[000:00:00;00] ah ah street fighting in col key off to russian forces and so you cranes, 2nd largest city. ah . login on peach, adobe. you're watching all 0 without continuing coverage of the conflict in ukraine . russian forces of attack, oil and gas installation, sparking huge explosions in several ukrainian cities. the ukranian leader of law to be as zalinski says, his country is ready for talks with russia,

but not in bella roofs. the un says more than 368000 people have left ukraine as the fighting escalates, and the refugee numbers are expected to rise. ah, russia has stepped up its military advance with its forces entering ukraine, 2nd biggest city. the developments in khaki comes on day 4 of russia's land, sea and air invasion of its neighbour, alexey o'brien begins, are coverage ah ukraine 2nd biggest fizzy now the latest front line and the war with russia. street bass over now underway to russian tanks and troops moved into dark evil sunday. some of their hardware destroyed. and she is fighting people have been told not to leave their homes,

but not just because of the military advance. ukraine says russian forces blow up this pipeline nearby and people have been warned to keep inside to protect themselves from the toxic smoke will be your the blast in the pipeline in our cave happened during a wave of russian attacks on airfields and oil and gas facilities. and let's say this is a new phase in the invasion. russian troops are trying to take over the vessel key of air base where an oil they pose on fire after being hit by a russian missile. the site is 40 kilometers from the capitol, keith shown on the muzzle kiska her mother. you have seen that during the whole day . there were a tax from ballistic missiles including to our airport, which we have contained and now they are continuing shelling. but it will be good, the night will not be easy. not here neither and key if but we will withstand, ah, air raid sirens have been sound and throw out keys were therapy, loud explosions. people are crowding into shelters and nitro stations below ground . for years of an all out assault on the city,

haven't yet materialized the curfews in place until monday morning. what russia maintains it has made advances into and around several cities in the south. it's defense ministry released these pictures of its forces between his own and variance. so please let us do. i pay special tribute to those heroically performing them military juicy during the special operation to provide assistance to the people's republic of don best these days. the kremlin said, a russian delegation had arrived. and bel ruth, for talks with ukrainian officials, a move rejected by ukrainian president. hello to me as a landscape. yes, it was lossy duty nibbler. again, if you didn't have this aggressive actions from your territory, you could have talked in minsk in your town. this truth, the best, the situation to taught, you'd been neighbors. and now you have made you choice. it depends on you. that's why now you're seeing no to minsk in other places, could be a springboard for talks, has got to want to talk,

who want to meet to end his war. zalinski has accused the russians have deliberately choosing tactics to hurt his people. in a conflict that's already displaced, of course, it is a 1000000 of them, alexia brian, al jazeera ok, let's look at who controls fought as of this hour. right now, russian troops began attacking crane on friday from bella luce, in the north, russia, in the east and crimea in the south. he is the full range of rushes, offensive marks in red. russian forces also entered from neighboring belarus through the area around each novel nuclear power plant on day 2 of the invasion. it's the sites of the wills, worse, nuclear disaster, back in 1986 street fighting has broken out in the capital key f, where people have been urged to take shelter. that despite the fact that ukrainian troops blew up several bridges leading into the city to slow the progress of russian armored columns. joining us again here on set is met demick. he is formerly

the head of russia and east europe at the us national security council mat. welcome back. how do you see this playing out over the coming couple of days in the next couple days, i think you're going to see russia outs take a step back operationally and determine what went wrong, what adjustments they need to make. i believe that they're going to sit come to the same conclusions that i think we've come to, which is the initial attempt to capture key of was, was not successful. they ran into much fiercer resistance. their operational plan broke down our number of different areas in a series of tactical fights to put them off, schedule off timeline, and presented them with a new set of dilemmas. so i seen the next couple days russia regrouping, where they're going to stockpile a lot more gas. they're going to provide more ammunition. the trucks are going to roll all of these units that have been left in reserve on the north side of the water in belarus. and in russia are going to roll across the border and become part

of the fight. and rushes is going to have to pour in all of this combat power to try to overcome the hurdles that they encountered on the 1st day. the outside world is clearly talking to mr. zalinski, and he is listening. the outside world is trying to talk to vladimir putin puttin is he listening, is not listening, hasn't, hasn't been listening for the last 3 or 4 months, as there's been numerous conversations between no leaders all over the world. trying to find a number of diplomatic off ramps. so i think putin as a, his a cornered himself into his bunker. his us round himself by very small group of advisors who are giving him bad advice and are probably helping him make some very bad decisions. and are appealing to his worst decision making. instincts, so i, i don't think there's any way of a cracking of hooton's exterior and getting inside his decision making process. did you maybe talk some sense into him not, not in the cards. he's going to step into this,

