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mrs. n, nigerian women walk home was at witness on al jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world, sentimental handy take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to years. ah large explosions in ukraine's capital key of residence rushed to bunkers as russia steps up its military advance. ah, i don't know about this, and this is our de 0 live from doha. also coming up we will stop protein from using his war chest. western allies agree to cut some russian banks from the swift international payment system. buttons on the move ukrainian families had across the
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border to poland to seek shelter. and small protests against the assault are held in dozens of russian cities despite mast attentions in the last 2 days. ah, just gone 3, i am in queue for a russian forces at stepping up their assault in the ukrainian capital, light 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. a curfew has been imposed until monday morning. neve barker begins our coverage. ah. the moment to miss all 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 of xhylia.
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now we go was we managed to escape all the way in 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 somewhere by arrest years. ukraine's president had warned of a difficult night. and for many, it came this the aftermath of fears, fighting close to people's homes. ukrainian army said it had destroyed a russian military convoy trying to enter the city flow to me as a lensky, a firm key if 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.
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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. 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 sheer motion room is yours is given roughly 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
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are only aimed at ukrainian military targets. ah, but 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 cave afore to be russians, 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 id with cliff work. this video shot by russian state television shows russian tanks on the move in ukraine's east. this is europe's
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largest ground war since world war 2, lithium putin and some of these troops believe histories on their side story. i direct, 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. comenity were broken. 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 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,
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the kremlin has the capacity for both the volcano al, jazeera or western nations are uniting to cripple russia's economy and its ability to finance the war in ukraine. certain russian banks are to be barred from the international finance system. that means they're going to be prevented from carrying out transactions world wide. the targets include rushes, central bank, which holds reserves. or if it's $600000000000.00, 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, yeah, considerably that,
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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, have 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 but difficult for putin. i was william black and economist on former federal prosecutor here, professor of economics and law at the university of missouri, kansas city not more than a 100000 ukrainians, have been fleeing to neighboring poland. warsaw is expected to help as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. but crowds of checkpoints are so large, it could take people 3 days to be processed. seamless ravi reports. beyond the
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reaches of the russian army, refugees from ukraine arrived 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 shanaski 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 putin, i can say when you grin lose. when you grin and lose your robberies can bit next one, holland, and only roper and my be america too. so help us or, or stand with the same way again. ukraine's decision to conscript men of fighting
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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 dad is always tried to have found fun with they can find fun. and so this is everywhere. if they have a son, mamma, song dies, but all her go love, feel some filled with dangerous station, but would try to be strong and not so panic. for many of the displaced this 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
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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 my 20, i'd gladly bumper. send 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 for news 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 v l g 0 sham. ashleigh eastern poland. managed between 18 and 60 have been conscripted to fight for the ukrainian army, but that means many families seeking safety are forced to flee,
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leaving fathers and brothers behind joanna hall has more from the kosovar cockle that's border crossing since 1st they were told a 115000 people have crossed from ukraine into poland at one of 3 border crossing points. this one were 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 of hundreds, thousands, perhaps of people here a 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. while not many of them appear to be arguing with that coal we have from leave. and of course we are learning from silence and from the, from the danger. and 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 school has been
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fighting. there today has been on the yes and the, the, the, the cd but talent. we're nearby, they leave me a by, it was just the story. the lately, can you tell her? yeah. how it feels to be a 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 in the ukrainian side and the polish side. there progresses, achingly slow. they're only allowing groups of 50 people at a time through it and say all these little sticks being tells me the above people's heads with little pieces of paper on them. that mark a makes it of 50 people waiting an awful long way ahead of them to get through. and
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behind that bus load off the bus load after bus load after buffalo arriving all the time. these are people fleeing the terror of what is happening in their 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, you right, that he's 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. still had on our visitor, we're going to tell you about the ukranian citizens taking matters into their own hands. and chelsea's,
