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i don't believe in the result of this meeting, but let's try. was president vladimir putin orders nuclear forces be put on high alerts, but the u. s. warrens that could make the situation more dangerous, that you closes its airspace to russian aircraft and pledges to help finance and supply weapons to ukraine. the chance for an end to the war, thousands protest in st. petersburg and other cities across the world against russia invasion. i'm going to go with this for franz calls on russia to be kicked out of this world cup pressure grows. i'm free for with the 3rd country, the czech republic, refusing to play russian qualifies for the tournament. ah, here were the news. our knowledge is 0. we begin with a push to stop the fighting in ukraine and diplomats from russia and ukraine are

expected to hold talks on the border with bella. ruth, this follows a number of phone calls between ukraine's present involuntary landscape and his bella, russian counterpart, alexander leticia, unco will. despite that announcement, russia has put its nuclear deterrence units on high alerts. 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 aggressive remarks towards russia. that's why i command the minister of defense and chief of staff to put new kilo deterrence forces on high alert. bring up our correspondence right away. we have correspondence in russia and ukraine. bernard smith is in moscow will be speaking to him in just a moment, but 1st, andrew simmons is joining us from las vegas in ukraine to tell us more about what we're learning about the prospect for talks,

andrew no breakthrough. it would seem to be true. caliber, the foreign minister of ukraine, announced that these talks would take place in prepare at somewhere near the preppy, at river. that's on the border with bell roost. he's was sounding quite up beat really. he thought that this was a victory, he said. and the reason he was saying that is that russia, although it seems to be sending the same signals, it always has done throughout this invasion of being insistent that the be a surrender and insistent that the president zelinski at shoots down down or isn't publicly saying that at the moment, but it is conceding to pre conditions to the talks. it seems that talks actually are going to take place. it seems also because her are delegates. this is a question of delegates on both sides. delegates are arriving at the venue. it's

a secret location, and there are well things on the table apparently, but whether or not there will be agreement between the 2. well, it does seem unlikely. there is another aspect to this as well. because alexander, at the talent jenko is actually part of the whole process. and lucas jenko is of the view. it would seem a, that's a he will probably, he will, sorry, actually put on hold any attacks from his own forces on ukraine. the background to this is that the indications are that he is making a decision very soon on whether to engage ukraine, militarily himself, effectively a coming in to the war. now the president of ukraine is cynical about the whole thing. and he's saying this, well, it's a little question because a lot of the man is shook. alexander lucas shanker, address me to the russian and ukrainian delegation is meet i underlined of are any

conditions i'll say, frankly, like, oh wait, i don't believe it was out of this meeting, but let's try to, don't know, citizen of ukraine would have doubt that i as president did try to stop the war windows even just a small chance. what are you hearing about the situation in the capital key vendor? well, there was a warning girl, a few hours back of cruise missile attacks imminent in a keith. and there was also a number of reports of further advances, but their slow, these advances coming from the north, the west on the south. it does seem the whole backdrop to the prospect and negotiations, all losses that were not expected by russia and a time frame for the attack that is getting more prolonged than people had thought initially. this is the view of military observers. whether or not that's going to happen in practice is another matter. and there are also reports of the at that in

the north of the city of very much a standstill effectively of one armored convoy because of destroyed bridges. at least 2 of them are on main roads and these convoys are having to now skirt around the areas. so effectively, the capital is also seeing infrastructure attack now by the russians. but there are many active small units of the ukranian army that are actually doing better than expected at halting these armored convoys, as i've said. and the weaponry they're using, they're using stinger missiles for an aircraft attacks on aircraft. and they're using a lot of a of ground to ground missiles on tanks and armored vehicles at these seem to be highly effective and they are really moving in areas now that actually

have results. however, the russians have an immense fire pile. they have cruise missiles, they have a lot of troops on the ground. and there is a consternation may be a military circles or in the in kremlin. but there is also a view that they will get there. it's their property. they're prepared to take immense losses. and take a prolong time doing it. so yes sir, is it's, it's hard to say which way this will progress. but those possible talks being those talks possibly being successful is really unlikely. okay, thank you so much. andrew simmons is reporting from the view in western ukraine will now cross over to moscow and bring in bernard smith to tell us what the russians are saying, bernard, about the state of what they're calling their operation. russia defends ministry. doreen has been giving daily updates on how are they are

