ah ha russia says its troops had taken areas around a nuclear power plant in east, in ukraine as fighting intensifies across many cities. ah, why hasn't seek out this is as a live from the also coming up a push for talks to stop the fighting. russia says it's officials will meet a ukrainian team and the next hour rushes currency takes ahead. the rubel drops

more than 40 percent against the dollar in early trade, the wave of refugees fleeing ukraine continues. the un saying more than $400000.00 have left their homes in neighboring romania and po ah, russia's defense ministry says its forces has seized areas around a nuclear power plant in east in ukraine. but this is denied by the ukrainians. russian forces claim to taken over the towns of bab ganske and in order in ukraine's south eastern z regio region. a missile hit another residential building in shani have after russia shelled at the northern city all night. ukraine's army says russian forces have been shelling in nearly all directions. one of them is the last. he says the next 24 hours will be crucial for the country. more than 350

civilians are thought to have been killed so far. this all comes as russia and ukraine prepared for talks. a general, how is life for a say in a living so jennifer, of, or what more we hearing on these talks. we understand now that the talks do to, to kick off at noon local time. that's around 2 hours from now, the bell, russian ministry of foreign affairs produced a photograph of a sort of conference room, a long table with chairs right along either side of it, the flags of the 2 countries, russia and ukraine, of course, empty at the moment. but the delegations we understand are arriving. we don't know who makes up these delegations, but they are described as fairly high level, clearly not leader level. and there is set to take place on the ukraine. bella was born in a place called pre p. s. now, if that is, in fact the case prepared,

you may recall is the so called ghost town at the center of the exclusion zone, close to the channel reactor that was abandoned at the time of the disaster there in 1986 pictures that you will recall famous around the world of abandoned fun fair and old rusting gondola and dodge him cause and so on. apparently that is the potentially rather e, resetting for these talks not clear on the form or substance of the tool how long it will last. indeed, what even is on the table, because there's absolutely no sign of russia backing away at all from its key demands the neutrality of ukraine. they want guarantees, it will never join nato. they want recognition of the independence of those eastern breakaway regions, possibly including new territories all the way up to the constant original constitutional boundaries of don't ask a new hands and you can probably throw in the crimea as well. russia really wants

it recognized, globally, the primary part of russia after was annex from crimea in 2014. now these are demands that know ukranian delegation is going to turn up an agree to immediately. it is hard to see if ever, frankly, ought to see therefore, where these talks can go. another ominous sign hanging over all of this is a referendum, very hastily held by bell. ruth announced this morning that it has been approved publicly that it should lift its nuclear status. and that therefore pays the way for the potential of russian nukes being deployed on valuation. so also us sources suggesting alexander lucas and the belgian president may be preparing to throw these last entirely in with the russians and contribute his armed forces to the russian side in this war. so ominous developments potentially the direction that things could take, bringing in better us bringing in feller territory, bringing in better risk in forces on the russian side. kelly, they don't have high hopes that these talks are likely to succeed either. jonah,

thank you again how life a stair in levant in west and ukraine of santa east in ukraine. why now denise pro and char strafford is therefore salisbury's update on what's been happening there. who has m. you join us in the background? i doubt very much. you'll be able to hear this, but in the distance we can hear an air raid siren o a siren that so that they start when there are fears or intelligence of shelling . now we've heard this a couple of times in the knee pro over the last couple of days. and nothing has happened there haven't been and there has not been any sharing, as you can probably see behind me. there are still people on the streets. people taken is very much in the stride, but so you know, an indication of, of just how serious the situation is here. with respect to this news of a nuclear plant being taking control of by russian forces that is in the town of an era. goldar in separation region. now the ukrainians have said that that is false.

they saying that they are still in control of this nuclear plant. that plant is on the south side of the dani per river south from where we are here. we were ins uppers over the last couple of days or so to the ukrainian military. then telling us that they believed that the russians were as close as 35 kilometers away from the south of zap parisha. and we understand that there has been no shelling in the city so far today, but we are going to be heading down there in the next few hours and we were able to bring you updates on. so the claim by. busy the russian ministry of defense, as quoted in the interval by, into facts that term, the naval town of bell dance is now under russian control. again, we cannot independently confirmed that, but all evidence which suggested that would not be unfeasible. we were in burdens 2 or 3 days ago. the naval base there had emptied out. all navy personnel had run

