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no surrender. president vladimir zalinski is defiant message to his forces. as he says, the ukrainian army has managed to derail the russian offence. and calling for an end to the war rallies across the world to protest against russia's military action . ukraine. ah, hello, thank you. for joining us. russian troops are closing in on the capital key. this part of their land at sea and air military action in ukraine. for now though, the streets are silent, a curfew is in place until atm local time, and anyone outside will be considered the enemy at defiance ukrainian president has meanwhile, again addressed his country. we will fight as long as it takes to liberate the country, followed me. zalinski said in a short video message, and they will soon have some further assistance. german chancellor, all of schultz says his country will provide ukraine with 1000 antique tank weapons

and 500 surface to air missiles. promises of weapons to from the netherlands. the barcode begins our coverage. ah, the moment a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of the ukrainian capital care. and the attacks evidence say the ukranian authorities are russia's willingness to hit civilian targets. xhylia, now we go was 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. our young child was taken sour by rescuers. 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. follow to me as

a lensky affirmed. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities . shem door, uncle granger, good morning, ukrainians. there has been a loss of fake information online saying that i'm 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 are. and we will defend all of that. that's all i wanted to tell you. in the village of buck, marsh in northern ukraine, russian forces were met by angry civilians while man trying to stop and advancing tank with his bare hands before being pulled to safety and of the city of huck

eve, a russian missile landed in a children's playground. 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. the jail ocean were on the shores, is directly during the night, the russian military use long range, high precision weapons. see an 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 where 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 as far as

care afford to be russian special forces and saboteurs. bellagio russian battle groups are getting closer and counting 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. if you look this video shot by russian state television shows russian tanks on the move in ukraine's east. this is europe's largest ground war since world war 2 vladimir putin and some of these troops believe histories on their side started. we've been waiting since 2014. finally, i'll throw away his gun and will live peacefully. amidst the fighting a light hearted exchange between a ukrainian driver and some stranded russian soldiers lost unhealthy fuel and sealed. but ha, ha, ha, ha,

ukraine's one you guys have surrendered says the driver. can i tell you back to russia? the truth is, the conflicts far from over ukrainian troops of the capital of fortifying the city . soon in hours or days, moscow will have to make a decision, sit outside the capital, an engineer some political arrangement with the 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. ah, the kremlin has the capacity for both the volcano al jazeera, well had a del, a need is in new pro, which is an eastern ukraine and how they've been traveling to the country to day. and now you are reporting from inside from that within a shelter. is that because of the course you presumably? yes, that's exactly it. there is a curve in place from 8 pm to 8 am here in ne pra. and the reason stated

is because of possible saboteurs going around. so anyone on the street after 8 pm would be suspicious. now in care of that the curfew is much longer is actually from 8 pm saturdays of today to monday morning 8 am. so just to give you an idea of how difficult the situation is there a going back to your question we set off from cram out to us. we've been traveling in the east for quite a while now. and then we, we were in grammar tours when this war started. and we've been witnessing this city, which is a city of a 150000 people just sort of empty and self be coming in like the empty set of a movie. last night, for example, the city was pitch black. the light turned off purposely by the municipality. it was quite theory because we, if you looked out of the window,

you couldn't see buildings, you couldn't see the street, you couldn't see anything. just blackness. as we woke up this morning, we had to do this 3 hour drive to come here. well, it took us 6 hours. that's because of the traffic on the road. there was a lot of ukrainian military deploying regrouping. going in all directions, vehicle personnel, equipment, all sorts of things on the road. and amongst that, there was also people leaving. we could see from the window of the car, you know, people with their belongings, with their suitcases, we could see pick up trucks with personal belongings on them. and then a lot of checkpoints and we drove through. we took a side road because the main road was quite busy. we took some side roads, we went through villages and i was observing all the villages. nothing was open all the business. it was shot. yes, food shops were open. no pharmacies were open. very few people on the road. and as

we approach, we could see these territorial defense units that had been trade. building trends is building up position that there will protect the cities, the entries that exists. and then we slowly arrive to nipper. and as we arrived in the pro, we were told, well now there's a curfew, you got to stay indoors. that part of the country still hasn't seen the violence, but people are taking the precaution. people know that the war is coming to. there's 2 doorsteps. the question is, when is it coming and certainly they know it's not going to be pretty audible hamid with the latest her from the pro in eastern ukraine. harder for the moment. thank you. one of our colleagues was briefly detained a little earlier as he was reporting in eastern ukraine. charl stratford is in the pro as well. and here's his story. we return from the city of czar parisha where the situation is becoming increasingly tense. a lot more military checkpoints,

