ah, ah ah, the reports of cluster bombs being used in the ukrainian city of concave, where dozens of people may have been killed in a day of heavy shilling. on the border with bella, rufe, snow breakthrough as delegates from ukraine and russia, hold talks to end the conflict. the me this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up a rush on the rouble cues outside russian banks as western faction see the currency plunge to record low, the and the accidents from ukraine, half

a 1000000 people now fled the country seeking safety in neighboring states, ah, no, russia is exclusive invasion of ukraine is escalating with fierce battles for control and the country's biggest cities, talks failing to reach a breakthrough, and hundreds of thousands of people fleeing across borders. thousands of people may have been killed in ukraine's 2nd largest city car heave after was bombarded by artillery. there are reports the russian forces have been using cluster bombs, which are banned under an international convention. fighting has also been reported in marco and the capital cave is bracing for another night of shelling. an exodus of refugees shows no sign of stopping 1500000 people of fled to neighboring countries since russia began its invasion. meanwhile, 6 hours of talks between ukrainian or russian delegates the border with better

bruce ended with new breakthrough, both sides and now discussing a potential 2nd round of negotiations. your french president brought him, isn't ski, is also applied for his country to join the european union as the appeal some more support. several western countries ascending arms and aid to ukraine. meanwhile, russia is becoming increasingly isolated, politically, financially and even in the world of sport present. vladimir putin is called the west an empire of lies as western sanction is designed to crush the russian economy . take effect among. com begin as a coverage screens the really the other, the one of them was the words of a man who refuses to back down. stay more, meet 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 beller res border. the russians

claimed the talks with detailed yaeger, so that even the negotiations lasted approximately 5 hours, during which time we went in detail through every point on the agenda. we found a few points that we can use as a prognosis of our joint positions. and the most important is that we agree to continue the process of the negotiations. however, the ukrainian says the russians were holding on to biased and extremist positions, gray, hair, grain, and, and the ration delegations today held the 1st round of talks. the main aim of reach was to discuss the ceasefire and the sation of facility this in the territory of ukraine. as soon as the toes finished the capital of ukraine, keith, it was bombed. the use foreign policy chief said they'll do more to help you crane to defend itself. but the destruction and the assault continues. mm hm. tanks roll into khaki ah, missiles seen on the roads as fighter jets fly the head. residents film,

the damage east of car, came near the russian border in easton, ukraine fuel tanks, burn on the scene is repeated, and nobody crane and will be over the coming days as both sides fight home m. ron come observe western sanctions and beginning to hammer russia's finances, the rival plunged fi, 30 percent, a record low at one point trading at $120.00 as the u. s. dollar. and the long lines outside russian banks and atm as people rush to get cash out. in emergency move rushes, central bankers more than doubled its key interest rate to 20 percent. and then you some capital controls. ben smith looks at the effect the sanctions are having on ordinary people. nervous about where the debit and credit cards might stop working, a sanctioned bite. some russians a stocking upon cash. soon they'll begin to feel the financial pain of the president's decision to invade ukraine with interest rates more than doubled 20

percent. and the rubel plunging 30 percent against the dollar. i know that we are planning to buy a flat. so for us it is very important that we were hoping to have a certain interest rate. now it will be totally different the waiver. so of course i am worried anyway, 1st of all, the situation of the, of the dollars unclear and what about foot prices. we are in a debt and situation. there is no way out for people. russians have been promised that central bank reserves of more than $630000000000.00 will help cushing the economy from sanctions. but much of this money is in foreign banks. sanctions will make it very difficult to get any of it back to moscow. one russian economist told al jazeera, it's a completely unprecedented situation for the central bank on friday. central bank head, norma reserves to be happily resorts at frozen, and alcohol is likely to be unusable as well. so this is something where nobody really can imagine what's going on. the central bank says,

