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the weird and wonderful world we're books that learn things for you and even trust . i feel like i'm alive, but i know i am a machine. origin. honor juicy. ah . large explosions in ukraine's capital keep residents rushed to bunker's as russia steps up its military advance. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up we will stop protein from using his war chest west in the allies. we flee a great to had some russian bangs from an international payment system. thousands
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on the move ukrainian families head across the border to poland to seek shelter and small protests against the assault a held in dozens of russian cities. despite mast attentions in the past 2 days. ah dorn is breaking in key for where russian forces are continuing their assault on the ukrainian capital for a 4th day. loud explosions have been heard across the city all night. an oil depot on the outskirts of the capital is on fire caves. a 3000000 residents have been told to take shelter with fear the battle will get close to the center. a curfew has been imposed until monday morning. neve backer begins al coverage. ah. the moment
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a missile slammed into an apartment block in the south of the ukrainian capital, kia and the attacks evidence say the ukrainian authorities are russia's willingness to hit civilian targets of xhylia. now we go, was we managed to escape all the way in kitchen. 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. follow them is lensky. affirm. keith was still in control of the capital and surrounding cities. came dora or uncle grains. good morning ukrainians. there has been a loss of fake information online saying that i'm calling on our army to lay down
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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 huck eve, a russian missile landed in a children's playground. russia meanwhile, appears to be sending even more troops and hardware across the border into the country while insisting it's not targeting ukrainian cities. the jail ocean were
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run as 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 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 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
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decisive games. 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 robera, 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
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a decision. sit outside the capital, an engineer some political arrangement with the ukrainian government, or bring in troops and heavy weaponry, and do it in an even more destructive way with the possibility of mass civilian casualties. oh, the kremlin has the capacity for both the volcano al jazeera western nations, meanwhile, are uniting to cripple roches economy and its ability to finance the war in ukraine . certain russian banks are to be banned from the international finance system. that means they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions. world wide targets include rushes, central bank, which holds reserves with $600000000000.00. we commit to ensuring that a certain number of russian banks are we moved from swift. this will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and hom,
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the ability to operate globally swiftness, 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 imports. political high has this update from washington dc. vladimir putin, president putin, has believed that he is somewhat insulated from sanctions because he's built up this huge war chest. but what we've seen in the last week is the rubel versus the dollar is just absolute plummeted. this could really start to have an actual impact on a regular russian people. if all the sudden you need way more ruble 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 basically steady. so exactly how those sanctions play out. that could be a huge part. and we also see they're taking
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a different tact. they're trying to go after the people, or 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 sanction. 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 your call of power around flattery. putin tried to cut off any way that they can evade the sanctions and more european countries ascending weapons and fuel to help you crime, defend itself. germany has pledged to 1000 to anti tank weapons and 500 service surface to air missiles. the netherlands also promised to send missiles to ukrainian forces, and the u. s. is up, it's military assistance to ukraine. washington is authorized up to $350000000.00 in new spending to both the countries defensive and french president emanuel
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mccall has condemned to plan change in bel russian law. that would allow russian nuclear weapons to be hosted on its territory a referendum. that's why they expected to pass who is being held over the weekend, but call and has asked about ruth presidents, alexander lucas shank, to demand the withdrawal of russian troops from the soil and to come to the aid of the ukrainian people. lucca shanker had allowed russian troops to enter ukraine from each country. more than a 100000 ukrainians had been flaying and soon neighboring. poland was always expecting to help as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. the crowds of checkpoints are so large, it could take people 3 days to be processed. as zane buzz, robbie reports the beyond the reaches of the russian army, refugees from ukraine, arrive in the safety of poland, forced to take only what is most important,
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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 robot, his skin makes one holland and only roper, and my dear america too. so help us or or as can be the same way good. grim 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
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is always tried to have found fun. they can find fun. and so this is everywhere. if they have some mamma, song toys to but alter, go, love, feel some they filled with dangerous station but would try to be strong and not so panic for many of the displaced the shem. ashleigh 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
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toys, but the mother and baby are gone. the oven. i'd gladly bump person to england and the u. s. and other countries just get thousands of planes to bomb him. that's all i want to say. there is solid derek 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 basra, the old 0 sham ashleigh eastern poland. still ahead don't. and his era, as russian forces advance on keep will take a closer look at the kremlin military tactics, cross ukraine, and a big transfer in the premier league. the war is now hitting a giant of european football.
