this is the grand suite of the commodore hotel. the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison, so as a hostage, a route to commodore war hotels on al jazeera. ah aah! ukraine's as a russian cruise, marseilles hit close to a hospital in the west, killing at least 4 people and keeps main tv town comes under russian bombardment as a long military convoy, heads towards ukraine's capital. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is out there alive. and there are all set coming up in the state of the nation at rest. the u. s. president 1000. russia will pay for more on credit that we will

join our allies and closing off american aerospace to all russian flight for russian foreign minister study lab defends the invasion during a speech to the un prompting a walk out by diplomats ah, where russia is intensifying. it's bombardment of urban areas in ukraine, hitting a tv tower and key, and launching more attacks on the countries 2nd biggest city. speaking from a heavily guarded compound in the capital president for a lot of me, as the lensky says, russia must stop bombing people. if talk such a, make any headway, but the kremlin says the operation will continue until it's golda met, including disarming ukraine. whereas the invasion and the 7th day this is where it stands. the air is shaded. red are controlled by russia and allied separatists in the east. as we mentioned, ukraine, 2nd biggest city car key. there's coming on the fierce bombardment to the south.

the port city of mary pole is facing what's described as constant shilling. and north of ki, rush, an arm and artillery have been building up our zeros jonah hall begins our coverage from the viv in western ukraine. russia has widened the scope of its war on ukraine . a suspected cruise missile hit the local administration building in freedom square. no less in the center of the eastern city of ha, keith holmes, regularly come under fire. now to this is an apartment building in the black sea port city of has song and this hockey again, who gets nobody? deliberately, the russian liberators have come. the man shouts, in the aftermath of tuesday's missiles strike, president followed the man zelinski, addressing the european union called it the price of freedom this morning to peruse may hit this freedom square,

dozens of killed ones. this is the price of freedom. the translators struggles to contain his emotion, what am we're fighting for us to use just for our land and for our freedom? 70 ukrainian soldiers died when a military base was targeted by heavy artillery in october. but the veil has fallen from russia's claims that it's carrying out a special operation aimed purely at military targets. civilians are increasingly fer, gave me, and as night fell, her keys came under heavy attack. again, a change of tactics, a possible consequence of russia's slow moving advance on the ground. satellite imagery shows a column of artillery and armour, logistics, and support units more than 60 kilometers long bearing down on the capital key of

from the north. another is advancing from the south. the aim to encircle the capital, intimidate the civilian population, and force the surrender of ukraine's government. western intelligence points to poor communications and frequent mechanical breakdowns. there is a dog in ukrainian resistance as well captured russian soldiers are said to have been told that they'd be welcomed here as liberators. this is how people actually feel at the heart of it all in the capital key of attacks have resumed, including on the main television transmitter, cutting public broadcasts, people already eking out in existence in conditions of unimaginable stress. know that worse is to come. and the scramble to leave the city on the few exit roots still available,

is growing more desperate by the hour to pour through. fighting has not yet come to the western city of believe, but they'll be ready for it if it does. civil defense units have formed all over the country and basic training and weapons handling is available for anyone that wants it. they know the time may come when they'll have to fight the russians themselves for control of their streets. the government, as it believes russia is deliberately shelling cities, including residential areas and civilian infrastructure, the goal it says to create mass panic and civilian casualties. but one thing you don't sense here is panic. instead, the steely determination of ukrainian civilians to resist and fight back the we want to study. we don't want to be afraid of the word. the young in ukraine students multicultural, multilingual,

joined the chorus for people who don't bright minds, who's ideals until a week ago was still intact and whose hopes and hearts now broken or who are stuck . jonah, how al jazeera louise, the queen's government says 4 people, including a child, had been killed off a russian cruise missiles hit residential buildings in the west. emergency services say the strike, set 3 homes on the fire and broke windows and a hospital. the city of seattle, mary's home to an elite aerosol brigade which may have been the intended target and these are some of the latest pictures from car key in the east where shelling has continued into the night has been heavy artillery, fire and residential neighborhoods with civilian buildings hit as well as the city's main square. ukrainian force is still control khaki and the coastal cities of care sun and mary apple. but the, you case defense ministry says all 3 are encircled by russian forces