a lot more military hardware than, than we saw there yesterday. as an indication of how 10 cities we were preparing to go live to do a live broadcast. we're out of nowhere, seemingly. a group of ukrainian soldiers and ukranian police peered with their guns, many of them pointing towards us firing in the air. they demanded that we get out of the vehicle. we threw ourselves to the ground camera man's telephone. busy was kicked out of his hand and 2 bullets fired from a kalashnikov into that telephone. now, it's important to recognize that these men were just doing their jobs. there are increasing phase amongst ukrainian military and security services about what they describe as cyber term was trying to get into cities in compromising military positions. but as i say, our cameras was still rolling when this incident happened. let's take

a look. hi, stop, stop, stop, stop filming the new list. good journalist john was enough journalist the what about the also reports from the port city of mary. awful 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 push 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 one checkpoints and we saw a rush and helicopter flight low over the checkpoint, causing panic, causing people to, to scatter away even the security services that sir, 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. let's go live now to bernard smith, who is in moscow for us. we just have the picture there. the situation in ukraine, bernard, when it comes to diplomacy, is there any hope that they may, that may still play a part well, the latest barbara is that the president of ukraine, vladimir zalinski, has said that he says, the president's of turkey and as a by john between them have agreed to arrange some sorts of talks or negotiations between ukraine and russia and al, although already the russians have said the kremlin of said earlier on today that they were prepared for talks. and they, in fact i'm a put in order to halt to the invasion on friday because moscow understood that

there were going to be talks in minsk between the 2 sides. but then moscow says that the ukrainians wanted the talk, instead in warsaw then moscow says the line went dead. so vladimir putin instructed that the operation of the russians call it started over again. but we don't know what the terms are for the talk. what terms are russians of lay down, but we do know that it was very me, a putin is called on the ukranian army to over throw lamesa lensky is government. he's told them they have to lay down their arms, and that sir guy love rover said he doesn't believe he can recognize the current ukrainian government as democratic. so who exactly the russians expect they who are willing to talk to us. we're not sure. and bernard, when it comes to sanctions, i mean the west has made it clear that it's not going to go beyond the economic measures right now, but when it comes to a sanctioned and potential fate of more, how is russia reacting to that well, we're,

we're seeing this political and physical, a tightening of restrictions around russia really begin to take shape now, but politically. dimitri medford, ever former presidents of russia, now the deputy had of russia's security council. he shrugged off sanctions. and he said, actually, this is a good reason for us to pull out of dialogue on strategic nuclear stability. he says and potentially pull out from the new strategic arms reduction treaty, the start treaty that was signed in 2010 and was extended until 2021. and member dev is also said that the decision to suspend russia from the council of europe is really unfair. the council of europe was created at the end of the 2nd world war to promote democracy in peace and stability in europe. he said, now that's a good reason for us to slam the door on this organization. and russia can perhaps reduce the death penalty. the serious crimes, and he says that meanwhile,

more and more your countries in eastern europe banning flights to russia and in response rushers banning flights to those eastern european countries as well as to the united kingdom. so you see this physical isolation of russia begin to take place as well as the political one barbara ben smith with the latest air from moscow. bernadette for the moment. thank you. well, the european union is reportedly discussing a 3rd package of sanctions against russia. the block along with the u. s. and the u . k. has already brought in a range of measures including directly targeting president vladimir putin win montero. villa is a senior research fellow with the italian institute for international political studies. that's italy's biggest foreign affairs think tank based in milan. matter in that join says now from venice via skype. thank you so much for joining us here now to 0. so 1st of all, just tell us a little bit about how effective this 3rd potential med strata of,