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report their vocal photos and behavior. we're able to how they're a daphne for their new environment. women make science dolphin sanctuary on al jazeera. with the a reminder of, i talk stories this hour, people in queue have been rushing to bunker's is russian forces step up the result on the ukrainian capital. loud explosions have been out across the city. and that affairs the battle will get close to the center. more than 100000 people across from the ukraine into poland was i was expected to help as many as 5000000 people
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in the weeks ahead. because of checkpoints is so large, it could take people 3 days to be processed, western nations or uniting to cripple rushes economy, certain russian banks, so to be borrowed from the international finance system, meaning they're going to be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. which advice is a security military analyst at wiki, strat? he's joining us from washington dc. good to have you with us on our 0 as russia been surprised by the resistance it's meeting. yes, i think the initial russian operation was similar to that. the united states use when entry nav, canada, san in late 2001. that is they relied on a light footprint. tried to make some rapid sher sent in pair troops to seize airfields, and expected. either i underestimated the degree of resistance they would face from
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the ukrainian armed forces or overestimated them on a popular support they would receive or both. and so you saw the might be many of these units fail to reach their objectives. now the russians apparently have retooled and are going for a much more conventional type attack, bringing a combined arm force of tanks, artillery and air to press upon key urban centers such as car call. and in that begin to talk us through how that was. because for those of us who obviously don't follow the military strategy of this kind of thing way, what does that mean in terms of what we're going to see on the ground? what are the ukrainians going to be facing? well, what it looks like is the russians are engaged in a 3 prong movement. are advancing from the north shore from bella rose in and trying to enter to reach the northern part of kia that way. they're also pushing
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from the east and, but they're most successful drive. it's been from the south. so i think that the northern forces and the, the eastern group. well, to concent serat trying for around here. and then use our tillery back by tanks and infantry with air support to take the city sector by sector. meanwhile, the group, it's coming in from the south. i look spike with all try and do is get between have and the main ukrainian unit that are now fighting in the don bath and car club and try and surround them. and that would give them the kind of scenario we saw often in this area during world war 2 in which the germans or the soviets would sweep around a major force. and as we saw,
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stalingrad eventually forced to surrender. we've had earlier on the last few hours that germany is said that it's going to be sending missiles and anti tank weapons. some other countries have said they're going to be sending similar weaponry. how much do you think that is going to change the dynamic of the fighting? i think it will accelerate the russian effort. so in the initial russian effort, they only use a small part of their force, but i think that they will want to try to complete their main goal of destroying the training and armed forces before all these munitions supplies, popular resistance movements come into play. so the longer the fighting goes on, the more important piece additional reinforcements coming from europe and the united states in terms of weapon tree and other support will will play. so i think they're going to try and achieve victory before that those dollars,
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reinforcement supplies, and weapon to make a difference if they, if they don't manage to achieve that victory before that weaponry starts to come into ukraine. what is the chance? do you think that russia is going to start trying to target those weapons deliveries? and my next question off the back of that is going to be, if they start hitting people from other countries, what's the risk that this is going to spill out with the borders of ukraine? right, so i think that just to, to in reverse order, what will happen is the nato countries will make the hand overs of the equipment along the border. so they won't actually bring, therefore enforces into ukraine. avoid getting into conflicts sound. so this will be different from delivery he saw before the war. so they may, i think maybe we'll be focus on and the area and west. so, but the broader question, snares are interesting pens have been on the course of the wart. pens have been on
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the ration war objective. so if the russians want to conquer all of ukraine, that's going to take a major effort and then they're going to major partisan movement. but that is a clearly defined situation as what we us on iraq space ableman pose. it's well on the country at least initially before the resistance take fault. maybe though. busy after they seize, have car, cars and crops, ukrainian government, they will decide to stop and then try and work out some kind of compromise. negotiated settlement too. but we just, we just not know, it's not clear what their warranty will be. it's not clear how fast or simple go and how much popular resistance ukrainians are going to be able, mobilize throughout the country. it's always really good to get your thoughts and situations like this, which invites we appreciate you as always being on altogether. so thank you very much indeed. in ukraine, the mood remains to find several videos showing civilians making molotov cocktails
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have been circulating online, and follows calls from leaders for people to take up arms against russian troops. meanwhile, police have launched a cracked and to deal with a growing anti war sentiment across russia. close to 2000 people angry over the war and ukraine have been arrested since the offensive began. and rest is spread to 54 cities, an online petition to stop the attack as close to $1000000.00 signatures nation internet users reported problems using facebook and twitter and which 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 of the invasion that he 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?
