search for her place. yeah. these f a straight down analogies era. we understand the differences in the lives of cultures across the wow. in a matter what you see with the news in kind of pause that matter to you. a ah, rush is accused of using cluster bombs to pound ukraine's 2nd city as its forces edge closer to the capitol. ah, i'm robot. this in this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up shoring up defenses. we meet volunteers working alongside soldiers to fight back for ukraine. fears of cash, cut off russians, rush to get the roubles as financial pressures start to bite,

and desperately seeking safety more than half a 1000000 refugees have now fled ukraine. ah, it's a military advance as getting more lethal rushes drive towards ukraine's capital is no entering a 6th day. we've got reports. the dozens of people have been killed and injured. in the 2nd largest city hoc eve, russian forces that are accused of using cluster bombs which are bound and more than a 100 countries. fighting's also been reported in mario pole, and the capital cave is bracing for another night of shelling. more than half a 1000000 people of fled, the country. international criminal court is to investigate russia's invasion of ukraine. it says there is reason to believe that war crimes have been committed. negotiations between the 2 countries have taken place at the bellows border on monday, but no agreement has been reached under simmons begins coverage from the vis.

ah, liesl action speaks louder than words. this is the message, russia sentences, their delegates were talking with ukraine negotiators for billions attacked in their homes over 90 ukrainian authorities report deaths and schools of injuries in hoc heave the attacks targeted civilian areas in and around ukraine's 2nd city. they appeared to include cluster munitions, 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 crania and the russian delegations today held the 1st round of dogs. 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 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 about 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 made stay more mutual on the 5th day of the full scale war of russia against the people of ukraine. them, we stand strongly. 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. such defiance and solidarity is seen all over ukraine. wow. it every chow in every city. there is 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. they're still fighting us. they are 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 upstairs. donated medical supplies and drugs, all date checked, a processed and local stores 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 north west of key if that's nearly 30 kilometers long. ah, and it's edging closer to the capital now. only 20 kilometers from the city center . andrew simmons al jazeera, levine, and social trips moved further into ukraine. many civilians are volunteering to fight alongside ukrainian soldiers and defend their towns and cities. charles stratford reports from zap alicia in eastern ukraine. civilian volunteers help

ukrainian soldiers prepare for a russian army advance. there's a growing sense of urgency in the city of upper easier ukrainian army says russian tank columns are less than 40 kilometers away. north nauseous local only because we didn't invade them. they invaded us. he took crimea, then he took dumbass. i know now he's come to our city. i have children, i don't want them. he giving orders o men move equipment alone, freshly dug trenches on the outskirts of town. they overlook checkpoints from positions hidden in the trees. this is one of growing number of checkpoints around the city of zap a risha. now most of the men that you see here are 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

hill, 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 close by a group of men and women. wait to sign on you to fight. you have done so and you can show stopper when each does rolling we, i don't want my family killed her. i won't allow them to march in our land. they are 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. why? the young and old help fill bottles with petro?

yes. molotov cocktails for those who want to fight, but don't have a gun. yeah, jim, 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 their city against an invader. they know it's close to all strapped down to 00 risha, eastern grain organize bringing cook volker in washington dc. he's a former us ambassador to nate. good to happy with us are on i'll just 0. i'm about an hour or so ago. you cleans president flooding manager landscape, said it was time to enforce a no fly zone for russian aircraft over ukraine. if nature says it's not gonna have a presence in ukraine. how does that work? well, it is a request for nato to change its guidance. this would be on the basis presumably of individual allies with fighter aircraft who would create a zone over ukraine. your face. are you creating aerospace in which nothing would

be allowed to come in? i do think it's a relevant idea. we should been listening carefully to presidents on the, on this. i think if it were keys and western ukraine, it could be effective and helping preserve the capital, helping deserve the crane armed forces so that they can defend their country. if that, if nature did change its policy, obviously that would bring natal members into direct conflict or possibly direct conflict with russia. how great is the risk that is going to escalate the situation? i think that is indeed a risk. it's indeed a risk. if russia decides to pursue its attacks on ukraine through the air face and challenge nato fighters, that would be, you know, flies on then. yes, that would put them in direct conflict. hopefully russia would not do that. i can't guarantee they're acting irrationally right now. but we are seeing rush attacks on 1000000 population of the war crime. we are seeing rush the tax on nuclear reactors on nuclear waste george facilities. these are all things that would be devastating

to granting population civilians in crane. and i do think that there are the responsibility to protect many of the honest we've been talking to over the last few days, have been suggesting that russia had wanted or had expected a swift incursion into ukraine, primarily for regime change that is clearly not happening. how do you think russia is going to adapt it's approach? well, we're seeing it already. so russia took a lower tempo of operations over the past day and a half in order to move in additional supplies, reinforcements and fuel reinforces closer to amass around kid. and i believe this evening and tomorrow and all evening, all night, they will be bombarded with everything they got in order to try to break the city. so this is why these ideas, additional anti aircraft, munitions for ukrainians, no fries on that is just