external conditions for the russian economy have drastically changed in a meeting about sanctions with government ministers, vladimir putin described the western community as an empire of lies. when smith said, john, just now live from moscow, as all this is happening, many western businesses are leaving russia, lebanon, it yet. b p is leading the rush to the exit. lauren, it is abandoning. it's holding in raw's nasty oil giant him b p. the biggest foreign investor in russia shell is doing something similar is announced is abandoning its connections with gas prom, fedex, and u. p. s a stopping deliveries here. one container, shipping firms as it stopping, taking bookings for shipping's to moscow. and another container company is thinking of doing something similar. the stock exchange will be remain closed again tomorrow for a 2nd day. and one report from institute of international finance,

as russia is extremely likely to default on external debts and the economy will suffer a double digit contraction. so the political, economic, and physical isolation of russia is really picking up speed. ernest may thank you very much indeed. well have jenny howell jones is now live from met, live even, and understand you in a shelter, jonah, and tell us about the, the escalation in terms of shelling and sewing are in around the country. laura very unusually the air raid sirens have gone off here in the leaves and we've come down into the shelter. it's impossible to say whether there is any real threat out there that hasn't been up to now. and i stress that the real escalation that is going on elsewhere, and it has ramped up massively since the end of those talks of the russia, the ukraine betters. border with escalated attacks into the capital cave.

trusted colleagues have been reporting the sound of loud explosions in key have been sightings of surface to air missiles, lighting up the night sky and russian war planes heard roaring overhead. now that will tell you that the ukrainian air defense is still operational in the city that continues to hold off a pretty sustained attack. it has russian forces to the west to the north. there is an enormous column approaching from the south. the aim clearly for this prize for both sides is to encircle the city by the russians to apply maximum pressure on the civilian population and the president, president lensky and his government. as well as the other major development of the day takes place down in the east, the city of car key. it's the 2nd city of the country, its largest russian speaking city, a massive attacks into civilian neighborhoods to the northeast of the city of car. earlier in the day grad rockets beneath to be the cause of those attacks,

secondary explosions, indicating the likely use of pasta munitions, crusty munitions, of course, band and a 100 countries. not in russia, not in ukraine either, but they are designed to cause maximum damage to human is not to buildings or to infrastructure. and this was clearly an attack targeting civilians. the ukrainian side talks about dozens potentially of deaths and hundreds of injuries. and just to make the point again, a russian speaking city close to the russian border, quite possibly, the one of the friendliest cities in this country talk russia. it was the soviet capital of this country, well, not friendly towards russia anymore. and you're just a bit more about the talk to me. we know that they finish this as far as we know, no breakthrough that the plan is presumably for them to to carry on. do we have any idea when we don't and certainly no break through nor was any breakthrough expected. i think we need a clear about that the kind inside coming out of those talks 5 hours of talks. of

course, it's better they be talking than not, didn't have particularly update assessment, nor did the russian side for that matter at both sides. it's, it said similar things that come up with some priority. so it was her last, jonah, how there, who's sheltering in bunker and leave that where he has, he pointed out, she doesn't think there's a, a risk amendment that has been their rates are and in general, he was saying that the escalation has been around the country and more attacks on keep in particular and also concave. i will bring you more courses on the latest on the ground when we cannot holler reporting for us. now the you in the general assembly is holding an emergency meeting on the russia, ukraine war members meeting to discuss resolution to condemn the russian invasion. you inspect your journal, antonio, cherish school for an end to the conflict, which he says could lead to disastrous implications. these escalating violence which is resolving in civilian deaths including children. he's totally an

acceptable enough is enough. soldiers need to move back to their barracks and leaders need to move to piece. civilians must be protected. international amenities and human rights law must be upheld. the sovereignty independence and that it follow integrity of ukraine within its international recognised borders, must be respected in line with general assembly resolutions missed the presidents. we are facing a tragedy for ukraine, but also a major regional cries, is it potentially disastrous implications for household speak at the special session ukraine's ambassador to you and compare the situation and keep to world war 2. we have been prompted to call for an emergency special session as the level of the strat to the global security has been equated to the levant, or the 2nd world war or even higher following proteins order to put an