this catastrophe that he's graded and his probably not going to see his way out again until a situation resolves itself on the ground. there is aid coming in both financial aid and literally military a that's being got in the area. we've, we've heard it from the u. k. prime minister paras johnston, also from the french president manual macro. and there seems to be this and i'm intrigued to know why they've chosen this figure of 10 days. there seems to be this consensus saying, look, mr. zalinski, if you can hang on for 10 days, russia will in effect either not pull the plug on what it's done to date so far, but it might begin to turn away from the worst case scenario. is it why 10 days? and is that a possible scenario? i think there's some optimism there though you in 10 days we will know many things . one will know if russia is able to actually complete this operational plan. within 10 days there's the 2 things going to happen to the russians. they're going to completely expend themselves and culminate,

or they're going to accomplish their objectives. and then we move in to the next phase of this operation, which is what does a russian occupation look like? and what does a russian installation of a new ukranian government look like? so i think that's where the, the 10 day formula comes in as a mark on the calendar as far as the next, a strategic inflection point in this operation. the greenies can hold for 10 more days, get the russians a bay. then maybe, maybe a president putin's going to have to go through his decision card again and pull out some other options. okay, it is not a silver lining, not by any stretch, but is there one small plus out of all of this. and it's that there are friendships and establish now working relationships have been formed in the run up to this between all the nato countries. all the countries that may be necessarily weren't on the same page when it came to other issues. other areas of diplomacy and international relations, and at the same time as they were coming together, as mr. biden, i guess he might say he was pushing, putting together a coalition of the willing mister putin appeared increasingly more and more

isolated. very true, i think unfortunately, if it takes a crisis like best to galvanized the european union, nato western countries, then that's least some kind of silver lining that comes out of this. and again, vladimir putin gets credit for being somewhat of a competent tactician. but his record is, strategist, is absolutely abysmal. his strategy all along has been to, we can nato divide the european union, divide the allies, find the cracks and crevices in between the nations, and he has completely failed at that endeavor. and this latest, this latest atrocity that he's committing is, is just unify you find the allies even more. so again, another strategic step back for bladder, a boon based on his own stupid decision making mat. thank you so much. matt demick the talking to us about what's going on in ukraine. well, in the last out, the german chancellor love schultz since breast the german parliament in berlin. he says he supports for the sanctions on the russian leadership see

a bite. the sanctions package against russia as unprecedented. preaching will not change his actions overnight. the very soon the russian leadership will fill a high price. they will pay sanctions, do work, its financial sector has been hit hard in recent days. it was not the russian people who decided to start a war. ok, life not to berlin in the bureau as ever for us is germany correspondent don't. it came on high that so tell us more about that speech because he was on his feet for a long time. he was on his feet for a long time pizza, the best boss of 3035 minutes and effectively con them nature read to a very large extent of the actions of president putin and his forces in ukraine saying that in his opinion, mister bruton is effectively trying to create a personal empire, trying to get back the ear of spheres of influence for his country in eastern europe. and saying that germany stands on the right side of history. he applauded

the actions of those in ukrainian cities. key of odessa, mario, paul, ha, heave where people are fighting for freedom against the russian forces. said chancellor shots. and he then went into some considerable dsl effectively tearing up the playbook of successive german government since the end of the cold war. how did he do it? by promising to spend a 100000000000 euros to make the german military much more ready to shoulder the responsibilities that meant he, mister shaw, says it must now assume saying that his country is prepared to defend every square meter of ne, so territory. and he also addressed the several questions that has been posed recently, both here and germany and perhaps world wide about the apparent weakness of the german governmental position. the idea that it is over reliance on russian energy, russian gas,

what he said of the way to deal with that is to accept it in the short term, but in the medium to long term, they're going to invest a great deal of money. he said in building as quickly as possible to liquid natural gas terminals in northern germany, and they're going to be buying in as much liquid, natural gas from other sources to try to reduce that reliance on russian energy. so as i say, a very important speech by the german chancellor effectively ripping up the playbook of successive governments. since the end of the cold war prior sizing. the defense budgets and in what may be seen to american ears as perhaps music to their ears. saying that the german government is going to meet that commitment, that angler merkel sighted up to 2014 at the nato summit in wales and the u. k. that 2 percent of the budget being spent on defense for mr. shots. and he said this and there was widespread applause from one to start from the lower house upon when he said it, we are going to meet that commitment. he said, so

a clear change of policy. that's a social democrat chancellor. effectively telling his parliament and they are going to be spending a great deal of money. effectively, rearming, that is the significance of this. and they are signing up and meeting their nato commitment that they've had for the best part of 8 years. and saying that germany is going to defend every square meter of may. so territory. one other thing that we now know the german government says that as of $1500.00 central european time, that's in just over 2 and a half hours, no more russian airplanes will be able to fly in german asked space. so a very clear statement of intent from the german chancellor, the german government in the parliament behind me in the course of the last hour. dominic, thank you very much. dominic came there talking to was life from berlin still to

