and this breaks my heart because i have, this is the city of my home town, and i like cannot see. no, no, it's been destroyed because of this out. bombard in a going on for 2 days in a row. hot breaking testimony there. maria diva had a researcher at the european export association, speaking through asa for on car heave as we were hearing under bombardment at madam, thank you so much for speaking to us. thank you. ok. now let's take you live to the u. s. state department where secretary of state anthony blinking is giving a briefing hundreds of thousands of placement. hilton loaded there. now more than 174000 refugees. h d n. you're by countries rising cranes. so in your crime are sheltering wherever they can, including children receiving cancer treatment, who are now living in the basements of ukraine's children's hospitals,

with doctors and nurses doing their best to care for them as explosions boom overhead. this is shameful. the numbers of civilians killed and wounded, the mandatory consequences will only grow in the days ahead. in the face of this violets, the courage of the ukrainian people is inspiring the world. as president biden said, in the state of the union address last night, the response to russia's war has been unity, unity among world leaders, unity in europe, unity among people gathering around the world to protest president putin's war of choice, including thousands of people in russia. and b l roofs coming out to protest peacefully, even though they know what they risk. and so do it because the by the administration dedicated its 1st year to repairing and rebuilding our lives in

partnerships in europe and around the world. and because we spent the better part of the past several months, raising alarms about looping russian aggression. d classifying and sharing our intelligence nearly in real time and relentlessly exposing president putin's lies. we were ready. in fact, one reason why we're seeing the unified response now is because we made the decision late last year to publicize to the world. what we knew was underway and the playbook, we were convinced russia would follow. i went to the un security council 2 weeks ago to walk through step by step, the pretext for war that we were sure president putin would invent. and the subsequent military invasion that he planned to order. that's precisely what he did . while russian officials continued to deny it right until the invasion began. seeing that explicitly and premeditated aggression play out exactly as we predicted,

is generated outrage and solidarity across europe and around the world. and that's turned into unprecedented action. we said that if the kremlin ordered an invasion, ah, we would help ukraine defend itself, while imposing costs on russia. last week, the president approved 350000000 dollars in military assistance to ukraine, to help out with the armored airborne and other significant threats. it now faces that brings our total security systems to ukraine in the past year to more than $1000000000.00 more than in any previous year. over the past several days, i authorized the expedited transfer of us origin defensive equipment from allies to ukraine and were coordinating efforts to get this equip, including anti tank and anti aircraft weaponry, as well as small arms and munitions into the hands of ukrainian fighters who were defending their country with skill and determination,

we're sending you mandatory assistance to the people of ukraine as well. 3 days ago, we announced nearly $54000000.00 and additional support on top of the more than $300000000.00 that we provided. in recent years, usa i. d. 's deployed a disaster assistance response team, our top international emergency responders to lead the u. s. humanitarian responsive coordination with european allies, partners, and international organizations. and usa, i, director of matt, the power was as, you know, just a in poland along the border with ukraine a few days ago along with other senior officials in the state department. and we're working to support the frontline countries, including poland, moldova romania, hungary, in slovakia that have welcome hundreds of thousands of refugees, including many children, elderly people, people with disabilities, all of whom are fling ukraine, to escape russia's violence and facing heroine, journeys to reach safety. we in our allies and partners will work to keep people

safe, manage the flow, refugees, keep border crossings open and provide critical supplies. at the same time, we're holding russia accountable, including rushes economy. back on december 1st, i said that russia would face massive consequences for attacking ukraine, including severe and lasting economic cos. the united states and more than 30 allies and partners, representing more than half the world's economy, have made good on that commitment with powerful sanctions and export controls on russia, including additional actions just today. we've now sanctioned most of russia's largest financial institutions and it's often well fund the european union, removed key sanctioned russian banks from the swift international payments network . we've restricted russia's ability to seek funding beyond its borders. 13 of the most critical russian state on enterprises,

including gas from are now extremely limited in raising money through the us market . we impose sanctions on individuals, including president boot, other members of russia's security council, and deletes and their family members. and we and our allies and partners are launching a task force to identify, track down and freeze the assets of sanctioned russian companies and oligarchs. we will freeze and sees their yachts that private jets, their opulent estates in world capitals to date. we're also imposing sweeping sanctions on russia's defense sector. in total, $22.00 russian defense related entities will be designated including companies that may combat aircraft, infantry fighting vehicles, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, the very systems now being used to assault the ukrainian people, abuse human rights,

