afraid you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. listening post examines the vested interest behind the content you could see on al jazeera, oh, a roches accused of using controversial cluster bombs. the pound ukraine's 2nd city has its forces edge closer to the capitol. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera life and so are also coming up reinforcing their defenses. we meet volunteers working alongside soldiers to fight back for ukraine, or the russians face the prospect of higher prices a sanction. see the rouble plummet against the dollar. we have been in our country

. we have been long pulling jack on to it. we have shown them love, i believe that the least they could do was to weigh about quit and allegations of racism at ukraine's border with poland as some foreign citizens complain. having turned away ah, moscow pushed towards ukraine's capital is now entering. it's 6th day, a russian convoy thought to be more than 60 kilometers long is said to be advancing on cave. twice the length was previously thought it's understood to be positioned north at the capitol. and we've been getting reports of dozens of people being killed and injured in the 2nd largest city car. keith fighting's also been reported in merrier pole and the capital key is bracing for more shelling. meanwhile, ukrainian president brought me as the landscape calling for no fly zone to stop moscow's bombardment. in khaki, russian forces are accused of using cluster bombs. these are banned in more than a 100 countries. more than half a 1000000 people have fled the country. linda,

so criminal court has to investigate russia's invasion of ukraine. it says there is reason to believe war crimes have been committed negotiations between the 2 countries to place the beller roost border on monday, but no agreement was reached. andrew simmons begins are coverage from live if ah, lethal actions speaks louder than words. this is the message russia sentences their delegates were talking with ukraine negotiators. civilians attacked in their homes over medic, ukrainian authorities report deaths and schools of injuries in hoc heave. the attacks targeted civilian areas in and around ukraine. second city, they appear to include cluster munitions. ah, by nightfall on monday the capital key of came under heavy russian bombardment. just as a talks were winding up for the day, for

a fair cranium in 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. yaeger, so that over 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 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 night 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 defiance. let me stay more meeting on the 5th day of the full

scale war of russia against the people of ukraine than we stand strong. but we've lived through that much over the past days. what other people wouldn't experience and decades net. 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 child 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 in possible have taught it while fighting us upstairs. donated medical supplies and drugs, all date checked, a processed on 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 answered 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 ki, 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, without as much as half, is in the capital. he described hearing loud explosions, even a philosopher to give them a home too. it was a difficult and hard day for people here and keep. many residents made the decision to either seek shelter or flee the capital. today we witnessed many families carrying their luggage and making their way by foot to the main train station before the curfew is put in place. despite talks between russia and ukraine on the bela lucy and border, i don't want to draw conclusions. however, it is clear that things have not gone well, because shortly after the talks ended, the bombings intensified was. we heard loud explosions that shook the capital. probably the loudest explosions that we've heard so far. and according to the mayor of brewery, a city in the suburbs of keys, missiles have targeted the city agenda. but like i mentioned, you're crying as president of court for no fly zone to stop russian strikes. or you feel, you wouldn't, you know,

still go to the russian forces severely shout. garcia who are houses were destroyed, a lot of infrastructure was destroyed. video has proven that the target people to building up a war crime that should be investigated in no one will ever forgive you for targeting civilians, the ballistic missiles artillery. this war has to be stopped immediately. i suggest, and i believe that the sky and he will be close to russia, needs to be folk as a former us ambassador to nato. he says the lion should seriously consider the president's landscapes request. i do think it's relevant idea. we should been listening carefully to president lindsey on this. i think if it were over keith and western ukraine, it could be effective and helping preserve the capital, helping deserve declining armed forces, so that they can defend their country. if russia decides to pursue its attacks on ukraine through the aerospace and challenge nato fighters, that would be producing a no fly zones. i would put them in direct conflict. hopefully russia would not do that. we can't guarantee they're acting irrationally right now. but we are seeing

russia civilian population or to war crime. we're seeing russian attacks on nuclear reactors on nuclear waste storage facilities. these are all things that were devastating to ukrainian population, civilians and crane. and i do think that there is a responsibility to protect 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 here. and i believe this evening and tomorrow and all evening tomorrow, all night, they will be bombarded with everything they got in order to try to break the city. so this is why these ideas are additional anti aircraft, munitions for the ukrainians, no fries on additional javelin missiles to take out all columns. all of these things are essential right now,

was russian troops moved further into ukraine. many civilians are volunteering to fight alongside ukrainian soldiers and defend that towns and cities. child stratford reports now from zap parisha in easton, ukraine. civilian volunteers, help ukrainian soldiers prepare for a russian army advance. there's a growing sense of urgency in the city of upper risha. ukrainian army says russian tank columns a less than 40 kilometers away. north of nauseous leave to quiet. we didn't invade them, they invaded us. he took crimea, then he took dumb, but now he's come to our city. i have children, i don't want them. he giving orders. men move equipment alone, freshly dug trenches on the outskirts of town. the overlook checkpoints from positions hidden in the trees. this is one of a 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 hail 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 linear, 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 up, it's a fight you of them so and you can chose to poor on each those role in my i don't want my family killed. i. i won't allow them to march in our land,

