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resist washes, military might, across cities, towns and villages. ah, leading from the front ukraine's president. nobody zalinski makes an emotional appeal for e u membership, which the block is now seriously considering that is more refugees, poor across the border from ukraine. the u. s. appeals for $1700000000.00 to address a growing humanitarian crisis. ah, it is just after 60 how's g m t? that's 6 pm in ukraine where we've just seen a television tower in the capitol hit by a missile strike. this footage, captured by witnesses tall is also used for communications purposes. this as russian troops edge closer to ukraine's capital. give his a round up of all the developments so far to day russian armored

vehicles keep pouring into ukraine with one convoy stretching 60 kilometers. they are heading to cranes capital keith. these people look on in fear as russian troops make their way through the southern city of harrison. also aiming for the capitol. o people across the country are pleading for the invasion to stone. we want to study. we don't want to be afraid. stop the word. these students posted on line when leaked uncle tubman begging in several different languages for an end to the conflict. millions of people have fled to the western city of levine, some to be reunited with their families and loved ones, while others can only wait and hope. ukrainian forces are putting up a strong resistance. these russian tankers were destroyed just northeast of the capital. and here a russian missile platform in northern keith is blown up by

a drone president. the law, the middle zalinski, is calling for a no fly zone over ukraine to stop moscow's bombardment, a request rejected by the us. and as the missiles and bombs continue to fall off the front lines edge closer to the heart of ukraine. we are harding al, jazeera enough enough. she pleads in motion through the kremlin, says its forces are only targeting military installations. but in war there are no such clear lines. this is the result of russian shedding on the region of the next homes have been destroyed. both it's freezing. nothing makes sense. but if you will notice nucleus fossa, much more dusky. why is nobody saving us? but why is it like he have city district? his cast? everything has been abandoned here. they were firing at us, but we didn't hear

a single shot in that direction. who is protecting us yet because we vladimir pigeons, war has entered homes and turned lives upside down. this maternity ward has been moved to a bomb shelter in the city for keith. that has come under heavy attack for these new mothers. these are uncertain and terrifying times above ground. people have been documenting the damage on their mobile phones. west of the capital cave. what was once an ordinary part of daily life is no more. life has come to a standstill in many parts of the country. many who speak russian have ties to russia . but this war has now become deeply personal. kaiser wilker, you know, kind of what it was it, i do want to speak russian simply because putin speaks russian. i live here and my mother is russian. and we used to speak in russian all the time we studied here.

and after this, after putin attacked us, i deliberately switched to ukrainian. i will speak only ukrainian, whatever takes up a book. roy women give to this war is now almost into a full week with most people here wondering what is it all for stephanie decker. i'll g 0, many ukrainian politicians are taking up arms to help repel the russian invasion among those. joining the war is parliamentarian kiera roodick. it's the 1st time she's picked up weapons to defend her country. she says that she remains are defiance and will in her fight against russia. i'm just back from the trauma, the city, along with my team. and i'm states though they're air force and then just started to be go, we'll be going to the bomb shelter soon. so on the wednesday that her strong boys johnson and in stoughton, bert we as ukraine nation,

we central flor to all nations of the world for all the help and support we're getting. we understand and do realize what it takes to impose all those years. sanctions on russia to weaken it out to cause it to default and to make sure that it is concentrated on the internal problems and not a problem. however, there are some things that we do really need right now. so ukraine will be able to affect of their resist. and then when the war with russia for the last 6 days, we have been fighting russia in the year. we have been fighting them in the sea and we have been fighting them on our land. and we are very wouldn't fight with them on our land. there has no, it has been no large city take it partially destroyed. yes,

but no take and we have very hard time finding them in the air because we simply don't have the equipment and a military support to get it to, to have it. and that's why we are constantly every single day asking our need to partners and allies to close this kind of crane. this is critical and this item would be a critical point in answering the question, would you claim the able tool with in this war or not? the 3rd thing we are fighting them in the sea, and this is again where we would need the support of allies. i will remind you that we are right now. i think it's one of the most strong and the most aggressive armies in the world. and we know that, and we were able to resist them to find them for 6 days. and right now you're doing so we would need additional international support. ukraine's president has made an emotional appeal to the new parliament to allow his country to join the block

for them as landscape received a standing ovation after delivering his speech. while speaking out against russia talk, your official survey will have to look seriously at ukraine's request that leisure misses. it was july. we are fighting for our existence for our survival. and this is the main motivation for us. but we are also fighting to be an equal member of europe. and i think that today we are showing who we are. the european union is with us, with ukraine. the european union will be stronger without ukraine. it will be lonely. we've proved our strength. we've proved that we're at least the same as you please prove that you're with us. please prove that you're not going to let us go, prove that you're really, europeans, more than the actions of the kremlin, are severely damaging the long term interests of russia and its people. more and