violate international humanitarian law. we're also posing export controls on beatrice to hold the lucas shanker regime accountable for being a co belligerent in president putin's war choice. we will choke off yellow risk as ability to import key technologies. and if lucas shake is support for the war, continues, the consequences regime will escalate. all told these sanctions and restrictions have had a powerful effect on russia's economy. the value of the rubel is plummeted. the russian stock market closed as fear capital, flight rows, interest rates more than doubled, rushes, credit rating has been cut to junk status. the value of president putin's war fund, his vanished and by choking rushes, access to technology. ah, we're delivering a blow to its economy and military that will be felt not just now,

but for years to come. present boot may have assumed that the united states and our allies were bluffing when we warned of massive unprecedented consequences. but it's present biden likes to say big nations can't bluff the united states, doesn't bluff. and president putin has gravely miscalculated as president bud may clear last night. this is president putin's war. this isn't the russian peoples war . it's becoming clearer by the day that the russian people oppose it. members of the russian military oppose and had no idea what they were being sent to do. and now the russian people will suffer the consequences of their leaders choices. so my message to the people of russia, if they're even able to hear it as the kremlin tracks down, even harder on media outlets reporting the truth. my messages that we know many of

you want no part of this war. you like ukrainians, like americans, like people everywhere, want the same basic things. good jobs, clean air and water. the chance to raise your kids and safe neighborhoods to send them to good schools to give them better lives than you had. how in the world does president putin's unprovoked aggression against ukraine? help you achieve any of these things? how is it going to make your lives better? the economic costs that we'd been forced to impose on russia are not aimed at you. they're aimed at compelling your government to stop its actions to stop its aggression. and just as millions of us around the world stand together against moscow's aggression, we also stand together with you as you demand that your leaders and this war president putin wants to demonstrate leadership. he should allow russian soldiers

to go home to their families. finally, the united states is continuing our diplomatic efforts. we're keeping the door open to a diplomatic way forward. that's going to be very hard to happen without military de escalation. it's much more difficult for the policy to succeed. when guns are firing tanks to rolling plains that fly, but if russia pulls back and pursues diplomacy, we stand ready to do the same thing. meanwhile, our intensive diplomacy with allies and partners continues. i've been in virtually daily contact with my, my friend and counterpart, ukraine's foreign minister khalilah. and i'd be clear that will support any diplomatic efforts by the ukrainian government to reach a cease fire and withdrawal of russian forces. if there are diplomatic steps that we can take, that the ukranian government believes would be helpful,

were prepared to take them even as we continue to support ukraine's ability to defend itself. tomorrow i'll travel to brussels, where i'll meet with our nato european union in g 7, allies and partners to continue our coordination to commend them on the unprecedented steps that they've taken to support ukraine and hold russia to account. and to reaffirm our article 5 commitment that an attack on any natal member is an attack on all from there, i'll travel to poland, which is already hosting hundreds of thousands ukrainian refugees up with tens of thousands arriving by the day and then to moldova, which is also, hosting ukrainian refugees and where russian troops had been occupying territory against the will of the people for years. ah, and then i'll go on to the baltic countries to lafayette lithuania, stoney, which are facing a renewed threat from russia themselves. as president putin seeks to reassert

russia's dominance over former soviet republics, laughed elephant estonia are our nato allies. and as president biden is said, we will defend every inch of nato territory against any aggression from russia or otherwise. finally, i want to note the consequential and historic vote. it just took place in the united nations. a 141 member states voted in favor of a resolution reaffirming ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemning russia's invasion of another member state. as this felt revealed, the overwhelming majority of the international community stands in strong support of the core principles of the united nations and upholding the un charter. and stands against russia's reckless attempts to change the borders of another sovereign country by force to replace its will. for the will of the ukrainian people as a 141 member states of the united nations,

no more is at stake. even then the conflict in ukraine itself and the freedom and security of you crate and it's people. this is a threat to stability in europe and to the entire rules based order, which has been the foundation of security and prosperity for people around the world for nearly 80 years. in this time of uncertainty, we have a clear way for help ukraine defend itself. support the ukrainian people hold russia accountable and persist with diplomacy. president putin is more isolated from the world than ever before. as president biden predicted last night, when the history of this era is written, russia's war on ukraine, all of last russia weaker. and the rest of the world stronger. and in the days ahead will continue to dawn's variation from the iron will of the ukrainian people

