the gnostic religion, zavion said their numbers are barely a 5th of what they were before the 2003 in vision because of iraq security and there is being a closed religion. one can only be born into the faith and marrying into their religion is forbidden, and the population has dwindled even further because thousands have taken refuge elsewhere for safety. ah, a residential building hit by a missile in the ukrainian caps a key as russia continues its military advance. ah, watching all the 0 life from a headquarters in so i'm getting obligated also a heads. it a new video message, president villa de mer zalinski says the ukranian army has managed to derailed a russian offensive and won't surrender thousands of ukrainians flee across the border by any means possible. as the russian advance intensifies. i'm calling for

an end to war. rallies are being held across the world to protest. russia's military action in ukraine. ah, hello russian troops are closing in on the capital key as part of their land, sea and air military action and ukraine. but the ukranian president vladimir zalinski says his forces remain in control of the capital after a series of explosions on gun battles. the mayor of keith has extended a curfew in the city. he says, any civilians in the street between 5 pm and 8 am will be considered the enemy. neve barker reports. with a moment, a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of ukrainian capital here. and nobody was killed for the attacks. evidence,

say the ukranian authorities of russia's willingness to hit civilian targets. xhylia, now we go with, we managed to escape the wayne kitchen. we were lucky. it was a direct hit in the living room. that's my wife and the elder child have their legs broken. oh, young child was taken somewhere by arrest. yes. ukraine's president had warned of a difficult night. and for many, it came this the aftermath of fierce fighting close to people's homes. ukrainian army said it had destroyed a russian military convoy trying to enter the city, appearing 1st thing below them is a lensky. affirm. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities . shim door, uncle grains, good morning, ukrainians. there has been a loss of fake information online saying that i am calling on our army to lay down arms and to evacuate. listen, i am here. we will not lay down any weapons. we will defend our state because our

weapon is our truth. and the truth is that this is our land, our country, and our children, and we will defend all of that. that's all i wanted to tell you. russia meanwhile, appears to be sending even more troops and hardware across the border into the country while insisting it's not targeting ukrainian cities to jail ocean were wrong, as yours is given us a during the night. the russian military use long range, high precision weapons sea and air launched cruise missiles to strike the targets among the ukrainian military infrastructure. i'd like to state once again, strikes are only aimed at ukrainian military targets for that's not what the residence, a key of a seeing or hearing people continue to seek sanctuary under ground in basements, the metro anywhere away from the violence. according to western

intelligence, the capitals not yet surrounded those russian troops that have made it to key if a thought to be russian special forces in saboteurs. but larger russian battle groups are getting closer, encountering stiff, ukrainian resistance as they approach elsewhere. the russians have made more decisive gaines. this is the city of melita paul in the country southeast, where the russian flag now flies over a local police station. give amidst the fighting with a light hearted exchange between ukrainian driver and some stranded russian soldiers who had lost and have run out of fuel of a sheet commodity over at ha, ukraine's one you guys have surrendered, says the driver. can i tell you back to russia? the truth is, the conflict is far from over. soon in hours or days, moscow will have to make a decision. sit outside the capital, an engineer some political arrangement with ukrainian government, or bring in troops and heavy weaponry and do it in an even more destructive way

with the possibility of mass civilian casualties. oh, the kremlin has the capacity for both the fall can alger 0, all zeros. all my dad has his in key for a residential apartment block was hit this morning, natalie and she hung up on one of the northwest of the creaming capital key of exactly under the residential tower. that was early a hit with a message that 9 10 am local time band. it was hit during the 2nd wave of strikes targeting various districts in the capitol highly counted heavy, we spoke to local officials who confirmed it was headed by miss saw it. if a luckily her own residence had earlier fled to the shelters and denise must enough in line with the directives given to them that no one was injured with. if we asked the local officials, if there is any military facility or any army presence in the area, they confirmed that there is none my be done with the exception of the local

