joining us, those decisions that have been made by the european union. and he said that that basically means that for the oligarchs and follows around president putin, there is no way to hide their money. all right, jameson let you go for now. thank you. back to the united nations general assembly, that's where an emergency special session to discuss. the situation in ukraine is being held. let's listen. and once again, day we gather in the general assembly to stand against russia's illegal attack on ukraine and its assault on the principles of the un charter. the facts are clear. russia has invaded ukraine without provocation. and without justification, russia has rained miss aisles and rock hits down on cave,

heart heave r, desa, and other cities. the brave men and women of ukraine are enduring the barrage and have held their cities from russian invaders. they are fighting for their country for their continue to future as a free and independent nation. but the humanitarian consequences are already immense. we hear of babies born in air raid shelters, children with bomb craters in their kindergartens. and to day news of the shelling of residential areas in hot heave, these are indiscriminate attacks on ukrainian civilians. 7000000 ukrainians are displaced in short,

the scourge of war that are united nations was created to prevent, has been unleashed by russia on ukraine. the international response to russia's aggression has been united and swift around the world. and here in this building, we must stand together to defend the rules and enforce the accountability that we have built together. if we do not stand up for them now than the safety of every nation's borders and independence are at risk, that is why we also condemn at viola russian support for russia's invasion of you. craig, as the sector general said last week,

russia's actions or violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine and conflict directly with the principles of the charter of the united nations. and as he said to day, the only answer is peace. so our message to day is simple. we offer our an unequivocal support for ukraine and the ukranian people we call on president putin to stop this senseless war. and we urge all fellow members of the united nations to speak up for ukraine and to defend the charter. slather you crying

again, the distinguished that is the united kingdom ambassador to the united nations barbara would word up throwing the u. k. support really behind ukraine, on the people off ukraine that has been the u. k. position since the beginning of the invasion. and she was calling on putin to end this war. we will keep an eye out on the speeches at the united nations general assembly. and we will bring you any of the latest lines, but for now let's move away from that life picture and bring and she have return. see he's also joining us from the un headquarters in new york. so she has, i'm saying the, the no surprise there and, and what the british ambassador has to say on the situation and ukraine. a restatement south of the thumb support from, from the u. k. a for ukraine. i mean that this is, this is what we expect by this will be a restatement off positions,

but also an opportunity for countries who haven't spoken yet on the crisis to make their voices heard. the last, this we have now is a $107.00 speakers are expected over the course of at least 3 days to make their make their feelings heard on, on the situation at the end of which they will be a vote on a, on a un general assembly resolution a non binding resolution, but unlike the security council, russia nor china has as a veto on, on the resolution. so it will be interesting to see whether in its current form that the resolution is very firmly and very stridently opposed to the russian invasion. it condemns in the strongest terms, the russian federation, aggression against ukraine, and demands of the russian federation immediately sees its use of force against the crane and refrained from any further unlawful threats and demands of the russian federation immediately, completely unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory

of ukraine, within its internationally recognized borders. very muscular language emergency where the china will abstain on this. all indeed will vote against ab instantly. that's what they did. they bade, i'm staying in the un security council, as in the un security council, one assembly worded a resolution was presented out that was using rather coercive mechanisms of the un security council. st. always interesting to see where the china will abstain all vote against as well. as also india and the u. e in the security council, they abstained as well. so there's always that was those dynamics drive are interesting to see i'm, i think what we get, what we're expecting, that is another hour and a half or so of, of debate or lease of speeches at the un general assembly before a break. and then they will resume, resume again around 20 g empty. we expect. okay, yeah, thank you so much. well, earlier we heard from the ukrainian ambassador to the u. n. and he was speaking at that special session. he compared the situation in keys to world war 2 have been

prompted to call for an emergency special session. as the level of this rat to the global security has been equated to the who that or the 2nd world war or even higher. following, put in order to put an alert russian nuclear forces. what's it, what a madness if he wants to kill himself, he doesn't need to use nuclear. awesome, though he has to do what the say, what, what the guy in, in berlin did in a bunker in may 1945 on the ground. people are enduring another day of heavy fighting in cities right across ukraine. dozens of people are reported to have been killed or wounded and brushed attacks on the 2nd biggest city car keys. a residential building was hit and churney have on more than half

