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stop protein from using his war chest western allies agree to cut some russian banks from the swift international payments system. thousands on the move ukrainian families had across the border to poland to seek shelter. and small protests against the assault are held in dozens of russian cities, despite mast attentions and the last 2 days. ah, just after a double o g m t just gone to a m and kia where russian forces are stepping up, their assault on the ukrainian capital. loud explosions had been heard across the city bits 3000000 residence. i've been told to take shelter with fears. the battle is going to get close to the center. a curfews been imposed until monday morning. ne barker begins our coverage. ah.

the moment a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of the ukrainian capital case. and the attacks evidence say the ukranian authorities are russia's willingness to hit civilian targets of xhylia. now we go was we managed to escape all the way in kitchen when we were lucky. it was a direct hit in the living room that 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. below them is a lensky, affirm. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities. shem door, uncle. great. 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 ah. before being pulled to safety and of the city of hawk 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. we're

really sure if the video nazi during the not the russian military use long range, high precision weapons, see an air launched cruise missiles to struck the targets among the ukrainian military infrastructure. i'd like to state once again, strikes are only aimed at ukrainian military targets. ah, but that's not what the residents, 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 cave 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, south east, where the russian flag now flies over a local police station. if you work. this video shop 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 putin. and some of these troops believe histories on their side story, i guess 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 and out of fuel menissi or were you cranes? 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 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 balkan al jazeera. that's me to her. now the max i can kill, he's just stepped out of a bunker to speak to us, and he's the head of the ukrainian prism. it's a non governmental analytical center. thank you. very much indeed for being with us . give us some idea if you can what the conditions are like in the bunker that you've been in 0 one keys wise. okay. it is just across our streets and it is a basement where it was previously in light club. so we have why fi, there are some, some facilities. so with ok much, maybe all this nonsense. a luxury facilities in bunker. tell

us what people are feeling. the people that are in the bunker there with you, they should peer, they him risk move, fear because of the shower in these, these at the ation we experience during those days it's constant right to their lives, to the life of their beloved. and so basically, each can use a handle on their smartphones. they trying to try to discuss and maybe to find either a positive news, they can just be glad of it. we're getting reports that the russians are advancing towards kids. have you seen or heard anything to indicate where they might be? as moment i would say, we believe to our mayor of keel creech cook, who said that the regular troops or freshman federation out of the city, we have several very groups. this is right, and so yes,

there was experience of having a lot of them arrested in key. what's the, i think this is the usual way. they tried to, to just instate some panic within the population and within seconds of the city. but at the same time, i wouldn't say the tang say here my, the 1st day was quite hard and we experience that it was a real danger and challenge to have tens over here. let's talk about the people who have said that they are going to defend care of against the russians. what do you feel is the mood that amongst those people? no, they quite confident they should defend their own seat is their own muslim country . and i would say that at this moment a statistics say that we here are double, no norm of those who we expected to have in the, in the,

in the steady child, the defense. so basically, at the moment, we'll excise some weaponry, but we have many willing people who want to joins is that the defense to just to fantasy on cd. so basically the movie is quite ok and i think that this is something that we didn't didn't expect when he started. he's just crazy, raging and credit. there are, of course, ongoing discussions about whether or not there should be talks between the ukrainian government and the russian government. what are your thoughts on that? how confident are you that some sort of agreement could be reached to the benefit of ukraine in those talks? i think it all depends on the situation. on the phones, i wouldn't under estimate the number of things and our movie goes and the soldiers with russian boots on our territory. they outnumber ukrainian soldiers,

but still the hill quite weak wheeled to, to fight. and i think that these time in these 1st days was expecting to hear of week victory. would you give him some leverages during the negotiation at this moment? i see the situation changes and he's exhausting. he's the resources to some extent, and he's on his army. he's not so willing to to be part of the story. so i think 90 crane gay some confidence that we could be on the right side of the game negotiations and to try to push back all the allegations of fracture and restore. also reading too. so basically, we're confident we could fight for that. what is your greatest fear now? right, his theory is that the number of dances,

