and then you went out into the civil war. i started off leaving this of the grand suite at the commodore hotel. the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison. so as a hostage, a route the commodore war hotels on al jazeera. ah, russian and ukrainian delegations of sat down for talks in a bell, russian bought a town as the fighting intensified. ah, hello dan, i'm come all santa maria in dough horrors. we continue our coverage of the russia ukraine war. russia says its troops had taken areas around a nuclear power plant in east, in ukraine, as fighting goes on across multiple seasons. the you and meanwhile is saying more than half a 1000000 ukrainians have now left their home. since the start of the war will have

a report from the border, poland, and in the united states, the band all transactions with russia's central bank. as the rubel, the currency drops more than 30 percent against the dull. ah, for the 1st time since the russian invasion talks have begun at the bell rece border between russian and ukrainian delegations. we got some early pitches out of there. as ukraine said, it wanted an immediate cease fire and all russian troops to withdraw. moscow said it was seeking an agreement that benefits both sides. a better russian official delivered a message from president alexander lucas shanker. at the start of the negotiations, resumed latosha basil split its dear friend, the president. a feller was asked me to meet and greet you and accommodate your work to the best affordability, as was discussed with the president zalinski, and as you can feel completely safe, it's our holy duty reciprocal president. look

a shanker, sincerely hope so old issues can be result during today's talks. and old bela russians are praying for it. any of your requests. when suggestions regarding today's meeting will be accepted and complied. unquestionably. but all the while the violence continued in ukraine, dozens of people reporter killed in russian attacks on hot heath and more than half a 1000000 refugees of now fed the fighting in ukraine. that number coming from the united nations. most of them braving these sorts of cold conditions in poland and in romania and in hungary as well. meanwhile, the european union parliaments holding a special session over the crisis. a you foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, says they are looking into how to help ukraine to defend itself. lots to talk about with john hollow correspondent in the have anything to come out of those talks yet . jonah? no,

we wait for news from the border area there between ukraine and bell roofs where these talks are taking place. they've been out for 3 hours or so now not a word out to them. day 5 of the invasion. of course, it's better that they be talking, they're not talking, but they frankly are not great grad grounds for optimism beyond that. as you said, the ukranian side, looking for an immediate cease fire and an immediate withdrawal of rushing forces from ukraine. that's not going to happen. and on the other side, the russians of course, will want guarantees from ukraine. they'll never seek to join nature. they want the recognition of the independence of large parts of ukrainian territory, the to break away republics, so called in the east plus additional territory around them. and they want ukraine, crimea to be confirmed as well recognized by the ukrainians as part of russia off. it was annexed in 2014. the ukrainians are not going to exceed wholesale. to that, either very low expectations. president lensky said, going in that he didn't expect a breakthrough, but he said, we'll go,

we'll listen to the roger i. russians have to say best. anybody suggest that we are not doing everything we can to secure peace? and besides that, look, this is happening in battle ropes on battle roof and territory just banner was fast becoming more and more of a player in this whole conflict. because alexander lucas shank of the president has just announced this morning that a snap referendum confirmed, approved the lifting of bella versus non nuclear status. that paves the way for russia to be able to move new nuclear weapons into battle, roasted things escalate, appallingly in that direction. and he is also said to be by american sources, preparing potentially the hand over his forces to the russian side, joining the fight alongside russia against ukraine, suggesting that really on their side fellow russo rusher. if we thump them together, there are pretty low expectations of success here as well. john, i mentioned only briefly in our opening sequence about

a fighting in other parts of the country. car heave you were telling us in a news hour about some disturbing reports coming out of there. and i mean there's no let up. 2 rushes advance on the front just because they're talking on the border with fellers clearly the encirclement of your, of your capital city, key of continues. they efforts to build a land border in the east between crimea and those eastern republics continue with news that one keith house has been occupied by russian forces cementing helping to cement that land border. but it is what is happening in the last few hours, still unfolding in the eastern city of hockey. the 2nd biggest city in this country, that is truly the most disturbing aspect of what's going on at the moment. heavy attacks in the northeast of the city on very compact, densely populated civilian neighborhoods, lots of tall apartment buildings and so on. no question whatsoever. these are

