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o g 0 with blue with under attack by air and on the ground fighting reaches the streets of the ukrainian capital. keith as russia steps up its military advance. ah no, and barbara sarah, this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up no retreat, no surrender. a president for laudermill zalinski is defiant message to his forces . as he says, the ukrainian army has managed to derail the russian offence,
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fleeing in search of sanctuary. ukrainian families had across the border as the russian attacks intensify and calling for an end to the war, rallies across the world to protest against russia's military action in ukraine. ah, russian troops are closing in on the capital cave as part of their land sea and air military action in ukraine. loud, heavy gunfire was heard on the streets late on saturday and people have been ordered to stay inside. an extended curfew is in place and anyone outside will be considered the enemy will at the fy. integrating in president has made another public address. we will fight, as long as it takes to liberate the country vulgar mi zalinski, said in a short video message, and they will soon have some further assistance. the german chancellor,
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all of schoultz as his country, will provide ukraine with 1000 anti tank weapons and 500 surface to air missiles. promises of weapons to from the netherlands, the barcode begins are coverage. ah. the moment a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of the ukrainian capital, kia and the attacks evidence say the ukranian authorities are russia's willingness to hit civilian targets. ha xhylia. now we go. as we managed to escape dewayne kitchen, we were lucky, it was a direct hit in a 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,
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followed me as a lensky affirm. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities, shimmed or, or uncle granger. 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 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 hawk
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heave, 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 wrong as yours is the video nazi 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 where that's not what the residence of 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
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key if 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 graham war since world war 2, to let him reputed and some of these troops believe histories on their side. stud address, we've been waiting since 2014. finally, i'll throw away this gun and will live peacefully amidst the fighting a light hearted exchange between the ukrainian driver and some stranded russian soldiers lost elsie fuel and i see her brother, ha,
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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 of an even more destructive way with the possibility of mass civilian casualties. oh, the kremlin has the capacity for both the volcano al jazeera. how does that mean? meanwhile, is in net ne pro in eastern ukraine, she's forced indoor, is because of the curfew. she spent the day that traveling and sent this update about what she witnessed along the way. 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 becoming and like the empty set of
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a movie our last night, for example, the city was pitch black. the light churned of purposely by the municipality. it was quite deary, 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, can strike here straight now to brussels. ursula vander lined the you can commission, she is leaking about the situation feeling in ukraine. let's listen. at the same time, the entire world is witnessing the determined and brave resistance by the ukrainian army and population. as russian forces sunday, they are assault on kiff and other ukrainian cities. we are resolved to continue imposing massive costs on russia. costs that will further isolate russia from the
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international financial system and our economies in coordination with president biden privy to my home. when this concern choice and prime minister, driving, as well as prime minister toodles and prime minister johnson, we considered a significant tightening of our international response. the european union and its partners are working to cripple proteins ability to finance his war machine. i will now propose to lead us the following measures. first, we commit to ensuring that a certain number of russian banks are removed from swift. this will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and hom, their ability to operate globally swiftness, the world's dominant global enter bank payment system. cutting banks off will stop
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them from conducting most of their financial transactions worldwide and effectively block russian exports and imports. second, we will start a protein from using his war chest. we will paralyze the assets of russia, the central bank. this will freeze its transactions and it will rate it impossible for the central bank to liquidate acid. and finally, we will work to prohibit rationale galks from using their financial assets on our markets. all of these measures with significantly harm put his ability to finance his war and they will have any roading severely roading impact on
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his economy. putting, embarked on a path aiming to destroy ukraine. but what he's also doing, in fact, is destroying the future of his own country. no vinegar dotson kilometer, under us, consider all patient unknown and found ro, we've just been hearing from the european commission. chief ursula vander line a speaking there in brussels, about the new package of sanctions against her russia. so let me just outlined, some of the things that she's been mentioning, this is what the e was decided which she said in coordination as well with canada, the u. s and the u. k. so 1st of all the, the swifter, dominant inter bank payment system, a lot of discussions being had about that. and she said that a certain number of russian banks will be removed from swifter. are there had been,
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um, or i guess some controversies about some you countries that hadn't quite gotten on board with this, but countries like italy and germany agreed to it earlier today. a so measure number one that a certain number of russian banks will be removed from swift, which is the dominant inter bank payment system. and then measure number 2 are the blue paralyzed assets are by of the russian central a bank, which means it would make it impossible for the bank to liquidate assets and also a push number 3, or that number 3, they will stop oligarchs from using assets or in or within the e u. so all of this done to try to road the russian economy. and of course, to try to stop vladimir putin from using his of use in, or the countries or economic or wealth to pursue this war against ukraine or slip underlying or so saying that term vladimir putin had tried to initiate the
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destruction of ukraine. but he is also now destroying the future of his, that people. so this some new package of measures that we just heard announced by the chief of the european commission. ursula vander line on the main points there that some russian banks will be removed from st. west and that's the dominant, the inter bank payment system. and that also, assets of the russian central bank will be paralyzed and so impossible for it to liquidate. acids. we will be getting reaction to this announcement by the chief of the e u. commission or cilla of bonder line that the statement just made right now. but obviously a showing the e use determination to act as strongly as possible to try to stop the current invasion of ukraine by russia. speaking of russia, bernard smith is actually in moscow with more on the diplomatic efforts to end the
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conflict. well, blood him is lensky says he spoken to the presidents of turkey and as by john and both men say that pad together to help try and set up some sort of talks or negotiations with moscow. moscow says they had tried, we're expecting talks to start on friday and brought him a food nicely order that whole. and as a pause in the assault on ukraine, on the invasion of ukraine and those talks are supposed to take place in minsk then moscow says wanted to have them in water instead. and then moscow says they heard nothing further from the ukrainians. now we don't know what bases moscow prepared to hold those talks, but we do know, of course, let me put putin is called on the ukranian army to overflow. over throws the landscape is government and moscow's foreign minister has said he can't see. he can't view the current, recreate in a government on its lead a democratic so who moscow would be willing to speak to is unclear at the moment.