progressing. they call it an operation in ukraine and they or is telling us how it's going. are they achieving their objectives interestingly, to day or the 1st time they've admitted that there have been casualties amongst the russian military. they say that regretfully, there are killed and wounded comrades. and they admit that some russian troops have been captured. a lot of social media pictures have been showing some captured russian troops, as well as some are killed russian troops. the russian defense ministry is not giving any numbers, but it is worth noting that for the 1st time they were admitted that they have suffered losses on the battlefield of their soldiers. and now they're also saying that ukrainian soldiers who lay down their arms, those who surrendered, will be returned to their family. and they are also accusing ukraine of torturing some soldiers. and what's behind the announcement that was made earlier by president putin there to the nuclear forces are to be put on high alert.

what vladimir putin is done is, is put what scott ra russia, cause it's deterrence forces on high alert, and these include nuclear weapons. now, rather than putin says, specifically, he's done this because of the aggressive statements by nato leaders and the economic sanctions imposed by the west against moscow. and it's worth reminding ourselves at on thursday before vladimir putin launch this invasion of ukraine. he said that any country that tries to hinder our operation with face immediate consequences that you have never encountered in your history. so that was a fairly clear threat. early before that invasion started, responds to it, the nato defense is nato secretary general. again, stalsen burke, he said that this dangerous rhetoric from the kremlin and the u. s. set is part of a pattern of moscow man, europe, manufacturing threats to justify aggression to okay,

thank you so much bernard smith, as reporting from moscow. let sir find out the reaction from the u. s. and speak to rosalind jordan are joining us from washington dc because the u. s. has weighed on this latest development. that's right to the announcement by vladimir putin, the russian president came while the u. s. ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield, was making the rounds of the sunday public affairs shows here in the united states . she said that as she was learning about the announcement in real time, but she also said that it did not surprise her. a defense official who was speaking to reporters on sunday also said that todd, this was a not unexpected development, but that ty, this is an escalation, and that child certainly raises the risk of a potential law conflict between russia and the west. especially if somebody were

to miscalculate and somebody else misinterpreted that action. and so it's been a sense of we have to be prepared to respond to this according to u. s. officials. but they are saying that this is purely an escal atory tactic being put forward by vladimir putin. all right, thank you so much. rosalind jordan reporting from washington d. c. well, have a fighting continues in several ukrainian cities after russian troops stepped up their military advance. but this was a scene in boucher an area just outside the cap was achieve. you can see the aftermath of the fading and this is set to be the wreckage of russian convoy. us intelligence suggests that moscow's forces, i've 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 aah! ukraine's biggest city now the latest front line and the war with russia. street battles began after russian 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. rushes troops are trying to take over the seal 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, grandmother. 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. were there been loud explosions, people 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 keith 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 and outskirts of key. russia also maintains

its night 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. jada 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 some warn could go on indefinitely. alexia brian al jazeera. let's get more now on russia's decision to put its nuclear deterrence units on high alert, and we can speak to robert hunter, who's a former us ambassador to nato. he's drawn as on washington, d. c. welcome to al jazeera. so tell us what these forces actually are.

doctor pans, and what mister put means by that it could be if it is to turn nuclear, to turn forces on high alert. i as long as you are no clear, it can begin with tactical nuclear weapons of small size. it could lead all the way up to a sermon, nuclear weapons, and i c b and, but i don't think we're talking about that at all. this is a psychological ploy to try to increase his leverage as he decides how far he wants to go in your brain. i think a lot of this is happening because russian conventional forces are having more of a problem taking key than they thought they were going to have the grading and you've been fighting back at. among other things, mister potent doesn't want his military to get a reputation for not being as good as he's projecting it is because he gets that

reputation and other people will be less affected. so this is psychological warfare, right? but what is their activation? what does their activation actually mean? well, it means that people go to their power. so if they are already, if they were thinking about air deliverable, munitions, or you put some additions on aircraft, or if you're going to do a cruise missile, you bring them out of the hangar. but you keep absolute tight control. overall is whoever is just an absolute, tight control over every weapon. because there's always somebody might make a mistake at some point and then it would go away beyond what mr. prudent has any intention of doing it stark logical warfare. it's not, it's not the real thing, right? but you ok, so you say it's like a logical warfare and it's a, it's an escalation, but i mean, how serious a threat is western. i didn't say its glass is psychological warfare. ok. i don't

