on during capital or just the tip of the iceberg, and a far more complex security situation with detailed coverage, this coastal vintage in why is one of the worst areas here in the province of ball, from around the world. things seem very normal in the city. people are still going to work or to school the restaurant on. ah, reports of cluster bombs be used in the ukrainian city of khaki, where dozens of people may have been killed in a day of heavy shelling. ah, unearned tennis is ours here and live from london also coming up on the border with belarus. no breakthrough as delegates from ukraine and russia. hold talks to end

the conflict and the exodus from ukraine. more than half a 1000000 people have now fled the country. see, he safety in neighboring states as a rush on the ruble cues in russia as wester section and see the currency plunged to a record low, low rushes explosive invasion of ukraine is escalating with fierce battles for control in the country's biggest cities. talks failing to reach a breakthrough, and hundreds of thousands of people fleeing across borders. missiles are lighting up the sky of ukraine's capital keith, while russian warplanes roar overhead and explosions ahead in the city for the east, dozens of people may have been killed in ukraine. second largest city cock eve, after is bombarded by artillery their reports, the russian forces have been using cluster bombs, which are banned in more than a 100 countries. ukraine's president wrote a messy, let's keep calling for

a no fly zone. under simmons begins our coverage for innovative o. lethal actions speaks mounted in waves. this is the message russia centers where delegates were talking with ukraine negotiated civilians attack to more homes over this with america, ukrainian authorities report deaths and scores of injuries in hockey's attacks. targeted civilian areas in and around ukraine's 2nd city. they appear to include cluster munitions, illegal under international law. ah, by nightfall on monday the capital key of came under heavy russian bombardment. just as the talks were winding up for the day. brave ukrainian and the russian delegations today held the 1st round of talks. the main aim of reach was to discuss the ceasefire and the sation of hostilities in the territory of ukraine. huge

a. so that of river the negotiations last at 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. the negotiations held on the beller roost ukraine. boarder lasted 5 hours. there were no breakthroughs. however, the 2 sides agreed to continue talking. in a 2nd session. if anything, the fighting has worsened. shift not before the talk started vladimir zalinski called on the e. u to allow his country to join the block and signed the next session. you talk to him about this quote or not. he had made another defiant statement, but me stay more mitchell on the 5th day of the full scale war of russia against the people of ukraine. them, we stand strong. we live through that much over these days. what other people wouldn't experienced in decade. oh,

in the south of ukraine where russian forces have advanced and taken the city of burg, jensen. these are civilians surrounding russian military vehicles. they shouted go home to the troops are such defiance and solidarity. seen all over ukraine, why? it every chow in every city. there's a determination, a resolve to help the war effort in any way people can. a steady stream of donated supplies for the army is being handed over to this voluntary organization in levine. it's helpers who are students, don't believe russia is interested in peace. there's fellow fight in us, there's still a launch in there. and brock, it's there on our tertiary and the talks are going on. so i said, impossible have taught it while fighting us up stairs,

donated medical supplies and drugs, all date checked, a processed and local stoles ensure they meet a constant demand for soldiers, boots. i and my colleagues are doing all the best here in a safe place to a collect other help from ukraine and from ukrainians and foreigners all around the world. but no matter how strong the resolve of ukrainian forces might be, these satellite images are now showing an armored column to the northwest of give. that's nearly 30 kilometers long. and it's edging closer to the capital now. only 20 kilometers from the city center . andrew simmons, i'll just sarah louise, you an estimate more than half a 1000000 people have already fled ukraine, and thousands more continued to seek refuge. sheltering more than 320000 people.

poland is taking the bulk of the burden, but many migrants from africa and asia who are trying to leave ukraine. so that being turned away at the border. same bas robbie met some of them at a reception center in cordova in eastern poland a refugee crisis on an industrial scale. every person currently housed in this warehouse on the ukraine, poland border had their lives turned upside down. when russia invaded ukraine. the number of people forced to live offers and insight into the enormous scope of this crisis. and still they keep coming bust in from the board away from the war. but now inland were here at one of the many reception centers set up on the ukraine. poland border where people have been telling us how happy and relieved they are to finally be inside poland to have crossed over the border from ukraine to many people have also been telling us of the indignities that they

have suffered on the ukrainian side of the border people from countries in asia, africa and the middle east were living and working in the ukraine when the war began. weapons of war do not discriminate. so every one ran for their lives, like foreign citizens, hoping to reach poland to contact diplomatic missions, evacuated torso, you were already lost people to good to get all entity. those always like that. so no further put there are people 1st and us. i was a for me, it was discriminating, but i think for them it's normal because it's their country. they need to save their people. first. some of the people who spoke with said a country at war could be forgiven for putting their own people 1st. but for others, some with ukrainian families of their own, the contrast of how they were treated was to start. we understand that they need to save just it is is, but we have been loyal to ukraine. we have been in our country, we have been long falling jack on to it. we have shown them love. i believe that

