again, oh, president bashar al assad. we believe assad simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night? many a reason that could effect any human eyesight master of chaos on all jazeera ah . ukraine's capital on edge residents take shelter as rush as steps up its military advance. ah matheson, this is al jazeera, alive from doha, with special coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. also coming up we will stop protein from using his war chest. western allies agree to cut some russian banks from the swift international payments system. while in

a major shift in germany prepared to send missiles, an anti tank weapons to ukraine, and thousands on the move ukrainian families had across the border to poland. as the russian attack intensifies, ah, western nations are uniting to cripple russia's economy and its ability to finance the war in ukraine, certain russian banks, so to be barred from the international finance system. that means they're going to be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. and several european countries will send weapons and ammunition to ukraine, including germany, which has resisted the move so far. it comes as russian forces continue their assault and the ukrainian capital load gun fire can be heard across. give it back or begins are coverage with the moments of

missiles slammed into an apartment block in the south that the ukrainian capital key if and the attacks evidence say the ukranian authorities are rush willingness to hit civilian targets. xhylia man with a was a 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 somewhere 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 he had destroyed a russian military convoy trying to enter the city. follow to me as a lensky, affirm. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities. shem, dora runcle grains. 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. 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 to jail ocean were on

his shoulders, his divinity. 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 key of 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. 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 lithium reputed. and some of these troops believe histories on their side started to rec, 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 a ukrainian driver and some stranded russian soldiers lost and out of fuel amenities. but 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 and then even more destructive way with the possibility of mass civilian casualties ah, the kremlin has the capacity for both the volcano, al jazeera european commission, president ursula vaughan de lyons says, the you along with the u. s. and some other countries will impose new sanctions on russia. the targets include rushes at central bank, which holds reserves, worth $600000000000.00. we commit to ensuring that a certain number of rational banks are removed from swift. this will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally. swift. it's the world's dominant global entre bank payment system. cutting banks off will stop them from conducting most of their

financial transactions worldwide and effectively block russian exports and inputs. berego hanes live for us in washington dc party. this was part of a joint statement with the in you, france, germany, italy, the united kingdom, canada. and of course, the united states. in many ways, these are the sanctions that a lot of people have been expecting well, we think they might be, but it's interesting. they put out a statement, a joint save insane with it that, that in the coming days they were going to put these sanctions forward a. but when it comes to sanctions and exactly how it's written, that's what really matters. and there's some key language that you just heard from there. and from the white house statement, it said they're going to cut off swift from some brush and banks. so the key is going to be, are the, are the banks that are truly important to the economy on that list? the big concern had been among western leaders is if you completely shut russian

banks out of swift, for example. it's a messaging system, right? it's how banks talk to each other. it's how they figure out how to move money back and forth. well, if russia is sending gas to, let's say germany and germany needs to use the banking system to pay for that gas. well, if they're cut off from the german system, they can't do that. so very critical language. they're that they're going to do it with some russian bank. so we don't know how hard, hard hitting or biting these are going to be. they did talk about targeting the russian capital bank and the white house statement said that they were going to for their gonna keep that bang from deploying its international reserves. so again, this is a better question for experts, but you have to wonder if russia knew this was coming in. you mentioned they have a huge war chest. are they really going to keep those assets overseas, or would they keep them in russia because they are going to be needed to shore up the rubel that would have the biggest impact on the russian people. we've already seen the rubel fall against the us dollar at one point last week. it was $88.00

roubles for one us dollar. at one point, it seemed like it was the worst exchange rate for russia in a very, very long time. if not, if ever. so again, the question is, how much are they going to go after those assets? can they go after the acids in russia seems unlikely, but we have to wait for the details. the other thing they announced is they're going to get rid of this, what they call the golden pat, a parachute at basically cutting off the wealthiest russians from being able to buy citizenship in another country so than they can continue to do financial transaction. saying, let's say i'm not a rush it, i'm using this passport so i can still have access to the banking system. so couple of interesting things there announcing that they're going to do it, but they're not doing it again. possibly trying to hope by sending the message that they will take these steps that it will feature into russian president vladimir putin. calculus, although it doesn't appear and he sanctioned so far have actually done that. and

really leaving it vague, they said they're going to meet in the coming week and they're going to hammer out the details. but until we really get through page after page, after page in the experts who understand these things better than most journalists tell us exactly how biting they're going to be. we don't know, but we do know that this was a step that has been called for. it's a step there, indicating that they're going to take just exactly how big of a step. well, we don't know, patty, thank you very much. indeed, i want to bring in for william black. he's one of those experts that patty was talking about as an economist and professor of economics and on the law of university, missouri. kansas city is joining us from minneapolis. good to have you with us or on al jazeera. patti's raised a very important point, isn't it? it's all very well to say that you're going to bring in these sanctions, but if you're only going to do it to certain banks that made limits the amount of impact it has, what's your take on what's been announced this evening? so what's good announced isn't an actual implementation plan, so i agree with their folly that until we see the details you,

