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he wore protests across russia. hundreds of rested as they call for peace. but i try to help people free for your friends and families and turmoil. the exodus from ukraine builds tens of thousands try to cross the border. ah, they for of the war in ukraine is closing with the hope of peace talks, the promise of further sanctions. and the spectre of nuclear forces on alert. there is a new push for diplomacy. the ukrainian presidential office has agreed to talks with russia. the discussions are due to take place at the ukrainian bella luce border. previously the kremlin said talks could only happen in the bella luce, in capital minsk,

something ukrainian president followed him years lensky rejected. same bella, bruce was the staging ground for russia's invasion. meanwhile, the european union has announced another string of sanctions on russia. it's closed, it's aerospace to russia aircraft then band state media from broadcasting within the block, european commission, chief or sullivan. their line also said that the e would for the 1st time finance arms to ukraine and hit bella bruce with sanctions for helping the invasion. and putin has ordered his nuclear deterrent forces to be placed on high alert. he said nissan leaders, aggressive statements and economic sanctions, were the reasons for his decision. we begin our coverage with bernard smith in moscow were hundreds of protest her as were arrested. yes, to protest in russia takes a certain amount of courage as it comes with the likelihood that you'll be detained, often violently. this is st. petersburg where they were chanting no to war.

yet, an independent monitoring group reported protests in 44 russian cities on sunday, including here and cousin and in russia's eastern city of a coast to play in europe cheaper depress it is a crime by it against ukraine and against russia. you are. i think it is killing me, crane and russia. i'm outraged. i haven't slept for 3 nights, and i think we must now declare very loudly that we don't want to be killed. we don't want any crane to be killed. these have been the 1st significant attempt at nationwide protests in almost a year since the jailing of kremlin critic, alexia valley, or moscow. the police are making it very difficult for people to try and protest any one who so much as lingers in a suspected gathering area. is taken away for questioning. protesters don't worry the kremlin, but sanctions and international condemnation of the invasion of ukraine have

prompted vladimir putin to put rushes to terrans forces, which include nuclear, arms on high alert, was really believe you deck alex. as you can see, not only do western countries take unfriendly measures against our country in the economic dimension. i mean, they like our sanctions that everyone knows about very well, but also the top officials of leading their 2 countries allow themselves to make aggressive statements with regard to our country. that is why i or the defense minister and chief of the general staff to put russian army determines forces on high combat, outweighed them all outside the kremlin. at the tomb of the unknown soldier, monuments represent the losses suffered by soviet cities in world war 2. on sunday flower started appearing on the wall for keith, but only until the police realized what was going on in russia, there can be no visible opposition to the war on ukraine. well, we can join bernard smith alive before us in moscow. now sir bernard, tell us

a little bit about those talks. the ukranian presidential office agreed to talks with russia, and also the fact that russia has agreed to change. the location from means to the border. is there anything that we can read into that? yeah, the russians have said they've got their teams of that and are ready to good start the talks, not sure whether or not they've started yet. it's interesting. the location has moved slightly. i know ukraine originally wanted it in a, at an out of bell roofs and pops nato country. but both sides agreed to have it just on the over the board and about a roof. now, the russians, while he's going to be very difficult to understand how the 2 sides will come together, it's because the russians already have made clear views on the political situation in ukraine. but i mean, putin is called on ukraine's military to overthrow the elected governments of latin

lensky on the farm. and lab results is that he can't see their ukrainian government as democratic. so bearing in mind that is already how the russians view the ukrainians. it's difficult to see how the 2 sides can come together and talks on pops that might hopefully lead to some sort of sci fi barbara. yeah, because speaking of cfo, of course, of the confrontations are continuing. what sort of lock says, has russia experience so far? russia's defense ministry has been updating on a daily basis, how they believe, what they call that campaign in ukraine. their operation in new ukraine is going on a list, a long list of military targets that they say they've hit. but for the 1st time today, the russians have admitted that they have suffered some losses. some soldiers have been killed regretfully. they say there are killed and wounded comrades. and they say that some russian troops have been captured. people in russia like elsewhere in

the world will have seen on some social media pictures of captured, russian soldiers capture pictures of dead russian soldiers. the defense ministry might be responding to that, but it is worth remarking that this is the 1st time they've admitted. they've suffered losses, barbara and smith at the latest there from moscow. bernard for the moment, thank you. will have a fighting, has been taking place in several ukrainian cities, but is jona holl reports now from the vive. russian forces have been met with strong resistance. blue. ringback a sunday service with special poignancy, the 1st of the war. prayers here for peace extinguished. 4 days ago, blue, the russian attack has renewed its focus on critical infrastructure. a gas pipeline,