more russians understand this as well. they are marching for peace and freedom. and how does the kremlin respond to this by arresting thousands of them. but ultimately, the longing for peace and fries and freedom can not be silenced. there is another russia besides proteins, tanks and we extend our hand of friendship to these other russia. be a sure they have our support rhythms and as you wore it on it, ladies and gentlemen, we have to be honest about all of this. the sanctions on russia will also impose a cost on us. but this is a cost worth paying because this is about our values, our convictions and our common future use as for the european union to officially recognize ukraine as a candidate country. it will be up to us as the e. u to act in accordance with the times. it's going to be difficult. we know that

there are different views in europe. the council will have to seriously look at the symbolic and political and legitimate requests being made of her life, brussels, diplomatic, it's james bay's is that for his james as we saw a display of unity and pretty strong words and support of ukraine from the e. u. today, what are we to make about yes, and in fact to the next few minutes, you got a vote of the european parliament where i am just down the code or in the, in the and the parliament chamber. they're going to announce the vote on a resolution, and the part of that resolution calls for a fast track of ukraine to join the european union. now, they'll vote on that, and possibly it will go through might be quite overwhelming. vote in favor. just looking around here because there are a ukrainian flags everywhere. many of the parliamentarians wearing the colors of ukraine draped in ukrainian flags that doesn't actually do anything though. it's

symbolic. the palm that doesn't have the power to make ukraine a member of the european union. but you've heard positive words from some of those who are very influential in this. the president of europe in council, sha, michelle, and the president of the europe in commission. sort of on the line both talking favorably about the idea of ukraine be in the you. but it's something that can't happen very quickly. the european commission that is the civil service part of the you that has to come up with an opinion on the idea. a considered the opinion that bang goes to european council. that is the 27 members. the heads of state sitting together, the next one of those meetings is just over a week's time in paris. and even if they could get it all together by then. and even if they were to say yes, ukraine could become a count of the country. it's a very long winded and slow process from there to becoming actually

a member. there are lots and lots of criteria to meet, so don't expect you crying to become a member of the ready, thompson. diplomatic, and it's a james based live in brussels. james manufacture, date. russia's foreign minister accused the european union of engaging in russia phobic behavior by supplying weapons to ukraine. delegations from the west walked out of his speech of the human rights council. today, for those are the soon, i guess with a stolen with united states and its allies are creating their own new world order. as of 2014, the key of regime is waging war against people. the constitution of ukraine has been changed and the new nazi's that have gain power there are waging real terror. should rush us defense minister. so guy, chicago has denied that the military, a shilling, residential areas in the ukraine versus get hurt him in the russian army does not occupy ukrainian territory. it takes all measures to preserve the lives and safety of civilians. i would like to stress that strikes are carried out only on military

targets and using only precision weapons where there were still 1000000 in the course of military clashes. the ukrainian side does not hesitate to use civilians as human shields or multiple launch rocket systems. guns, larger kind of motors are placed in the courtyards or residential buildings in the schools and kindergartens without abbas causes error storage areas. also tell us more about what the russian defense ministry is been saying. well, the defense ministry for the 1st time had a warning for ukrainian acidity citizens that live in a key of. they said that they will be targeting and number of facilities belonging to their countries. telecommunications industry, as well as the ukrainian security services, a building which is right in the center of care. they said this civilians who live in those areas should evacuate as soon as possible. we understand that building

which belongs to the ukrainian, a military is about 7 kilometers east of the u. s embassy in the ukraine in capital . this is significant because it's the 1st time since the invasion began on february 24th, that the russian defense ministry has actually had any kind of warning for the civilian population there they have until now not said anything about their military operation. but today they said that they will be carrying out a for citizens strikes on that certain targets having to do with the countries a cyber attacks that have come out the russian entities here. they ministry said that there was a number of attacks that continue, and the entities that have so far been heads include the kremlin website as well as the ministry of foreign affairs and the defense ministry. along with the local media channels here. russia as well as the aerospace, a division within the country, the defense ministry said they are under attack from cyber attacks from ukraine.