a 1000000 refugees have now fled the fighting. that's according to the united nations most are crossing into poland, romania and hungary. iran con has more on the days developments. great. you really be out of the, one of them was the words of a man who refuses to back down stay more meets the 5th day of the full scale war of russia against the people of ukraine. we stand strong. we live through that much over these days. what other people wouldn't experience in decades? some diplomacy is taking place between russia and ukraine. a delegation met on the berries border. it's unknown what was talked about. but it came as the e. u. parliament held a special session about the russian invasion of ukraine. these half a 1000000000 of utah will be devoted to provide the defensive arms, but i calibrate arms. anti thanks all kind of agreement in order to re pale digression. but the destruction and the assault continues.

soon. tanks rolled into khaki. ah, missiles, the scene on the roads is fight at flight. the head residence film, the damage east of car came near the russian border in easton, ukraine fuel tanks. burn on the scene is repeated in albany, crane, and will be over the coming days as both sides fight home m wrong con. observe, as we've been reporting the u. n. is estimating that more than half a 1000000 people have fled from their homes in ukraine. the un human rights council has been holding a debate on russia's military invasion. and you and leaders are calling for a return to diplomacy. the escalation of military operations by the russian federation, ukraine, is leading to escalating human rights violations. we know the inevitable result of was civilian casualties women, children, men, force from their homes, hunger poverty,

and huge economic disruption. conflict is the utter negation of human rights across the boards. freedom of expression is under attack. with reports of generalise and active, you suggested. i have consistently called for the end of the offensive and the return to the best of dialogue and diplomacy. meanwhile, all human rights monetary mission in ukraine. these continue its work and the only 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. all the number of african countries, including nigeria and south africa, say they're trying to get their citizens out of ukraine. ah, the move comes after several of their nationals accused ukrainian guards of discrimination and unfair treatment towards them in trying to cross the border videos posted on social media show black people being thrown off or prevented from

boarding trains and buses headed to the border with poland that's despite ukrainians being allowed on an earlier our team in the vive city spoke to some of those trying to get a train from the railway station to the western border of ukraine. i was trying to get on the 1st train though, and heading to we started that's like in the forward but i couldn't get in because i was being pushed so many people or just the people are struggling to get in this room, ladies and children and also like pregnant ladies, friends before them. and so i was like, ok fine, i'm a lady that might let me in. so all right there by the steps and the guy by the train. i don't know what to call this guy. literally. he's a big man. he pushed me off and then i tried to get him again to push me when he kept saying ladies 1st needed for it. so i looked at him and said of a lady, and he just didn't me and looked, made way. and he did ukrainian women. and women,

those another black lady behind me, i don't know. i did not know her, but the 2 of us are standing and watching all this happen. so we could do nothing and we just stood and looked at the geico the door. we tried to rush to the next thing. thing was happening. so the, the changes, the changes. yeah. well, i was just, i was shocked because i did not know the extent of the racism. i did not know. i think maybe okay, fine. i mean lady. so guess it was that so i just, i was in shock. i was shocked. i was young, i was an upgrade on shocker. actually just scared, like i've seen some videos circulating of the same kind of thing happening. and with the guys it's word. and i've seen another one where the literally being drugs out of the train like the had a chance to get into the cabin, but then the drug out the hallway. no, just way that nobody to drag out. one

indian students say ukrainian guards at the border with poland, beat them up and didn't allow them to cross engines make up a quarter of around $75000.00 foreign student studying in ukraine. many are still stranded. well, monica matuse is an activist working for the n g o group reg renika. she says the discrimination that's happening at the borders is nothing new. do grinding border guards are preventing people from passing through. and then the polish border guards are not better, you know, in this, in this case they are also actually stopping people and not letting them in. we don't know why exactly. i mean, i think it's just the question of not having ukrainian passport we hear about and students from african countries from india, from many other asian countries. we also hear about people from countries that are, you know,