so for russian soldiers is nothing for him. and he will be pomp ukraine with me at new new tanks, new armory cars, new soldiers, basically the assumption which is like a nightmare when you see that a lot of a lot of directions are here in ukraine. and this is still ongoing. and i'm going what i would reach rate ukrainians are confident and we still have the wheel to fight for our land. and basically we don't see fear the some people going to to the west part of the grants. i'm going to the outside of the grain. but feel like numbers ready to defend waste, basically ongoing ever of military on sort of diplomatic activity, many this coin while this process has not max sag, who stepped out of a bunker in kiev to talk specifically to us. and i'll just say that we appreciate your time. so thank you very much. indeed. cindy,

can the western nations are united to cripple russia economy and it's ability to finance the war in ukraine, certain russian bangs, to be borrowed from the international finance system. that means they're going to be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. the targets include russia, central bank, which holds reserves with $600000000000.00. 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. swift is the world's dominant global enter bank payment system. cutting banks off will stop them from conducting most of their financial transactions worldwide. and effectively block russian exports and inputs

and political haynes in washington dc forest party and be the important thing for us to remember as you were pointing out to us when the, the details. one day the news came out is that we are have to wait for the details of this to be released. and when it comes to financial sanctions, the details are really all that matters. couple of things, i think it's important to point out. they are making this joint announcement, not that they've done it, but that they're going to do it. and then another important caveat is she said we're going to target some banks. so why does that matter? well, this has been the big concern throughout all of the alliance. if you cut off all the banks, then let's say, for example, germany gets gas from a russian company. germany needs to pay for that gas. how can i do that if it can't use the banking system? so the key here is going to be how many banks they go after, are they going to go for the truly powerful ones? so what this is basically, a swift is a messaging system between banks allows them to talk,

it allows them to trade money. so cutting some banks off would be very bad for those banks. the question is, can they do it? so it's not so bad for, let's say, the european economy. another really important caveat as they said that they were going to go after the russian capital bank. that is where putin's war chest is. now, how exactly are they going to do that? they said, and it was a little bit more specific coming from the europeans than from the white house that they were going to make it impossible to liquidate assets. so basically this $600.00 plus 1000000000 of fund that putin has to shore up his rouble and the government that's in different currencies. so theoretically, they could go in and say if you own, let's say american dollars, you can't sell those american dollars. so you're basically having that, but you can't actually use it as to liquidate your assets. so, but that's going to be the tricky part. exactly how limited it is, how in there and able to actually in put those those restrictions in place.

but it's an important piece. so vladimir putin, president putin has believed that he is somewhat insulated from sanctions because he's built up the huge war chest. but what we've seen in the last week is the ruble versus the dollar is just absolutely plummeted. this could really start to have an actual impact on a mirror and regular russian people, if all of a sudden you need a way more ruble to, to buy a loaf of bread that is going to create some political pressure. so he needs this money to be able to keep the ruble a basically steady. so exactly how those sanctions play out. that could be a huge part. and we also see they're taking a different tact. they're trying to go after the people are, they say they're going to go after the people closest to put in the really, truly wealthy. there's a thing they've been able to use in the past to avoid sanctions. is they call it the golden passport. basically, you pay a lot of money to a country and you get a passport. so you can't necessarily deal in business as a russian,

but perhaps you can do it from this other country. so they're going to be trying to squeeze that circle of power around vladimir putin. i tried to cut off any way that they can evade these sanctions. now got going back to the swift. one thing experts have said is it's not necessarily full proof. there are other systems messaging system they can use, they're not as good, but they can use them. so we're gonna have to wait and see how impactful these are when they actually announce what they're doing. party. thank you very much. indeed, political him talking to us from washington dc. so it had an order 0. we're going to tell you about the ukranian citizens, turkey matters into their own hands. kind of big transfer, the premier league, how the war is hitting a giant of european football. ah, ah, look forward to really to scully's,

the with sponsored point cuts on it weighs i there a great to see you. you're locked into your weather update for asia. we're going to begin with a snapshot of the weather in india and to be told it's a fairly quiet pitcher hydro bad, $34.00 degrees above average. and we've got some showers in the indian state of westbank. all the most of the activity is over the and a min and nika, bar islands. when we start to see some of the yellow is pop up on our map, that's more intense rain falling for sri lanka, mostly dry except for that south west corner. it's also dry a for the southeast of india town they do, and i 32 degrees the high for you. okay. se asia looks like that. this. remember that rain, it was parked over the malay peninsula. that's now move further west. this becomes a story for of the top end of march of very likely to see some flooding here. and there are flight advisories out for the philippines, both in the south and also in the north. so look at these bands of rain striking some of the islands here is a moderate flooding advisory in the south,