away, austin. so we were told by our associate getting threatened by the russian navy that they were going to bomb the porch. and interestingly, the further west we headed from bear dance, graham, we got wind of a rush, entangled convoy. that was moving towards us from the city of melcher, po, multiple is in russian hands. baranski significant because it is getting incredibly close now to the very important and large port city with a naval base of mariel pal. now, i've spoken to somebody inside marable to day, a journalist that we know is still there. he indeed is getting reports that tank column is moving closer to the western section of the city. he reported heavy shelling and heavy machine gun fire this morning in the city now. it's the 1st time that he's heard. heavy machine gunfire in the city. we are in marable, up until a couple of days ago, there was no fighting inside the city then where there was a lot of shelling in the east. he says that that shilling has continued to the east

of marapoo as well. so, huge concerns there for the hundreds of thousands of people inside marable. we know that there is a lot of military in their ukrainian military and a lot of ukrainian paramilitaries as well. so it seems as if a pincer movement is being created from the west, from this russian tank column from coming from bur danced, and also a push from the east were also hearing reports from the town of vaughan of africa, novel of our carissa about an hour's drive from mariel till close to the separatist controlled area residents. they're saying that there is very heavy fighting in around world of africa, civilians, apparently some claiming that they are not being allowed to leave. we of course, cannot in any way independently confirm that. just a quick note on car cave, of course, ukraine's 2nd city north east, sorry north west from here. we saw yesterday the street fighting in car kiss,

claim, and counter claim by both sides the ukrainians. now saying they are back in control of car give this morning announcing that there will be a curfew in the city from 3 am tonight until 6 i am in the morning. so yes, lots of moving parts. again, lots of very worrying news. certainly in the south of the country, around the kids and, and around the car cave. and as i say, we are going to be going towards up rouge in the next hour or so. and we'll be able to hopefully get a better stay on exactly has what, what has happened around this nuclear plant and charles, and as far as the did the fighting that's been going on near where you are and elsewhere that you just been talking about there and i, i appreciate that there is conflicting information there as you say, but there is a sense that because we're now into what the 5th day of this an attack by, by russia into, into ukraine. there is

a sense that this isn't going as well as the russians had hoped and that the ukrainians are putting up a stiffer resistance at than than, than was expected. is that the fiend you are getting their it's very difficult to tell, isn't it? because i know military analyst, some military analysts are saying that i suppose if you're obviously a ukrainian government, there's something that you would like to think as well. one thing is for sure though, that said the ukrainians in the cities are arming themselves. they are prepared to fight. they are filling bottles with petrol to make mala, self caught cocktails. we have very wiring reports about yes. groups of ukrainian civilians, some to be fair. have to report drunk with weapons. there's a hell of a lot of a sense of sort of conspiracy and paranoia are about so called saboteur groups in these various cities, media teams, including ourselves, have suffered as

a result of that sir. of that tension of that paranoia. so it can be increasingly difficult to operate in these areas. and you're right to say that a lot of analysts are beginning to think that there have been mistakes made by the russian military. in the initial stages of this invasion, people are talking about problems. analysts have spoken about problems with supply lines, for example, and communication lines. also, i read an analyst this morning. i was reading was talking about how surprising he found that there wasn't that big push into car keep using tanks yesterday. of course, the russians say that they're trying to avoid civilian casualties, but we just saw how hard the ukrainians hit back in the car gave. this is no way an easy exercise for russia, and it's going to be very interesting and very worrying as well for millions of ukrainians to see how they respond to what some analysts say is a very difficult position in various different areas of ukraine today. chance

thanks very much. charles traffic in denise pro force r u. s. president joe biden is to speak to his allies on monday, following russia's decision to place each nuclear de terrance units on high alert. resident vladimir putin says it's because nato has, in his words, an aggressive approach. but he's facing criticism at home for ordering. the operation in ukraine, bernard smith, reports from moscow to protest in russia takes a certain amount of courage as it comes with the likelihood that you'll be detained, of violence. this is an 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 or to proceed. it is

a crime both against ukraine and against russia. you are, i think it is killing ukraine 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 when we don't want new crane to be killed. these have been the 1st significant attempts at nationwide protests in almost a year since the jailing of kremlin critic, alexia navarro me or moscow. the police are making it very difficult for people to try and pro just anyone 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 terrance forces, which include nuclear, arms on high alert, was really believe you. dec alex, as you can see, not only do western countries take unfriendly measures against our country in the economic dimension. i mean, the legal sanctions that everyone knows about very well. but also the top officials