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launch is there, is that right near 3 d is in southwest russia where resources are being deployed across the border. yes. and then i hit us. alaska. convoys of russian military gear continue to flood across the russian ukraine. border armored gear and vehicle mounted missiles. as you can see behind me, an armored vehicle carrying self propelled missiles is headed towards the borderline with ukraine. now these batteries can fire 16 missiles within 20 seconds . the convoys will take part in the ongoing military operations, the fear system, which is currently raging on the dunbar front, where we are standing now is only a few kilometers from the border. and this scene is repeated elsewhere as other convoys are crossing the borderline into ukraine. on other roads. so that's what's happening on the border. while a little earlier, one of our colleagues was briefly detained as he was reporting in eastern ukraine,
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shall stratford is in naperville and hear his story. we returned from the city of czar parisha where the situation is becoming increasingly tense. a lot more military checkpoints, a lot more military hardware then 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 mans 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 the ukrainian military and security services about what they describe as cyber. hers trying to get into cities and compromising military
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positions. but as i say, our cameras was still rolling when this incident happened. let's take a look. hi, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop building. the new list. you do journalist jonah was a journalist. also the the
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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 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 in the 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,
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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. of french president manuel mac wrong says the war is likely to continue for the foreseeable future and have consequences for all of europe like this war will last and all the crises to go with it will have durable consequences. we must prepare ourselves with lots of determination and also lots of solidarity war has returned to europe. this war was unilaterally chosen by president putin, with a tragic humanitarian crisis. a population that resists and the european union that resists alongside ukrainian people. and we'd need to try to build peace and protect
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it and take all the necessary measures of implementing sanctions. collins government says a 115000 people are fleeing the russian invasion of ukraine have crossed into poland. so far, it's expecting to assist as many as 5000000 people in the days and weeks ahead. crowns are so big a check posts between ukraine and poland right now, that he could take it 3 days for people to get to safety. st bizarre ivy has been speaking to people arriving by rail in eastern poland. beyond the reaches of the russian army, refugees from ukraine arrive in the safety of poland. forced to take only what is most important, only what they can carry. here friendly faces, open arms, and as much comfort as can be had sheltering in a train station. vladimir sherman ski was working in the netherlands when the war broke out. he is waiting for his 5 sons to arrive from across the border to take
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them to safety. he'll then return to ukraine where he says he will join his wife a soldier in the national army. ukrainians are prepared to die. he says before ever surrendering their country to russian president vladimir putin, i can see when ukrainian loose, when you grin lose, your robberies can be next one, holland and all the rope by and maybe america. so help us or or it can be the same way. again. ukraine's decision to conscript men of fighting age into the armed forces has divided families. the women who have fled with their children. no, that long, good buys may turn out to be final farewells. but there is resilience here. my note is always tried to have found fun. making fun fun. and so this is everywhere. if they have a son, mamma, song, toys. but all her go love, viola,
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some of dangerous station, but we try to be strong to not so panic for many of the displaced the semester. the train station will be the 1st time any of them have seen any sort of help in days. a hot meal, a place to rest. 3 a ride to cities across europe, even people opening up their own homes to offer those displaced by the fighting in ukraine a place to stay. there has been an outpouring of support from volunteers who want to help any way they can. we met maria in tears as she searched for a mother with a new born she had met earlier in the day. she came back to the train station with toys, but the mother and baby are gone. the oven like hence, i'd gladly bump houston to england and the u. s. and other countries just get dozens of planes to bomb him. that's all i want to say. there is solidarity with
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ukrainians and anger at russia as europe's latest refugees try to figure out what to do next. desperate produce from the people they left behind. those that made it out of ukraine have a warning for the rest of the world. millions of lives are at stake. help stop russia. while you still care. zane basra, the old 0 sham ashleigh eastern poland. and as we have reported, men from the age of 1860 have been conscript at the fight and many families sling are leaving. father is and brothers behind john hall is that ukraine's border with poland at the college of kirk of its border crossing since thursday, we're told 150000 people have crossed from ukraine into poland at one of 3 border crossing points. this one we're told is the easiest one to get across. the wait here is in the many, many hours. it's extremely cold. most of the hundreds and hundreds, thousands, perhaps of people. here are women and children. men, of course,