they are the occupiers and they should be eliminated. shows them, yes, the law they are, by the way, why? 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 molotov cocktails for those who want to fight, but don't have a gun. yeah, jim, yeah, me, i have a family, i can't do anything else to help them really, 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 stuff around to 0. zable risha, eastern ukraine, who are russians are starting to feel the financial pressure of western sanctions. the rubel sank almost 30 percent against the dollar. and that was before the us announced additional restrictions against its central bank. bernard smith, as more from moscow, nervous about where the debate 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. i know that we are planning to buy a flat so for as it is very important, we were hoping to have a certain interest rate. now it will be totally different. the way of us, of course i am worried anyway, 1st of all, the situation of the doll 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 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 enormous 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. russia's 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 rosin act, u. p. s. and fedex. i've stopped shipping services, half the passenger jet used here are least, 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, was not so to come here. and just here, including accusations of spying at the un, washington expel that, doesn't russian diplomats from moscow's mission in new york and snapped by the

world of sport, more international events, ban russia, from competition, foreigners ah, no. when that seasonal wind blows down the gulf as it does quite frequently during the winter, sometimes it's cold at the moment because it's warm and iraq. the wind is also quite warm. spreads out into the empty quarter and into oman has some consequence. you can see with a higher ground as ill colored blue back through turkey as well. and even on the coast to levant, jerusalem's, at 16 bay roots at 70, not extraordinary war, nor extraordinarily cold. but this rain up here and there are showers to science as well. that probably the zoom in to the south. we ran in southern pakistan throughout tuesday. the showers will grown. give you what i hope is some welcome rains, not much. the north, you'll notice not much in afghanistan either,

but there was in the growing system, an existing system which will spread a lot of rain to southern parts, a turkey in cyprus, into syria, lebanon prospect. further south, obvious snow for turkey, but not including estoppel. this is an improving picture for stan boat. and by take you through the thursday, you see the snow goes into the caucasus, the sun sloan afghanistan, but beyond or between. it's looking fairly dry. a quick look at southern africa, madagascar and the knolls is still quite wet and their share was elsewhere. the main bound of rain there was edging flooding faddie for the north deck. tauriel kidney, ah, phone counting the cost argentina tones to the only method to rescue but don't the problem really hard to find out. the stability, pumping patches of fuels will bank debit quit, the bumbling pollution was wilson and the poles thus the town, how a fall this happened to water shortage. counting the cost on al jazeera,

we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to play through that others and not that far. as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. lou ah, welcome back. pick them out about top stories here. this, our rushes drive towards ukraine's capital. isn't it a 6th day? yep. reports that dozens of people have been killed and injured in the country. second largest city, hockey and ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is calling for no flies than to stop moscow's bombardment. russian forces are accused of using cluster bombs which are banned in more than a 100 countries. it comes as

a russian convoy estimates to be more than 60 kilometers long is said to be advancing on satellite images show on the vehicles tanks, artillery and support trucks. position to the north camp. now thousands are continuing to seek refuge outside ukraine. poland is sheltering more than 320000 people, but many migrants from africa and asia say, they're being turned away from the border. al jazeera zane buzz robbie has met some of them at a reception center in cordova. in easton, 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 like this, offers an insight into the enormous scope of this crisis. and still they keep coming bust in from the board away from the war. but now in limbo,

we're 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. that many people have also been telling us of the indignities that. ready 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 everyone 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 laid out. so no further put their 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 the people. first, some of the people who we 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, but we have been loyal to ukraine. we have been in our country, we have been long falling our country. we have shown them love. i believe that the least it could do was to, if i quit, was my thought is that in refugees a refugee interrupted she's a human being and it doesn't matter what, what does skin color, religion, political attitude or whatever that is, if the record 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. and even in poland, tempers run high. you and now you can tell. i saw that a way that we went out of work on the even you training. i can just ukrainian,

i'm so sorry. i respect you as a police officer, not what you guys are doing here because 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 stops and repairing the damage done to all the lives, touched by this crisis, will take much longer zane basra, the old euro, cordova, eastern poland. meanwhile, the united nations humanitarian coordinator has been briefing the un security council on the war. martin griffiths told members at least 102 civilians have died . but the figure could be much higher. the lives of millions of civilians of simply state. we know from other recent conflicts are brutally protracted

warfare can be we know how companies economies can be devastated infrastructure investment and development gain certain back to the entire 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. the u. s. is expanding 12 russian diplomats from moscow's mission to the united nations in new york, washington as accuse them of espionage. but russia says the move violates un rules . she attempts he has more. the u. s. as it's been working all expelling the 12 russian diplomats for months, accusing them of exploiting their diplomatic privileges to engage in espionage. russia says the u. s. is in violation of both the un charter and the vienna convention. the news was confirmed by the u. s. at a special un security council meeting convene to discuss the humanitarian situation in ukraine, out that leasing un representative said that they feared the worst. i regret to say

that unless there is an immediate call to conflict, ukrainians will simply continue to flee. we are currently planning, i repeat, planning for up to 4000000 refugees in the coming days and weeks. such a rapid increase would be a huge burden for receiving states and would no doubt stress reception systems and related resources as the security council map. so to did the un general assembly, the 1st of several days of speech is to discuss the situation in ukraine. it's expected, it will culminate with a voting on a resolution, a non binding general assembly resolution that will deplore the russian action in ukraine. for there are fears that russia is military tactics, could become much more aggressive with evidence that cluster bombs are being used.