airport, which is mainly a civilian passenger as finra. they saw num, gross events of a village and northern ukraine had been trying to resist the advance of the russian army video circulating online show a number of fact of a standing, unarmed in front of russian tanks and armored vehicles. they were attempting to prevent soldiers from passing through a street in the village of box mach. andrew simmons is travelling across central ukraine and sent this update. the keys of the west. there has been some clashes between russian forces i'm the ukrainians. the credit is managed to force back a convoy. this was in the early hours of saturday morning and now we're hearing and we have not seen any further action round that it seems to be a low in fighting right now. but i'll tell you more about development later when we're in the countryside, we've been really sensing an atmosphere of tension,

not just here on the major highways, but particularly in the rural areas. lots of checkpoints, lots of people who are reserves. some of them actually not using the automatic weapons that have been distributed freely some using hunting rifles. they look stress. they're looking for saboteurs that have been saboteurs arrested. that have been saboteurs killed. a russian particularly chechen thought to be brought to be actually in action. well ahead of the advancing troops arriving, and of course it is dangerous for anyone on the street, civilians or otherwise. because of that, what we're also seeing is defiance is really angry. reaction to the russians. we're seeing barricades being put up with seeing all sorts of improvised ways of trying to repel advancing columns, but really they're, they're really very weak in comparison to the sort of might the going to carry.

well, get the latest on the us with rosin jordan, who will join us from washington, dc in a moment, but 1st of burnett smith, he's joining us from moscow where things stand on any possible offer of talks. burner is and what sort of terms of the russians laying down for any talks going forward well, during, in the last half hour or so, we've had another statement from the russian military on state state use agency saying that an order has been given to resume their operation in all directions, their invasion of ukraine, they term as an operation. and the suggestion was they'd paused at the invasion on friday because they understood they believed, says the kremlin that ukraine was going to take part in talk some sort of negotiation or some sort of ceasefire. now preparations were put in place to have those in minsk or the russian said ukraine then asked to have those in war sore and

the russian se then after that the line between russia and ukraine without further communication. now, bearing in mind that before all of this, the russians of black down very serious, very strict rules, if you like, or minimums that they demand of ukraine before going any further. we already know the vladimir putin, as said the ukrainian military. it will be easy for us if you overthrow her vladimir lensky, the government of ukraine. we know that sir gay love rove, as said he doesn't recognize the legitimacy, the demo democracy of the ukrainian government. and we know that the ukraine's have been told the army has been told to lay down it's weapons. so all of that with the russians of said in advance of the idea that they might even hold. and he talks, i'm not a mere putin is not prepared and does not recognize vladimir zalinski as a legitimate president of ukraine. so who exactly the russians are prepared to talk

to in ukraine if they were to whether be any talks on the cease fire or a further settlement isn't clear. meanwhile, bernard, we have a situation now where a military aid is being increased to ukraine by air. us and some other countries, while sanctions are being placed on russia and russia, nestles, what is the rest says the kremlin reaction to all of this we're seeing this political and physical isolation of russia now really begin to take place. but dmitri medford are the former president of russia, and now the deputy of the country's deputy head of the secure rushes security council. he's brushed off the the sanctions. he says that is a good reason to pull out of a strategic dialogue on nuclear stability and potentially for us to pull out from the new strategic arms. are real reduction tree to the start treaty that was signed in 2010 and was extended

a 2011 iron dmitri med. whatever's also said that the decision to suspend its membership of the council of europe is really unfair. the cows of europe was established after the end of the 2nd world war $47.00 european countries are in it, and it was established to uphold human rights. democracy. and the rule of law in europe, but med video, says now it's a good chance was to slam the door it. and it means we can reintroduce the death penalty for dangerous criminals because a condition of being a member of the council of europe with you could not have the death penalty in your country. and on a practical level, more airlines have said they're not going to fly in russian air space. and in retaliation, more european airlines. and in retaliation, russia has banned those airlines and those countries from its own air space. so that physical isolation of russia also beginning to take place to re thank you so much, bernard smith, reporting from moscow. well, one of the countries that announced her an increased military assistance for ukraine is the u. s. rosin. jordan has joining us now from washington. d. c,

so how significant is this latest package that the state department has announced? well, it's significant because we're talking about $350000000.00 an additional military equipment for the ukrainian military. of course, the big question is going to be, how will the us get this equipment into the hands of the ukraine in ukrainian military, given the very active russian military invasion now underway. but this is a bringing to about a $1000000000.00 or so according to the secretary of state antony blank and in military aid that the u. s. has provided to cave in the past year or so because of the looming threat from the russian military. we should also note that this is a situation where the u. s. is not ruling out future sanctions. they haven't come up with what they're planning to do. but they're certainly looking at every possible way of