of sanctions are. and just also the divisions that we have seen within the western alliance when it comes to the sanctions. yeah. so they might be very effective as you might have heard the sanctions against sweet sit benny's been in russia from accessing the soup network, you know, their food, it last backs to communicate with each other and transactions east being actually discussed. yesterday we had all those italy, germany hungry, all the biggest, you know, the biggest countries in europe that could have been hit and could have been taken at a larger hit. given the fact that when it law suite you might be looking to slow some debts and credits from transactions in natural gas, as you might know, these countries are being importers of michigan from russia. and yet they are fully in line with all other you countries. and this, i think from moscow it was unexpected, and it's going to be a big blow. but for russia, it's true also for the you $27.00 countries that are agreeing to this,

possibly within the next few days. but again, it is going to be a much bigger blow russia, and i guess the credit was not expecting this for sure. okay, so another seems to be agreement about the switch to banking sector and, and withholding that from russia. we had seen divisions that you mentioned germany in italy that had at least yesterday, not going along with it, but more generally what are the kinds of divisions that we're going to see within the western alliance now or in the months the car may fade goes that far about the different impact i'm sort of wondering who might be more vulnerable to potential sanctions. further sanctions to russia for sure, is on the line as well. in many countries in the east, if you're not suddenly want to expect aren't, for instance, might be better at taking a hit from the phrase of natural gas. in 4th, the bird much more than we do yet or do you countries are much more

to suffer much more in italy much more than all the rest for more than 40 percent of our energy. me. so the total construction of our country comes from got, and most of it come from comes from russia, about half of it. so again, this is, that's been going on for a month now, our energy be doubled and to grow energy costs at quadruple. so we're going to stop for, for sure, but currently, you know, put in does not really listen to an outline which it seems so. so we are going to hit at least as big as he'd be in the order over the past few months. and let's see what these brings us back to the negotiating table of who were in bias near cray, whether it's energy or other sanctions. i mean, it is obvious that there is also, you know, however big a price to pay for the western countries as well. but the, you get the sense having seen developments over the past few days. but most of the

alliance have decided that the political imperative outweighs any economic damage that may come for it for themselves to which means striking the difference from 2014 sit in last time russia entered ukraine. obviously within much more, no peroration easily was one of the whole adults trying to cut out many extensions from sanctions. and even yesterday we heard a lot of reports, for instance italy asking for luxury sex or to be left out. well, we don't hear that any more, it means that it really, european consciousness are really understanding that this is the only talking town and many countries that 1st let's say a few years back were favoring economic interests over security. are now really thinking that this is the time to heat har. it doesn't mean that you need to isolate russia forever. it means that these time when it is going to pay and the audio works, and maybe the business leaders or have now been isolated in the kremlin with start

to grumble. and we'll see where it is leaks. it doesn't leave me just just to the final question, the key one, how damaging the thing that the package is that we're seeing now are actually going to be 2 of letting uprooting it depends. it really depends whether we do cut off brush up from the suite altogether or just to target. we targeted assumptions. and again, it's it. one interesting thing is that the u. s. is even thinking about, or at least discussing that sanctioning the rush of central bank debt would be really in almost a nuclear option. it might cost bankruptcy in russia. we've never seen something of debt scale on it. such a big economy happen. we dirani 25 in 2014. it had a huge effect, but a run was already that had already ties much more severed from the roger the economy from the previous sections with russia, the 8th e. com in the world. that will be at 1st. but again, this is the scale at which western governments want to play this game. now. motto,

village senior research, a fellow with the institute for international political studies based in milan, sir, thank you for your views. thank you so much. i mean will, at least the 100000 ukrainians have fled to poland, to escape russia's invasion, but some say they are being mistreated by border guards. some people who reach the medical border crossing say that there was threatened and witnessed violence. there were also stuck in heavy cues with some waiting more than 12 hours to get through. it's crazy that there were a lot of guys who tried to get through and there was a soldier with the guns like get back it back. if it up to close. he literally punch them in the face. quarter guards, guy really, really aggressive and they would have like, lock the door and tell us like, like, you know, we're close in it forever. you can go back, although it's really scary. they made so many threats. seriously. same bizarre avi has more now 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 train from the town. and he'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 or 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, in the main hall, people are enjoying probably their 1st hotmail and days. and here in a quieter part of the train station, there is a mix of shows where people can get some sleep, get some rest, and get some reprieve from what is no doubt, 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 has been forced to pay for well to their husbands. knowing that it might be for the last time men fighting aids from 18. 60 many billing stopped since the fight in, in your train began since the russ invasion conscripted ukrainian on was to try to hold the country, hold the capital and hold on to name city. i mean, what protests are taking place around the world?