with that happy to take some questions for being here. i just want to ask you what is the us assessment on truth and state of mind? you said that he's more isolated than before. do you worry that this isolation might prompt them to lash out and do something even more dramatic than we've so far seen on the ground? and i also want to ask you, i'm sure you've seen that there are american express, their desire to go and join the fight in ukraine. what is your message to them? thank you. thanks. i can't. but myself in president putin's mind or state of mind, all that, that we can focus on or the actions that he's taking and our response to those actions. i said before,

one of the achilles heels of autocracies is the inability to speak truth to power. i don't know who said what the president couldn't before he launched this aggression. i don't know who's saying what to him now. but again, all of that is speculation. we can't put ourselves in his mindset. all we can do is what we're doing, which is to be very clear in how we all love respond to the actions that he takes to continue to work in unity with allies and partners and support of ukraine in defense of ukraine to help people to hose to help those who have been forced to flee. and if there are any diplomatic opportunities for suited to pursue those. but we're focused less on what president putin thinks or may think and more on what he

does. and with regard to the 2nd part of your question, what we've been very clear for some time, of course, in calling on americans who may be the resident ukraine to leave and making clear to americans who may be thinking of traveling. they're not to go for those who want to help you frame and help his people. there are many ways to do that, including by supporting and helping the many engineers that are working to provide you monitoring assistance, providing resources themselves to, to groups that are trying to help ukraine by being advocates for, for ukraine and, and for a peaceful resolution to this crisis that was created by, by russia. those are the most effective ways that the people who want to help condition. okay, we've been listening to the us secretary of state anthony blinking speaking at the state department. this just before he travels to a european,

going to go to brussels. poland will do, but last year, the swain. yes. and this stony between marches. 3rd and 8 sir. we heard him speaking at there, he mentioned the historic vote of the general assembly that happened just a few hours ago with the assembly deplored the russian invasion of ukraine and blink. and also saying that the u. s. is keeping the door open to diplomatic cab, a diplomatic resolution or diplomatic path forward, but obviously it's very hard without any military de escalation or political haine is live at the state department for us and was obviously listening to that speech by anthony blink. and i mean, he is really, i guess at pains to prove just how close the western alliance is right now, just how united they are yet it's not every day we hear from the secretary of state himself anthony blank. and so there are some questions to whether he was going to make news, but really he pretty much repeated what he's been saying from the beginning of this

crisis. he did say that there be a $22.00 additional companies, russian defense companies that will face sanctions. and that he was going to stop put export controls onto bella roost. so they won't be able to import key technology, not clear exactly how wide of an impact that's going to have not clear how many american companies have a whole lot of business in bella. ruse, i think what he's trying to do by setting the stage here before going on this trip is letting the allies know that he's going to go on this sort of reassurance. tours you mentioned 1st brussels than to poland than to the baltic states and over as well. this is what he believes is important is in person diplomacy. and so i think he's going just to highlight the alliance, but also to make sure that everybody, you know, that they have meetings and that they are on the same page. the big question for this government and other governments, the longer this strikes on, we've seen what's happened to the price of

a barrel of oil. it's going to start hurting economies. it's going to start hurting people. so one of the big goals from the bite administration is you saw that with the state of the union address addressing ukraine. first and foremost, is telling the american public, telling the allies that although it will hurt your, your bottom line. it's in fact very much worth it and they have a tough sell for that. in the u. s. and one poll people who are asked if sanctions impact how much you have to pay to fill up your car, you still support it. the number went from 6851 percent, and just in sanely expensive here in the united states right now. so not a whole lot new from the secretary of state, a few more additional sanctions that i think pretty much everyone expected. i mean, defense contractors, obviously you're not going to want to, you know, try to make it different for them to replenish the forces. adding delivers import controls, making the threat that if they continue to do that, then there could face additional sanctions. i don't think anyone in washington

really believes at this point, the sanctions is going to do anything to change russian president vladimir putin thinking on this issue. i thought it was interesting that you saw the secretary states try to speak directly to the russian people. he had knowledge, they're probably not going to hear it because you were the media so controlled in russia, but they are going to great pains to make the point, the russians, you are hurting, you're hurting badly if you want it to. stuff basically has to stop or it needs to go. so really try to send the message to do russian people. again, how likely is it the, the russian people are going to hear from the us. secretary state seems unlikely, but it is something that he stresses usually when he talks practical him with the latest from the us state department. patsy, thank you. or russia's financial system is already staggering. under the weight of western sanctions, the rubel plunged to another record low of