think it has any real escalation here. how serious it, how serious a threat is it is not. so i don't believe it's a threat at all because the russians would have just as much to lose if not more. if they went in this direction, i would be the obliteration of, of everything mr. programs never hoped for. and it would start, how was it cost impression of a russian forces the way they are, most of their military or on the ukrainian border. it began, if we got that far with the obliteration of the, the russian nuclear forest and conventional forces. but it's not even going to get there. ok, we did this incidentally, united states and 973. during the copper war, we went to what's called defense condition 3, but even though that was just like a logical warfare, people kind of worry about a lot of things. this is not something story about. okay,

got it. thanks for the clarification, ambassador. but let me ask you this, you say, excuse me, putin says that the reason he's done this is because nato powers had made, quote, aggressive statements while imposing, you know, the hard hitting sort of financial sanctions against russia and himself. what do you make of his argument? well 1st i don't think he's particularly worried about the sanctions because 1st they don't work. they just don't against major powers. and secondly, as soon as the fighting stops, a lot of the europeans are going to lift the sanctions because it's hurting their economies. to a great extent, i think a lot of it says that the russian conventional military is not doing as well as food potter. when he doesn't care what the west saying, that's just words for and also there are other talk tomorrow are between people from ukraine and people from russia taking place on the paler worship. a border.

and i think he's trying to prepare the psychological environment for that as well. i think at this point, he's either going to go for bus, take all of ukraine, or if he decides he can settle for last for chapel, getting rid of zelinski. and that's what he talks about, and you put this nuclear thing in the background, merely to keep up a 2nd larger pressure. i don't think he's anybody is so insane. even during the darkest days to call or we never got as close as close as what his words say. now that he's just my fair, i'm glad you bring up the talk because i did want to ask you about the sort of the prospect for them succeeding. but how do you think the ukrainians are going into these talks? do they have any leverage? they have no leverage except for the fact that they are imposing heavier cause on

the russian conventional forces and potent, obviously expected which has not to effect one. it makes it harder for him to achieve what he was reaction. and secondly, he's going to show the russian military for not being his bosses as it would be. and as he wants to believe and down the road a long time from now. if body bags start coming back to russia in large numbers, that word is going to get around. that happen to have a 10 year warranty. have kenneth's job and i was 10 years, not 10 days. that was one of the things that brought down the soviet union as people began to wonder in the soviet union. what are we doing in a place called having our people? so i think that's the only leverage ukrainian. now, one of the big issues is i get to try to catch and show so landscape. and one they want to has to say is he's been amazingly,

amazingly courageous to stay in cave. but in addition to that, he knows that if he were to leave tv, that ukrainian morale was simply collapsed right? there is a parallel during world war 2 stolen stay in the kremlin for the same reason. thank you so much, ambassador robert hunter, a former us ambassador to nature. thanks for speaking to us. thank you. now you for ministers are meeting to discuss the fall out and the crisis in ukraine. and what they've done is they've imposed new measures on russia. and for the 1st time ever, the blog says it will finance on 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. your opinion will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack. this is

a watershed moment or diplomatic to the james. this is joining us from from brussel . so put that statement into context for us, james. and also tell us about the other rest of measures that have been announced. well, put it into context this way. i interviewed president bonded line a week ago in munich. and then i was pushing on the measures that you could possibly take. and she said they were going to be very tough, the tough as much as yet. and she was giving you all the right words. when i pushed her on some of the measures, she wouldn't be specific just that everything is on the table. well, those measures that i pushed her on just over a week ago, things like nord stream to and the swift banking system. they have been enacted by the you and even tougher measures. i've been an active the actually now going to buy and distribute alms for the cranium. something that wasn't even been discussed