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ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored capital airways and away we go with your weather report for the middle east and africa. hello everyone. nice to see you. it's a fairly settled picture here, but we've got that return of the ship all wind. so that's a wind out of the north northwest. we go in for a closer look around the gulf states, because i do think this is going to spin around from the sand and does for the eastern side of the audi rate into southern areas is wall. and for example, in doha, we can expect wind gusts here on sunday of about 45 kilometers per hour. we did see some fairly intense storms in punjab. a providence in buckets done that energy is move further toward the east. it's settled in the south, correct? she's got a high $33.00 degrees, and the disturbance that formed in the atria ec fee has moved further toward the
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east. so this becomes a story for western areas of turkey, some soaking rains here, i think less. so for example, the area of concern will be, is mere, talking about that heat for central areas of africa. we put the colors on dark, the red, the higher the temperature, very likely new record. this needs to be verified in a bu, just 39.4, and your forecast on sunday. we've nudged your temperature down a bit to $38.00 degrees and for southern areas are seasonal rains continued to ring out their voice tre, over flood stricken areas of madagascar. and now you're in the know, susan. ah, the weather been said by katara ways from international politics to the global pandemic, and everything in between. it did not respect poor people, impure our planet, promised to ensure the safety of women, what purpose. dr. 15 got pulled back. that people actually have more feel. why is the u. k. feel hostile to transfer the mystery to all of us?
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join me if i take on the live, dismantled misconceptions and debris the contradiction. hardly get up on al jazeera . ah ah, hello, you're watching out a 0. i'm emily angland, a reminder of our top stories this. our people in cave have been rushing to bunker's is russian forces. step up. there were sold on the cranium, capital. loud explosions had been heard across the city and their fees. the battle will get close to the center. while western nations are uniting to cripple roches economy, certain russian banks are to be bought from the in special finance system. meaning
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they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions, world wives, and more than 100000 people have crossed from ukraine into poland. warsaw is expecting to help as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead, but crowds at checkpoints a sore lodge. it would take people 3 days to be processed and in ukraine, the mode remains defiant. several videos showing at civilians making molotov cocktails have been circulating online. it follows calls from ladies for the people to take up arms against russian troops. we have correspondence across the country, bringing us the latest developments hotter abdel hermit has been at travelling in dinner, denise pro, or in the east, in ukraine. she sent this up, decked 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 emptying itself, becoming in like the empty set of
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a movie. last night, for example, the city was pitch black, the light turned off purposely by the municipality. it was quite theory because we, if you looked out of the window, you couldn't see buildings, you couldn't see the street, you couldn't see anything. just blackness. as we woke up this morning, we had to do this 3 hour drive to come here. well, it took us 6 hours. that's because of the traffic on the road. there was a lot of ukrainian military deploying regrouping. going in all directions, vehicle personnel, equipment, all sorts of things on the road. and amongst that, there was also people leaving. we could see from the window of the car, you know, people with their belongings, with their suitcases, we could see pick up trucks with personal belongings on them. and then a lot of checkpoints and we drove through. we took
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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 trends is building up position that there will protect the cities, the entries the exits, and then we slowly arrive to ne pro and as we arrived in the pro, we were told, well now there's a curfew. you got to stay indoors. that part of the country still hasn't seen the violence, but people are taking the precaution. people know that the war is coming to 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 stratford is also
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now in the pro. he is his story. we return from the city of separation 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. they are increasing phase amongst ukrainian military and security serves is about what they describe as cyber servers. trying to get into cities in 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. so stop, stop. so filming the new list, good journalist john was journalist also the what about the
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also reports from the port city of mary or pull witnesses telling us that what they described was being increasing numbers of paramilitaries on the streets, ukrainian power registries, helping the ukraine and army trying to defend the city from what we understand is a push by russian forces from the west. we know that the city is also suffered. heavy shelling from the east. we also been speaking to people fleeing the area north of crimea, around the city of care of san people telling us, or alleging that russian forces that have taken control of some of those towns are preventing ukrainian citizens from leaving them. the situation on the roads around and he pro very tense checkpoints a lot more strict one checkpoints and we saw a rush and helicopter flight low over the checkpoint, causing panic, causing people to, to scatter away even the security services that sir,
