street at the commodore hotel, the next room i was in was underground, the tiny prison. so as a hostage, a route to commodore war hotels on al jazeera, ah, a military column, 64 kilometers long, was the russian military edges closer to the outskirts of ukraine's capital. ah, i'm come all santa maria here in doha with the lightest from the russia ukraine. mm hm. this is ukraine, 2nd biggest city being shelled russian forces unleash a wave of artillery attacks on a residential area of heat. but they're fighting back. we're going to hear directly

from ukrainian volunteers supporting the soldiers, notting, a defense against russian forces, and back home after escaping war. students share their trauma as they return from ukraine. we'll have a live update from italy. ah, you cry now into a 6th day under attack from russia and moscow's forces on our gin closer to the capital. keep a convoy about 64 kilometers long. these thought to be positioned north of the capitol, stretching to the town of ivank. you've been pictured a new satellite imagery released by a private american company, a column of armed vehicles tanks, artillery position 25 kilometers from chief hit. some of the other developments to take you 3 more than 70 ukrainian soldiers killed by russians. shilling at a military base in the northeast that is, according to local officials or any copies russian forces accused of using cluster

bombs. remember these a band in more than a 100 countries. the cities mass, as dozens had been killed, and that includes children and blasts could be heard in the capital. keith, on monday and seen goodness may ukrainian president vladimir zalinski calling for a no fly zone to stop moscow's bombardments and international criminal court is to investigate russia's invasion, saying there is reason to believe war crimes have been committed negotiations to stop the fighting included on monday but with no agreement, andrew simmons begins our coverage with this report from the vive. wow, little action speaks louder than words. this is the message, russia sentences, their delegates were talking with ukraine negotiators. civilians attacked in their homes over 90, ukrainian, or authorities report deaths and schools of injuries. in hoc eve, 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 korean and the russian delegations today held the 1st round of dogs. the main aim of reach was to discuss the cease fire and the season of hostilities in the territory of ukraine. he just saw that the 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 bella luce, 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, she, if 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 document. while this boy or not, he had made another defiance. let me stay more mitchell, the 5th day of the full scale war of russia against the people of ukraine. we stand strong, but we've lived through that much over the past days or other people wouldn't experience and decades. net ah, 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 chill 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. they're still fighting us. they are still launching their brackets. they're 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 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 give and its edging closer to the capital now. only 20 kilometers from the city center. andrew simmons, al jazeera levine, and more with john hall. now he's in the v. v as well. jonah, i feel intensity is the word now right across to ukraine. russia just increasing that intensity, whether it be on the ground with area of the time. you know, that continues to be lots of talk, including in western intelligence assessments about they frustration being felt by the russians at the slow pace of their march into ukraine. a combination of heavy ukrainian resistance and sort of equipment failures and tactical decision making by the russians as well. and the result of it is that they are certainly upping the

tempo of their attacks and potentially changing their tactics aimed at heavily populated urban centers. but most important, of course, of which use the capital key is we've heard reports of explosions on tuesday morning in and around the city. and as you said, that this enormous convoy to the north, north west, stretching some 40 miles, these of troops, artillery support, and logistics units, readying to move on the capital, making very, very, very slow progress. indeed, another convoy seen by satellite imagery moving up from the south east. the idea of course, eventually is to try and circle keys to put maximum pressure upon the civilian population there. and of course, the government of president. let's get the other major been sent to that. he's the target of sustained attacks at the moment is in the east. you are hearing about it in andrew's report. there hockey, it's the 2nd biggest city, the biggest russian speaking city in the country. those attacks rocket attacks

against civilian targets in the north east of the capital. on monday claimed we understand now 9 civilian lives and $36.00 civilian injuries, the local authorities there are talking about a massacre. and in the last hour or so, we've watched on live internet camera as the headquarters of the local administration in hockey, appear to have been almost leveled by a direct strike. potentially a precision guided strike the ukrainians suggesting that was a direct attempt to kill the local governor who is marshalling the resistance in khaki and further evidence of high out heavy munition. potentially precision guided strikes at a military base not far from harkey on the way to keep a base at an enormous crater. this suggests a precision strike from the air. possibly a missile 70 ukrainian soldiers said to have been killed at that base. thank you

for that update. jonah, how in the vase back with us again this our for his analysis is marcus vino is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states and he's with us from munich today. nice to see you again. mark is just to pick up what john is said at the start of his answer there, which i hope you could hear. he was talking about the fact that there had been disappointment in some ranks about what the russians had managed to achieve in the 1st 5 or 6 days of this conflict. do you agree with that and does it come down to the fact that the ukrainians have put up a better fight than maybe was expected? yeah, good morning. absolutely. i think that there was an interest misjudgement on, on the part of the, the russians when it comes to well, the way the cranes are going to fight this and also about ukrainian intelligence and welfare. i mean, the ukraine has come

a long way since 2014 after the annexation of crimea and don bus, they have improved their military skills quite a bit. and so i think that was a complete misjudgement. i think there was also a mental judgement in the sense, but probably the russians believes that they will be greeted as liberators when marching into your frame. and this just wasn't changes and the other way around. so this is the one thing we have to see. on the other hand, i would caution to to how far this resistance could could lead. i mean, given the latest news about what heading towards ts, us conroy, cherry equipment, i'm afraid that it will be very difficult to sustain this resistance for, for much time longer. yeah. how much of the west and assistance is really in the hands of the ukrainian though?