anything but targeted attacks on the city and neighborhood. lots of pictures showing explosions, suggestions that grad rocket far has been used. others that bombs have been dropped from the air. there's lots of flashes that indicate secondary explosions. the use of cluster munitions in amongst all of that 100 countries, a band, the use of presto, munitions, not russia, and not ukraine either. and the ukrainian or for it is a talking about dozens of civilians killed, perhaps hundreds injured. this is an appalling development. remember, russia has always said for 5 days that they only intend to target military installations in infrastructure, not civilian areas. is this potentially an awful portent of a change of tactics by the russians? apparently frustrated by the pace of their advance, frustrated by the staunch ukrainian resistance, are they now moving towards civilian targets? possibly. so, john hall wrapping things up for us from the 8th in the west of ukraine. thanks,

jenna. please, to welcome nigel. go davis to al jazeera senior fellow for russia and eurasia with the international institute for strategic studies, but also form at u. k. ambassador to belarus with us from washington d. c. thank you. sorry, davis not j v. so fighter i correct myself there. maybe we can talk about bella rhys, 1st of all, things that is where you spend time as, as an ambassador, the threat. and i think we can use that word from the bell, russian president of allowing nuclear weapons on to his soil to potentially be used there. how serious do you think that threat as well ill? rousseau, just taking a trouble to, to create a, a bo supposedly passed a referendum over the weekend. ah, that introduces new constitutional amendments into the bellows. the constitution, one of which will allow her for the 1st time since 1994 for

nuclear weapons, to be stationed on better resumed soil. so that the legal formalities have been done. of course, a bill of rights is de facto already a co belligerent in this contest are actively supporting russia and her. it's increasingly clear now that the price that russia has extracted for support. lucas shanker ever since he faced, sustained her protests and demonstrations since august 2020 have been to take effect of control over better assist security systems. this is an early warning development, but then valerie so says hey, will host talks between you and our border region. ah talks which carry almost all this fighting goes on as well. oh that's right. oh oh, talks are almost always a good thing. ah,

it's hard to be skeptical on the bass. it's very hot. be confident, optimistic on the basis of what we know so far about these tours. on the one hand, you crate has sent a heavy weight military delegation. on the other hand, the russian delegation is headed by someone with no diplomatic or military experience. essentially a party hack with an undistinguished record as a, as a former culture minister. this is not that sort of person you send if you're interested in a genuine negotiation. the real worry, i think now is that russia is trying to maneuver some terms of effect of surrender from are you cray escalating in horrific ways in the salt on the untruth correspond was just saying while also carrying out talks toot to force of some kind of surrender. can i get your take mr. gall davis on sanctions? because sanctions was sort of the weapon of choice to start with. wasn't it from

the west? we're going to sanction. we're gonna hit the oligarchy. we're gonna hit the banks with all of those things. and there was a sort of feeling that well, sanctions don't stop missiles and yet the strength of those sanctions now and what it's doing to the russian markets and the rubel. ah, it's quite effective. well, looks to be quite effective now. that's absolutely right. there's been a sea change in western policy on this front, or even the past 2 or 3 days. and the measures that we are seeing applying now to the russian economy are absolutely unprecedented for a major sanctions target. i think that in a sense, wessa surprised itself by the strength of its resolve and response. so yes, a lot of people was saying, including the in russia. well, they'll hurt us. they're unpleasant. but we found ways to cope with these things.

but the magnitude of the financial soon army now hitting russia is very serious indeed. and it stands comparison potentially with the financial catastrophes but russia faced in 1998 with that the meltdown then. or even in the early ninety's. this will create a deep unease. o, both among many audrey, russian citizens who even over the weekend were forming long queues at the atm is to try to get money out while it's still possible to do so. but also is causing di pennies. among rushes elites are those who depend on access to the global financial system, and these people are the stainless and enablers and supporters of the putin regime . so on this, as on every other political front of since the beginning of this unnecessary war, putin finds himself worse off, not better. off nigel davis is a former