a general and missiles to take out on columns. all of these things are essential right now. they, as andrew simmons mentioned in his report just beforehand, there is a large russian convoy, there's about 30 kilometers long that is sitting outside just to the north of here . that is quite clearly a very obvious target. understandably, for those of us who are not experienced in the way that this kind of thing plays out, there are going to be people who are suggesting, well, that is an obvious target. why not just hit that? why would that not be a good idea? well, for the granting air force, i think it is a good idea for western countries or other air forces. i think we have to decide, are we willing to enter this war on behalf of ukraine? that's different than a no fly zone or safe transportation corridor. this would be actually deliberately going in and attacking, rushing forces. that's different. then we have to decide, are we willing to do that thus far?

all west and leaders have decided that they do not want to introduce their own forces to fight with russians because they do not want to risk conflict escalating to a local scale in canada as late as country to say it's going to be sending weapons . i think there are 2 tank weapons and upgraded, i'm munition to ukraine. it's joining a growing list of countries that are prepared to do that. how important is it for those to get to ukraine as fast as possible? because i'm guessing that the logistics of that are not as simple as one would expect. so some of these, munitions, the swedish attack weapons, the estonian deliveries, i believe in german r t g quite quickly. and i think that is essential. ukrainians have a few nights where they have to again endure the massive rush on slugs and presuming that they survive, i think it may actually turn the tide at conflict. i think the russians will realize that they are not gaining ground. i think the russian people,

russian military, russian soldiers will start to question judgment. president putin for getting into this and i think even more that we can get supplies in there literally within days, the better for the grades and the better for the way this plays out of our code. walker is a former us ambassador to natal, so we appreciate your time as always and just here, so thank you. thank you are the night and nations. humanitarian coordinators been briefing the un security council on the war. martin griffith, sol, members, at least $102.00 civilians 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 companies 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 observe today mostly have chances at the u. n. in new york, there's been a rear meeting of the un general assembly going on. what's been happening there? that meeting has wrapped up its 1st day. they ended with the 45th speaker of a 115 who are currently on the list. they were expecting that emergency special session of the general assembly to continue over several days. the current estimate is it should wrap up by wednesday when there will be a vote on a general assembly resolution that will deplore in the strongest terms, the russian federations, aggression against ukraine, unquote, for an unconditional withdrawal of russian forces non binding. but you can see it already has 80 co sponsors and those allies, if you grade on ukraine of self. a very keen to have as many from the normal i, nations of the, at the you and the global south joining in,

to show russia's isolation. they, they, serial on their way, they're getting up. i mean, we talked one diplomatic, so they're very confident getting a 2 thirds majority, which is what they need to pass that general assembly resolution. and as you sat, yes, there was a, the security council meeting. it was a briefing on the humanitarian situation, various rather sober statistics being mentioned from both the coordinator for humanitarian affairs on the head of you and hcr, the refugee agency, half a 1000000. i fled ukraine according to the you and hcr, 520000 the neighboring countries. 160000 are internally displaced by the unit shall say for the planning and the coming days and weeks, the planning for 4000000 refugees potentially not. she had, i'm in a slightly interesting twist. those been an expansion of some russian officials. i think from the un, what more do we know about that? it's interesting because the u. s. who instigated their say, they've been working on this. it's been in the works for months. so predating that,

the current, the current crisis, but they allege that 12 members of the russian mission to the united nations have been engaged in espionage, abusing the diplomatic, the privileges as members of the un mission. the russians deny all this, they say that the u. s. is abusing its powers as the, as the host nation of united nations. and as in contravention of you and chart and the vienna vienna convention. but we understand that these russian diplomats have until march the 7th to leave the country. she had, thanks very much indeed, was she habit ancy at the un in new york? now people are starting to feel the financial pressure in russia. the u. s. has announced additional sanctions against its central bank. bernard smith reports from moscow. 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 their president's decision to invade ukraine with interest rates more than doubled 20

percent. and the rubel plunging 30 percent against the dollar. knowing that we are planning to buy fled to. so for us, it is very important that we are hoping to have a certain interest rate. now it will be totally different levels. of course, i am worried anyway, 1st of all, the situation of the dollar is 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 cushion 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 enormous reserves to be happily with your can frozen. and ellen hot 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 is vladimir putin described the western community as an empire of lies. rushes economy is also taking it from western firms, running for the exit b p. the biggest part investor here is abandoning stake in oil firm ross. net, u. p. s, and fedex, i stop shipping services off the passenger jets used here are leased on those contracts being canceled, rushes, political, economic and physical isolation from the rest of the world is rapidly gathering pace. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow, thousands of people are continuing to seek refuge outside ukraine. poland sheltering more than 320000 people. but many migrants from africa and asia said they are being turned away from the border. salvi has met some of them at a reception center in causal 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's. and 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 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 the good to get all entity. those always like that. so no further put there are people 1st and us. i'll say 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 sit just, it is in bed. we have been loyal to ukraine. we have been in our country. we have been long falling gigantic. we have shown them love. i believe that the list that could do was to evacuate. my thought is that a refugee is a refugee, under average, is a human being and it doesn't matter what does skin color, religion, political attitude or whatever that is. if a rated seed needs help, then we need to help the rectory. the non european refugees 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. wow. and even in poland, tempers run high. you know, you can't talk, but they wait that we went out a whole. yeah, they can just agreement. i'm so sorry. i respect you as a police officer, but what you guys are doing here is not the job of the county that is so in itself that they are helping refugees coming from you. great. a war, as always, it seems, brings out the best and worst in people. and even if the fighting stopped soon, moment repairing the damage done to all the lives, touched by this crisis will take much longer than i zane basra,