and that is why they're targeting these assets in ukraine and the are warning the civilian population to evacuate those areas. now, it's not clear where their civilian population could go up, but the defense ministry for the 1st time had said that they should evacuate the were reports the bailey, russian military vehicles. of course the border m to ukraine given bat. what are the chances of a further round of talks between russia and ukraine? first run of course happened in about ocean capital minsk. well the 1st run happened on the border and because the ukrainians were not comfortable with going into bella roofs because of security concerns. and they also said that they didn't want to be in a country where russian troops had come in through their borders, into crane. every understand, according to the russians,

that the 2nd round of negotiations will take place on march, 2nd, between the 2 sides. the location has yet to be determined that we have yet to hear from the ukrainian side. whether or not they will be attending. there was some concern that to the ukrainians, had initially before accepting any kind of offer to have discussions with the russians saying they wanted to have some kind of a lol in the fighting. while the talks were happening. that was not something the russians agree to. but still, the ukrainian president vladimir zalinski said he will do this to see show that he is not against having dialogue with russia. and he does want to be accused of a missing an opportunity by the russians. they said that they accused him of not being open to discussion, but the m russians have said that they want to have dialogue with ukrainians. neither side with the expect much from these talks. but the russians have said that they are. b willing to talk and they want to talk the ukrainians have said, well,

we will show up and see what they have to say for their part, the kremlin, for the 1st time, acknowledged the legitimacy of vladimir zalinski who won an election in 2019 with an overwhelming majority in his country, the crumbling for the 1st time said that they do recognize him as the president of ukraine. this was a different from what we heard from the russian president vladimir putin, who said that he doesn't recognize his legitimacy and t is a puppet for the west. slight change in tone, possibly because of the ongoing talks. and ugh, we have to wait and see whether or not they'll actually take place for now. important to the russians. they're going to be meeting the ukrainians on march. second. whether or not they will have any progress remains to be seen, but a many here that many people we've spoken to her doubt that very much as long as the fighting continues on the ground. i'll just talk about it. i live in moscow door. somebody thanks, dave. the, you're a secretary of state, enter the blink, and has condemned the russian attacks on ukraine. he told the un human rights

council that moscow's crimes, amounting by the hour. we must underscore russia's obligation even in is unlawful invasion to respect internationally amount of trained law, including as it relates to the protection civilians in the conflict council, members should stop using language implying that all sides bear equal responsibility for the unprovoked attack of one side. this isn't even handed. it's wrong and fails to place accountability where it belongs, by the white house in washington. now, here's our fisher as well, and what stood out to you from the secretary of state's speech earlier? well, he said that the has to be a resolute and unified messaging that has certainly been the tactic of the white house. he wants people here building pressure against ukraine, b, financial or diplomatic. and they'll continue to do that with a united front. he said that there had been several breaches of humanitarian law

growing by the hour that the russians had been guilty of bombing civilian areas of targeting schools of targeting hospitals and of targeting ambulances as well. and he insisted that the people responsible for this would be held accountable. eventually, it's interesting that there has been a briefing at by the national security team for senators and congressmen and women on capitol hill over the last 24 hours. they've been told that the russians aren't making the progress that they would expected, and there is pressure on the western front or a new crane, which means it's much more difficult to get goods and services, particularly military reinforcements through to the ukrainians. i. and so there's also our ging senators to approve the budget for the coming year, because a lot of the budget will cover aid that can be sent to ukraine. so an interesting message, dramatically blink,

and also called out human rights abuses in other countries including china and the treatment of the wiggers, the dpr key and other places. but it would be remiss of me not to mention that as antony blinking is talking about this. quantile animal based still remains open despite a bite and pre election pledge to close it down a job. i'm will deliver his 1st state of the union speech to congress. later on tuesday, allan ukraine expected to feature heavily. i mean, what should we expect? it's a big speech for joe biden. remember, this is his 1st state of the union. last year he just been elected. so it's really just a, a chat with congress for want of a better phrase. this time, he talks about the pressures facing the united states and he does it against an international crisis. ukraine, no doubt will be mentioned right to the top of the speech is not something that you can gently ease into. and you're buying more condemn russia for what it's doing there, and he will clearly condemn them for the attacks on civilians. but worn the american

people that there is a price to be paid for demand defending democracy. and that comes at the fuel pump and also comes on supermarket shelves with the increase of goods. but to joe biden does want to pivot very much to domestic issues. you'll talk about how inflation is at its highest point in 40 years. and what he's going to do to bring it under control, he'll talk about elder care and better that provisions for children in poverty. all of these things he has to talk about, even though ukraine is dominating everything internationally and dominating a majority of the thought. here in the white house because 2022 is an election year and in november that will be the mid term elections with possibly congress, and even this with the house of representatives and even this senate up for grabs. so it's a big speech for joe biden. yet, even with the ukraine cases living large, i was there as alan fisher live at the white house in washington allen. many thanks . cindy. turkey has designated russia's assault and ukraine as a war,