a week ago. you're going much further than i think people thought it was going to a week ago, perhaps even the e lead is thought a week ago. and one of the main reasons i think is the about face from germany on weapons, on other aspects of this, even saying that i get increased greatly that the spending, i think that is why you've got much tougher measures from the european union as you say, this is not the only one. also the use decided that it can sanction russia, but it mustn't forget about russia's military ally, bella roosts. and if you have sanctions against both, then it sends a message to batteries which is involved in this military operation. but it also means the sanctions can be busted by going round russia using batteries as a place to send goods, which then get passed on to russia. they're also going to deal with media outlets. rush and media outlets operation in the u. r. t. spot net because those 2 media

operations are going to be close down in the european union. i think some are a little bit concerned that might be risk replies press prizes from the russians because of course you countries have the news outlet. then journalists, which have bureaus and correspondence in moscow, will they be kicked out. and the other key thing is the transportation part of this you've seen in recent days, european countries, one by one, imposing bands on russian aircraft entering the air space. well, now it's becoming an e u wide band. there will be no russian across any sort allowed to fly over the e u. and remember that normally you countries, norway, which has a border with russia and the u. k. they also have instituted bands making extremely hard for travel between russia and the rest of the world because of the geography because you have to cross europe and that's

a further isolation of present patients. government. okay, thank you so much. st. phases reporting from brussels. let's look at all of this in a little bit more detail with all leg enough of. he's a senior analyst for russia with the international crisis group. he's joining us from moscow. welcome to al jazeera. so the e u has now announced that it will be tightening sanctions on on russia. what do you expect the russian reaction to be to this latest announcements and the latest round of sanctions? i think horses reactions is that they don't pay a lot of attention. the sanctions and the yes they say that sanction sized elation, but i think are the sanctions of the main. think about the sanctions that they don't and plans for the decision making process. i mean rushes, a miniature decision making process. of course, they will implants of the future rushes economy, but we'll, we'll see all the consequences in the future. not now. and rochester,

russian officials, and i explained to russian public that, ah, in russia will banish re squiggly sanctions and will try to. and so i would say when we do, why would you be announcing yet another raft of sanctions? if presumably they are aware that the sanctions won't really have an immediate effect on russia, it's a response to the rush ability, reparation. yes. and the lake hope that the sanction will implants on the, on the, ah, not only the, the rushes are, but i would say they expected that the sanction bal implants are formally opinions here in russia. and do that more people will be dissatisfied with the authorities. sambo, we do set aside this military campaign and the multi bogle shaw on the street. yes

. movie bogle all day and at least on military duration. and what do you make of the announcement that was made by the european commission president to ursula on july. and she was saying that for the 1st time ever, the you will now be financing the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack and reference to ukraine. again, i think russia, russia, griffin will consider this stuff definitely isn't as remote and i think that it can be see this war more as a war with nature because more and more european countries are starting to provide military assistance. and i think it's not the sedation for him now, and maybe it's one of the reasons why he declared and you

level of fresh with military readiness. yes, it was a signal to the us but who is ready for a new solution? what a stance on his way in the brain. what do you think his next steps will be? where we know that there are talk schedules with, with ukraine. what happens after that? first of all, i wouldn't expect too much from the stocks, and the reason for such skepticism is russia's demands. because when, when we did amongst the separation, he said to bob, didn't the cations militarization and it's been such the balance, blah, blah, blah, negotiations, planes like depletion. and we can see now that you bring them in, do not want to get the delayed. yes. because at least at the moment, collision this military campaign, that's why we should expect too much from this sheets. i think the war will continue and everything depends on what, what,

what is happening on the ground. everything depends on you bring in assistance. i think all of these events and these actions would implants, rushers behave, or russian russia. stipulations right now. all right, thank you so much for joining us from moscow. thinking still ahead on the al jazeera news, our the waiver refugees fleeing ukraine continues putting in you saying 7000000 people could be placed on the top official and french football on russia to be expelled from this year's world. ah hello, welcome to your world's weather report for the middle east and africa. nice to see