while a crisis unfolding in ukraine featured heavily in the u. s. president state of the union address, joe biden says, vladimir putin has made a bad miscalculation. biden was praised for those defending ukraine, got him a standing ovation from congress rushes, latimer food, and sought to shake the very foundations of the free world. thinking he could make it ben to his medicine ways. but he badly miscalculated. he thought he could roll in ukraine and the world would roll over. instead, he met with the mall wall of strength. he never anticipated or imagined he met ukrainian people and president biden continues to turn the screws on moscow as far as sanctions go. he's banning all russian plains from us as base and his targeting pro criminal russian oligarchs. united states department of justice assembling

a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the russian oligarchy were joining with european allies to find and seized our yachts luxury apartments. their private jets were coming for you. ill be gotten gains and tonight i'm announcing that we will join our allies and closing off american aerospace to all russian flight. her i, sasha, had issues with our white house correspondent, kimberly hook it as mona. from capitol hill. it was surprising just how much of the speech was devoted. it shows you how much the president's domestic agenda has been hijacked, if you will, by foreign policy issues. namely, the russian, the invasion of ukraine, the president, very clear and even making news. read off the top of that with the announcement that the united states together with allies would be closing aerospace in order to

for isolate russia. and also targeting russia further tried to isolate it with the effort by the department of justice crackdown on the crimes of russian oligarchy, but really give us the analysis of the speech i want to bring in a familiar face. here in al jazeera, that's the plans house of the bottom line. and steve, come on in here and give us a bit of a sense of this speech because you've watched so many of them over the years. and this one felt different to me. i don't know about you, but what was your sense of the speech? i feel exactly like you did that. joe biden made foreign policy, the national security challenges facing the nation because of a war in europe right now, which in almost a decade hasn't happened like this. and so it's a big punctuation point for joe biden. i think the risk for him in this speech and you could feel it in the tension, is he could do, he could block airspace. he could, you know, take all the measures he's taking,

and vladimir putin could still continue to drive on into this. the challenge of looking impotent in the eyes while a monster is basically invading another nation. think the other dimension is it was also a very comprehensive speech on the domestic front. and some of the issues there. if you really listen to it carefully, he hasn't moved one iota away from the build back federal legislation and the agenda that he had there is exactly the agenda, which means he is not pivoted to the moderate. he is not pivoted to where senator mansion who blew up his plan on december 19th and they have not reconciled that it's very clear. joe biden has not moved and it raises questions about how effective he is going to be. after this speech and passing any of the things he talked about today, when earlier the cranes president had been speaking about what life is like inside is heavily guarded. compound in key work on flip that. can you see your family? no. no. i can't. when was the last i saw them

before this war? naval you know, done, give orders for know, 2 days ago to the middle. but how this wash? yeah. will only, has the lensky received a standing ovation of the european parliament after addressing them from keith? he's made an impassioned lead to the you to prove it support just a day after applying to join our democratic editor james base reports now on zelinski remarks to the european parliament. after making an official bid to join the blush or the european parliament, a strong show of support for the people of ukraine. this chamber with many parliamentarians wearing the ukrainian colors, was addressed by video link from keith by president zalinski. he had one clear request. ah ha mozilla. 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 to day 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 are 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 would. there was strong combination of president who transactions in hulu for to lee. you considers illegal there, charlie, and up horrid. it's not only you train that to the attach international law or spirit international order. democracy, human dignity are also attach. this is joe political, terrorism, pure and simple. the president of the european commission then spoke about the

possibility of ukraine joining the european union today. the european union and ukraine are already closer than ever before. there's still a long path ahead. we has to end this war and we should talk about the next steps. but i am sure nobody in this hemi saker can doubt that the people that stands up so bravely for our european values belongs in our european family. at the end of the session, the parliament voted overwhelmingly to call on the you institutions to work towards granting ukraine candidate status. but the vote is purely symbolic. it's the european council, the 27 member nations who make the final decision. and then there's a long drawn out process to qualify to become a member. the size of the vote,

$637.00 out of $676.00 though an indication of the level of feeling in support of ukraine. here james bays al jazeera at the european parliament at brussels, russian farm. as the saga leverage told the u. n disarmament meeting in geneva that ukraine had been seeking nuclear weapons. he provided no evidence of this. and as labrons spoke by video link in support of russia's invasion, dozens of diplomats got up and walked out and protest. but it goes over the humor years with a still new to united states and its allies are creating their own new world order . as of 2014, the key of regime is waging war against its own people. the constitution of ukraine has been changed and the new nazi's that have game power there are waging real terrors this time for a short break. now to 0, when we come back. oh, out of harmony, a well leading conductor with close connections to rushes, president,