u. k ambassador to belarus and we thank you very much for your time sir. now backtrack our respondents hot abdel how me to is that a train station in the pro in easton, ukraine meetings happened. the people desperate to leave the country. people are coming here and trying to make their way out. when you ask them where you going. they say anywhere the moved over and bordered a romanian border to polish border to hungarian border. wherever we can reach, we will go to this, not only ukraine is you have a lot of foreign students who study in april. we met people from ghana, from nigeria. we so some asians walking around the, it's, it's complicated, there's no tickets. you just have to grab and try to go. in the midst of all that, a heart wrenching situation of father saying good bye to their children, to their wives, to their mothers. men have to stay here or have to stay at least in the country. so

for many doesn't even make sense to go to the border, because then they'll find themselves all alone, at least here they stay at home. so you have all of that happening and when you ask them, when are you going to come back? when are you going to see your family again? no one has the answer for that. no one knows when they come back. this city will still be, as it is now, fairly peaceful, even though the air sirens have been going on for quite a while or no others coming from done yet in lieu ganske region, they don't want to ever going to go back home because they don't know if the separatists will take full control of that area, which is what the separate is want, and so they don't want to live there. so they don't know where they're going to be . they don't know they're going to be refugees for the rest of their lives. are they going to come here and live somewhere else? united nations actually estimates more than half a 1000000 people have been forced to flee their hardens in ukraine, trying to get out from places where hotter was fair. the you and human rights council is debating, rushes invasion with you and leaders calling for

a return to deployment. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of what civilian casualties, women, children, men, force from their homes, hunger poverty, and huge economic disruption. conflict is the atom negation of human rights across the boards. fillum of expression is under attack. with reports of journalists and activists, arrested, i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights monitoring mission in ukraine. these continue its work and already military in agencies will step up their operations. we must show all people in ukraine that we stand by them in their time of needs. let's go to eastern poland aah with steadfast and where ukrainians are crossing that border steps and speaking to people as have come through. what have there been telling you?

well, hot breaking breaking seeds here at the gate to safety the gate into the e u. the same gate, basically that remained close just a few months ago when people were trying to cross from baller roast people from iraq, people from syria. now the gate is open, but it's very difficult to get through. we know that there is a long q of 1000 spans of thousands of people on the other side of the board or waiting to cross in. there have been in the car as an in herb going by foot for days. they have no water, no food, any more for dire situation or on the other side of the border. but these people are allowed in, they can go into europe and europe is expecting a lot more. we have now more than 300000 to came in to fall into romania hungry. but there you are. nature expects up to 4 or 5000000 people that it's going to be

the biggest humanitarian catastrophe since the cold war. and if people are, i fear you can see the relief, there's a bus just arriving right now. and you see if there are, they have had this long journey as you see the relief on their faces when they pass through the border. here are they really happy that they finally made it here? and we just recently spoke to a nigerian student who was studying in key f. and he told us a horror of it or effect story. he was travelling for 5 days to get to this border and he said he actually saw people that on the way have a listen. it's so terrible because so many people died on the with so many. you don't see them the, the collapse and look, nobody can see them and you see no be covered with glotts, which is the dead. how many dead bodies that you see? i saw about 3 or 4 on the way on the way on flint with

a blanket. yes. then into cold, like from the border. so many people collapse so many people died new to the cold. some new to panic. you know? well, we can't confirm his says statement, of course we got to get there, but those are record stories coming from the border a movement here now also ambulance is coming in. so it also shows that after 5 days, the 5th day of the russian invasion, the situation is getting increasingly difficult on that side of the border for people to come back in. ok, thanks for that reports a step wanston on the polish order. if you kind there are african and indian students stuck in ukraine, accusing officials of discrimination and stopping and getting to the board of videos of posted to social media has said to show black people being prevented from

boarding a train left stranded at a railway session in the v while ukrainians were allowed on. other said they were turned back from a border. i'm a shot us when you have this video, indian students claiming ukranian gods on the border with poland, beat them up and didn't allow them to cross. there are tens of thousands and there's a lot of international students who've been stuck in ukraine since the war. the downside is economic and business impact to look at b p, the oil companies to offload it's $14000000000.00 stake in the russian. russian oil company rush left because of the crisis. the move marks the end of one of the west's largest investments in russia. b p position in rosen if accounts for around half its willing gas reserves, and removing it steak of nearly 20 percent or mean it will take a hit of about $25000000000.00 if he's current and former chief executives of all so resigned from the board of the russian company,