alert russian nuclear force. if he wants to kill himself, he doesn't need to use nuclear arsenal. he has to do what these say, what would be guy him in berlin did in a bunker in may 1945. she had mackenzie's at live 1st set the united nations sentence. more about this unusual i bringing together the general assembly on the tone of the messaging throughout while we were expecting the emergency special session to resume around 2 hours time, they'll be at a regular session of a general assembly just before that apparently. and we have a 110 speakers listed altogether at that sound and 10 member states onregional. groupings will have that voice voice is heard on this topic. we expect it to last a few days. the latest estimate is this will continue to wednesday when there will

be a vote on a u and general assembly resolution. that is and that, that will need a 2 thirds majority to pass. it's non binding. that this mechanism, it's been used specifically for when the security council is deadlock, because of upon that member using of eater russia used, it's vito on friday for resolution condemning the russian will, is deploring the russian invasion of ukraine. we're seeing similar language now in the un general assembly raised at resolution that's been circulated now over 80 co sponsors already out of 193 member states. and we're seeing similar negotiations underway on the wording of the resolution. i think to ensure that china certainly wouldn't vote against, but would that would, would, would, would abstain. so we already see now the resolution go from it condemning in the strongest terms of the russian federation, aggression against ukraine, to deploring the russian federations invasion, aggression against ukraine. so that, that least would, i think this, the, the sponsor would hope would, would avoid a,

a chinese no vote on that. over 80 k sponsors need a 2 thirds majority non binding. we expect that vote on wednesday know she, mackenzie, thank you very much. need to read on his air, forced out of formula one football and now maybe in the olympics. invisible to wound is tennis back on russia? optimization of the brain? ah, there's still plenty of snow falling and to fall in the southeast of europe, circulating round center of, of low pressure in the black sea. but what can we of the landing now looking bit more like early spring, yet it's tucking into it is warm. so if a northern france, you're probably gonna hit the low teens, non, for example, forties, miserable, weather in london admittedly. but the snow is limited to the high ground of norway

between these 2 areas. this is tuesday for cross the sun should be at no as showing particularly cold weather. no where particularly warm bath, not part of france either south of that. and the sun is i for most to spain and portugal is proper and wanted rain coming in to the north west of spain. dr. written and piles of portugal was caught a strong wind for which there will be warnings alliteration coast, a snow for italy and for the high ground of sicily and obviously greece. but it's easing up in the balkans. that's also true of the strong wind. but if i edge in towards turkey, you see a lot of snow here for tuesday and probably wednesday rain. we haven't got the heights or cross cypress, northern syria, and lebanon with sunshine to follow. and he gets even snow, yeah. edgy into the southern caucasus. this during wednesday in north africa caught a strong winds being set up with sand in algeria. ah

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bombarded by artillery. possibly killing dozens, with reports that cluster bombs were used. fighting is also be reported in mario pole and the capital key was bracing for another night. shelling, 1st round of talks has been held between the russian and ukrainian delegations. they met on the border with ben roost, dedications, and i'm returning to that capitals for further consultations and western sanctions are hammering, rushes. economy. rubel plunged 30 percent against the u. s. dollar and interest rates have been raised to 20 percent. the u. s. is announced. additional sanctions against russia's central bank. now white house correspondent, kimberly, how could george's live and can be how will these new sanctions work? well, what we know is that they are really designed to do a number of things that is to drive inflation further up in russia also to drive down russian investment to add also cripple russia's purchasing power. and we