i mean, we heard so much about european countries in the united states contributing the stuff i wonder how much is actually managed to get through to them so that they can actually use it. yeah, i mean, when there was this newsletter yesterday about your sending of pilot jets to to, to, to ukraine. i mean, the sounds very nice that in fact, how do you really want to do that? and that is, are there, are there, is there military personnel really able to, to operate this? i think it's more of the symbolic gesture. now you can, you can say, well, that comes way too late. and that's probably true. on the other hand, nobody really expected russia to make it well less kind of invasion into your crime . so i think that's where people and also the west was taken by surprise that this happened with this at the scale. now, you know that germany offending also now they have turned to change towards quite

a bit and they're sending reference to ukraine. i think there are ways to get them to get them still into the country, but it's becoming more and more difficult from what idea for instance, to reach the capital have become complicated. so i wonder whether this really has an impact on, on the way this war is going fact that the europeans are doing this though. even the 1st i think i had joseph borrow saying yesterday the, the, the previous taboos are falling europe taking an i'll fence a position rather than a defensive piece positions. yeah, i mean just just take a look at germany. what happened on sunday when we had this extraordinary session at the germans when the saga and this was, this was outstanding. i can, i cannot imagine this happening. i mean, germany, countries that has come a very long ways since 2nd world war was people, generations were grown up with the sense no war again, never again,

we have to not engage into warfare what works or whatever. and, and now we're changing course $180.00 degrees. so how was that possible? i think it took me in a situation like this in ukraine to change course and germany you have to, you have to just consider that germany is. it's country of gradualism. usually things don't happen in a split 2nd or just suddenly, i mean, it takes a long time ago or something until things really are changing this. in this case it was a sea change. i think people understood and the politicians understood that the whole european security system is, isn't shatters and has to be rebuilt differently and differently means we have to be independent from, from russia, and have to take things in our own. that's ok. marcus, thanks for your time. hope we get to talk to you again later, dave, really appreciate it. thank you. and the news ahead more from russia and ukraine,

including the for the sanctions, is russians rush to get their roubles out of the bank. look forward to brighton, sky's the with sponsored point 2 ways. hello, we've got quiet weather now across central parts of europe, but some more wet and windy weather, just pulling into where western areas suspend a cloud. here this is a, is where the systems making its way a little further east, which over the next couple of days you can see how close it is to the southeast of england through the low countries. northern parts of france, high pressure to the west of that high pressure to the east of that. and that's where it is largely dry and set with some decent spells of sunshine. we have got to wear the cool wind there into ukraine just one celsius. therefore, kiva,

notice some when she, whether to just making its way to southern parts, if you crane down towards them, old, over pushing over towards remain. yes, very wintry weather too. and some live the showers there with some rain pushing across greece and into turkey. that he's the side of the med looking decidedly unsettled but unsettled enough to just around the breast peninsula. southwest approaches some parts of england and where to where the will tend to fizzle as it drives for a little further eastwards. as we go on through our wedding, stay some showers, they're making the way into southern france. northern parts of spain and portugal staying very unsettled with a nasty wintry mixer for turkey by the stays at wetter weather. also affecting northern parts of africa over the next couple of days, and increasing showers, the west africa. oh, with sponsored by casara, always chilling the debate. they erased out of black people from the american and global story was very powerful on online, at your voice. the comment section is whitehead joining our conversation. we had

all protected when everyone is protected. it is not to play, being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. said that perspective meg and meg meeting each other and they don't have any solution. let me get it clear for you this dream. on al jazeera lou ah, here with the al jazeera will take you to the top stories and a russian military convoy stretching 60 kilometers. it is advancing towards ukraine's capital. keep your satellite images, her ahmed vehicles, and artillery 20 kilometers away from the center, showing his une intensified and recent dates. ukraine's army says 70 soldiers have

been killed in a russian artillery artillery strides. this is near a military base near ha keith in the country. second biggest city official site residential areas were targeted and ukraine's governments as well. the 350 civilians have been killed since the invasion began on thursday. the un says more than 500000 people of fled the conflict and crossed into neighboring countries. so let's return to this russian military convoy, which we've seen the satellite pitches of 60 kilometers long. we said in this image here, but what i want to do is give you a little bit of geographical context. so let's pause it here. you see the roundabout, you see all the military hardware along the road there. what we've sort of managed to do is match it with the same area on google earth. there's our roundabout again . so the context as we zoom out, we see is very close to a small area called yvonne key about 10000 people live there and it is part of the key of o blast, that is the blogger region of key f. so it's to show you the distance from yvonne