the people who actually were trying to flee to war in other countries. so your men and syria, there is also people right now we are solving the case of for you many boy at the border in america who is trying to pass through. and there have been huge issues and problems to let him actually end to poland. and so i don't know what's exactly the reason i think it's really just an issue of not having ukrainian passport. and i just want to add that, you know, to race in from law at least polish government and polish authorities has been widely known already. we criticize the fact that, you know, the border patrol is actually still operating on the northern i polish bill iris and border and they are still not letting people in and apply for asylum. whereas we are all righty. so allowing the ukrainians fleeing war, you know,

enter you without any issues without any problems. this is, this is blanche unfair. i think i cannot speak for ukrainian border border guards, but the polish border patrol on yesterday they issued a very short statement on twitter. i think in reaction to all of following everybody in, well, i mean, maybe it is true. maybe they are allowing everybody in. but it actually takes quite much, much, much longer time for people without ukrainian passports to cross the border. and quite often they are moved back to the end of the queue. or the u. s. is analysis additional sanctions against russia, central bank. and they prohibit american from doing any business with the bank and fries any of its assets held in the us or white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has more on that from washington. d. c. 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. c 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 a number of russian oligarchy and banks, again, hint with sanctions, their assets frozen in the united states. the british royal giant b p's to offload its $14000000000.00 steak and russian oil giant ross enough that's because of the crisis in ukraine. the move marks the end if one of the west's largest investments in russia, b, p. 's position and ross enough to count for around half of fits, orland gas reserves of removing it. steak of nearly 20 percent will result in charges of about $25000000000.00. b. p. 's current and former chief executives have resigned from the board of the russian company. on the russian currency has draw by more than 30 percent against the dollar and early trading. on monday, the record low follows a new round of western sanctions,

including some russian banks being block from the swift international payment system. russia central bank is preventing brokers from letting foreigners sell securities as it seeks to contain the fall out. and its key interest rate has risen to 20 percent service agree of as an economist and professor of economy at the university of sciences po and france, he says, the decision to hit russia is key. financial institution came as a surprise to everybody. i would not expect that the, the you that you would use function, the game that i should go back and back to that is the major feel of major defense tower or russian market framework in the fact that russian central bank has your role jazz that will not as well defined it as it was in make no mistake russian. you based on 2 things, one,

capital flows and the other one is price prices back to 2014 level. yes, it will go up to date. now the central bank, it may take a little measure for being multiple time. the central that president will be will see what you have to say. but right now the measure are actually helping to bring the market back consensus. but overall, the fact that how we're actually 60 percent of the single reserves are really frozen, and it's very likely that the central, they will not be able to use the other half the gold and the the maybe you can, you can call so that i think that i think is going to be going be quite a challenge for the current market. so depending on any introducing, not just market intervention, but also known like it in the rent. so you actually ban russian brokers to, to implement the demand from putting clients to sell it.

but the people i'm trying to say that's never happened in russia. that's not what happens with company, which has more than 6 kinda deal in the current that almost comp oppression to the b. it's a huge amount and the fact that this amount was rolls and was actually canceled. and now, by the listen government, i know everybody. on sunday, a turkey began calling russia's assault on ukraine a war. and it said it would execute an international package restricting the use of the turkish straits. it's the 1936 months ro convention and it gives turkey control over to important waterways. the door to now and boss for a straits. they take you from the black c l to the mediterranean, through the murmur, a c. and it's a base for russia as black c fleet that's been used to target ukraine, southern coast, or the one tro packed allows turkey to close a straight to all foreign warships and times of war. or when threatened,

there is an exception. if worship is returning to its own port than its passage cannot be prevented the circus for a minister amendments, customer glue has said this right shouldn't be abused. so ships that are allowed to pass to their bases and not then join the war system. customer glue has more from a stumble on turkey's decision. turkey is dependent on energy imports from russia, and turkey is dependent on weight imports from both russia and ukraine as both 2 countries. a provide at least 88 to 5 per cent of the weight imports to turkey. and besides turkey and ukraine had have some defense industry agreements as turkey has sold those famous a tv too. uh drones through the ukranian army. and those drones have been actively used by the ukrainian military against the russian military. doing all this