and it said that it would execute an international pact, restricting use of the turkish straits. it's the 1936 montrose convention. it gives turkey control over to important waterways. the death knell and boss for us straits . they take you from the black sea out to the mediterranean, through the mara sea, and it's the base for rushes black sea fleet. that's been used to target ukraine southern coast. don't rope pac allows turkey to close the straits to all foreign warships in times of war or when threatened, but there is an exception. if a warship is returning to its own port than its passage cannot be prevented, took his foreign minister has said that this white shouldn't be abused, so ships that are allowed to pass to that basis should not then join the war now does is tamala shall report staff from istanbul centrally anchors playing a balancing act because on the one hand,

it enjoys strong relationships with moscow on the other. obviously it is the 2nd largest military in nato, and also enjoys very strong relationships with ukraine. what it's done by essentially declaring the situation award is that it has triggered the montero agreements and i'm just standing overlooking the boss for us. now. you'll see to the right side of the screen is where the mediterranean is in any warship that wants to head back towards the black sea would be coming from that direction all the way to the left. so from the garden, i was on the right all the way to the left towards the black sea. the turks upset is that they will not be allowing any war ships to come from the, from one side to the other to join the war. however, the vast majority of what we understand of russia's black sea fleets is already in position on the other side, they will be given passage if they want to return back to base. but what turkey is

trying to do here is at least show that it is not so flaming the flames or finding rather the flames of fire. it still wants to position itself as a mediator. in this conflict. the president, red tape or the one has more than one occasion, said that he is willing to negotiate between both sides. in fact, there was even talk from the ukrainians, counting a symbol as a possible venue for peace talks here, whether russia would allow for that's considering that turkey is a nato member, is probably likely we told you a few moments ago about a vote that we were expecting in the e u. parliament on to symbolic pros on whether to give you membership to ukraine. that vote has now taken place on our diplomatic as to james bay's is lives for us in brussels. james, how did it go? a yeah, i think this is important,

not because it's gonna change anything, but i think it shows the level of feeling certainly in the european parliament. and perhaps that shows some indication of the feeling across the european union. right now. there were 676 members of the european parliament who took part in this vote, a lengthy resolution. the part of it urged the european institutions to, to try and help get ukraine to be a member to try and speed up that process. and out of the $676.00, there were $26.00 in stain. there were 13 against there were 637 who voted in favor . so really overwhelming vote by the european parliament in favor of the idea of membership of ukraine. the european parliament doesn't decide it's a process in which the european commission comes up with an opinion that then goes to the european council. that's the 27 countries of the u. and their heads of

government or head of state who is sitting there. when they sit as the european council, and that then would be to come up with the idea of a candidate status. and then you have lots of little different hurdles that you have to jump and, and things that you have 2 boxes you have to take. and qualifications that you have to meet before you can become a member. and it does take some countries some considerable time to come remember. but i think it shows the feeling here. adrian, on a day, in the european parliament where many have been wearing ukrainian colors, been draped in ukrainian flags. it shows certainly the view of the elite in europe, or those that are in power in europe at the european parliament. what they think of the situation. diplomatic editor james bass. i live in brussels. james. many thanks . did that's. thank you. now to easton ukraine, where volunteers have converted a soviet era cinema into a shelter. i'm 0 is child strength. is there the i tell you that i might as what i

did last week. i need 5 people quickly. any volunteers, the man says the former line to unload, donated food, water, betting with clothes. it's taken into what i think decades has been a sense of culture and arts and has now become a vital and potential life saving a distribution to point which is an incredible sense of purpose and energy in this sense. what these people are doing is they're taking in donations of food, clothing, bedding medicine. they're boxing them up, watching the materials up, and then they're gonna be distributing them. so many of the hundreds of thousands of people that have fled to fighting across the region. this question you said you did though, mama, it's much better than sitting at home. we are as depressed as every one in the country. but we come here to leave. tell us periods we feel proud and unified here

. oh, yeah, that's just fallen to stick tape on the windows in an effort to stop shands, of glass being blown into the building, showed land near by a piece of history is being offered as a place where people can hide. so it's been 20 years since this soviet built cinema was used. and now volunteers are offering it as a place where people can come and shelter from the shelling you fall, record some goals explosions. oh, we'll give to people, instructions to open mouth and to hold. can and put like, like there's a basement where people can also take shelter upstairs. the salting the packing. the distribution continues as the city prepares for the worst. char

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