and then you have the russian currency, which dropped more than 30 percent against the dollar and early monday trading a record. lo, which follows a new round of western sanctions, including some russian banks being blocked from the international payments system. and as swift, which is central bank is preventing brokers from reading foreign as well securities of it seeks to contain the fall out. the other thing is the interest rate, which is now risen. it's at 20 percent and the u. s. of announcing additional sanctions this time against russia, central bank and you moved that prohibits americans from doing any business with the bank as well as freezing any of its assets that a health in the united states. here is white house correspondent, kimberly hawker with more. this happening in just the last hour. the us treasury announcing the latest in a series of incremental steps against the russian federation, the latest, the russian central bank, as well as the russian direct investment fund or sovereign fund being targeted in

terms of the latest round of sanctions. what does this mean? this means that the russian federation in these terms of these 2 different entities can no longer do business in the united states, and specifically can no longer do business in dollars, which of course is one of the major world currencies for financial transactions. now, as well when it comes to any russian assets in dollars in the united states, again, those assets now frozen. and this is the latest in a series of sanctions that have been rolling out in the last week or so. you'll recall over the weekend that the united states announced that there was the isolation of a number of russian banks from the swift transaction or financial system. this is the ability of banks to transact between banks in a rather swift fashion, very quickly in terms of moving money. and then you'll recall previously that

vladimir putin himself, as well as the number of russian oligarchy and banks. again, here with sanctions, their assets frozen in the united states. now there are fears from scientists that this conference in ukraine will overshadow the release of climate report that is being called an atlas of suffering. united motion to send out ukraine's author on that report was forced to take cover and bomb shelters during the final approval process. this is the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the i p. c. c. it's latest report on global warming. it shows the pace and scale of climate impacts or accelerating and actually off stripping current actions to address them mo, from our environment, edison clock. the air is just 2 months old, already catastrophe in argentina. as a scorching heat wave sparks raging wildfire deadly landslides, devastate brazil. historic mountain town of patropolis. events like this together

with ongoing droughts, floods and super storms, all the new climate normal. and it's only going to get worse unless something is done fast. so says a hurrying climate report that lays out how civilization has accelerated, the decline of nature at the expense of humanity and ecosystems. and that adaptation is urgently required, especially in the global. so it isn't about building our sealants, being prepared for worse things to come. you know, how can we stop and limit the impacts of climate change that are happening now and will happen further in the future. and so investment in adaptation is, is solely needed in class last year. it will lead his vow to scale back on the use of fossil fuels, but in fact, the complete opposite has happened. emissions as soaring as global demand for energy has increased with economies bouncing back from the effects of the pandemic . oil and gas prices have spiraled despite promises. banks are investing heavily,

particularly in coal. if we move out of polluting fossil fuel, such as carl and gas and it's a clean renewable energy sources such as wind solar, we will cut emissions and limited global temperature rises. and as i say back here, it's chance for adaptation measures to work with the world rightly focused on the crisis in ukraine. this latest climate report emphasizes global warming as a fundamental long term threat. the cannot be ignored with the site shows it can be stopped in its tracks. if humanity cuts emissions to 0. time though is running out. li, clark al jazeera, very pleased to welcome anger. anderson to al jazeera, executive director of the united nations varman program with us from nairobi. thank you so much for your time today. there's a lot to take in from that report as there always says, but the thing which got me and i actually said it in the intro, was that what we're doing now is already being outstripped by the,

by the time where we're, we're, but we're just chasing her entails, at the moment, it feels like well i think can and what we need to do, i think we all understand and we need to phase out and fossil fuels and we need to do so fast. this report deals with the adaptation side of the coin. you may recall the other half of the report came out in august that spoke to the mitigation side and, and how about. so this report looks at how we are doing and what impact we're having on the planet. what our footprint in terms of carbon a fossil fuels is having. and these losses some losses. yes, ari irreversible. and as you say, our strip. but we can still catch up, but it would mean us as a global community taking action and taking action fast and concentrated action, action $365.00 days a year. it feels to me like we all get and the media is included in that. we'll get