a isolating of lighter mir putin of isolating the central government in moscow in order to try to bring this so war, frankly, to a swift and the u. s. is very concerned about the impact on the ukrainian people. we've seen an uptick in the amount of of humanitarian aid that is being provided by usa. i. d, the administrator on samantha power is visiting poland and a couple of other locations in central europe this weekend in order to help us coordinate how the distribution of humanitarian aid. and there's a just a will sense that unless they can bring this to a close, there's going to be a real sense of devastation, not just in terms of physical infrastructure, but to the lives of ordinary ukrainians as well. thank you so much. rosen. jordan, reporting from washington d. c. moscow saying its military and russia backed rebels are advancing into

territory and eastern ukraine that had been held by the government. charles stratford is in the pro with more on the situation in the east reports from the port city of murray or pull witnesses telling us that what they described was being increasing numbers of paramilitaries on the streets, ukrainian power ministries, helping the ukraine and army trying to defend the city from what we understand is a pushed by russian forces from the west. we know that the city is also suffered heavy shilling from the east. we also been speaking to people fleeing the area north of crimea, around the city of care of san people telling us, or alleging that russian forces that have taken control of some of those towns are preventing ukrainian citizens from leaving them. the situation on the roads around and he pro very tense checkpoints a lot more strict at one checkpoints and we saw a rush and helicopter flight low over the check point causing panic,

causing people to, to scatter away even the security services that, that will manage that check boyd, but there are increasing phase of the 10s, if not hundreds of thousands of civilians that are trying to put as much distance as they can between them and russian forces advancing on these ukrainian cities. as the, the front lines become increasingly blurred. al jazeera, as ragna, 3 d is in southwest russia, where resources are being deployed across the border. yes, and then i hit alaska. convoys of russian military gear continue to flood across the russian ukrainian border. armored gear and vehicle mind has miss isles. as you can see behind me, an armored vehicle carrying self propelled missiles headed towards the borderline with ukraine. these batteries can far, 16 missiles within 20 seconds. the convoys will take part in the ongoing military

operations, the fiercest of which is currently raging on the dunbar front. and the scene is repeated elsewhere as other convoys are crossing the borderline into ukraine on other roads. it should be noted that vol program where we're standing now is only 15 kilometers from the borderline, meaning only 50 kilometers from harkins belgrade came under shelling yesterday, causing damage to 9 buildings and injuring 3 civilians highly. and at least $100000.00 ukrainians have fled to poland after escaping the war. but some save their being mistreated by border guards. some people who reach the medical border crossing say they were threatened to witness the violence. they were also stuck in heavy shoes with some waiting for more than 12 hours to get through. crazy is that there were a lot of guys who tried to get through, and there was a soldier with the guns going to get back it back. if i got to close, he literally punch them in the face. border guards got really, really aggressive and they would even like, lock the door and tell us like, like,

you know, we're closing it forever. you can go back really scare. they made so many threats seriously. than bas robbie has more from eastern poland where ukrainians are crossing the border. well, here at the semester, the train station just across the board from ukraine. people from the trainer arriving here by trenton county. and it's been coming in ways now is another busy period. let me give you a sense of what's happening around here. we have people that have arrived that are being registered. they're not being registered as refugees. these are people who are being registered for transport out of this area into other parts of europe. the government is helping get people to friends and family helping to relocate them, finding them temporary housing with the government. the officials aren't the only ones here that are doing that kind of work. we've seen volunteers with signs made out of cardboard, offering people a free place to stay free rides into poland and further across europe and putting

berlin and prague and denmark. so really here it gives you a sense that what's happening here is touching every european country in some way. now, from the busy part of the train station, we're going to go to another hallway where people are getting some much needed rest . now, on the me, in the main hall you, people are enjoying probably their 1st hot meal and days. and here in a quieter part of the train station there is a makes, it shows where people can get some sleep, get some rest and get the free press. what is no doubt been incredibly arduous journey to try to cross from ukraine into poland interface, parts of europe. we've spoken to people here who say that big family members behind a young mother was enforced to pay for wealth of their husbands. knowing that it might be for the last time men fighting aids from $1860.00 many billing stopped since the fight in, in utrecht began since the russ invasion,