the ultra 0 cordova, eastern poland or more european countries are sending aid to ukraine. did tell you a red cross is preparing trucks of food medicines and blankets. ukrainians in rome of collected thousands of boxes of baby food nappies and pasta. i'm italian. government is allocated a $122000000.00 to help you craniums flee the fighting people in the u. k. i've been debating huge volumes of supplies for ukrainians. volunteer say they've been end inundated with help. charlie angela reports from london. this whole list of insulin is being overwhelmed with donations. you can seem allison children with clothes, some old shoes, begging medical kids being thwarted by volunteers as a khaki blocking traffic down the road as london has come to drop off what they can with streaming extremely grateful and moved by general safety. and so you

gotta 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 schedule install shipment from london today. police and ukrainian board that payoff, todd, this is what we'd desperately need now here they think, oh, it was ukraine. they'd mind me fall 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 come back, go helmet high vents, 2 way radios, and drop. in the meantime, these donations will be a small comfort to those refugee stepping into uncertainty. charlie angela out there turkeys activating

a 90 year old international treaty to prevent warships from passing through to key waterways. the 1936 montoya convention gives it authority to close the darnell and boastful of straits in times of war. president jacob, ty paradigm says the decision could prevent the crisis from escalating dozens of volunteers from georgia, i signing up to fight russian forces in ukraine. they gathered outside the ukrainian embassy tbilisi on monday. that follows an appeal for help by ukrainian president of loading the zalinski. the georgian legion is the largest foreign part of military force operating in eastern ukraine. the e u says it will increase military support to ukraine. now, diplomatic editor james base. as 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 will 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 disarmed with, had 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 wealthiest oligarchs in russia, known for having close ties to the kremlin, are speaking out against the war in ukraine, and comes as the value of the russian rubel has plummeted, costing the richest billions of dollars, lot of burden. manley reports this romantic brand, the vetch, russian billionaire, an owner of premier league football club, chelsea, he is handed over control of the club and now has a new goal. he's accepted ukraine's request to negotiate with russia to end the war . abramivitch as remain tight lipped about his don. unlike from billionaire business man, once close to russian president vladimir putin now openly criticizing the session to wait war. although europe husker, he's known for touring lavish parties at deaf off and making a fortune from energy and allah minion. he's been sanctioned by the us since 2018

for his close ties to putin. on telegram, he caught the piece and the go see ations is causing deep, uneasy among rushes, 8 leaps, ah, those who depend on access to the global financial system. and these people are the stainless and enablers and supporters of the approaching 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 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 demitra fear. tash is also opposing the war. he previously followed money into cranes 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 oligarch speaking out. russian businessman only 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 to fight it whether this will make an impact. he businessmen who have already spoken quite openly about jar visa about that need to somehow somehow change and, and these conflict. but i don't think that it will ever direct impact on the rational policy. most the brush is political elite has stood firm with the president, but will those he broke rank put pressure on pu 10. and while others follow, nor about a man, the 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. and olympic officials are asking other sports organizations to blacklist athletes from russia and mellows, international football journalist gammon hamilton says this was all inevitable. well, i think that they're of the, i think they police that they decided to take his turn because they are strongly in the pressure came from the players to play with the ones leading the opposition to russia. the federations responded to the, the players strength of opinions and them, and see things now responded in current. but if it's taken time and that will be in the criticism of free christian john, the intention, you know, because he's seen as a friend of let me in. he enjoys the photo opportunities recruiting and other world leaders and zone the he some he's going to take a bit of flack of thing for the way the hides in this thing they've been bounced into really by the i see the international committee announcing

a few hours earlier that they were going to pan will actually rushing from competing on competition. so safest edition has been really caused by the i see. but i think there was also going international pressure on, on, speaker to acts. and of course, the, the teams that were possibly going to be facing russia in the work of play off nicely fall in sweden republic. they refused. they said that they've refused to play russia in the welcome qualify player next month. so that's forced the issue with the for, but it's been quite a turnaround because they were with the slowest of the sports organization to, to take the stand against the russians embrace of ukraine. ah, this is all, these are the top stories rushes drive towards cranes. capital is not entering a 60 day with 100 fords. the dozens of people have been killed and injured in the 2nd largest city.