these disburse hundreds of smaller bum, let's over a large area. more than $100.00 countries have signed a treaty binding them. it's believed explosions in concave on monday were caused by cluster bombs. but the weapon has already been linked to other recent attacks. and ukraine's us ambassador says russia has used a so called vacuum bomb. these are filled with high pressure explosives which absorb oxygen from the surrounding air, creating a powerful blast. and rushes defense ministry says if nuclear missile forces and northern and pacific fleets on enhanced combat duty often order by president vladimir putin. we are facing concerns with the full ukraine, but also major regional crazy, potentially these austin was implications what i was old yesterday. russian nuclear forces would put on high alert. mystify the use of nuclear weapons or solid, samuel romani from the university of oxford. he says, ukraine's military still appears was on it. i think that brush

a strategy hinged upon a very swift regime change mission. a blitz into kiev to change the government. and that's very clearly not happening over the course of the past 5 days. russia struggle to hold territory and guard heave and even areas, much closer to the next territory like maria paul, which is supposed to crimea. so i absolutely believe the rush is going to expand the scope of its at military interventions, particularly against given current cave and scamper, noticing the movement of large scale up to one voice. and in deb car here, just over the past few hours, you've seen rush, upgrading it's air force deployments from su, 20 fours to much more lethal f as you 30 fast. well, the rinney's still out of control over the skies in the areas that down russia has non occupied totally and death. ukrainian air force is proven to be much more resilient than many people have given a credit for. and now with the arrival of other weaponry, like casting grande tank missiles and a turkish drones brighter t b choose being used against russian assets. i suspect that ukrainian military will

be more resilient on air, on land for some time watches repeatedly warned that this is a local matter. and very important, even stated, when the war started, that any attempt interfere by western powers will be met by a response that no one's ever seen before. but in reality, russia much like the western countries are not really willing to test article 5 and invoke the prospect of a nuclear war over ukraine by targeting western countries. so i think that the more it most likely a development that would likely follow is probably cyber attacks launch against countries that are seen g particularly involved in the supply military equipment. turkey says it's activating a 90 year old international treaty to prevent warships from passing through to key waterways. the 1936 montrose convention gives it the authority to close the door to nails and phosphorus straits in times of war. reverent russia typo on, says the decision could prevent the crisis from escalate. yes, president joe biden will deliver his state of the union address on tuesday night.

he'll announce his new plans to help americans navigate inflation. but he's also expected to keep ukraine in focus, addressing the urgent need to defend democracy around the world. i'm 0 is alan fisher reports now from washington dc. this is a white house concentrating on tuesdays important state of the union speech by the president. but it's not taking its eyes off ukraine, a point made by the vice president at an event marking the end of black history. month to day the eyes of the world are on ukraine and the brave people who are fighting to protect their country and their democracy. and their bravery is a reminder, a most recent reminder that justice equality and freedom must never be taken for granted by any of the u. s. is announced a new round of economic sanctions. this time targeting rushes central bank,

one senior white house official says they want to drive the russian economy backwards, while vladimir putin is pushing his tanks forwards into your creed. they want to drive up inflation. dr. don't investment possibilities and cripple the purchasing power of the kremlin. yes, state department revealed, it was also going after the money and assets of those closest to the russian leader . and we are standing up a joint task force to find and freeze assets of sanctioned russian companies, oligarchs, and other government officials. these actions will severely impact prudence in our circle, impede the kremlin, use of international reserves, and limit its ability to fund ongoing. these stabilizing activities, including the kremlin war machining ukraine, clinton has increased russia nuclear left level, which prompted reporters to ask the us president, if americans should be worried by the threat of nuclear war, he shot,

i don't mess with a one. what answer war? one top us send it to the head of the intelligence committee. mark warner says he sees new me to read to put drill in russia, but the us is expecting and preparing for a surgeon, cyber attacks and retaliation to the actions already approved. as the fighting and ukraine continues. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house and international supporting agencies are turning their backs on russia, the governing bodies of global and european football, banning russian teams and all international competitions. and olympic officials are asking other sports organizations to blacklist athletes from russia and well into national football journalist. got them hamilton says, this is 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 intense, you know, because he's seen as a friend of let me put in, he enjoys the photo opportunities, we put in the other world leaders and zone the he some, he's going to take a bit of flack of him 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 nice be fall in sweden republic. they refused. they said that they've refused to play russia in the welcome qualifying place next month. so that's forced the issue with

the car, 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. and a quick reminder over the website. there isn't a screen al jazeera dot com ah, type of headlines here. russia's pushed towards ukraine's capital of into the 6 day . we have reports that dozens of people have been killed and injured in the country . second largest city khaki. russian and forces are accused of using cluster bombs which are banned in more than $100.00 countries. ukrainian president brought him as landscape calling for no flies to stop moscow's bombardment. are foolish, wouldn't you.