should know that this is the latest in a series of targeted sanctions against russia, because in addition to the announcement of the targeting of russia's central bank and also the direct investment fund, we should point out that over the weekend, there was this removal of russia from the swift system, this is that system that banks used to really message back and forth and also to conduct secure transactions. and then of course, the united states in conjunction with partners and allies earlier in the week. sanction, not only the russian president vladimir putin, but also some wealthy oligarchy, and a number of financial institutions, freezing their assets in the united states. so this is a ratcheting up of various steps designed to, again, really cripple vladimir putin's ability to finance the invasion of ukraine. that is still of course, ongoing and again, this is something that has been done in conjunction with u. s. allies in to that

end. we know that the u. s. president had yet another call with allies this we're not lasting about 90 minutes or just to under today. we're still waiting for the read out on that. but one of the reasons we know this call was held was due to some of the concerns of the raising of the alert level or deterrent level by russia and it's nuclear capabilities over the weekend. this is something that we know was something that would be discussed over this call. we know some of the participants included candidate germany, italy, france, among others in japan, the u. k. all of those leaders participating. but what we do know is that the united states has no plans to also raise it's nuclear alert level at this time. and the reason for that, we understand is that there is the signature, both russia and the united states right now on documents that i serve. that both parties believe that any sort of nuclear war or any sort of nuclear combat

would be normally devastating to both sides, but that such a conflict simply can't be one. and so there is still this belief that there are reservations in the part of vladimir putin to even use those capabilities. so this is something that we understand was discussed in this call. but again, we are waiting for the official read out that is expected shortly from the white house press secretary, kimberly how can thank you very much. the use as it will increase military support to ukraine. entrepreneur handed to james bass has the details from brussels. european defense ministers met by video link to discuss the plan, to send weapons to ukraine. a package that is unprecedented in its size over $500000000.00. they discussed where to get the weapons from what exactly to buy, and how to send them to ukraine. none of those details were made public though this

is what the european high representative said. you know that these have a 1000000000 are viewed as will be devoted to provide defensive arms. but i calibrate arms anti tanks, all kinds of agreements in order to re failed declaration and member to state have to provide this armed with had to coordinate with what that they are doing. what we can do additionally with these resources in recent hours, the ukrainian president has signed a decree formally requesting membership of the european union. and that membership be fast tracked. that's something that clearly will be discussed on the margins and meetings here in europe in the coming days. but membership of the european union is a very, very long process, and there's no way ukraine will become a member any time soon. international sporting agencies are turning their backs on russia and the governing bodies of global and european football,

a banning russian teams, and all international competitions and olympic officials. they're asking other sports organizations to blacklist athletes from russia and belarus and speak to our sports percentage manager. oscar, who is in our doha broadcast center. and john, what does this all mean? while lauren, in this decision, by fee for a new way for came less than 24 hours since another decision by fee for to sanction russia. but it was very roundly criticized by many other football associations. so the original decision was that russia would continue to play, match is not at home, but it would continue to play matches and not under its own name. instead of the football union of russia or a few, it wouldn't be allowed to have 8 national anthem, and it wouldn't be able to play under its flag. but that really was as far as it went. and that's why it was heavily, heavily criticized by many other football associations. now this new decision effectively means that russia out of the work up qualifying competition for this

year. now russia would use be playing poland at the end of march in a well cup playoff match, then the winner of that would play another match against sweden and the czech republic. and then the winner of that much would go on to represent that country at the welk up here in cat. but now that rush her out, those 3 of the teams who pushed for russia to be suspended by the likes of fee for a new way for will. they've welcome this new decision or the obit. it's come late and then everyone expected ponens of f. a president, it says that it kaleisha said that fighting for the right case was effective and we have shown that strength is in solidarity. the pressure was really on fee for from those football associations, not across, not just across europe, but across other continents as well. and also i think that this decision was prompted by the i r c, who'd earliest smooth the path by saying that all sporting when is ation should ban