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we had unprotected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way, so that perspective men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solution . let me get it clear for you this. on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. quicker might about top stories here. this, our russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital key. they've attacked the cities, tv tower, killing at least 5 people. russia has one residence to feed their homes. they plan more strives, the cranes government says for people including a child of been killed off the russian cruise missile tip residential buildings in

the countries west. russia says the strikes targeted and military place in city of sheet on there. and he was president joe biden use his state of the union address to announce more measures against moscow. he's closing u. s. s laced all russian, and probably says no, go after pro kremlin only goes the bell. russian president, alexander lucas jenko, says his troops will not join russia and it's fight against ukraine. but earlier on tuesday, he accused ukrainians of planning an attack on beller roost last week. because jenko spoke at a meeting of a security council saying that plan was for to adopt a russians fired on ukrainian positions from bella, russian soil, bella, russian, and russian troops conducted military drills in the run up to them. but she brought it to me. yeah. i mean, thankfully those guys warned us, we had pounded literally 6 hours before a launch, and the russians attacked those muscles. those positions during the russians advancement, entering ukraine. we'd not see those positions anymore. that is why i'm saying yes, there were launches from bell russian territory. and i told you openly what point

we targeted. and russia says it's restricting access to to media outlets that are widely seen as liberal in their outlook. the head of the echo of moscow radio station, which is an opposition leader alex in the valley as a guest says it was taken off the air on tuesday. also silence to his tv range, new online channel. the outlets are accused and broadcasting false information about the military's activities in ukraine. on the ground and east new crane volunteers have converted a soviet era cinema into a shelter. aren't as a was char stratford sent us this report. miss city of the ne proof the i even am, i know what i did last week. i need 5 people quickly. any volunteers, the man says the former line to unload donated food, water, bedding, and clothes is taken into water for decades. has been a center pic culture in arts and has now become a vital and potential life saving

a distribution point. it is an incredible sense of purpose and energy in this sense of what these people are doing is they're taking in donations of food, clothing, reading, medicine, them boxing them up, watching the materials up, and then they're going to be distributing them. so many of the hundreds of thousands of people that have fled to fighting across this region. this question used to give them though mama is much better than sitting at home. we are as depressed as everyone in the country, but we come here to live. our spirits will feel proud and unified here. oh, this is a young fallen tears duct tape on the windows, in an effort to stop shards 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. retort some goals explosions. oh, we'll give to people. instructions to open mouth and to hold. can and put lake maiden, there's a basement where people can also take shelter upstairs. the sorting the packing, the distribution continues as this city prepares for the worst. char stratford al jazeera denise pro will the war in ukraine and heavy sanctions imposed against russia in response to throwing financial markets into turmoil. oil prices a soaring because of concerns of a russian production. the u. s. is releasing 30000000 barrels from its strategic reserves. galler xander tells us more from new york us stocks again falling on

tuesday given the uncertainty of the conflict between russia and ukraine. on tuesday, the dow dropped 700 points about 2 point one percent, s and p 500 about 1.9 percent and the nasdaq dropped to percent as well. but oil prices are going up while they reach over a $100.00 a barrel for the 1st time in about 7 or 8 years. some analysts are pointing to about $125.00 a barrel, is where oil could get to. the longer this conflict goes on, right now, it's about at a 100, a $1607.00 a barrel. commodity prices are also being effected, particularly wheat, russia and ukraine account for about 29 percent of all of the wheat exports in the world. and wheat has jumped up about 5 percent to its highest price in many years as well. this is all part of worries of potential shortages of both

oil, certain commodities such as wheat as well. and that is why you're seeing these prices go up, but the bottom line is the markets are continue to not react well to the current conflict. as investors seem to be saying that they get the sense that this is going to be going on a very long time. and that does not bode well for the global economy or the global markets. well, big multinational companies are ramping up there boycotts of russia. apple is halting the sale of its products there. last week it restricted apple pay and other services. it also stopped rushing new service apps from being downloaded outside the country. and canada says its reviewing the holdings of russian oligarchs that considers new sanctions. russian companies are also in canada sites with a government warning all options on the table. canada's deputy prime minister says the g 7 will impose further sanctions on moscow for its invasion of ukraine. in the coming days. the british,