cave down to well, let's pick a spot here. it's the presidential palace that's about 90 kilometers by road. that's how close things are getting in. if we zoom out at once more, now you get an idea of just how uncomfortably close those russian convoys are getting to the ukrainian capital. malaria spoke to alice spot had, who's a strategic and military researcher. he explains what the russian con void might mean from a military perspective. this convoy from the military point of view in their transportation come boy, which is an on marsh thought give, did not take a come but confirm combat formation. yet it should be distributed to on that and circle again or attack on from the lion, the city. but so far on the what do we see in the set,

the light image is, is not a formation for calm, but it's transport station may be that. and so a formation combined as soon as they arrive to set them that they calculated their planning. if there was any but a peroration from the ukrainian regular automate. this is their work. this is the jump for a regular the jump for, i mean a regular militia. if they had a petition, they couldn't have done much for the convoy and they could obstructed the advance. but it doesn't seem that the regular army is and so fed the know how to some other related issues. in this war, tens of thousands of foreign students have been trapped in ukraine following

russians. invasion. just got some live pictures for you from the ukraine, poland border. we've seen people heading into buses trying to get out there trying to get across many told by the government to flee the country, leading to queues at the train station. largest group of foreign students from india, about 18000 were studying in ukraine. some of them have now made it back home. not just indian students are stuck though many migrants from africa, so they're being turned away from the border as well. the bus driver met some of them who were lucky enough to get over. he was at a reception center and coach over 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 like this,

offer's an insight into the enormous scope of this crisis. and still they keep coming bust in from the board, the law away from the war, but now inland. 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'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, we were already lost people together 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

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 in bed. 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 evacuate . my thought is that a refugee is a refugee, under average, is a human being. and it doesn't matter what it, 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. and even in poland, tempers run high. oh wait, no, you can't charge by the way that we went out of warranty on may even ukrainian or they can just agreement. i'm so sorry. i respect you as a police officer, but what you guys are doing here, this is not the job of a county that is showing itself that they are helping refugees coming from you. great. eames, i'm sorry. war as always, it seems, brings out the best and worst in people. and even if the fighting stops who had promised repairing the damage done to all the lives, touched by this crisis, will take much longer zane basra, the ultra 0 cordova eastern, pulled up. let's get more from and you know, his partner to tell 2 things, isn't there? probably one, india sending its 1st batch of humanitarian assistance to ukraine and then they're returning students. in fact,

what are the daily effort? i'm in a couple of hours we're expecting funded. the students to walk out of those gates. it's part of the larger evacuation process. you know, until now the government has managed to get some of them back. but given the volume, i mean, nearly 18000 students study in ukraine. so what we're learning is, and that's what the local me just reporting that the government may deploy large defense carriers to feed off the evacuation process. because what we're seeing on the internet in the families we've spoken to the students we spoke with jasmine. absolutely heartbreaking. remember, these are young people, they don't necessarily speak the local language, they're not able to get in touch with their families. they have no supplies. the government has asked them to leave here by tonight, but they've been pulsing video saying they don't know where to go, how to go. there also thousands of them who us talk at border crossing near portland and romanian hungry. and they've been telling us stories about how they've

been man handled by officials over there. some of them have been waiting for days in pleasing temperature, just trying to figure a way out to cross the border. catch your boss organized by the indian government and catch a flight back here to delhi and then there are few flights coming to move by as well. there are also parents from of them on here, on the release to see their children from home for that many parents to say they've been trying to cause the embassy trying to get in touch with someone to figure out what's happening in the time the students are a veteran enough talking and how to get them back home is that pumping battelle from nuclear porch. thank you. russians are starting to feel the financial pressure of this will of the western sanctions, really the rebel feel that he 30 percent against dollar. that was before the u. s. announced additional restrictions against russia's central bank, and smith has mo, from moscow 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 lubricants. 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 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 in normal reserves to be happy with, with your current frozen. and ellen ha 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, is president joe biden. meanwhile, will deliver his state of the union address on tuesday night,

where he will announce his new plan to help americans face inflation. is also expected to keep ukraine in focus, same as an urgent need to defend democracy around the world. the support from alan fisher in washington. this is a white house, concentrating on tuesday's important state of the union speech by the president. but it's not picking its eyes off, you cream, 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 us. the u. s. is announced a new round of economic sanctions. this time targeting russia's central bank, one senior white host official says they want to drive the russian economy

backwards. well, to be put in is pushing his tanks forwards into ukraine. they want to drive up inflation drive down investment possibilities and cripple the purchasing power of the kremlin. the 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. busy severely impact prudence in our circle impede the kremlin use of international reserves, and limit its ability to fund ongoing the stabilizing activities, including the kremlin war machine, and ukraine has increased russia nuclear let 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 or no?

one top us senator, the head of the intelligence committee, mark warner, says he sees no immediate threat 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 ukraine continues. alan fisher, i'll just either at the white house. finally, international sporting agency, the turning their backs on russia, the governing bodies of global and european football, banding, russian teams from all international competitions. and limping officials and asking other sports organizations to blacklist athletes from russia and from billers. ah, the al executor, all the latest developments of russian military convoy stretching 60 kilometers is advancing towards ukraine's capital. keep.