russia and belarus athletes from international sporting competitions journey shortly. thank you very much. hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have already fled to neighboring countries and many more continue to seek refuge, a polish border, police say almost $327000.00 people event opponents since russia began its invasion . step boston has war from crossing on, the potent ukraine border. hot breaking scenes here at the gate of the you, the gate to safety right here. people have been waiting for days in their cars for many, many hours. they had to walk because it is a long queue of estimated 30 to 40 kilometers on the other side of the border of more than 300000 have already reached her hungry romania, poland, moldova. but the, your nature expects many more to arrive here estimations from 4 to 5000000,

which could mean the largest human catastrophe in europe since the cold war. people are arriving here as well. they are confused to where to go or their offer to rights by a lot of volunteers. people from germany, people from the netherlands, from countries around europe are coming here, offering their help. as you can see, there's the best as arrive in every few minutes as those of people come in into a new country, probably of know where to stay or not knowing where to go. sophia help in today. the most sort of, of hurtful thing i got is from the u. k. government, but we can't help these people at the moment. the way the visa structure is, i think we should really cannot stand up button. i'm on the have a look at this and, and get involved like the, the rest of the, the european community has. and i have been hard breaking stories of people who actually manage across the border afternoon. we're walking for a long time. what i wanted to, to bull's from live, to the border between ukraine and holland. but they so many cars on the way. so the

boss stopped us on the way. and i trick by fruits for 12 hours to have good. i was like, no stop. i just have to relax like 30 minutes and i continue my journey. but it shows at 5 days into the invasion from russia. the situation on the other side of the border is getting more and more dire. a number of african countries including nigeria and south africa say they're trying to get their citizens out of ukraine. video and social media shows a black student being prevented from boarding, a train, and less stranded intervene. ukrainians are allowed on. other say they've been turned away at the border and she'll tell jerry has since called for equal treatment of all those things. ukraine. right. narrow team and leave 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. i was heading to the like in the fall. but i couldn't get in because i was being push so many people obviously people are struggling to get in and those this rule ladies and children and also like pregnant ladies 1st before them. and so i was like, okay, 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 yet 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 resonated for it. i looked at him and said of a lady, and he just stared at me and looked, always made way. and she, the ukrainian women passed on nice women, those another black lady behind me, i don't know, i did not know her, but the 2 of us are standing there and watching all this happen. so we could do nothing and we just stood and looked at the geico as we tried to rush to the next wagon. same thing was happening. so 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 like if i and i'm a lady. so i just shot, i wish i was shot 1000 enough. great shot. actually just scared me. i've seen some videos that can a thing of the same kind of thing happening with the guys. it's worse and i've seen another one where they're literally being drugs out of the train like had a chance to get into the cabin. but then the war drag out the hallway and just by the door drag turkeys stopping military ships from passing through the dark nails and bus restraints to the black sea. on sunday, anchor began calling rushes a soul to ukraine, a wool. that means it can execute an international agreement, restricting use of the to import waterways, including from rushes black sea fleet. as soon because we has more from assemble,

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 width, imports to turkey. and besides turkey and ukraine, hair have some defense industry agreements as turkey has sold those famous attribute to, uh, drones through the ukranian army. and those drones have been actively use by the ukrainian military against the russian military, doing all this conflicts as the air since the war started a couple of days ago. an edgy or paula b, a turkey and russia and have a strategic partnership when it comes to syria. because in northern syria, especially in the, at the, in the, in the, the escalations on both countries are a doing joint patrols and also in libya, there is the same thing. and in color bar between armina nazare just there is the

same, a partnership, or with between turkey and russia. can it be named as a allies? i'm not sure, but there is a strong partnership. it with it. i'm turkey has a strong partnership with both countries. ah, or model top stories on how to 0. russia has roundtop attacks on ukraine's biggest cities. dozens of people may have been killed in ukraine's 2nd largest city khaki after it was bombarded by artillery. there are reports that russian forces have been using cluster bombs, which are banned under an international convention. fighting has also been reported in mario pole, and the capital cave is being attacked under there is jona hall has more from an air raid shelter in levine, western ukraine trusted colleagues have been.