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civil war. i started off leaving this while the grand suite at the commodore hotel . the next room i was in was underground, the tiny prison, so as a hostage, a route to commodore war hotels on al jazeera. oh, the a tough stories on the alpha 0 news. our me, after 4 days of fighting diplomats from russia, ukraine have agreed to talk on the border with bella. ruth, that follows a number of phone calls between the premium president volunteer lensky and his brother, russian counterpart, alexander lucas. shank. this as russia,

as president vladimir putin further res tension, by ordering his military commands to put its nuclear deterrence forces on high alert. he says it's in response to aggressive statements by nato and economic sanctions against moscow. nato chief thornburg has called prudent statement, dangerous and irresponsible. the european union has announced the string of new measures targeting moscow that will find out in town supply weapons to ukraine. the block has also bound russian aircraft from its aerospace. so the block joined several countries including denmark in iceland, which have also taken dot steps. the countries in dark orange 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 how blocked their airspace since sunday. john strickland is joining us. he's an independent air transport consultant on director j o. l. s consulting. joining us from london. john strickland. welcome to al jazeera. how an unprecedented is this.

you wide band now on, on, russian aerospace or seen as big as, as close as before in military situations. this is political response to the war. ready now take place in the ukraine. we saw 1st of all the u. k. trends as space to russian aircraft on monday. and it was pretty what an average of all that was going to extend to states within the u. and indeed, europe, of course, one has also happened. it's been, it's been retaliation. 5 russians each time. western european countries space to rush lines. there's been the same response by russian authorities to use a better space by european characters. right. so what impacts will this now have on? let's look at russian flights for one on russian flights and, and it's a travel industry. what the main operator receives from russia is

a flock serving number of pin destinations and i see fans gave me to place that options for movement around you reduced it. it's pretty well 0 right now. so initially they may have to on a long securities routing on some destinations, if it was outright bad, is pretty low gone to preem to your 2nd question, looking at the way around because more significant european airlines who also band because of the reciprocal taisha russian space to those countries, for russian carriers have the impact of not simply flying to russia, but really significant point in russia. ass space being closed prohibits the use of russian flying for many services between europe and asia. now the large number 3

sites, nobody operating ticket markets like china, japan, for a job go ordinarily, that would be a significant commercial hit to those western european allies. is significant movement simply because since a code of iris, which of course is ongoing last pause from asia, romaine, not these china. china is completely closed due to commercial tropical passages says that the volume is past. due traffic is simply over as a hit on revenue impacts still on target, because many target flights are still rating. we're talking about your all cause any flights to his market may become a company is occurring, a virus challenged possibly subsides not to find longest security retailers. yeah. you bring up, they can run a virus pandemic. just look at the bigger picture for us here and tell us how much

strain all of this is adding on the global ation industry. considering that it's just sort of getting back on its feet after after the corona virus pandemic, in the travel restrictions and post. well, it is, is it is another big blow. airlines were actually looking a little bit more optimistically towards becoming northern hemisphere summer, with the trends of anti market, a better value porter market don't believe that many airlines operates it, especially european and a u. s. carriers inkling hope you found us be pretty strong and you had the airlines based in your, in the made is a small honda ration, for example, british airways, single digit or an exception to about his fin. i. which because of that northern position. i was think you might have that you have that by offering numerous agencies to chide had several of the asian countries. they've not been felt great. most of the majority of the last 2 years from asked your point of view and to have

with the claims you're asked based now because of this ukraine war situation that further obliterates my ability to talk. right. so that a lot of challenges after management in terms of the cash flow and re planning of fleets on top of the and every situation. all right, thank you so much john strickland for speaking to us from london while germany says it will spend a $100000000.00 on its military defenses. the chancellor ala shoals made the announcements in parliament earlier on sunday. dominic cane reports from berlin for more than 30 years, defense has been a low priority for german military. that was once one of the largest in nature has shrunk to a 3rd of its former self, which the german chancellor rushes actions in ukraine have changed everything. we have added for noon on, we will invest 2 percent of our g, d, p in defense every year from now on. our president putin should that under estimate

our determination to defend every square meter for atlantis territory together, the allies, the conservative leader of the opposition believes the military reality in ukraine now needs to be seen as another part of vladimir putin political project. we would all get, we'll kind of touch on and the threat of a war in ukraine is not the only threat that we're seeing along with tanks. putin has also been rolling out waves of propaganda throughout europe. easy to spread in the age of digitalization and social media, doing damage with great efficiency damage that's threatening the stability of our society from the inside. by strengthening the military, olaf shots will be doing what angle america could not simultaneously fulfilling a commitment and so, and effectively ripping up the post cold war strategic playbook. and starting again, but not with the intent to use the army for aggressive actions. instead to reassure both friends and allies, it's not just on the military side that shots his reversing previous macro policy.