excited once a year when there's the year the cop conference and then it all falls away again. well, i would certainly hope not because sir, i mean, yes, science is telling us these things. what we now need to see is the political action, but i do find that there's more than ever greater understanding because people are living this, they're seeing species disappear before they're very eyes as seen ecosystems collapse. we're seeing in east africa and an central and south america, acute food and water shortages. we're seeing these impacts on the every region. and so, and we're seeing the health of people and cities impacted because of extreme heat waves. and of course, the fires that we've seen across the world. this is not normal, but it is a new normal and we're only at $1.00 degrees. and as you know, whist iving to keep it under 1.5, which is obviously why we need to,

especially protect the most vulnerable, the 3 and a half 1000000000 people who live with greater vulnerability, most of them in the global south. but look at all the investment that carries on in fossil fuels, coal, particularly, i remember doing an interview about this a few weeks ago. the amount of investment bank money that goes into coal it's, it's completely counter intuitive, isn't it? it is, it isn't, it's time to call it out and science can only hold up the mirror to the world at the end of the day. people like you and me, we'll have to take that into the voting booth into the boardroom. and to where we put on vestments into our consumption patterns a to make the shifts. of course, at the end of the day, these are regulatory settings. we know at an glasgow told us, we have to face down fossil fuels and, and it was very clear that we cannot have subsidies on hydrocarbons. and so this is

what we need to have happen. the window still open, but it will not remain open for much longer anger. finally, tell me a good news story. tell me something which i will tell you. go and he'll go on governor newton as we are here. nairobi and we are working on dealing with plastic pollution and just last night at 3 am in an informal meeting, but will all 193 members stays on. most of them, at least we have a draft text that will get us to a global agreement to a deal with plastic pollution that scourge on the 9000000000 tons that we put into the world. since we invented plastic, we now need to stop that, not the plastic is bad, but once it's in the economy, it needs to stay in the economy, which means we need to move to circularity. i am very hopeful, i'm speaking to you from the united nations environment assembly when they robi the

well this gathered here and i am very hopeful that by wednesday when the gavel goes down, we will have a new agreement that will bring plastic pollution to an end and that is a good news story and i'm glad you could bring it to us and get anderson, executive director of the you and environment program. thank you. thank you. having me, a bit of sports is going back to ukraine, now growing backlash against the 1st not expelling russia from world cup, qualifying games. what they have decided is that no international matches can be played in russia, and the flag and then will be banned from any of the teams matches abroad. and the national side will compete as the russian union of sorry, the football union of russia the are a few feet and says that condemns the use of all spite russia in its invasion of ukraine. poland it already refused to play russia in their world cup play off in moscow. next month and stamps hasn't changed. earlier we spoke to yucca coat ski

from the polish football association who told us they are fully prepared to give up a potential place at the world cup and cut her. first of all, we don't care about the consequences to be honest. in our opinion, it is not our school should bear the consequences of our decisions, but someone else and we feel our great support from our fonts. we feel a great support from a whole lot. we are receiving thousands of messages from the funds all along all around the world. and they praise our decision and the what is more important. the polish fans see the police national team, the witness to day. according to them, we have already won the what even if we will not be able to play in car for our fonts, we are already witness. gotta have a check on the headlines in a 2nd, but i just want to show you some recent pictures from keith just to remind as we

talk about all the fighting as we talk about all the flying. this is a major european capital that is empty. confuse in place in the capital, the streets devoid of people because quite simply they don't know what's coming next. wasting. will the air raid sirens sound again. recent pictures from the ukrainian capital at a complete standstill. ah say it's half past the hour, we'll check the headlines for you talks have felt well, they've been ongoing between a ukrainian or russian delegation at the border with beller roost. the 1st time the 2 sides have met since russia began its assault on ukraine last thursday. jana holden, the beef in western ukraine with more on those talks. they're ongoing that we know the ukranian delegation is headed by the defense minister alexey rosena called.