you can actually know what they're going to do in any event. you always have to remember sanctions are typically a matter of years. ah, they were ultimately affect the advance in south africa, but it took a decade to change the politics there. and i and is a number of these things. russia is exceptionally good at evading and has long experience innovating as such limits. we're just looking at some pictures now at the center of kia, where we understand that there have been some attacks in the last arose. so we're gonna keep across that of course, and, and bring more details on that as it happens. but william with regard to the preparations that russia has been making ahead of time. there's been a lot of speculation that russia has been for one of about a phrase hoarding. it's money, it's got to be a southern well fund. i think of about $631000000000.00 our sanctions,

even the ones, if they go to what is listed in this joint statement. actually going to have a significant enough impact on russia to be able to force president putin to take different action. well, that's actually a political question, but yes, if you keep the sanctions on economically well within the next 2 to 3 years, they will have a very substantial bite. and by the way, the things that putin has been doing to supposedly prepare the russian economy for being sanctioned proof are actually very harmful to the russian economy. and the russian economy is incredibly weak relative to its military power. so putin does have to worry considerably that, that this becomes, he has afghanistan economically and politically. in terms of the, the,

the specific mentioned that they made of targeting the assets of rich russians abroad. and also the golden passport system that had said it was going to, it may well stop from now long again. why do you think specifically they have targeted those individuals? is that because they have some influence over vladimir putin? yeah, i think that's actually a political miscalculation that they think that the oligarchy run putin instead of the other way around. putin has shown repeatedly that the ala carte serv useful in, in making him very wealthy, but that he can and will break them, have show trials, and put them in prison, literally kill them in prison, and devastate them economically. so i think the united states has it wrong in believing that if it goes after the cronies, it's going to make life

a difficult for putin. well, as you say, we're gonna have to wait to see what the details of this proposal. but for now, william black, thank you very much indeed for your time. so thank you. thank. let's take you back to ukraine itself. we have correspondence across the country, bringing us the latest developments, auto auto. hamid has been traveling to nipple and east of ukraine, and she sent this update about what she witnessed along the way. we were in clamor tours when this war started, and we've been witnessing this city, which is a city of a 150000. people just sort of emptied himself, becoming 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 and 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 trained,

building trenches, building up position that several protect the cities, the entries, the exits, and then we slowly arrived 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 precautions. 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 danger summons for this report where we made a journey across central ukraine in keys for the west. there has been some clashes between russian forces on the ukrainians. the credit 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 country side, 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. and what we're also seeing is defiance is a 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 all men from the ages of 18 to 60. you've been conscripted to fight for the ukranian army, and that means many families seeking safety are forced to flee, leaving fathers and brothers behind john hall has more from the coach rover cock of its border crossing since thursday we were told a 115000 people across from ukraine into poland at one of 3 border. the points this one were told is the easiest one to get across. the weight here is in the many, many hours. it's extremely cold. most of the hundreds of hundreds, thousands, perhaps of people. here are women and children. men, of course, 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 coal we have from real incident, of course, we are running from silence and from the, from the danger we are scared are we, we are alone with our daughter. we don't have a defender. so that's why we, we are looking for some kind of for shelter and tower fancies from schooling has been fighting there today. hm. yes. and the, the, the, the cd baton where nearby they live nearby. it was a completely can you tell her? yeah, how it feels to be here. again, keep just put that out. oh yeah. what are you hoping with 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 polish side their progresses achingly slow. they are only allowing groups of 50 people at a time through. and you can see all these little sticks being held above people's heads with little pieces of paper on them that marks a makeshift group of 50 people waiting an awful long way ahead of them to get through and behind the bus load off the bus close. after bus load after busload arriving all the time. and he's a p fleeing the terror of what is happening in that 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 with people who lived relatively normal, relatively happy, relatively carefree lives in a free sovereign country. you're right, 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 back. more than 100000 ukrainians have been fleeing to neighboring poland. warsaw as expecting to help as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. but crowds, checkpoints are so large, it could take people 3 days to be processed. seen by striving reports. 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 stations. bloody measurements, he was working in the netherlands when the war broke out. he's waiting for his 5 sons to arrive from across the border to take 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 put, i can say, when you lose, when you lose your rope, i can be the next one, all and all the rope. i may be 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. they can fun fun. and so this is everywhere. if they have a, some mamma, song toys to but alter, go love, viola, some filled with dangerous station,