the least that could do was to if i quit was my thought is that in refugees a refugee under average is a human being. and it doesn't matter what, what does skin color, religion political, her attitude or whatever that is, if the record she needs help, then we need to help the rectory. the non european refugee is coming into poland. tell stories of generous strangers, giving help shelter, food, and transport. but they also tell stories of guns being pointed at them by ukrainian troops being forced back to make way for ukrainians to get to safe havens 1st law. and even in poland. tempers run high. no, you can side, but the way that we went out to warn you when you're taken just ukrainians, i'm so sorry. i respect you as a police officer, but what you guys are doing here, this is not the job of the country that is showing itself,

that they are helping refugees coming from the great war. as always, it seems, brings out the best and worst and people and even if the fighting stop soon, repairing the damage done to all the life, touched by this crisis, will take much longer zane basra, the old 0 cordova eastern poland you ends, humanitarian coordinator has been breaking the security council on the situation on the ground. martin griffiths told members that at least $102.00 civilians and known to have died. but the figure could be much higher. the lives of millions of civilians are simply at stake. we know from other recent conflicts are brutal, deadly and protracted urban warfare can be we know how countries economies can be devastated infrastructure investment and development gains back in time generation. and we know enough to know that we do not know what it will be. the

consequences of the events that we have of today. these things should never happen in any country. anyway, every effort of course must be made to deescalate the conflict. she everton is alive for said the nation. so those comments from griffith follow a special emergency session of the un general assembly. why was that can be not emergency a special session of the young j still and away convenes using a mechanism that is designed to move forward when the un security council is deadlock, as it was on friday, june a veto from a permanent member. we are speaking number 38 right now, grease there are a 113 on the list of speakers. we expect list to continue for some days with it. maybe wednesday will be when the speaker list is exhausted and a vote is taken on

a un general assembly non binding resolution. which in the current wording will deplore in the strongest terms, the russian, federations, aggression against ukraine, and calls for unconditional spar and withdrawal of russian forces. it has over 80 co sponsor so far. and you can see that the, the base drop this resolution, the u. s. ukraine are very hopeful that there will be a sizable number of those very sick in favor who are from the non aligned movement from the global south and know, ready. they seem to be doing rather well in that regard. and as you said, at the same time as you enjoy the rest of the meeting, we did have a briefing of the you once you're in the security council from the un humanitarian chiefs. and as you said, 160000, internally displaced according to the un of which 50520000 who fled overseas into neighboring countries. and 4000000 refugees is the,

perhaps the prediction from the ratio at the very least the you and hcr says that preparing for the possibility a for 1000000 refugees in the coming days and weeks. and she had several rushing diplomats been expelled from the u. n. net tell us more about that writer. it's interesting but us says this has been in the works for several months, but they accuse 12 russian diplomats of the un mission here in new york city of being spies of, of abusing their, their privileges by engaging and espionage activities they have until march, the 7th to leave the country, the russians are denying this. they say that the us of host country is not an in contravention, but the you in charge of. but also it's, it's, it's responsibility of the vienna convention government governing diplomatic relations of the russians denying that these 12 spies but the u. s. as informed the un secretary at the bay was 12 russians expelled. she returns, thank you very much. indeed. as russian troops advance,

many civilians are volunteering to fight alongside ukrainian soldiers. charles stratford reports comes over. he cher in eastern ukraine. civilian volunteers, help ukrainian soldiers prepare for a russian army. advance is a growing sense of urgency in the city of upper as you ukrainian army says russian tank columns are less than 40 kilometers away north. a nauseous look only because we didn't invade them. they invaded us. he took crimea. then he took dumbass arno. yeah, he's come to our city. i have children, but i don't want them. he giving orders on what a law men move equipment along freshly dug trenches on the outskirts of town. they overlook checkpoints from positions hidden in the trees. this is one of the growing number of chick points around the city of zap a risha. now most of the men that you see here, a members of the civil defense forces. they are volunteers. they say that the

russian army has positioned itself in the next town down this road. the men come from all walks of life cable, which he did over as i need. i wish i remember as a lanier. i used to teach math and physics at my local school, but 2 days ago the russian army took control of my town. so i signed up to fight shopper by the way. restaurants, including the local mcdonalds, have been donating food. pharmacies have given what medicine they can spare for the volunteers to treat the injured hazard. you are, we are here to treat emergencies, stopping, bleeding. for example. we then take them to hospital, armed volunteers prepared to be taken to positions around the city. morale high lag close by a group of men and women. wait to sign on you to fight. you have done so and you cut your stopper when it does all in my i don't want my family killed. i won't allow them to march in our land, his dad, the occupiers, and they should be eliminated. shows good. yes. the law they are by the way you are

