the rebel held areas of dom yeske and the hands can loosen months ahead of their recognition as independent by russian president vladimir putin on monday for another eulu doesn't feel good

morning with emily. we are fed up with this if it's been 8 years how long. ready can it continued? it has to end sometime till we are people to we want to live healthy. the moon was at clayton, won't let us down. he's a serious man and he stands for his words. so we will be fine the day we hope for the best. and we think that russia will make it to the kids a strong country. they blockade us and learn what we live through the cold war in the soviet union to do. we survived, nature of we're little ah, this is our da 0. these at the top stories, the sons of explosions and air raid sirens are echoing across ki evers. russian troops and tanks crawl closer towards the city center. in cranes, president says he expects a russian forces to storm the capital over night and in a fresh plea as called on the public to defend it. miss day did that um,

but this night will be more difficult than the last one. like the assault will be in key in the south by the attention is on keith. we must not lose the capital.