a blaze in the east and city of her cave, ukraine's 2nd largest russian soldiers trying to enter hockey on sunday. med determined, ukrainian resistance. western intelligence claims the russian advance is being frustrated on all fronts. russian sources tell a different story here. defense ministry pictures claimed to show their forces, making progress in the south between the towns of song and bird janski's near crimea. a mis, i'll strike, did this to the vessel keep bass setting an oil deco ablaze out of ongoing efforts to knock out ukraine's air defenses. and gain control of the skies. basil cave is 40 kilometers from the capital cave. so none of us use cuz her mother, you have seen that during the whole day there were attacks and 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 give, but we will withstand oh,

and it is the capital that remains the russians principal goal, frequent air, raid sirens, keep nerves on edge. if they're not in bomb shelters or subway stations, most civilians are housebound. a city wide curfew is in place until monday, and any one out and about is treated with extreme suspicion in towns and cities across ukraine. civil defense units continue to form and arm themselves. rushes army may be much larger than ukraine's, but its soldiers are well outnumbered by ordinary ukrainians, willing to stand and fight. when i'm going to war, i'm going tore. my brother will stay with my mother and my grandmother, and i will go to war with my father. president followed me as he lensky continues to broadcast a message of defiance. he's agreed to send a high level delegation to talks with russia without preconditions. but few expect a positive outcome at the station in the western city of live, women, children,

foreign nationals and international students all trying to leave the rail network still operating, built for public convenience. and now a lifelong for all this is november, ma'am, as we go along, the mara is a medical student trying to get home to nigeria. it's been very emotional, very stressful. you didn't expect your time in ukraine within like the i didn't know i was, i was of it was like everything will be okay. like you wouldn't get over the train. don't leave regularly 3 to 5 a day. perhaps there is no time table for the evacuation of people who just days

ago could not have imagined that war would turn their lives upside down like this. and now as refugees, they joined what could yet become a human exodus of historic proportions. the un refugee agency says close to 400000 people have left for neighboring countries so far, it warns that number could rise to 4000000 jona whole al jazeera movies. well, let's now join algiers. andrew simmons who is in live even western ukraine. so let's start with news of those talks that agreement between the ukrainian president and russia. tell us more about the ukranian reaction and one led to it. well, one thing that's really interesting here is that alexander lucas shanker, the president of been a reuss plays caught a prominent role in all of this. he's hardly a sort of middle ground,

neutral intermediary, he's the ally of russia. so that's point number one. when you move on from there, people are really quite frustrated with talk of peace when they believe there's no chance of that. and the political leadership think so as well. there is also a reaction from people, particularly we talk to a number of people young and a more elderly. and we've also examined social media quite closely. and this a profound amount of lobbying. you could call it that, or trying to convince the people of bella, luce, that the president could be making a big mistake very soon by effectively declaring war on ukraine. by joining the russians with troops with equipment, although at home, much more limited scale and russia's, but getting involved in what could be a long running war that russia isn't necessarily winning right now. it's quite

extraordinary to say that, but they've taken heavy losses, not just in the troops numbers, but also in equipment in aircraft. these 2 transport carriers carrying a large number of paratroopers on board, been shot down of the logo and all the rest of it. there's a lot there and it's not propagandist material coming from the ukraine. there is a lot of losses. furthermore, we have this, this coming back to this issue with better, reuss. there are communications on telegram on facebook, on twitter saying, appealing to people, look, you could lose your son's daughter, you could lose your son's daughters and husbands. don't let them die for a cause that's just not right now. obviously, bell ruth is an authoritarian regime, but nevertheless, people will respond to large numbers of people dying their loved ones just as they

could do in russia as well, although they may be repressed by or after all. but coming to the center ground now coming to the president as well. he feels one has to try to sue for peace, at least try. although he's very doubtful. it will be an outcome this positive or it's a little gushing as a loss in the minister. alexander lucas shanker contacted me so that russian and ukrainian delegations could meet, i underline without any conditions. i'll say, frankly, i don't believe in the result of this meeting, but let's try so that no citizen of ukraine would doubt that i as president, did try to stop the war when there was even just a small chance. graham, president of, of them is lensky as speaking. there he's a made a point of saying he's not leaving a country is not leaving the capital key. so what is the situation in the capital key? because there has been rush and forces in around 30 kilometer is there on the outside