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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 you know, it just, it, it's not just the military to get a hold me cold thing for saturday, 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 amongst them 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
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best as possible as madman. at the moment in the kremlin nuns, i mean, we have to pretty what 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 help 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, rattle gave command, am and dispatch fees as 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. nadeem barbara al jazeera london for you as president donald trump as wait in the russia ukraine war. he said, pushing would never have invaded ukraine if he was still in the white house. made the remarks at a meeting of conservative republicans in orlando,
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florida. republicans hoping to call back last grand in mid term elections in november when john hendern is lifeless in orlando wants. donald trump saying, really speaking, where he is most comfortable on center stage and surrounded by adoring fans. and he said exactly what you just intimated that this would have never happened in food and would have never invaded ukraine, had he still been president. and of course, he restated the claim that he said many times, despite a lack of evidence that the election was rigged, and that he should be president. he went on to say underbrush. russia invaded ga, under obama. russia took crimea under by russia. invaded ukraine. i stand is the only president of the united states in the 21st century on whose watch russia did not invade another country. he went on to say that the world hasn't been if k audit
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since world war 2. and he blames president biden saying that he believed that russia saw the us withdrawal from afghanistan as a sign of weakness. now, why is this important? it's important because trump haven't ruled out running again in 2024 there. bumper stickers all over the parking lot. here at this conservative political action conference, it's a trump 2024. so his policies could conceivably come back to run the u. s. government he went on to say a couple of other things to he said he backed the canadian truckers who had been blocking the capital of auto and the border between the us and canada. he also went on to say it's time to get rid of mass and vaccine mandate. now that is largely happening across the us on a state by state basis. now. as president trump and his appearance here is conservative political action conference, the republican party hinge energize president, biden's poll numbers are low. there's growing antagonism over the co vedic
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restrictions here in the united states. and the republican party seems a little bit as here. and here today, john, thank you very much and john 100 talking to us from london. chelsea football clubs, russian owner roman abramoff, which has 100 control of the club into its charitable foundation. the billionaire whose own european champions for 20 years made the decision after you came parliamentary debate this week on sanctions against letting me put in the government. one, i am p called on the, but he's government to seize abram of which is assets including chelsea, associated press. sports corresponding rob harris explains what 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's stepping aside. but once she sort of del further into the statement and based on my own conversations, he will be still winning. chelsea,
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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. now there's been nothing stated that around which would face sanctions at this point, but they face him stepping away. it's trying to sort of create a distance between himself and the club in turn, the decision making, at least the current 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 group announced on twitter that it was at war with the russian government. and youtube has blog to russian states, tannel, r t and several other russian media outlets from earning advertising revenue in the platform. it said it was taking action against outlets with links to recent sanctions. the company has also restricted access to the channels in ukraine.
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that's after the ukrainian government asked it to block propagandist russian content. and you can find a lot more on the website. the address for that is w w, w dot r 0 dot com. and you will get a lot more background to all these toys plus pictures and more details on our da 0 dot com. ah, this is our, does either. these are the top stories, people and kia have been rushing to bunkers as russian forces step up their assault and the ukranian capital load explosions have been heard across the city, and that our fears the battle will get close to the city. center. western nations are uniting to cripple russia's economy. certain russian banks had to be barred from the international finance system. russia's central bank, which holds reserves, worth $600000000000.00 is being targeted.

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