but would 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, 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 newborn 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 hunting, i'd gladly, bum putin 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 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 bus ravi l g 0 sham. ashleigh eastern poland. back in ukraine, the mood remains defiant. several videos showing civilians making molotov cocktails have been circulating on line and follows calls from leaders for people to take up arms against russian troops. meanwhile, police have launched a crackdown to deal with the growing anti war sentiment across russia. close to 2000 people angry over the war and ukraine had been arrested since the offensive began. the unrest is spread to 54 cities, an online petition to stop the attack. as close to 1000000 signatures, russian internet users reported problems using facebook and twitter was the government accuses of amplifying dissenting views. anti war protests aren't just

taking place in russia, people around the world or been expressing their outrage at the invasion. nadine baba reports from london on the demonstrations across europe 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 father about the 2nd world war and how the extension came and what is happening me in and not just it, it's not just the military, it 8 big holes thing to start today, killing people. ah, there were similar solidarity protests across europe. this was munich in the south of germany itself, no stranger to upheaval, and dark episodes in history. them answer once the widow, when we're worried about our brothers sisters, our relatives. you look at the people gathered here 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 bleak calling on 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 madman at the moment in, in the kremlin ands. i mean, we have to press it to where we can, the crowd has been shown to in glory to ukraine and denouncing the russian president. but they've also been calling for specific measures. they will, britain to take right now, including greater financial sanctions and more military held for ukraine's armed forces. and while the ukrainian flag now flies from government buildings, many are angry. there is no legal route for most ukrainians to seek asylum in britain. we need to be lacking refugees, command. i'm anti spat pieces for them all to get here. and then once the head there with it were ever afterwards for now all ukrainians outside the country can

do is hope the fighting and soon and urge the world to do more to make that happen . nadine baba al jazeera london, demonstrate as a new york city of turned out and forced to denounce russia's actions against ukraine. it comes a day after a similar protest was held outside the russian mission to the united nations. new york is home to more than a 150000 ukrainians, thought to be the largest such community in the u. s. and the kremlin website has been taken offline by a cyber attack. ukrainian media says it's one of 6 state affiliated sites in russia that have gone down the hackers, collective known as anonymous, is thought to be responsible. the groups announced on twitter that it is at war with the russian government. and youtube has blocked to russian state channel r t and several other russian media outlets remaining advertising revenue in the platform. it said it was taking action against outlets with links to recent sanctions. the companies also restricted access to the channels in ukraine. that's

after the ukrainian government asked it to block propagandist russian content. let me just take you back to some live pictures. we're getting out of key f. no, as you can possibly see in the air on the horizon there, there are some flashes of red light. we understand that may well be an indication of attacks carrying on on the outskirts of care of at the moment is difficult. of course, to tell you exactly where those are as soon as we get more information about that, we will bring it to you. but this is live pictures from the center of key f. at the moment, sweden has joined the boycott of russia on the football pitch. its football association says the national team want to participate in a potential playoff match against russia over what it calls the illegal and deeply unjust invasion of ukraine. sweden joins poland, which earlier said boycotting its upcoming game in moscow was the right decision. poland and russia were due to meet on march the 24th,

where the winner facing sweden, or the czech republic. today annabel's only one, there was no doubt about it here. the players themselves do not want to play against the russians. they don't want to stand before the game and listen to the russian national anthem or look at the russian flag. of course, there is no fault of the russian footballers here, but this country has to face the consequences. it's hard to think of playing football when innocent people are dying. what? chelsea football clubs a russian owner roman abramoff, which has handed control of the club to its charitable foundation. the billionaire has owned the european champions for 20 years, made the decision after u. k. parliamentary debate this week on sanctions against letting me uprooting the government. what m p called on the british government to seize upon the witches assets including chelsea associated press sports corresponding role powers explains for the move means in practice and how chelsea's future remains uncertain. despite the decision symbolically, it's hugely significant in the realm of it is signaling he stepping aside. but once

she sort of del further into the statement and based on my own conversations, he will be still winning. chelsea, he has no plans to sell. i'm told this is clearly a reaction to the growing pressure being felt by the british government targeting russians in the wake of the russian invasion of ukraine. ned, as be nothing stated, that's a problem which would face sanctions at this point, but they save him stepping away. it's trying to sort of create a distance between himself and the club. insert the decision making at least ah, this is all just there are. these are the told stories russian forces are continuing their assault and the ukrainian capital light explosions can be heard across. give it canadian president. logan is lensky has urged residents to.