a $110.00 to the us dollar a while moscow's stock market remained closed for a 3rd straight day. more and more companies are pulling out at least 11 major automakers. that's including ford, volvo and b, m w. say that they're suspending deliveries or halting production in russia for aviation firms, boeing, airbus, lufthansa, and the world's biggest aircraft. that leasing company air cap holdings have stopped dealing with russian airlines and at least 7 logistics companies, including giants like the h l. fedex and maersk have stopped delivering to russia. some of also stopped operations in ukraine. what russian and bella ruffian, athletes are being allowed to participate at the winter paralympics in beijing, but only as neutral competitors. the international paralympic committee they will compete under said that said they will compete under the paralympic flag and not be included in the middle table. official russian teams have been excluded from

several other sporting events. there had been widespread calls for its paralympics to be banned altogether. the i p c says it was guided by its core principles which include a commitment to political neutrality and impartiality. the winter olympics begin in china on the paralympics rather begin in china on friday. or chelsea football club has been put up for sale, but it's a russian owner roman abramivitch who says he will donate money from the sale to help victims of the war in ukraine. that was, the businessman had been in the pressure to denounce russia's invasion, and there have been growing calls for u. k. sanctions to be placed on him. abram, which has owned chelsea since 2003, and helped turn it into a trophy winning side. thanks to his massive investment, he says the move to cell is in the interests of the club. well, those are jabari is following all these developments, sir, from the russian,

the capital s o dosa, more sanctions and boycotts being announced that it seems every day. and we just heard even more from anthony blinking, their question is of course, what impact these all of this actually having in russia? well the one, the immediate impact is that it is causing a, the russian public to really be worried about their future in terms of their savings and their financial future. there is a number of banks that are now a law not allowing the or their customers to withdraw foreign currency or to purchase any foreign currency at the moment. the stock exchange will remain closed until next monday and, and the many people that we've spoken to over the past week are just very much shocked at how quickly these sanctions came into place and, and then now very, very worried about what it means for their future. down the line, of course,

it doesn't really affect the wealthy in the country. we have also heard from a number of alex arcs who have said publicly that although they themselves may not be able to have any kind of political statement against what is happening. they are worried about their workers because they are the ones that are going to feel the, the basically the, their wrath of these sanctions. not the wealthy. as much as that is what is intended for them to do at the general sense is here that these sanctions will not really change anything in the kremlin. the perspective has been that they will withstand them. we heard from survey lover of earlier today, during the interview with al jazeera, he said that they were expecting these sanctions to come into play as soon as the o evasion took place with ukraine. but what they weren't expecting was that the cultural sector as well as athletes would be affected by them. that was very much a surprise. now i have to point out that the, there has been

a recent survey conducted by a, a company that is funded by the government. and they put that in your putin's ratings at over 70 percent at the moment, up from 60 percent. now with this is a government funded debt company that does these research i but it still provides some kind of insight as to what the general population is thinking in terms of whether or not they will cure. anthony blinked and it's very, very difficult to say because most of the people in this country do not watch foreign media. and now the tv channels that they have in the country to get their news from are getting smaller and smaller. and number of them have been shut down over the past few days. and the rest have been instructed to use a certain kind of language when they're covering the invasion. they are not used to word invasion or war. and if they do, they face serious consequences. so there is definitely a sense that the message coming from the west will not be heard by most of the

population in this country. the only thing they are worried about now is their economic future and sanctions really, most analysts have told me they don't really work immediately there. it's intended to have long term effects of a pressuring the government. and many people here believe they will not really force vladimir putin to change his way of thinking or policy, but rather really make the conditions much harder for the general population. there are so jibari with the latest the from moscow door, so thank you. will as door some mention there rushes foreign minister said he love rob has spoken to al jazeera about the war with ukraine. he was asked of the world has reached the edge of the abyss with another split, but it didn't the by than the once gazelle still use the been we, you should direct that question to president biden. he is the one who said, if we do not go the way of sanctions, the alternative can only be the 3rd world war. but in, as a veteran politician,

regardless of our position on what the united states does on the international stage. biden, and president putin in june of last summer in geneva, consistently confirmed the declaration of the leaders of the united states and the soviet union in the 1980s that there could be no victor and nuclear war. therefore, it should never flare up. in january of this year, the leaders of the 5 permanent members of the security council signed a similar joint declaration of study in most likely the old instinct is still alive in the minds of our western partners that they do not rule out such a possibility. despite the public affirmation of the position of the 5 permanent members of the security council. and george is that ruling part. he says it will immediately apply to join the european union. 2 days after ukraine formerly asked to join the block, thousands of georgians have been rallying in the capital can please see to express solidarity with ukraine and denounced the russian invasion. that is it for now stay with us. i'll have more news for you in just a few minutes ah

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