if need be. i will fight. give me a weapon. i want to poison him. blood the young and old, helpful bottles with petrol. yes. all the self cont, sales for those who want to fight. yeah. but don't have a gun. yeah, yeah, the same. yeah. yeah, i have a family, i can't do anything else to help them clearly, but we are honest and bright people, but the situation is dark right now. a people prepared to defend this city against an invader. they know is close channel stop al jazeera zappa risha, eastern ukraine still had an hodges, aaron, ukraine's president appeals for immediate e u. membership 8. here appear. nations say they back the move and forced out of formula one football. and now maybe in the olympics at a sporting world is turning its back on russia after the invasion of ukraine.

there is the remains of a tropical cyclone circulating in the north west of australia. the heaviest rays surprise me has not been there. it has been around the southeast of queens and northern new south wales. this should normally be a field now flowing with several meters worth of water. in fact, the mountains fall in brisbin and the last 7 days the last week is nearly 800 millimeters. it exceeds the old reco for a week by a considerable margin. unsurprisingly, there is widespread flooding in the southeast of queens and including parts of brisbin and found also new south wales with evacuations ordered for liz know. now the good news is the rain is going south, so what's on the drive will slow the flow away. it looks like the heavy stuff is coming towards sydney, but i don't think it'll be anything like the same impacts, the as no longer as laden with moisture. so it's dry now in brisbin the north of

new south west, wednesday's forecasts whit probably for sidney and parts of victoria. dr. further west, with the exception of the remains, that, of course, i claim which would produce a huge amount of rain in new zealand. on the same day. it may be unsurprised me quite, quite the which is a se not as warm as you might like, is also inducing quite a few, but light chairs away from christ church. right up to gibbon. ah, this to feel like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxing is my get out to is, is not even just my thing is the people around like you got to when i'm telling the story about my life is going to take 50 future to do a don't survive on need to do the next. you deep award winning documentary.

wait on out his era. ah, the me. i'm going to my stories era. russia has ramped top attacks on ukraine's biggest cities. saki has been bombarded by artillery, possibly killing dozens, with reports that cost to bombs were used to having a portion of fighting in mario poll and large explosions in the capital keys. within the last few minutes, ukraine's president maintenance case is called for the 1st round of talks has been held between russian and ukrainian delegation and the metal border with ben roost allegations and now returning the capitals. the further consultation and the un

secretary coordinators is at least $102.00 civilians and known to have died in the fighting. the figure could be much higher. martin griffith said more than half a 1000000 people already fled the conflict with thousands more seeking refuge. weston sanctions are beginning to hammer rushes finances. the rubel plunged by 30 percent record low at one point trading at $120.00 against the us dollar are long lines outside russian banks and a t. m. as people rush to get cash out and in an emergency move, russia central bank has more than doubled its key interest rate to 20 percent and introduced some capital controls. but smith looks at the effect the sanctions are having on ordinary people. nervous about whether 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 their president's decision to invade ukraine. with interest rates more than doubled 20

percent. and the rubel plunging 30 percent against the dollar and knowing 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 literally with us, of course i am worried anyway, 1st of all, the situation of the, of the dollars unclear and what about food 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 in norma reserves to be happy with, with your current pros and elena 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. russia's economy is also taking it from western firms, running for the exit b p. the biggest foreign investor here is abandoning stake in oil firm rosin, f u p. s. and fedex of stop shipping services, half the passenger jets used here are leased, and those contracts are being canceled. rushes, political, economic, and physical isolation from the rest of the world is rapidly gathering pace. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow, and the u. s. announced additional sanctions against russia. central bank, alan fisheries at the white house for sale. and what will this cheve? well essentially what it does is freeze the russian central bank assets in the united states and means that no one can do business with the central bank move money in or. busy out at the sanctions also target the direct investment fund

in russia, which is the sovereign wealth fund, which many people in the financial world here in the united states. see this as what the call vladimir perkins slush funds. so they will not be able to do business with that any more as well. this is all in coordination with various allies. the white house has from the very start, said that any sanctions have to be coordinated with their european and global allies. and they have to be sustainable because they don't want countries coming after 2 or 3 weeks and saying, yeah, we don't want to do that any more. we've had a readout of that meeting. nowhere was it discussed though, according to the reading. but we're told that the u. s. is talking to allies about perhaps releasing oil from the strategic reserve that would help ease the pressure on global markets and also reduce the price of gas at the pumps at that is