here. what's, what do we know of the situation? there? cubes is still a sad, desperate place. it civilians under ground, most of them long times of the day and indeed, all night kept awake so often by air raid sirens and the streets above them deserted and dangerous as well. because anybody out or is sometimes suspected of being a spy or a saboteur in terms of, of action or on sunday, there has been a suggestion that sir, some attacks have been involving cruise missiles. that's from the defense ministry . as jonah reported, there's been an attack on a oil storage area, also gas in there where we're, we're here. there's also been a report from amnesty international and other pressure groups of, of,

of cluster bombs being used a cluster munitions being used in civilian areas. multiple attacks, those cluster bombs are anti personnel, military bombs, but they're illegal internationally, particularly if they're hitting civilian areas. they're absolutely lethal. so the evidence is piling up, and ukraine is intent on trying to get vladin. vladimir putin are to be charged with crimes against humanity. when all this is over and re simmons with the latest on the situation across ukraine speaking to us from the v there. andrew, thank you. well, as we mentioned, e u foreign ministers have imposed, the new measure is on russia. the block says it will supply weapons to a country under attack. that's the 1st time the european union has ever done this. european union steps up once more its support for ukraine and the sanctions against the aggression aggressor that is put into russia for the 1st time ever that your

pin union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack this is a watershed moment, will a little advocate as her james base is in brussels. he's been following all the european sanctions that have been and now so we've got more that 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've got a much further than i think people thought it was going to a week ago perhaps even than e leaders 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 increased greatly that the spending also, the use decided that it can sanction russia. but it mustn't forget about russia's

military ally, better routes, 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't be busted by going round russia, using valor races, 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. and spot net because those 2 media operations are going to be closed down in the european union. 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 and across any sort allowed to fly over the you or germany's chance or all of schultz received a standing ovation in parliament on sunday when he announced at berlin would be

spending a 100 $1000000000.00 on its military defences. russia's attack on ukraine has triggered several significant policy shifts in berlin. as dominic cane now explains . for more than 30 years, defense has been a low priority for german military. that was once one of the largest in native shrunk to a 3rd of its former self. which of the german chancellor. russia's actions in ukraine have changed everything we have added for noon on. we will invest more than 2 percent of our gdp in defense every year from now on. i'm dollars or president footing, and president putin should not underestimate our determination to defend every square meter of our alliances territory. together with our 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. with all

the will kline i under threat of a war and ukraine is not the only threat that we are seeing along with tanks put, has also been rolling out waves of propaganda throughout europe. easily to spread the age of digitalization and social media sites and doing damage with great efficiency on its damage that's threatening the stability of our society from the inside of vice, strengthening the military. all of shots will be doing what angle america could not simultaneously fulfilling a commitment a night, 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 is reversing previous merkel policy. for many years, germany has been increasingly reliant on russian natural gas impulse. now, shots wants to reduce that by refusing to certify the controversial north 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 of shots with one of our thank you. have no good. it's unacceptable that such a man throws europe into crisis again. let's totally unacceptable. we can't support her. there is little doubt what many in this country make of what president putin in his forces have been doing in ukraine? the question is, what he will make of what's being done about in german dominant came answers. era, berlin? well, it's the 4th day of russia's land as see and their invasion of ukraine with major cities and military bases have come under hire. let's look at who controls what right now. now, russian troops began attacking ukraine on thursday from bella, ruth and the north, russia in the east and crimea in the south. here is the full range of rushes,

offensive, marked in red. the russian forces that entered from neighboring bella, rue search through the area round the chernobyl nuclear plant. on the 2nd day of the invasion. it's the size of the world's at worsted nuclear disaster. now street fighting broke out in the capital key of where people have been urged to take shelter. and that despite the fact that ukrainian troops blew up several bridges leading into the city to slow the progress of russian armored vehicle. i well dennis gander is a member of the youth advisory council to president zalinski joins us now from brazil. kevin ukraine were russian forces blew up, an oil depot, and then his country. thank you so much for joining us now. i understand you're not actually invest key anymore, you're nearby, but tell us sort of what happened in the aftermath of that explosion. so hello everyone. good evening, the united kingdom leaving the world. i'm still hearing not far from their oil plan, which was exploded yesterday, which was bombarded by

