climate change, china is ramping up research and investment in the region. one 0, one east explorer. china's rives is the arctic. on al jazeera, ah, ah, ukraine on russia agreed to hold talks as president, let them represent orders, nuclear forces be put on high alert. the fact that russia is ready to hold talks without any preconditions, without any ultimatums, without any demands addressed to ukraine. is already a victory for you, craig. ah, you're walking out of the road from headquarters and hi daddy. navigate the also

ahead. the russian changed role into ukraine's largest city as carkeek becomes the latest foss points in the fighting for an end to the war. thousands processed in st. petersburg and other cities across the world against russia invasion. and the wave of refugees fleeing ukraine continues with the un warning that the work force up to 4000000 people from their homes. ah, we begin with the push to stop the fighting in ukraine. the reuters news agency is reporting that ukraine's president of hell talks with bella. russian president, alexander lucas, shank, full of them are. zalinski says, look, shanker was shorthand baller russian troops would not move into ukraine. and the talks come after ukraine agreed to hold talks of the russian officials at the bell

russian border. despite that announcement, russia has put its nuclear deterrence units on high alert. president vladimir putin says this is because some nato member countries had an aggressive approach towards russia. the machine is western countries and not only taking unfriendly actions against our country's economy, but some top officials from nato countries have had a grace from acts towards russia. that's why i command the minister of defense in chief of staff to put nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. bernard smith is a moscow, he says that will be a big ask for both sides to reach any kind of consensus. it seems teams from ukraine and russia are in place this location just inside battle ropes, across the border from ukraine. russia says the talks haven't started yet. and ukraine says those talks are going to take place without pre conditions and that

they're going along to listen to what the russians have to say. it will clearly be a challenge for both sides to come to any sort of agreement as a minimum on some sort of ceasefire, not least because of the demands. russia has already made clear as the operation of the invasion of ukraine started. those demands were the flooded me and said that ukrainian army should itself overthrow the government applauded me zelinski. he said it would be easier for you if you are to do that. and russia said it doesn't recognize the government of the landscape as democratic. so we already know what russia's view of the current government of ukraine is, but the 2 times the 2 sides, understanding what rushes already said. i've got to try and come to some sort of agreement in these very early talks. but it is at least something that both sides have agreed to talk. anderson has more than the fighting from the vive and western

ukraine. to be true. labor has actually, he's a foreign minister, has actually outlined in a news conference, what the ukrainian view is to all of this. he was surprisingly upbeat in his tone. almost posting that this was a victory, which is could be an overstatement, we think, but nevertheless, he pushed hard on this point. but as far as he was concerned, russia had setbacks. russia had not gauged what response they get from the ukrainian forces accurately, that there was a big leak right impulses and they hadn't advanced as fast as they intended to. however, he said also there was an assurance that the beller roost military forces will not be used against ukraine. joining these talks which are being held in an unknown location near the river, which is on the border between bel,

ruth and ukraine. now, he did say also that these talks were free of free conditions, which was also allied to this term victory because russia had been insisted prior to this. a talk had to be in men's capital spell roost. and the talks had to go ahead after the surrender of ukrainian forces. now there is, isn't any way possible that the ukrainians will accept that at any stage they say they say, this is a fight, not only for the life of a nation, but it's independence as well. heavy fighting continues in several ukrainian cities . officer russian troops stepped up their military advance. mm. this was the scene in boucher an area just outside the capital ever and you can see

the aftermath of the fighting. this is set to be the wreckage of a russian convoy. us intelligence suggests that moscow's forces have been frustrated by the strength of ukraine's resistance. earlier, there were st battles as russian troops entered the northeastern city of car cave. alexey o'brien reports, ukraine's biggest city now the latest front line and the war with russia. street battles began after russian tanks and troops moved into hockey on sunday. some of their hardware destroyed and fierce fighting people have been told not to leave their homes, but not just because of the military advance. ukraine says russian forces blow out this pipeline nearby. people have been warned to keep inside to protect themselves from the toxic smoke b, u. the blast at the pipeline in hockey happened during

a wave of rush and attacks on airfields in oil and gas facilities. analysts say this is a new phase in the invasion. russia's troops the trying to take over the vessel key of air base or an oil depos on fire after being hit by russian missile the site. it's 40 kilometers from the capitol, keith shenandoah, syracuse, colonel. mother. you have seen that during the whole day. there were a tax from ballistic missiles including to our apple, 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 sounding throughout keys with every loud explosions. people are crowding into shelters and metro stations below ground and a curfews and place until monday morning. she is of an all out assault on the capital. haven't yet materialized. some people are answering a call by president flor to me as a lensky, to take up arms to defend their sissy,