a growing concern for joe biden. we know as well that essentially what they're seeing with these sanctions is that the intention is to force the russian economy to go backwards as like a mere perkins tanks go forwards into ukraine. they want to raise inflation. they want to lower the possibility of investment opportunities and they want to make the kremlin where they're spending power, essentially collapse. no, we know that vladimir putin, under the recent financial strain, has decided to put his nukes on a higher alert. joe biden was asked about that at an event at the white house just a couple of years ago. a couple of hours ago he was asked, is there a concern that americans could be facing a nuclear war while he shut that down with a one word answer. he said simply, no. alan fisher, thank you very much. or precedence of 8 central and eastern european countries have

called on the e u to grant ukraine candidate countries status immediately and open membership talks. they says the block says it will increase military support to ukraine. diplomatic editor james base 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 discuss where to get the weapons from what exactly to buy, and how to send them to ukraine. none of those details were made public, so this is what the european high representative said to know that this have a 1000000 of you does will be devoted to provide defensive arms. but i calibre arms anti tanks, all kinds of agreements in order to re failed declaration. and member to state have to provide this armed with how to coordinate with what 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. some of the richest oligarchs in russia, known for having close ties to the kremlin, a speaking out against the war and ukraine, as despite the plummeting value of the rouble, impacting their wealth or a band, many reports this room and it brought the vetch russian, billionaire and owner, primarily football club, chelsea, he is handed over control of the club and now has a new goal. he's accepted ukraine's requests to negotiate with russia to end the

war. abramivitch as remain tight lipped about his stone. unlike some billionaire business man, once close to russian president vladimir putin, now openly criticizing his decision to wage war. although durham, pasco, he's known for turing lavish parties at deaf off and making a fortune from energy and alam minion. he's been sanctioned by the us since 2018 for his close ties to putin. on telegram, he caught the piece and negotiations is causing deep on east. 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 puting regime. so on this as on every other political front. but since the beginning of this unnecessary war, putin finds himself well soft, not better off. one of russia's richest men behind friedman caught for an end,

the bloodshed in a letter to his london based private equity firm. and ukrainian bond businessman demetrius fear. tash is also opposing the war. he previously fall of money into ukraine's campaigns. the pro russian politicians the bloomberg billionaires index shows within 24 hours at the start of war, 22 of russia's richest people saw 39000000000 network wiped out. and it's not just only got speaking out russian, businessman or like tinkles is the founder of one of the world's largest online banks. but has no political ties to the kremlin. he says, innocent people are dying in ukraine and that he's against the war. but opinion is divided on whether this will make an impact the business medical i have already spoken quite openly about job

a visa about that need to somehow somehow change and, and these conflict. but i don't think that it will have our direct impact on the rational while all is yet, most of russia's political elite has stood firm with the president. but will those he broke rank put pressure on pu 10 and will others follow laura about money al jazeera, international sporting agencies are turning their backs on russia, the governing bodies of global and european football bonding russian teams from all international competitions. safer for officials met earlier on monday and limping officials asking other sports organizations to blacklist athletes from russia and bella. ruth international olympic committee wants a band from international events for the foreseeable future. in london, people have been donating huge volumes of supplies for ukrainians and need volunteers. and they've been inundated by people trying to help charlie angela. so

this update from london, this holy sub insulin is being overwhelmed with donations. you can seem ellison's of children's clothes and shoe bedding medical kids being reported by volunteers as a car, blocking traffic down the road as london has come to drop off what they can go to streaming extremely grateful and small but by general safety. and certainly that'd be of their people always bringing it. i think i have every language of the world in this room in their last 24 hours. at the moment we are looking for the transport companies that would like to spoil install ship man from london today. police and ukrainian board that 3 off todd, this is what we desperately need now. few days ago it was ukraine obeyed, might recall on next week, it might bureau just

a collection points like this set up around the u. k. people joined the call to the stand with ukraine. but beyond the clothing and the bedding, they think what they really need is combat element hiv advanced 2 way radios and drove back. in the meantime, these donations will be a small comfort to those refugee stepping into uncertainty. charlie angela out there. ah, top stories are al jazeera. russia has ramped up a tax on ukraine's biggest cities. dozens of people may have been killed in ukraine's 2nd largest city. heave after it was on boarded by artillery. their reports, the russian forces have been using cluster bombs, which are banned under an international convention. they have been report so fighting in mario poll and large explosions in the capital key,

ukraine's president of miss zalinski has called for a no fly zone. and the countries ambassador to the u. n is accused.