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that will manage that checkpoint 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. how to 0 as ronnie, a dream d is in that southwest. russia where resources are being deployed across the border? yes. and then i hit alaska. convoys of russian military gear continue to flood across the russian ukraine. border. armored gear and vehicle mounted me filed as you can see behind me, an armored vehicle carrying self propelled missiles is headed towards the borderline with ukraine. these batteries can far, 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,
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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. ben smith is in moscow with the latest on the diplomatic efforts there to end the complaint. the political and physical net essentially is tightening around russia now are politically. well dmitri madrid ever former president of russia now the deputy had of russia security council. he's shrugged off sanctions. he says actually is one good reason for us to pull out of a dialogue on strategic nuclear stability and potentially to pull out of the ah, you strategic arm reductions. treaty, the start treaty that sign in 2010 and extended to 2021. and also the council of europe as suspended. russia and mid would have calls up really unfair the council of europe created after the 2nd world war to encourage democracy. and the rule of
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law in european countries, but never deaf says now that gives us a chance to slam the door. he says on this organization may be re introduce the death penalty for serious crimes. and meanwhile, we have more more eastern european countries. the baltic states all now included in this banning there airlines from flying into russia and russia in retaliation banning those airlines from using russia as space. so we have also this physical isolation of russia, as well as the political one really beginning to take shape, which is, which is a security and military analysts stand wiki strat. he offers an insight into rushes, military tactics. it looks like is the russians are engaged in a 3 prong movement. there are advancing from the north from bello ruth in trying to enter it to reach the northern part of kias that way. there are also her
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sheen 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 groups wall to constance around trying around here. and then use art hillary back by tanks and infantry with air support to take the city sector by sector. meanwhile, the group is coming in from the south. i looks like with all trying to do and the main ukrainian units that are now fighting in the don bath and car car and try and surround them. and that would give them the kind of scenario we thought 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, stalingrad eventually force it to surrender. meanwhile, police have launched
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a crackdown to deal with the growing anti war sentiment across russia. close to 2000 people angry of the war and ukraine have been arrested since the offensive began. the unrest has spread to 54 cities, an online petition to stop the attack as close to a 1000000 signatures. russian incident uses reported problems using facebook and twitter, which the government in cases of amplifying dissenting views. and he will protest and just taking place in russia though, people around the world have been expressing their outrage yet the invention, his aim. baba reports from london on the demonstrations across europe. 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 made for deva he came to britain more than 20 years ago. i still remember
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stories him and then my then great father about the 2nd world war and how the crashes came. and it just happened to me again. and it's not just it, it's not just the military, it h o b, cold, think destructive, a killing people with high high they 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,
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we have to press it to where we can, the crowd has been shown to 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 letting refugees command. i'm anti spat visas 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, the gremlins website has been taken offline by a cyber attack. ukrainian media says it's one of 6 state affiliated sites in russia that has gone down. the hackers, collective, known as anonymous is thought to be responsible. the group announced on twitter,
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it was at war with the russian government chelsea football clubs of russian own a roman abramoff, which has handed control of the club to its charitable foundation. the billionaire whose onto the european champion for 20 years made the decision after you k parliamentary debate this week and sanctions against and let me push in government one and pay cold on the british government to seize abroad, which is acids including chelsea associated presses. 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
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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, insert the decision making, at least ah, hello, are you watching? the, are these the top stories this, our russian forces are continuing their assault on the ukrainian capital for 4th day. loud explosions have been heard across cave all night. and oil depot on the outskirts of the capitol is on fire caves. a 3000000 residents have been told to take shelter with fees, the battle will get close to the center. meanwhile, western nations are uniting to cripple rushes economy. certain russian banks are to be borrowed from the international finance system, rushes.

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