for many years, germany has been increasingly reliant on russia natural gas impulse. now schultz wants to reduce that by refusing to certify the controversial nod stream to gas pipeline. and promising to buy liquid natural gas from non russian sources and to fast track building the infrastructure it will need in wider society. many feel the same sense of outrage expressed by all the shots. unacceptable that such a man throws europe into crises. again, that is totally unacceptable. if we can't support death, there is little doubt what many in this country make of what president putin and his forces have been doing in ukraine. the question is, what he will make of what's being done about it in germany. dominant came al, jazeera berlin, some professors and russia have been arrested, as they demonstrated to call on moscow to stop its attack on ukraine. people

rallied in st. petersburg where police tried to break up the crowd. this is the 2nd day a protest has been held in the city against the military campaign. demonstrations were also held the other cities including moscow, nico rubio, as a russian journalist. she says around half of russians are concerned about nato and america. but only a minority view ukraine in the same way. they didn't warm us up for this war at all . like we, we've been hearing on the news. not that this is all kind of western mongering ideas. i rushing and they then suddenly they need to get done. i was talking about the right, the not cation of, of you, friend, whatever that mean. people are getting very mixed messages. i'm the kremlin and there was also a whole by divider,

which isn't just before the shooting began, which said over half of around, russian believes that merrick crises, but only 14 percent of, of russians playing the crane. and so we're going to have to be doing some serious mental gymnastics. if we want to justify that somehow make the passcode so it's got the kremlin spoken to his daughter posted and note the war on her story and believe it afterwards. so i think it's fair to say there's probably some discomfort and in the ranks, but how much of it and whether they have an influence. i concert demonstrators also gathered in paris to voice thereupon opposition to rushes, assault on ukraine. this was the scene earlier in the french capital. some

protesters were holding for car calling on nato to do more to help keep the western nations or uniting to target russians, economy and limit its ability to finance the war. certain russian banks will be borrowed from the international finance system known as swift. that means they'll be prevented from carrying out transactions worldwide. the targets include russia, central bank that holds reserves, worth $600000000000.00. sir high read 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. ukraine had repeatedly called on its western

allies to sanction russia before its forces reached the capital. swift is a secure messaging system that use 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 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 the tax on russia is misplaced right. trade is mutually beneficial, especially trade in the type of commodities that the world in europe and particular buys from russia. money transfer systems, other than swift are in place,

but aren't as efficient whenever it 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 russia financial institutions will be implemented. and russia is yet to respond. thought height, it's all to 0. ukraine for 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, when demand and we need immediate steps to impose a full financial isolation of rush from all civilized systems applying to all russian banks including its central bank, some actions were already taken and we are deeply grateful to our partners for them . but they're not enough with russian truth center and ukraine,

2nd largest city car, key people who live as far as 2 and a half hours south in the city of denay pro or donating blood. without the hemi spoke to one of the volunteers i am joined. was 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. yes, sure. it's very scary. i have all my family here. i have 2 kids living in the brawl . i have my parents leaving me or me, bro, of course is very scary, but employees trying to do everything we can now we are just gathering all our all our power, which we can do to help woolens a year to do something to help our arm. how old are your kids? are one is 6 years old, sonata 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 donation bon 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 soon? would you be feet, 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 investigation i will sit in my car and drive some they are in other regions, 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 down the yes. he is not a supposed to leave your brain to her so you know, i, i don't want to leave your grades. i can't leave it. despite all what you're seeing happening is not scaring you want to stay here with in your city. yes, sure. because it's my c, d i, and i want to do everything they can't. or you could say thank you very much there . you heard it. you koreans standing strong backing their army. but also extremely worried about what could happen on the war. and ukraine could displace up to