my minister has been in poland and estonia for talks on the war while speaking to media in warsaw, boris johnson was confronted by ukrainian activist. you are coming to foreigner. you are not coming to kill your prime minister. you are not going to leave because you are afraid, because nato is not willing to defend because maybe he's afraid of the wolf. 3, but it is already started. and this a ukrainian children who are, they're taking the hit. you're talking about more sanctions, prime minister, but romana, but a mortgage is not sanction. he's in london. his children are not in the bombardments his children are dead in london. what's children are in netherlands? in germany? in mentions where all these men should seized. i don't see that i see that my family members that my timbers. i think that to be a great you know, the power to rob. this is what is happening. prime minister will the reverberations on the russia ukraine war also being felt in the entertainment world. the cannes

film festival is banning official russian delegations earlier several hollywood entertainment companies. pause a release of films in russia. warner brothers sony pictures and the walt disney company all had big releases set to debut internationally in the coming weeks. and russian artists on the pressure to denounce invasion of ukraine or face being sent by cultural institutions in the west to the munich philharmonic orchestra. as fire, it's russian conductor record group to report. ah, valeri, gatekeepers fans call him the greatest conductor alive ah, the russian maestro lead some of the world's most famous orchestra's. and he's a close friend of president vladimir putin. li once said, we are rich with not only tchaikovsky do you remember. if a professional or a colleague told me that i'd agree, i'm pleased that the country is led by

a person who knows that as well as off gag years supported rushes annexation of crimea in 2014. yet congress had she called 2 years later, he was criticized for conducting a performance in the insurance of palmera and syria. ah, after russia had the syrian government re take the site from my so now his silence on the invasion of ukraine has led him to being removed from concert in milan, lascola and york's carnegie hall. the, the other, the other i next but, and it's manager says he can represent him as a client anymore. what are the western cultural institutions such as new york metropolitan opera have cut ties with po putin performers? we can no longer engage with orders or institutions and support or for supported by him. not until the invasion killing has been stopped. porter has been restored

in restitution have been made. the decision could meet the end of the med partnership with mosque was bullshit. ballet and star soprano on on a trip call was due to perform in april. she feast criticism when she was photographed with a flag use by rushing back separatists in. don't ask on social media to check cold calls for the war to rent, but said it was unfair to force artists to voice political opinions and denounced their homeland. others like these 2 russian and ukrainian sopranos in naples, decided to use their performance as a gesture of peace and friendship. after the war worsens, it seemed russia's culture figures. we'll have to keep making tough choices to stay in tune with the public. brianca up there altogether. a worldwide protest against russia's actions in ukraine continue thousands gathered in athens on

tuesday to voice their anger. many of them carried blue and yellow hand painted signs which are colors of ukrainian flag. some even war traditional ukrainian headrest is bringing some other news now. israel supreme court has suspended palestinian evictions and occupied his jerusalem sharon neighbourhood. just rule that residence can stay in their homes until a final decision on their property rights is reached. anger of the plan, the diction snowballed in some 11 day warped in grainy forestland. ha, my son, a gossip last year out 0 harry force it has more from chapter in occupied distribution the for palestinian families who are facing being forcibly expelled from their homes here and shakes. or i were told last year when they rejected a compromise deal that they were giving up their best chance of a medium term guarantee of their presence in these homes that the supreme court

would have to find in favor of a settler organization given previous court verdicts and low courts that claims ownership over these properties. well, as it happened on tuesday, the supreme court defied those expectations, in essence, imposing the terms of that compromise deal that was offering both sides. and that means that the families will be allowed to stay in these homes. until a final settlement, a final decision is reached on the ownership question. that is something that could take some years. it's something that could then be challenged in court once that decision has been made. so not a final victory, but certainly a significant moment for these families. and remember that last year in may the situation and shake your i was one of the major fueling factors in the fighting that we saw between israel and fighting factions. in garza, there were being further tensions in recent weeks and alleged fire bombing of a jewish home. the decision of a far right politician to insert himself in a make shift office in this area as well. this removes one of the ingredients from

a very combustible mix, coming up to the simile, tiniest, passover and ramadan period. or in the words of one lawyer who is an activist on behalf of palestinians in this part of occupied east jerusalem. the city dodged a bullet to day and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen, the address al serra dot com that's al jazeera dot. ah, top, a quick check of the headlines here. this, our russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital keith. they've attacked the city's tv tower, killing at least 5 people. russia has one residence to flee their homes, they plan more stripes. the cranes government says for people including a child of been killed after russian cruise missiles it residential buildings in the west of the country. russia says the strikes targeted and military base. the city.