and making petrol bombs. while north of cleave crowds gathered to stand in front of russian tanks, blocking their progress. but some of moscow's forces are closing in. this is a city on the north west, an outskirts of key. russia also maintains its made advances into and around several says he's in the south, it's defense ministry released these pictures of its forces between his own and bury. ask president zalinski, his accused russian forces, if deliberately choosing tactics to hurt his people in a conflict that already displaced about half a 1000000. and that number's rising. but at the polish border, a few a heading back into ukraine. yadda lowered, i'm going to war. i'm going to war, my brother will stay with my mother and my grandmother, and i'll go to war with my father. ready to fight in the battle that someone could go on indefinitely. alexia brian al jazeera in your foreign ministers,

are meeting to discuss, followed from the crisis in ukraine. and what they've done is they've imposed new measures on russia. and for the 1st time ever, the block says it will supply weapons to a country under attack. european union steps up once more its support for ukraine and the sanctions against the aggression aggressor that is put in russia. for the 1st time ever. the european union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack. this is a watershed moment. let's get analysis from our diplomatic editor, jamesville. he's joining us from brussel. so tell us more about these measures that have been announced by that you yeah, i think that you just heard what she says is a watershed moment. who is clearly the most important in a series of important announcements that have come in the last half hour from the

european union. that i think follows very clearly off the change in the german government position. the german government is now going to supply weapons to ukraine. and now the you, the whole of the block now as a block is going to finance and deliver weapons to ukraine. clearly, this is sort of on the line who's the president of the european commission announcing what they're proposing to the meeting of foreign ministers. but she, when she says this, clearly they have agreement in principle beforehand. and this will be ratified by the foreign ministers meeting, which is getting underway now. and it will of course, take some time, i think for those weapons to be delivered to the ukrainians. and they're already lots of weapons coming from individual un nato states. but as those weapons are delivered, clearly this could be a game changer on the battlefield, on the ground in ukraine. other important developments coming from this meeting,

which is just getting on the way and from the statement from, from the line and also from joseph burrell. the hi representative of the you who spoke before the meeting. they are also planning tough sanctions on better roofs. because of course, batteries has been involved in the military operation. and valerie is now going to be sanctioned. the regime of alexander lucas shameka is going to be sanctioned by the you, they say because of the races, direct involvement and military involvement. but also they don't want to be boundaries to be a place that can be used to don't just sanctions. so that trade can be done with by the race, and then the items can be sent on to russia. and so that's the reason for the sanctions on valerie switch. and now going to be posed also, russian media outlets, specifically are ti russia today and spot nick are now going to be a band in the european union and across the european union. i know that some

they've been monitoring this and some media representatives that i've seen talking about this are concerned that that could mean incident reprisals from, from president putin. because of course, many european media outlets you media companies have bureaus in russia. and the likelihood is that those jo, this and that bureaus might well be, be expelled from russia as a result of what has just been announced by the european union. the other thing that we've seen in recent days and recent hours is an expansion of the bands on russian aircraft operating in space of the countries. this has been done on an individual basis. well, at the end of this meeting, we're expecting it to become a formal e, you wide band. no, russian aircraft will be able to fly over a u. s. space. add to that of course the, to europe in countries you want in the u,

the u. k. in norway, i've also put bands and of course many as a sizable population of very well healed russians in the u. k. and no ways a neighboring country of russia. it's going to make it very difficult for russians to go anywhere at this stage on russian aircraft. and of course, the russians are banned many european aircraft, so increasingly difficult links between russia and the rest of the world. again, i think the idea is to isolate vladimir putin and those around him. ok, thank you so much for medic, editor jones phase reporting from brussel fil a head on al jazeera. that's more countries ban russian plains, have you been hearing from their earth base will ask a former pilot, how that could impact russia, the asian industry, and hundreds arrested during process taking place right now in st. petersburg against muscles invasion. all ukraine will have more on that after the break.