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follow the japanese women teachers. daily struggles with isolation and battles with physical hodge in sacrificing their family life for the education of future generations. women in the wind on al jazeera lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera, let's just get you across all the main developments of ukraine. russia stepping up its military advance as its troops into ukraine. second biggest city ca keep on day 4 of his land, air and sea invasion. military vehicles are on the streets and has been heavy

fighting with civilians warned not to go outside. russian forces of attacks. oil and gas facilities across ukraine, sparking big explosions, troops trying to take over the basil cage air base southwest to p. f and oiled up there is on fire after being hit by a russian missile. the you in refugee agency says 368000 ukrainians, fled the country, and that number continues to rise. more than a 100000 have escaped to neighboring poland, warsaw the government. they're expecting to help as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. the crowds of checkpoints so big it could take people days to be processed. that's bringing matthew salt, marsh. she's the head of news media at the you and hcr. he joins us from geneva in switzerland. matthew salt mosque. good to talk you again. these numbers are so big, we're talking about thousands of thousands of people per hour. can they be processed in time? but as you mentioned,

the numbers are rising very fast. yesterday we were talking about over 200000 today . as you mentioned over $350000.00 and of course there will be huge backlogs, huge tail backs. there's a lot of chaos that those border areas. so processing in quickly is extremely difficult. we would have caused tank, those neighboring countries to keep poland more back here, romania hungry that have stepped up. they've kept that board is open during the initial reflection and the initial registration. as you mentioned, it is very difficult and it is going to take time to, to process these kinds of numbers. once the processing is done, matthew, these people need someplace to sleep someplace to eat someplace to take a shower. how quickly is that mechanism, those things, those component parts, how quickly can maybe put in place for them? well, some of that was done already in some countries like holland, we've seen that reception centers have already gone up. in other cases,

they'll have to do that very quickly, but structures may or may not be in place depending on where you're looking at. so in some situations, it may be a case of putting out very temporary shelters, tense and so on. we have a lot of that equipment in the region and we are ready to deploy a course in conjunction with those countries which are leading the refugee response at this stage. is this unusual, matthew, because we used to, we do it a lot on this channel. we have those conversations, rightly and importantly, we have those conversations about refugees making their way to europe, from wars and conflict zones across the middle east or across certain parts of north africa. we don't, and we have never as far as i can remember. not since i've been here, had a conversation about a refugee crisis, which is european refugees moving within europe. that's right,

i mean, it is a different nature, and if you go back to 2015, 2016, there was obviously a big influx syrian refugee, well over a 1000000 actually ended up coming primarily to germany. and since that time, we have seen what we call mixed movements and movements of migraines, but also asylum seekers coming across land and coming over see primarily the mediterranean. but those are much smaller numbers that we've been talking about. of course, if you tell you that they are quite significant, but each trip it would be a relatively small number. now of course, we're seeing the much, much larger numbers from the european state going into european union countries. so it is quite new and it is significant. and i think you've reported, we've said that the numbers could potentially rise as high as 4000000. so that would be extremely significant. and if you're talking about 4000000 people leaving one country, a population in ukraine of 40000000,

that's 10 percent of the population as you're talking to us, matthew, we're playing in the latest pictures of some of the refugees trying to get on trains. we're trying to get out of ukraine and what's compelling is just looking at them the way they're dressed. these are prosperous. i'm look to use the expression . these are prosperous, middle class people. these are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the middle east. that are still in a big state of war. these are not people trying to get away from areas in north africa. they look like any european family that you would live next door to with the report that we were getting in the 1st they suggested that we were initially crossing perhaps had better mean to do so. they might have had networks in europe. as you know, there's a significant population of ukrainians in europe came poland, but also in other countries. i think as the days roll on, the complexion is

a little bit different and you're seeing people with few mean really just desperately trying to get across the borders. but it's not always easy, not everyone can get out of the room. once you get out. some people might have reason to say they will stay home, they will try and they say, course it's extremely difficult to do so. and we don't actually have proper numbers at this stage because of the chaos on the internal displacement. in other words, the numbers were black within the country. initially we were saying some 100000, but it won't be much higher. so there's an important work that has to be done to help those inside the country and also offer that they ready to deploy as soon as it's safe to do so. some of them have been able to go out. i've been pulling together stocks, making sure things are in place, and when it is safe to do so, they will go out and they'll start to monitor and they'll start to take assistance to those people within the country who have huge needs as well. matthew, so nice. thank you very much. matthew salt,