expected ukrainian on forces to try to hold the country, hold the capital and hold on to main city. chris meltzer as a senior, a spokesman for the un high commissioner for refugees. he's in the polish border time risk and has been speaking to some of those who recently arrived from ukraine . we talking about thousands of people. so in the 1st 48 hours about 75000 people from the train have arrived in poland alone. and he had that part of the border, like in the yellow pots, also long lines of cars from, from the ukraine. sometimes the people they told us they are waiting for 24 hours the even even more they are, they sat, they are frightened, but they also kind of relief because right now they think they are, they are safe and happy that they can go to poland. we have to situation that about 12130000 cranes have left that country, but they are much more people inside of the place. we need to expect

a higher number. but with the also a lot of philadelphia in poland, but also in romania and lavaca and adobe the government. and also the people itself, the, the open up the help and the signs of solidarity are really touching mainly women and children. not that many men within the refugees and the they told us that they are now that they hope to find safety here in poland and they left to family members behind them. sometimes they really heartbreaking people. hot, we think stories from, from people who are in need. there have been rallies across the world against the russia, ukraine war, a 1000 gathered in the german city of munich to call for an end to the conflict. some demonstrator said they're scared. the violence could spread to western europe . thousands of people attended a rally and the french capital,

paris, while large crowds also gathered in the eastern city of strossberg, they're demanding the russian president vladimir putin withdraw his forces and, and the war. protesters in london won the u. k government to take a stronger stance against russia. nadine baba, husband who have been demonstrations here outside downing street for several days now. but interestingly, people are not just announcing the actions of president putin in ukraine, but they are calling for specific measures that they want to see brought in straight away. one of them is a no fly zone by nato. so the ukranian armed forces have a great, a chance of resisting the attack by russia. they're also talking to russia to be eliminated from the swift mechanism of international payments. now there are families here who ukrainians, who sector to the united kingdom,

with family back home in ukraine who are desperately worried. and they don't know what to tell their relatives. their relatives then know that there are, there is fighting on many different fronts and they are streaming worried. of course families like that have to make the decision. do they stay or do they try to get out of the country? i'm not what so worrying for people here. there is a big solidarity movement here in the united kingdom, whether a tens of thousands of ukrainians living there are other you citizens like people from poland. also president presence at this protest that countries are now mobilizing to help you craniums. so i think that that's adding to the sense that here in britain there is so that the british government could and should be doing right now. while there been more protests against the attack on ukraine and australia, new zealand as well. some of those sort of rally in sydney have some of the kids who are hiding in bomb shelters. in new zealand,

demonstrators chanted stop putin. in while the un security council has failed to adopt a resolution condemning the russian military action in ukraine, russia veto the vote that would have confirmed the sovereignty of ukraine and demanded the moscow immediately withdraw its forces. she returns, he reports as president of the security council had failed to russia to list the un member states who co sponsored the resolution opposing its use of force against ukraine and calling for an unconditional withdrawal. but so on, in the angry with him ali, the resolution did gain the support of 11 members of the council with china, india, and the united arab emirates abstaining. as expected, russia used its veto power, russia, you can veto this resolution, but you cannot veto our voices. you cannot be told the truth. you cannot veto our principles. you cannot veto the ukrainian

people, the russian. i'm basset accounted that the resolution was imbalanced for not mentioning the shilling of don bounced by the ukrainian government, nor the failure by kiev and the west to implement the 2015 piece deal. and he added this. now, i'm going to go to the new, the new start, the new i will refrain from listening out the aggressions carried out by the united states in their history. but you are in no position to moralize. the u. s. succeeded in avoiding a chinese veto with its final version of the resolution. but beijing, once again agreed with russia that the crisis had developed over time as a result of nato's disregard for russia, security and caution. the security council taking any action should be truly conducive to defusing the crisis rather than adding fuel to the fire. ukrainian ambassador accused his russian counterpart of having no idea what was in latin putin's mind. but he did reaffirm ukraine's commitment and negotiations, even as he despaired for the safety of his people. and i will ask