but in the north for lose on island, we in fact have a severe flood advisory we check in on the conditions for china. it remains dr. hong kong, your temperature has now popped up to $21.00 degrees and that snow has returned once again for japan western areas in time, sophia has got a hive. 16 degrees on sunday season. oh, the weather sponsored by casara ways. americans are increasingly st. authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command, it seemed like tried to cover what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong . that to me is political malpractice, the bottom line on us politics and policies and the impact on the world. on al jazeera award winning documentary from around the world. one which is 0, a

ah, the watching or does it a reminder? what told stories this, our russian forces are stepping up the result in the ukrainian capital, loud explosions have been heard across the city. it's 3000000 residents have been told to take shelter with fears. the battle is going to get close to the center. you to be in countries are sending weapons to help ukraine defend itself. britain, france, and germany are among nations supplying onto tank weapons, turn rockets to fight russian troops. western nations are uniting to cripple russia's economy certain russian bank, so to be barred from the international finance system. meaning they're going to be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. william blacks and economists don, professor of economics and law, but the university of missouri,

he says russia is ill prepared to cope with sanctions. 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 hooton's has been doing to supposedly prepare the russian economy ah, who were being sanctioned crew 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 of that this becomes his afghanistan economically. and politically. putin has shown repeatedly that the ala carte sir useful in, in making him very wealthy, but that he can and will break them half show trials, 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. in ukraine, the mood remains defiant. several videos showing civilians making molotov cocktails have been circulating online. it follows calls from leaders for people to take up arms against russian troops. we've got correspondence across the country bringing us the latest developments. honda of the homemade has been traveling to nipple in eastern 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 empty and self becoming and 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 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 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,

old 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 trends is building up position that's there will protect the cities, the entries, the exits, and then we slowly arrived to nipper. and as we arrived in april, 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 their sto, doorstep. the question is, when is it coming and certainly they know it's not going to be pretty. one of our colleagues was briefly detained as he was reporting from easton ukraine. charles stafford is now in utah and here's a story. we returned from the city of zapper isha, 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, paired with their guns, many's and pointing towards us firing in the air. they demanded that we get out of the vehicle. we threw ourselves to the ground, our camera mans of 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 saboteurs. trying to get into cities and compromising military positions. but so as i say, our cameras were still rolling when this incident happened. let's take a look. hi. yeah. della

it. stop, stop, stop, stop, stop filming with no leased, no leased, no leased, my good journalist, joe. he wasn't a journalist. oh, i'm with one of the is 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 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 check point 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. no police in russia have launched are cracked and to deal with a growing anti war sentiment close to 2000 people. angry over the wall and ukraine have been arrested since the offensive began. the unrest has spread to 54 cities and anti war protest aren't just taking place in russia. people around the world have been expressing their outrage of the invasion that in barber reports from london on the demonstrations across europe. oh, 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 came and what is happening in and not just it,

it's not just the military, it 8 big holes interested 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. 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 the kremlin nuns, i mean, we have to press it to where we can. the crowd has been chanting 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 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 letting refugees command. i'm anti spat visas for them all to get here. and then once the head with it will 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 chelsea football clubs, russian owner, roman abram of ej has handed control of the club to its charitable foundation. the billionaire whose own the european champions for 20 years made the decision after a u. k. parliamentary debate this week on sanctions against vladimir prudence government. what m p cold on the british government to seize abramoff at his assets including chelsea, associated press, sports correspondent rob harris explains what the move means in practice.

symbolically. it's hugely significant in the fact that a problem of it is signaling he stepping aside. but once he 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. but 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. now there's been nothing stated that around which would face sanctions at this point, but they sees him stepping away. it's trying to sort of create a distance between himself and the club intent, the decision making at least ah, this is all just, these are the top stories, russian forces stepping up the result and the ukrainian.