marsh. this welcome to us with the you and hcr out of geneva. thank you. and ukraine as the fighting intensifies locals in the city of the need pro are donating blood, or the committee has been speaking to one of the volunteers. i am joined with tatiana . she's a volunteer here at the blood bag that jenna. thank you so much for joining me. i'm . you heard me now describing the situation and how to feel that that must frighten you down. must really concerned what could happen to your city. yeah, sure. it's very scary. i have all my family here. i have 2 kids living in the abroad. i have my parents leaving near me. bro, of course is very scary, but the boys trying to do everything we can now. we are just gathering all our all our power richard can do to help to woollen to year to do

something to help our arm. how old are your kids? are one is 6 years old. sinatra is 9 year and yet you left them now and you came here to volunteer. why is it so important for you to come here to volunteer because i can just see the tall engine noise and i just gans does this. i need to do some, some the need to help army is as much as a gap, at least at least volunteering here. i bought the nation bond and listen, if you we drove past the bus station, there's a lot of people who are trying to get out of the city. is that something you're considering to do any time? so would you be, feel, feel safe to take the road and try to reach somewhere? what would you do? do you have a plan? i, you know, i'm, i'm going to stay here as much as i can only observe. you'll be very be a danger for my kids. on the dissertation i will sit in my car and drive some

way or another agent, but for now i'm not going to left me and you know, do you korean government said all men from 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave the country because of the situation now you just probably men in your family. you guys must have discussed this. if you have to leave, you gonna have to leave. maybe your husband, maybe your brother, maybe your father behind that must be heart breaking. yes sure. i how husband damned the? yes, he is not a supposed to leave ukraine to the her soul in, oh i'd, i don't want to leave ukraine so i can't leave it. so despite all what you're seeing happening is not scaring you. you want to stay here with in your city? yes, sure. because it's my city and i want to do everything. i can't keep the same. thank you very much. there you heard it,

ukrainians standing strong backing their army. but also extremely worried about what could happen. and the russian president vladimir putin has again taken to the airwaves, praising the efforts of his troops. it is the 1st time he spoken directly to moscow's forces, instead of sending out a message to either the military of ukraine or the wider world. as the whip is, let us do, i pay special tribute to those heroically performing them military duty during the special operation to provide assistance to the people's republic of danbury. these days. i wish luck, success and all the best to you and your close ones are to 0 correspondent ranier grady has more now for us from the russian city of belgrade. had the had he, a lot of them on the side, the seroquel all in fact the situation is not changing a lot this morning. we didn't see any movements towards ukrainian border, but we expect an increase in numbers of the russian military convoys towards the border with ukraine in the coming hours. as also we didn't see any military

movements towards the south and towards car cap. the situation was very different yesterday on the don bus front. on the economic side, the russians say that sanctions imposed on russia by the west are very tough and will have their impact on the country's economy. but according to russian official statements in the kremlin sources, it's not the 1st time that russia is experiencing this as more than 100 sanctions in recent years of me, russia to get along and get used to the sanctions and their impacts. moscow has also come from yesterday that has enough tools and power to deal with the sanctions and to decrease the impact. the vice chairman of the russian security council has not only hinted to complete cutting diplomatic ties with the u. s. but also talks about the possibility of freezing the assets and money of foreign companies and business men in russia. it is also very important to mention that the vice chairman of the russian security council has talked about a possibility of withdrawal from the strategic arms reduction treaty,

which was signed with russia during you as president obama's term. and he was extended again with president biden. and we all know how important is to, to, is to monitor amendment in the world western nations all uniting to target russia's economy and limit its ability to finance the war. certain russian banks, as we borrowed from the international finance system, the swift. that means they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide . the targets include russia, central bank that holds reserves with $600000000000.00. it's not a hell it a fiscal punishment intended to cripple roches international financial transactions . a western show of unity against the countries military assault on ukraine. swiftest, the wealth, 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. ukraine had repeatedly called on its western allies to sanction russia before its forces reached the capital. friday's announcement intends to limits russia's ability to finance the war. swift as a secure messaging system that use the trillions of dollars worth of transactions and his integrity to the global economy, excluding some russian banks from that will hit their ability to trade internationally. moscow central bank has $600000000000.00 of reserves and will also be affected. while it's the biggest move yet by western powers against the kremlin, there has been some reluctance from countries like germany that heavily rely on russia for oil and gas imports. this idea that this is in some way going to be just a tax on russia, is sir misplaced, right? that trade is so mutually beneficial, especially trade in the type of commodities that the world in europe,

or in particular bias from russia. money transfer systems other than swift are in place, but aren't as efficient when the rom was blocked in 2014, it lost 30 percent of its foreign trade. it's still not clear when one of the most powerful financial penalties to be impose on russian financial institutions will be implemented. and russia is yet to respond. so to hide it, al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the main development so far with russia has stepped up, its military advance as its troops and ukraine, 2nd biggest city of kalki, eve on day 4 of its land, air,