of lead in their 2 countries allow themselves to make aggressive states most with regard to saw a come. that is why i or the defense minister and chief of the general staff to put russian army determines forces on high combat, allowed to go 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 warm 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. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow, or i will take a lie now to geneva, where the ukrainian representative, they say, speaking, dallas, listening shelters, and subways. the ukrainian children are being born in bomb shelters, 100000 ukranian children have been deprived of their basic rights and needs, including the right to go to school. destruction of the civilian infrastructure has

left hundreds of thousands without electricity or water, while bridges and roads damaged by the sheylan have cut off many communities. russian forces attempt to so panic among the population based specifically targeting kindergartens and orphanages hospitals and more by medical aid brigades, thus committing acts that may amount to war crimes. and ukraine has filed the case against russia in the international court of justice to bring russia to account the human cost of the russian aggression continues to rise with every day, causing a growing number of civilian casualties, interrupting livelihoods, and damage and critical civil and infrastructure. the russian leadership does not hide the fact that this attack on ukraine is grounded, grounded in his deep disdain for us as the people's and for our rights to statehood . russia as blatant violation of the un charter and fundamental principles of

international law, have been in a crib, kelley condemned by the un secretary general. and you in high commissioner for human rights, who in unison express deep concern for devastating human rights ramification of russia's action. mister president, among other brutal curse characteristics, russian aggression is accompanied by a massive flow of disinformation that aims to distort the truth and mislead the international community. some of it we will hear to day, as well, in other rooms of the appellate in assume and are the institutions of international geneva. we believe this is responsibility of this counsel to push back against conspicuous lies and procedural manipulations by the aggressor state and to strongly respond to his blatant violations of international law. and our common principle, mister president, due to the single russia russia's veto, the un security council yesterday, was not able to take action at the day before yesterday. but the russian veto

cannot stop the un general assembly. and you and human rights council to respond to this blatant violation of you and charter and international humanitarian and human rights law. it is the duty of the you and human rights council to demonstrate its credibility and relevance and to take appropriate action to put an end to gross and systematic violations of human rights stemming from the russian aggression. we call upon its members to exercise their responsibility and support our request for an urgent debate. i thank you. which as nursing i that was the ukrainian law permanent rep said to the, to the you know, your jenny or phillip banker speaking from geneva as the you and hcr conducting a session there. i'm in the, in geneva, just laying out the plight of so many ukrainians right now as a result of this,

or we are expecting to hear from the russian representatives at some point where we are being told. and we are also expecting to hear as well from the un secretary general, we understand is also there, but the russian federation representative about to speak. now let's listen into concerns about human rights in ukraine. before us, we have nothing other than the usual attempt of care to distract attention the attention of the internal community away from what they have been doing for nearly 8 years now, which is a targeted destruction of completely innocent people in the net can who ganske women at children and the elderly and my home been amazon berlin, mother in billboard, thus young ambassador, we do apologize. we have an interpretation issue in spain and spain. interpretation spanish in derbyshire, asthma working i apologize. blew

so marcella continued lincoln mitchell, no clock. ok. miss joy. the tragic result of that in human policy is well known to old. tens of thousands of human lives have been lost. hundreds of 1000 fates have been disrupted. people have had for many years to live in fear of their lives and the lives of their children. every single day for 8 years care has continued to bomb its own citizens as to refuse to have a direct dialogue with don berth hypocrite credit shipper, critically declaring their adherence to the immense agreements was doing so in this they this, this is also happened with a demonstratively silent, western curators, or sponsors. it's a habit fe, legitimate question to ask where you were, western colleagues for all these years. why have you not raise your voice? isn't he? mice council was the peaceful population and

a dumbass were dying when the crowds, nationalist, burnt alive, those in the home of trade unions and a debtor when ukrainian artillery carried out targeted shinning of hospitals and schools where there were bomb shelters equipped instead of bringing the ukrainian authorities to reason and forcing them finally to establish their verdict dialogue with their residence in the southeast part of the country. the collective wes only found that the fire of the internal ukrainian conflict encouraging nationalist sentiment and pumping the care regime, full of weapons. all of this was accompanied by and continues to be accompanied by lengthy discussions, including in this room about concerns for the territorial integrity of ukraine. i will not go further into this topic as the human rights council is simply not empowered to discuss issues relating to the territorial apartments of certain of