a russians. and right after the explosion, there was like a big light. we even saw it with our close windows. now was like really shaken up our building. you are requesting, but as for now to be safe, because push on please. i was not a lot of gas here. not a lot of oil here because most of it was already given to the army and to the people. at the more generally tell us what you are experiencing there as a ukrainian with everything that's going on, both in the difficulties that you're facing everyday life. but also in the reaction that you're seeing in people around you to this invasion wherever, like really to see that of course, there are like millions like people now suffering. but at the same time, millions of fighting. it's not only people who are in the army, not our super heroes, from territorial defense. it's everybody. nearly everybody is doing something. we are fighting on diplomatic fun. on digital front. people are helping on the medical

front, every by the sending money to the army, ukrainians from abroad, walk in europe and working. of course we are going to be and of course it's not still enough to the heart enemy. and they really ask you to push even harder, but be sure ukrainians we will resist and we will celebrate victory. as we mentioned in your introduction, you are a member of the youth advisory council to a president zalinski, the president of ukraine. i'm sure you have heard the various sanctions. the b e u, for example, is imposing on russia and bella, ruth, what else would you want to see the international community? do i really think that we, you have the means to destroy russia economy? this is really what is needed because this war, even if we win it today, russia will not stop and believe me, if somehow russia managed to make us give up, but it will not, it will come to you next. so please be sure that we will stop to,

to now and forever. why are also want to say it's to everybody don't work with russian business, isolate them in any threshold for block you tube channels of russian propagandists . this is really important right now because no words kremlin says he's truth. it's interesting, we say no word that the kremlin, the, as says it's true, of course, for many months, arguably years, there have been negotiations between various players and russia. and yet the attacks on thursday that still come as a surprise to many. were you surprised then how do you feel? now of course i was short in the 1st time because it was like early morning for me . i woke up from the bombs. but way, like in the 1st tower, i decided it when you tracked i called all my friends to wake them up that we need to do something. because like there is no way that you can win this war just by sitting down. and this is what they want to see many france and doing, believe me,

these are now your real superheroes. these are my superheroes than a scanner member of the youth advisory council to president zalinski. so thank you so much for sharing your experience. her experiences and thoughts with us. thank you. thank you very much. can meanwhile in poland, there are stark signs of ukraine's shrinking population. many ukrainians are leaving the sirens shelters and family behind opting instead for a fresh start and security elsewhere. same bizarre i. these are the media border. crossing in eastern poland the uncertainties of war disappear briefly in such moments. untold journeys, a pair of days been waiting at the busiest border crossing in western ukraine. finally, the joy of reuniting with loved ones. others look on waiting for their turn for

their pupils to turn the next for their chance at a warm embrace. at the medical border crossing and poland, not all tiers being shed are those of joy. we have friends who will keep us here. i got my child and i get my child to the left, our husband whole 2nd for many of the people we met here. the thought of what they have been forced to leave behind is unspeakable. people arriving here from ukraine are often exhausted and overwhelms. but there is also a great sense of relief because everyone who's coming here from ukraine into poland, they know that once they are here, they will have help. they will have support and their lives are no longer in danger from russian soldiers. those getting through tell of lines so long. they are

measured in kilometers and delays lasting days. system crashes forcing the few ukrainian border agents to hand write the names of displaced people trying to leave . who now number in the thousands and more are coming. people waiting and polling for friends and family, say the bureaucracy slowing things down is leaving vulnerable women, children, the elderly, out in the open guide. and i am the daughter and i am friends in morris, and i'm i need to go day and i didn't have no idea how to get their journey is not over. but martha rita and honestly count themselves among the lucky few who got out. oh god. oh god, and even with the relative chaos of makeshift aid stations along the border,

some of them are, they are better off displaced in poland than trapped and ukraine. where events on the ground could be the beginning of a long term conflict. and many more refugees from war in europe. same bus robbie o g 0 medical border crossing eastern polt. meanwhile, pope francis has called for urgent humanitarian corridors to help refugees out of ukraine. the head of the roman catholic church addressed crowds at the vatican. he called on people to take part in an international day of prayer and fasting on ash wednesday. this week he said his heart was broken by the fighting. he followed where the men digger those who 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 and 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. 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, i think with you. ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, the ukranian presidential office, says it has agreed to hall talks with russia. the discussions are expected to take place at the ukrainian bella luce border president vladimir zalinski had earlier rejected the kremlin score for talks to take place in minsk. same bill of bruce was the staging ground for russia's invasion or so little gossip. as a lucia, the man is shook alexander lucas shanker.