people express outrage at the russian and asia at the invalid reports. now from one of those protests here in london. oh, you in the heart of london demanding more be done for ukraine. many of these protest is all ukrainian with family and friends back home that they're desperately worried about. people like ela medford ever who came to britain more than 20 years ago? i still remember stories. hm. and then my then head father about the 2nd world war and how the extension came and it doesn't have any medium. and it's not just it, it's not just the military, it h o b, a cold thing to start today, killing people. i, there was similar solidarity protests across europe. this was munich in the south of germany itself. no stranger to upheaval, and dark episodes in history. done on some winter widow when we are worried about our brothers sisters, our relatives. you look at the people gathered hair and everybody is scared. the

war will break out in europe. in the italian capital, a large crowd called for more pressure on russia. and in paris, they gathered in the plaster la republic, calling of nato to protect ukraine's air space. that was a key demand in london to i think we should be supporting militarily ukraine as best as possible as a madman at the moment in the kremlin ands. i mean, we have to do what we can, the crowd has been showing to glory to ukraine and denouncing the russian president . but they've also been calling for specific measures. they want britain to take right now, including greater financial sanctions and more military help for ukraine's armed forces. and while the ukrainian flag now flies from government buildings, many are angry. there's no legal route for most ukrainians to seek asylum in britain. we need to be lacking refugees, command and dispatch fees is for them all to get here. and then once the header with it will ever afterwards for now all ukrainians outside the country and do is

hope the fighting and soon in the world to do more to make that happen. nadine baba al jazeera london, ethical hain is at the white house, were another rally is happening. so tell us a little bit past here, but while you're hearing people, as they're saying outside the white house, well, just like in europe, we're seeing signs and demands to for the us to impose a no fly zone over ukrainian airspace. i could tell you, i mean other hats, but in the last week at the pentagon, that seems highly, highly unlikely. the u. s. is very clearly said that they have no interest in getting into a shooting war with nuclear armed russia. but we are seen protests here in washington and across the country. now. joe biden, president joe biden isn't here. he's back home in wilmington, delaware, that's not really the point. let me set the scene for you. well, we do have, here is a lot, a lot of cameras and the russians are very clearly losing the public

relations war. and that matters a sanction begin to bite into the economy. according to one poll, 85 percent of americans say that they don't see russia favorably. now there are some friends, trump, supporters who disagree, but the vast majority of americans blame russian. this conflict. 67 percent say they support sanctions, that's a pretty high number. but here's where the concern comes in, and this is a concern for the white house. they say that if gas prices go up, that support for sanctions dropped to 51 percent. so why do these rallies matter on their signs? they're repeating the words of the vice president of ukraine. they're invoking the stories of heroics, a few colorful signs about the response to that russian warship from the island. they're trying to paint. this is a human struggle to say, look, you're paying more of the gas prices. these people are fighting for their lives, trying to get that message out to american. because for the president to continue

on, this path is going to need public support. that said their big demand here is more weapons to ukraine. probably got to be having some difficulty. obviously they're not going into creating aerospace as they were before. but they did an outsourced today, an additional $350000000.00 in military support. and they're laying out their what their cellular veritas and that takes that missiles the can take our tanks and ammunition. so they said that's a 1000000000 dollars this year. they're given the ukraine, the protesters here. so that simply not enough, not given what a ukraine is facing on the battlefields, political haine, at that protest outside the white house patty, for the moment. thank you. and found that family back here in the u. k. there was a rare show of unity between footballers in the premier league on saturday. ever to then manchester city showed their support for ukraine before their premier league match. city war t shirts with the ukrainian flag while everton emerged drape draped in the flag of

ukraine. cities ukrainian player alexander's jenko was visibly moved by that display, having earlier embraced his countrymen vitale, michel ankle. who plays for evert, ah, and our reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, russia is closing in on ukraine's capital cave. it's missiles here to residential apartment block overnight, while people are preparing to spend another night in shelters. the president followed me. zalinski says he'll stay in the city and fight to defend it. the u. k . and usa, the largest part of russia's military, is 30 kilometers from the center. while another large convoy of russian trucks has crossed the border into ukraine. moscow says it's not targeting residential areas but says it's using precision.