conflicts. is this the war started a couple of days ago and a geopolitically, a turkey and russia, and have a strategic partnership when it comes to syria. because in northern syria, especially ended the at the, in the, in the, the escalation zone, both countries are a doing joint patrols and also in libya, there is the same thing. and in cut about between armenian as are of a job, there is the same, a partnership with between turkey and russia. can it be named as a allies? i'm not sure, but there's a strong partnership with it. i'm turkey has a strong partnership with both countries. now the european union has closed its aerospace to all russian aircraft, including private jets, more than a dozen countries in the u, her band airlines like aero flawed. since ukraine was invaded, but in retaliation, russia has also banned flights from several european countries. john strickland is an independent air transport consultants and he says the restrictions will force

russian airlines to flight for longer periods. we saw over u. k. claims as space to russian aircraft on monday and it was pretty what an average of all that was going to extend to other states within the u. and indeed other parts. of course, one has also happened. it's been, it's been retaliation by russians each time western european countries close to our space to rushed airlines. that's been the same response by russian authorities to the usa barrier space by european carriers. the main operator received from russia is as a small number of europe in destinations, and i see pans gave me to place their options for movement around you reduced it is pretty well 0 right now. so while initially they may have to on a long securities, routing is on some destination, one out right back looking at the other way around,

which is more significant european airlines who also found because it was difficult places space to those countries because non grocery carriers have the impact of not simply flying to russia, but really significant point to russia. headspace being closed, prohibits the use of russian a flight for many services between europe and asia. now a large number 3 flights. nobody operated tickets or markets like china to japan. for example. ordinarily, that would be a significant commercial hit to those western european allies. it's significant moment, very simply because since i've heard about it, because it's ongoing, large parts of asia remain closed. not these china, china is completely closed due to commercial net. tropical passages says that the volume as traffic is simply don't. there is

a hit on revenue. and our fears from scientists that the conflict and ukraine will overshadow the release of a climate report that's being called an atlas of suffering by the united nations. ukraine's author was forced to take cover in bomb shelter is during the final approval process of the inter cover mental panel on climate change. his report on global warming, our environment editor and clark reports. 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 of a 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 whole 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 this is about building ours millions 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. so investment and adaptation is solely needed. last year it will lead is valid to scale back on the use of fossil fuels, but in fact, the complete opposite has happened. emissions a 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 call oil and gas and it's a clean renewable energy sources such as wind solar, we will cut emissions and limit the global temperature rises. and as i said,

to chance for adaptation measures to work with the world rightly focused on the crisis in ukraine. this latest climate report emphasizes global warming is a fundamental long term threat. the cannot be ignored. the design shows it can be stopped in its tracks. if humanity cuts emissions to 0 time know is running out the clock al jazeera. and just to remind her, the latest developments this hour. and that is that the 1st on the talks between russia and ukraine, about ending the fighting in ukraine have now concluded we've not heard much from the talks, but we are hearing that more talks could be held soon at, at the same time was happening at the you and a general assembly is that emergency session on the ukraine crisis. we will have many more updates for you and more news in just a few minutes right here on al jazeera.

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philippines. a lot of concern here over heavy bouts of rain, especially for menda. now we upgraded, saw the flood advisory. this is now a severe flood advisory and a slug of rain is moving across the yang see river valley out toward these chinese sea and swooping in to southern portions of japan. we've also got us hoc about or smell for japan. this is over the hills of hon shoe and ho kado, but look at this southerly flow here. so the temperature in tokyo on tuesday will be 18 degrees and still warm over the korean peninsula. 10 for so that's it soon for the weather sponsored by cataract ways. oh my manager is my manager is my material my to my plan. that's beauty's bronze to that point. yeah, he doesn't really pertain usual there just we just see glad i am mad julia. i only got my on

my nigeria on al jazeera ah, ah, talks between russia and ukraine and on the border with bella bruce, with the prospect of further negotiations to come. ah, you're working on as you're alive from a headquarters in ohio, getting abigail also a heads fighting in ukraine, intensifies with reports if more casualties. akasha glazing violence, which is resulting in c v.