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chill thread to rush up. what is precisely his actions that we did this insecurity in the region in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera, ah ah, of the top stories on al jazeera, the sour, the reuters news agency is reporting that ukraine's president as hell talks with bell russian president, alexander lucas jenko, viola. debra zalinski says lucas jenko assured him that bella russian troops will not move in to ukraine. meanwhile, ukraine has agreed to whole talks with russian officials at the bell russian border . this is russia's president vladimir putin further res. tensions by ordering his

military command to put its nuclear deterrence forces on high alerts. he says it's in response to aggressive statements by nato and economic sanctions against moscow . the nato chief un stolberg has called putin statements dangerous and irresponsible. meanwhile, russia stepped up its military advance as its troops enter ukraine, 2nd biggest city of car cave, but the governor says ukrainian soldiers are in control. so car keepers situated in the northeast, near the separatist held regions of la hans gun, don't you ask? it's more than 400 kilometers and the capital kiff. these are streets in the city center that we've been showing you of ukrainian soldier as engaged in a gun battle with russian troops. a russian convoy has been destroyed there. if we take a look at who controls what right now. so russian troops began attacking ukraine on friday from bella. ruth and the north, russia, and the east on crimea and the south. and here's the full range of rushes,

offensive, marked, and red. russian forces also entered from neighboring bella rues through the area around its renewable nuclear plants. on the 2nd day of the invasion, it's the side of the world's worse nuclear. a disaster street fighting has broken out in the capital key where people have been urged to take shelter. that despite the fact ukrainian troops blew up several bridges, leading into the city to slow the progress of russian armored columns zeros at anya, there it is in south west russia where large numbers of military convoys were seen heading towards the ukrainian border. oh, not of the situation here on the russian ukrainian border is relatively calm. we're here about 15 kilometers away from the ukranian border and around 50 kilometers away from harkey city. this area was the scene of big military movement yesterday where a huge number of military convoys including armored vehicles, tanks, miss carriers, and a lot of other military equipment were moving towards the ukraine border. some of

these convoys have moved towards the south, probably to go laser to the don wasik area. some other convoys took the road behind me and went to probably directly to harkey city. according to the information we have, the city of harkey has witnessed fear, sparkled with ukrainian forces. the russian ministry of defense have announced that around 500 ukrainian soldiers from the air defense units have surrendered to day to the russian forces. now harkey is the 2nd largest city in ukraine and it has a big economic importance because it's the industrial center of the country are key from 90902934. it was also the capital of ukraine during the former soviet union era, and it will mean a lot to the russians if they manage to control the city. like we mentioned the you plans to close its airspace to russian airlines. the block joined several countries including denmark and iceland, which have also taken that step. the countries in red blocked russia from their

aerospace before saturday. those are the u. k, poland bulgaria, and the czech republic. the rest announced their either about to block or have block their airspace since sunday. terry toes. there is a former airline pilot and then a v ation commentator. he says the measures could cause major trouble disruptions. it seems to be that everybody is getting on the bandwagon to be slowly, but there does seem to be an increasing these are the longer this goes on the more horizontal the greater the number of restrictions being imposed. you can say on the website that shows the traffic the aircraft are all being funneled into car was mostly to the south of ukraine. so far as i know, the air traffic control system is still functioning. ok. but he could end up leaving 2 days and, you know, obviously disrupts schedules for west basin airlines and those that are not

connected to russia. we've already seen what happens, haven't we with m a 17 that we shut down by russian. me miss. aw, when the last conflict ukraine was going on, this is now serious old out war. and although back in that time that was in theory, safe space about the country. it clearly didn't work. and i would imagine that both ukrainian was and probably the rational, really war the red cross getting in the way western nations are uniting to target russia, economy and limit its ability to finance the war. certain russian banks will be barred from the international finance system known as swift. that means they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. the targets include russia, a central bank that holds reserves, worth $600000000000.00. sarah higher reports

a fiscal punishment intended to cripple rushes international financial transactions . a western show of unity against the countries military assaults on ukraine, swiftness, the wealth, dominant global and bank payment system. cutting banks off will stop them from conducting most of their financial transactions worldwide. and effectively block russian exports and imports me ukraine had repeatedly called on its western allies to sanction russia. before its forces reached the capital. switched as a secure messaging system that used the trillions of dollars worth of transactions on 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 effected 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 the tax on russia is misplaced right. trade is mutually beneficial, especially trade in the type of commodities that the world in europe particular buys from russia, money transfer systems, other than twist are in place. but aren't as efficient when iran 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 imposed on russian financing situations will be implemented. and russia is yet to respond. thought height, it's all to 0 when ukraine for a minister has welcome the sanctions imposed on russia, but he says more action needs to be taken. the 2nd most fundamental issue right now