7000000 people. the u. n. refugee agency says more than $360000.00 have already left the country. many have gone to neighboring poland. warsaw is expecting as many as 5000000 people in the weeks ahead. you follow where the men digger 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 at home. 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, please, mattie salt marshes, the head of news and media,

the united nations high commissioner for refugees. he says ukraine's neighbors must brace 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 tank those neighboring countries, particularly poland, more back here. romania hungry that have stepped up. they've at 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 they suggested that those who are 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 were black 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 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. fella had on the

als, is there an hour a day after their rush and owner hands over control? chelsea football club pay tribute to the people of ukraine ah. with off caps melting in the north pole juice applied the change. shorter is ramping up. research and investment region one at one aisd explorer charges rise. the arctic on al jazeera, the latest news. as it breaks. authorities tell us that brutal violence like this one in b hundrend capital or just the tip of the iceberg, and a far more complex security situation with detailed coverage. this coastal vintage in why is one of the worst areas here in the province of ball from around the world? things seem very normal in the city. people are still good to work or to school,

the restaurant ah, al jazeera, with national chapel. ah ah gordon calls for russia to be thrown out of this year as world cup competition. joe has more on that, joe. during thank you. i do. yes, the french football federation president has become the 1st major sporting official to cool in russia to be expelled from the competition over the invasion of ukraine . france, the reigning, well champions in comments made till the present newspaper. noah la gret who sits

on fif is council, said the world of sport cannot remain neutral faith haven't commented on the issue since thursday, and pressure is growing on or governing body after a 3rd. national team refused to play russia in qualifying matches. the czech republic joined poland and sweden in the boycott. the check triple association said it's not possible to play against them in the current situation, not even in a neutral venue. we will want the water and as soon as possible, poland and russia with you to meet in moscow and march the 24th with the wind of facing sweden or check republic. while the sporting organizations have already taken a stand, the international judo federation suspended russian president vladimir putin as honorary presidents. the j. f is rare among olympic sports bodies using the term war to describe russian invasion of ukraine. routine is a big fan of judo and holds black belt. he's also co authored a book on the sport will chelsea's russian owner has been under scrutiny over his

alleged links to pretend and he's responded by taking a step back from the english premier league football club. the billionaire who's owned the european champions for almost 20 years as handed over day to day control of the club to its charitable foundation, where i'm going to rob rich remains chelsea's owner and a still allowed to invest in them. but that could change should the u. k government imposed sanctions on him well, 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. 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 intent, the decision making at least because what this is saying is abramoff won't be part of the decision making. instead that will be the foundation board trustees who is the chairman of the foundation board trustees, bruce, but he's also the chairman of chelsea football club, so this is not some completely separate entity. the trustees also feature the chelsea women's team manager emma hayes, for instance. and chelsea been widely criticized for not mentioning russia in a statement published on sunday. the situation in ukraine is horrific and devastating. chelsea f c thought so with everyone in ukraine, everyone at the club is praying for peace while chelsea's players did take part in the show support for ukraine ahead of their lead cup final match against liverpool . both teams club, their firms held up ukrainian flags form a chelsea, an ac milan play under a ship. jenco was at a protest in london's trafalgar square. the balance when a captain,

the ukrainian national team to the quarter finals, the 1st ever woke up in 2006 and also coach the team, ukrainian tennis play a diana. yes. time sca confirmed on social media. she is safe in france. yes. that i am, sky younger sister, fled their native country, but their parents remain there. the former well, number 21 who has won the 3 w t a titles is g to play in the leon open. in the coming days. a finish rally driver who leads the world championships standing says he won't celebrate after his latest victory because of the situation. ukraine. hello, rob m peta. when the rally of sweden on sunday, leading the series by 14 points, he said he wasn't in the mood for toasting his laces when i didn't feel like i like celebrating 3 months now. it does been a really difficult rig and a lot of the variable in the regression ah, i don't want to really hold. they have the strength on hope in this difficult time

. and that's all the news from the sports desk. it is bad to during thank you so much, joe. thanks for watching the news. our on al jazeera. that's it for myself and joe and the team here. and how about we hand you over to our teams in london? barbara saras with you in just a moment with much more of the day's news. thanks for watching. bye bye. ah oh much i was just either south koreans vote in a presidential election, but of scandals and controversies overshadowing policies. people in power, i've just ears, investigate the document. the program looks at the use and abuse of power. nato

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