different territories. several times we sent signals to care and it's a western puppet to masters on the need to stop the vice in numbers to comply with the men's package of measures. and we have not been heard after russia's recognition of the independence of these republics, the shedding did not stop, but in fact, it increased. and the shedding is ongoing to day. and if conditions the decision to conduct a special operation to stop the tragedy in ukraine was taken. we had no other choice. this operation is targeted in nature, and there is no fire on civilian sites. and the russian federation has consistently spoken and will continue to speak in favor of an honest anti pod, politicized dialogue on the situation of human rights in ukraine. we are more concerned about this than any one else about the normalization the situation in

this country. so that our brevity, ukrainian peoples, can live in peace and harmony. harvest discussion must be conducted on an equal footing with an honest approach to all existing problems. and it's quite clear that an urgent the urgent debate as proposed during this session of him rights council will clearly not serve this objective. in this context, about a federation is against urgent debates been conducted and called for a vote on this. thank you. you dollars. yes, thank you very much, your excellency, can i take it then? that there is no agreement for an urgent debate to take place? upon request of thee for delegation from the russian federation, we shall move to a nominal vote of the following question. which you can

also see on the screen. are you in agreement that an agent debate take place the delegations who wish to hold an urgent debate must vote yes. delegations who are against holding an urgent debate must vote no. the nominal vote will take place space in alphabetical order in english of the names of members of the council, starting with the member whose name will now be chosen by myself. just been hearing that from the russian and ukrainian representatives respectively at the 49th session of the you and human rights council there in geneva,

both giving very different pictures of the the current conflict in ukraine and the plight of people there. ukrainian representative talking about how much ukrainians have suffered as a result of the attack by russian forces was from the russian representative. we heard him saying that this was all a distraction and that the focus should be on the attacks. the ukrainian forces were making against people in the don best region and elsewhere in the east, in ukraine region. so we expect much more reaction on that to come, but we will move on for now. the un estimates that more than half a 1000000 people have had to flee from their homes in ukraine. money, many heading to poland. the e. you preparing to give you cranium. refugees. special permission to live in the

block for up to 3 years without the need to apply for asylum. zane bas raleigh has more from the medical border crossing the uncertainties of war disappear briefly in such moments. untold journeys of paris days spent 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 people to turn off next for their chance at a warm embrace. but at the medical border crossing and poland, not all tears being shed are those of joy. we have friends who will keep us here. i got my child and i get my c service, the 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 telephone lines so long, they are measured in kilometers and delays lasting days. system crashes forcing the few ukrainian border agents to hand right. 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 people, women, children, the elderly,

out in the open gate. and i have a daughter and i am friends in morris, and i'm i need to go day and i bet the border in her, nor do you have to go through their journey is not over. but martha rita, an honest us, you count themselves among the lucky few who got out. oh god, oh god. and even with the relative chaos of make shift 8 stations along the border room, i think 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. zane basra, b o. g 0 medical border crossing eastern poland. russia cause he has dropped more than 40 percent against the dollar and early trading. on monday, the record low follows a new rounds of western sanctions,

including blocking some russian banks from the swift international payment system. russia's central bank is preventing brokers from letting foreigners sell securities, as it tries to contain the financial market fall out and a key interest rate has risen to 20 percent. british oil giant b p is pulling out, is $14000000000.00 fake in the russian oil giant. rodney asked because of the crisis in ukraine and the move marks the end. one of the west largest investments in russian b. p. position in russian. you have to count for around half, it's oil and gas reserves. moving it's almost 20 percent stake in the company will result in charges of around $25000000000.00 b, p. 's, current and former chief executives. i resigned from the russian companies board. let's talk now to say good yes, that he is an economist and professor of economy at the university of sciences po, he joins us via skype now from parents. thank you for being with us. so, to some extent, did the, the impact on this, on russia,

the economic impact was kind of priced in that this was the president, putin kind of expected this to happen. but to what extent is russia able to insulate itself from all of this economic blowback? very nice to be invited here and yet little things to happen before the invasion before starting the work russian. so a little bit back in december and january. exactly, because a lot of that was pricing, but what happened over the weekend was not. and if you ask me on friday, i would not expect that the, the you the interview functions again, the russian central bank bank. that is the major p like major defense tower or russian market framework. in the fact that russian central bank,

your role jazz, will not as well defined it as it was in make no mistake russian based on 2 things. one capital post and the other one is doing price prices back to 2014 levels. yes, it will go as you brought today. now the central bank, it may take a lot of measure the for being multiple time the central vac, rather than we'll be we'll see what she has to say. but right now the measure are actually helping to bring the market back consensus. but overall, the fact that half we're actually 60 percent of the you're already frozen and it's very likely that they will not be able to use the other half the goal than the.