is global and severe, sanctioning of the central bank of russia. once again, we demand and we need immediate steps to impose a full financial isolation of rushed from all civilized systems, applying to all russian banks, including its central bank some actions who are already taken and we are deeply grateful to our partners for them. but then not enough, the german chancellor shaw says he supports further sanctions on russia's leaders. he was addressing parliaments on the crisis in ukraine, docks on tier pipe. 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 hard in recent days. it was not the russian people who decided to start a war of some professors in russia had been arrested as demonstrators called on

moscow to stop its attack on ukraine. they rallied and st. petersburg. that's where a police tried to break up the crowd. this is the 2nd day a protest has been held in this city against the military campaign. demonstrations were also held and other cities including moscow, protest, also been taking place in other parts around the world. tens of thousands of people gathered in the german capital to denounce russia's invasion. crowds also gathering in the french capital. this was the seat a little earlier in paris, where a demonstrators gather to voice their opposition to russia's assault on ukraine. some protesters were holding play cards, calling on nato to do more to help keep thousands of people have fled to fighting in ukraine. the un refugee agency says 368000 have left the country. that number is rising. more than 100000 have gone to neighboring poland, or saul is expecting as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. but crowds

checkpoints are so large, it could take people days to be processed. you follow whether the men diva, though she make war, forget humanity. they do not think of the people. they do not look at the real life of people, but they put parties on interests and power before everything they trust in the diabolic and perverse logic of weapons. which is the most distant from the will of god and distant from the common people who want peace. i am thinking of the elderly, of those who are seeking refuge in these hours of mothers fleeing with their children. oh, they are brothers and sisters, for whom it is urgent to open humanitarian corridors on who must be welcomed. my heart is broken by what is happening in ukraine. but let us not forget the wars in other parts of the world, such as yemen, syria and ethiopia. i repeat, put down your weapons. lottie, salt marsh, is the head of news and media at the united nations high commissioner for refugees . he says, ukraine's neighbor as must phrase for what could be an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people in the coming days. there will be huge backlogs,

huge tail backs. there's a lot of chaos. those border areas. so processing him quickly is extremely difficult. we would of course thank those neighboring countries, particularly poland. most of us back here, romania hungry that have stepped up. they've kept their board is open during the initial reception. and the initial registration is very difficult and it is going to take time to, to process these kinds of numbers. the reports that we were getting in the 1st day suggested that you were initially crossing have had a better means to do so. they might have had networks in europe as you know, there's a significant d for population of ukrainians in europe to 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 amine really just desperately trying to get across the borders. but it's not always easy. not

everyone can get out and not everyone wants to get out. some people might have reasons to say they will stay home, they will try and stay safe, cause 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 who have left within the country. initially we were saying some $100000.00, but it will be much higher. so there's an important work that has to be done to help those inside the country. and off off of 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. not leisure roscoe, the former minister of finance in ukraine and she says the sanctions are a small step in the right direction. sanctions are not deep enough,

not wide enough, not broad enough. we need to completely, with all transactions, sanction the central bank of russia, not only in part, we need to completely sanction all of the state banks, not selective banks, not with car routes. and we need to make these sanctions effective today couldn't, is targeting orphanages. kindergartens. children are dying. innocent civilians are dying. this is an illegal war with no provocation. it is illegal under the un charter under the geneva convention under the helsinki accords. and there is no cost greater than the cost of the brain and people are paying today to defend their peaceful home one to defend peace in europe and franklin speaking to defend freedom worldwide. i don't believe boots on the ground are necessary at this point. the ukrainians are very capable and have shown themselves as amazing resilient fighters . but we do need to provide them massive military support. there is a corridor through through europe to provide that support, ammunition, javelin, stingers, help them help themselves. and beyond that,

we need to stop financing the aggressor. the west trades about possibly $800000000.00 a day by $800000000.00 a day in imports. from russia. we need to boycott all russian products. we need to stop trading with the aggressor. ah, how the headlines on al jazeera ukraine's president's as hell talks with his bella, russian counterpart, alexander lucas, jenko, voluntarism lensky, says lucas shanker assured him that bella russian troops would not move into ukraine. the talks come after ukraine agreed to meet russian officials at the bell russian border. despite thought announcements, russia has put its nuclear deterrence units on high alert. president vladimir putin says this is because some nato member countries had an aggressive approach towards his country. with only taking.