all of you to pray or to meditate if you do not believe in god for peace. it's expected that a similar but non binding resolution will be introduced at a special session of the united nations general assembly, where russia does not have the visa already. it appears to have the support of more than 80 of the us 193 member states she ever time. see al jazeera, the united nations or diplomatic editor, james bases in brussels, where western nations are meeting to take action against russia. i think the international position is pretty solid now regarding the, the where i am the e, u, nato, and the us. and i think you also got some idea of the international position at the un security council where you saw the position of china,

which i think is very important. abstaining on that security council resolution. clearly, the resolution condemning russia didn't pass because it was vetoed by russia, but china, which is increasingly close ally of russia. the fact that they abstain, i think, is an interesting fact. meetings continuing all across the world and will continue over the weekend. it's not a normal weekend of short. the german chancellor is currently meeting the polish prime minister and the lithuanian president. lots of meetings going on, particularly i think meetings on what to do going forward with regard to support for ukraine. they put the sanctions in place to punish president putin. what do they do to actually help the ukrainian military? they're not going to send any resources or any trips. they, they know that's the case. none of that weapons, none of the aircraft or their troops will be used, but can they send weapons in support of the ukrainians? can they give other support to the cranium? financial support that has happened from some european countries that happened from

the u. s. i think others are discussing it and discussing what moves they can make . lucas is an emerett as professor at the university of birmingham, and she says that the sanctions being placed on russia will destroy its economy. well, the u. s. posture as well as i think you have to make it an international posture. european union, various european states, canada, australia. japan is 2 fold. one is you give as much support as as possible right now to the ukranian government. recognizing the fundamental ones, which is that the russians are now buildings as well as attacking other cities. i think if we move to a new phase of what we're talking about in this attempted russian occupation of ukraine. what you may see is the move of those who went ski government to the west of ukraine to live, for example. which of course is closer to areas like poland, which makes it easier for us and europe to give support. that includes political

support and of course military support through defense of weapons. but the 2nd dimension of this, of course, is the sanctions question. it's the economic pressure on russia that pressure has not gone all out yet. not only the european union, but the g 7, including joe biden, hold back from the ultimate national, which was the cut off the entire cut off a brush up from the swift financial transaction systems. but the sanctions have been expanding the couple most sectors of the russian economy. the americans confirmed yesterday that they will be expanding the sanctions to directly target. while important. we realize however, the sanctions will not stop the military offensive. they probably won't prevent a russian occupation of most of ukraine, but this is not a sprint. now. this is a longer race, which is, you know, the fact that the us in europe are saying the bladder brewton. you can occupy ukraine, but you will face ukrainian insurgency, annual pace, the collapse,

so your country's economy. a poland national football team is refusing to play russia in a world cup playoff next month. besides are due to me to moscow with the president of the polish faith says boycotting the matches, the only right decision poems captain and all time top score robert low and don't dusky agrees. he tweeted, i can't imagine playing a match with the russian national team in a situation where armed aggression and you grade continues. russian footballers on fans are not responsible for this, but we can't pretend that nothing is happening. we got some reaction to poland, that answers from associated press sports correspondent, rob harris. yeah, the next move that way can come from faith, or it's a big call for them to may do they throw russia out of the well camp the into the semi finals in the playoffs. the qualifying all that i stand by, poland, poland. it already said it didn't want to play this game in moscow in a month time. that request came in the other day to faith that we hadn't heard

a response. and now they ratchet things up. today the request thing, actually they're indicating they all refusing to play washer at all, regardless of the location and a big cold for fee for a johnny implants. today, johnny frontier, you know, someone who received the order of friendship meadow from russian president vladimir peyton after the 2018 woke up in russia. ah, hello, we got headlines on al jazeera, this, our explosions have been heard in parts of kia as russian forces continue. their assault an apartment building has come under attack. can some errors as 35 people, including children were injured in the missile strike? a curse has been extended and anyone seen on the streets at night will be considered the enemy pretty here. tonight was hard, but there are no russian troops in the capitol in the enemy trying to get into the .