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ukrainian citizens between the age of 18 and 60 required to stay at home and fight and given the evidence of resistance. but not many of them appear to be arguing with that call. we have family, of course we are learning from and from the, from the danger. here we are alone with our daughter. we don't have a defender. so that's why we, we are looking for some kind of shelter and our fancies from been fighting there today. and so the, the, the, the town where we're nearby, they live nearby. it was just completely now with every day that passes with every grim new development in this war, these numbers are only going to grow overwhelming. the border guards here on the ukranian side and on the pony side, the progress is achingly slow. they're only allowing groups of 50 people at
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a time through little sticks being held about people's heads with little pieces of paper on them. that makes a group of 50 people waiting an awful long way ahead of them to get through and behind the bus load off the bus load off the bus load off the bus arriving all the time. these are people fleeing the terror of what is happening in the country now heading for the european union for what now represents freedom and safety to them. but remember that until just a couple of days ago, these were people who lived relatively normal, relatively happy, relatively carefree lives in a free sovereign country. that is now being torn apart by war. the war is that way. freedom is that way. they know which way they have to go. they can't possibly have any idea when they'll be back or what they'll find when they do come
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back. i mean, well, protests are taking place around the world as people express outrage of the invasion of being baba reports from one of those protests here in london. oh, yeah. 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 great father about the 2nd world war and how the extension game. and this is ebony medium. and it's not just a, it's not just the military at 8 o'clock thing to start today, killing people. hi. there was similar solidarity protests across europe. this was music in the south of germany itself, no stranger to upheaval and dark episodes in history. them anthem, once the widow,
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when we're worried about our brothers, sisters are 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 public calling of nato to protect ukraine's air space. that was a key demand in london to which be supporting militarily ukraine as best as possible as a madman. at the moment in the kremlin nuns, i mean, we have to press it to where 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,
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as for the mold to get here. and then once the hair day with it will ever afterwards for now all ukrainians outside the country can do is hope the fighting ensued and urge the world to do more to make that happen. nadine baba al jazeera london and in the u. s. people have rallied outside the white house, making similar demands from now government more support to grain more. i don't know . i'm. i suspect he can to do the military, but i'm sure he can help me. it's more like maybe guns. i mean, i personally, you know, people that i like sleeping in the subway tonight and fully quote, just in case we need a wake outside of science and, you know, run some around like, i'm sorry, they have to pay an extra $510.00 at a fill up, there's people out here like afraid that they not, they might die tonight. so that's just, i think that's it. incredibly selfish, practical haynes speaking to some of the professors there and this is the rest of
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her report. they're saying that the russians bank, russian banks need to be cut off from swift messaging system. they're saying that there needs to be more weapon center ukraine, and they're calling especially for a no fly zone or spent the last week at the pentagon. that seems like a non starter, that is not something you are to even really talking about right now because they fear that that would lead to an american war with russia, russia, a nuclear power. but what's important here is this protest, and we're seeing them all over the country, different sizes, different cities. the one here is not probably get into the person they wanted to, joe biden, the president, he's not here. he's in wilmington, delaware, but what is here? it's a lot of media and they've been in the crowd, let me step out of the way. so you can see these people have been here all day, telling the stories. there are a lot of recreating americans here. there are a lot of americans here who just shove and affinity for ukraine or see what's going on is just completely wrong. they're telling their story to try and shore a public opinion, which is so far pretty good for ukraine. 85 percent of americans and polls say
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russia is to play that there. the bad actor, 67 percent say they support sanction. but here is where it gets tricky for the president. he has said doing this, it's going to hurt americans. gas prices are going to go up. gas prices are already really high. inflation is a huge concern among americans right now. so here ask if your gas prices go up, do you still support the sanctions? only 51 percent? say they do. so the people in this crowd are telling their stories and hope of changing that equation so that americans again begin to think it's in fact worth the sacrifice. and finally there was a rare show of unity between footballers in the premier league on saturday. everton and manchester city showed their support for ukraine before the match if you want t shirts for the ukranian flag while everson, they emerged that draped in the flight of ukraine. cities, ukrainian player, all exam jenko was visibly moved by the display,
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having earlier embraced his countrymen. vitale, nicholas ankle. who plays forever? ah, another top stories all al jazeera, russia is closing in on ukraine's capital. keith. heavy gunfire has been heard and night after miss isles hit a residential apartment. a curfew is now in place. many people are spending another night in shelters, and president vladimir zalinski says he will stay in the city and fight to defend it. the u. k. in the usa, the largest part of russia's military is 30 kilometers from the center. restrictions are in force in the capital and other areas of the bill. hamid ease in denise pro, which is an eastern ukraine. there is a curfew.

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